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Will Sweden's "Loch Ness" monster, recently "caught on camera", be confirmed to be real?
Current forecast: No conclusions published by suspend date (57% chance
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The headlines read Sweden's Loch Ness monster possibly caught on camera:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080829/od_afp/swedenanimallegendoffbeat_080829155128
However, recently we have had a "bigfoot" hoax http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20080819/news/125187 that disappointed some "big foot believers".
Will the mainstream media confirm that the Sweden's Storsjoe (their equivilant of the Loch Ness Monster) is proven to exist?
Pictures and video at http://www.storsjoodjuret.nu/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080829/od_afp/swedenanimallegendoffbeat_080829155128
However, recently we have had a "bigfoot" hoax http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20080819/news/125187 that disappointed some "big foot believers".
Will the mainstream media confirm that the Sweden's Storsjoe (their equivilant of the Loch Ness Monster) is proven to exist?
Pictures and video at http://www.storsjoodjuret.nu/
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Initial likelihoods: Storsioe is confirmed real - new species of animal: 10%, Storsioe is confirmed real - known animal species: 10%, Storsioe is proven to be a hoax: 5%, No conclusions published by suspend date: 75%
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Red Herring 2 days ago
a medium. For three years, I was responsible for getting the magazine out on time, and what a monster it was to produce. When Bill Ziff hired me as the Editor of PC Mag in 1991, ?Mag?, as it was simply known at Ziff-Davis, was at the top of
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The Scotsman 3 days ago
refer to your report (13 November) about the 75th anniversary of the first photograph of the Loch Ness monster. George F Campbell, from Fort Augustus, wrote a book called The First and Lost Iona â A Secret History of Fort Augustus, in which he
score: 10
TMC Net 5 days ago
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The Scotsman 1 week ago
out more at one of several visitor centres dotted along the western shore. We deliberately chose one without 'monster' in the title, hoping to avoid the Nessie in Jimmy Hat tat that creeps in at gift shops around these parts. We chose well; the Loch Ness
score: 10
Glasgow Herald 1 week ago
of tourists, but 'the giggle factor' associated with Nessie must be overcome if the loch is to achieve world heritage status. This the view of Chris Pound, an adviser to Unesco and the UK government on world heritage issues. He is convinced that Loch
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i was really interested in seeing the pics/video, so i followed the link. its kind of hard to make out what is actually captured on film and to me its difficult to put size in to perspective. after clicking around on the provided link page, it brought me to the following page: (which has a few more videos) http://www.storsjoodjuret.nu/bildarkiv.html
here is the YouTube version as well (which i think is a combo of the ones on the other link): http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/youtube.htm?v=8qqdBNxecXk
Yeah, I think these stories are kind of fun :-)
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