Loch Ness: A Portal to the Past? | In Search Of Monsters | Travel Channel

Ever since the first sighting of the so-called Loch Ness Monster, the creature has baffled those who claim to have seen it. Even more baffling is the fact that no physical evidence has ever been found. No dead carcasses, no bones, but why? For some Nessie researchers, the answer might be more simple and also more complex than most people can comprehend. What if the Loch Ness Monster is not really there? At all. One of the more thought-provoking theories for what the Loch Ness Monsters might be is that we're seeing some sort of time portal. That we're getting brief views into the distant past when creatures that look like the Loch Ness Monster, such as plesiosaurs, really did exist. Maybe we're seeing a glimpse into a world of millions of years ago. A time portal? But if true, how is such a thing possible? According to scientists, Loch Ness is one of several bodies of water in the northern hemisphere that present a perfect store of geological conditions to facilitate a wrinkle in time. At Loch Ness, you have a tremendous amount of granite and quartz. All granite is between 33 and 45 percent quartz. The reason your watch works, the reason your phone rings, the reason your computer stores data is quartz. Quartz is an incredible mineral that has an electromagnetic field, and this is fact, this is not theory. According to Nessie researchers, the high quartz content of the area, both surrounding and deep within Loch Ness, produces electromagnetic fields which, when vibration or pressure is applied to it, can have profound geophysical effects. There's a phenomenon known as the Casimir effect in modern physics that we know about, and we think would be instrumental in holding a wormhole open, creating some type of anomaly in space-time. Based on Albert Einstein's theory that an electromagnetic field, consisting of quantum waves, exists all around us, in 1948 Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir predicted that not only does this field exist, it can be manipulated. By placing two uncharged conductive plates parallel to each other, which in the case of Loch Ness would be the quartz-rich walls of the loch itself, the quantum waves present between them become less and less chaotic, eventually creating a space of negative energy. This negative energy, in turn, creates a kind of vacuum, which some theoretical physicists suggest is the same kind of vacuum needed to create a virtual shortcut through space and time. If there were some sort of strange natural phenomena occurring at the Loch Ness that created an exotic matter type of electromagnetic field, well, that could possibly hold open the mouth of a wormhole, and you might see time effects. Maybe you'd be looking backwards into the past, maybe time would move slower along the passageway. It is within the realm of imagination possible. Are the geological conditions in Loch Ness capable of creating a ripple in time, one that would allow creatures like Nessie, and even the people who see and photograph them, to literally travel back and forth across millions of years? But if people standing on the shores of Loch Ness are capable of being transported back in time, is Nessie just as capable of traveling from the ancient past into our present? For many Nessie researchers and cryptozoologists, the answer is a resounding yes. And for their proof, they point to a number of recently revealed government files that suggest that a face-to-face encounter with the Loch Ness monster is more likely and potentially more deadly than you'd think. Are those who see and even photograph the Loch Ness monster actually witnessing a giant sea creature in today's world? Or are they being transported back to an ancient time, when creatures such as these once roamed the Earth? On August 17th, 2017, 12-year-old Charlotte Robinson was staying in a cabin on the Loch while on vacation with her mother. I was just looking out the window, hoping I'd see something, and I started scanning the Loch, and then I saw something. I grabbed my phone, went outside, and took a picture, and came back in and showed it to my mum. I was a bit sceptical because I didn't think there'd be anything on it, but when I actually saw it and I realised there was something on there, it was quite exciting that she'd actually managed to catch something on camera. But I didn't realise it was that special at the time. Charlotte's photo, like many such photographs of the elusive creature, made headlines around the world. What I think is important about this particular photograph is that there's clearly something coming out of the water. More importantly, you've got the perspective of not just the water, but the trees that surround it as well. So that gives us the ability to try and gauge the size of the creature. For Gary Campbell, Charlotte Robinson's smartphone photo of the creature was convincing enough to merit inclusion in his official Loch Ness Sightings Registry. There's about half a million visitors come to Loch Ness every year, and we list between 10 and 20 sightings. So what you've actually done is something akin to winning the lottery. You know, yours is right up there with some of the top Nessie sightings, which I'm delighted with and I hope you are too. But did Charlotte Robinson photograph the Loch Ness monster while being transported back in time, courtesy of the Casimir effect? Or was the Loch Ness monster transported into her, in our present? There are many who believe that the creature known as Nessie is very much alive and well and living in our time. And because of this, they have urged governments to put protocols in place in order to prove that as far as they're concerned, the Loch Ness monster is hardly a myth. One of the most bizarre aspects of the whole Loch Ness mystery surfaced through the British government's Freedom of Information Act, where there was this bizarre plan. According to documents recently obtained, in 1979, the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher considered importing specially trained bottlenose dolphins from the U.S. Department of Defense. The dolphins would be equipped with sonar and would scour the depths of the lake searching for Nessie. While the plan never came to fruition, that didn't extinguish the British government's obsession with Nessie. According to a recent story in the Express, UK officials have been gathering information about Nessie for decades, a fact they had deliberately kept hidden from the public. They have even gone so far as to put policies in place to protect the sea creature in the event it is ever captured or killed. Certainly, if the British government and the Scottish government are putting plans and guidelines and protections in place for this creature, this is a government that believes that there is a monster in their loch. I think if the Loch Ness monster were to be discovered, it would literally set the scientific world on its head. And here we would have yet another example of the great world that we feel that we know so much about still contains some tantalizing mysteries. And that we should never quite close our minds to the possibility that remarkable things have yet to be discovered.