An Italian researcher is claiming that the infamous Loch Ness monster that appears alongside Earth tremors and swirling bubbles in a Scottish lake called Loch Ness is the result of an active fault beneath the lake.
Luigi Piccardi claims that the Great Glen fault system is the reason for the alleged sightings according to NBC News.
"There are various effects on the surface of the water that can be related to the activity of the fault," said Piccardi to an Italian newspaper La Repubblica, adding that the times of the sighting have "coincided with periods of seismic activity. "We know that this was a period with increased activity of the fault. In reality, people have seen the effects of the earthquakes on the water."
The Great Glen fault runs for over 62 miles and cuts the Scottish Highlands in two according to NBC.
Piccardi said that the strike-slip fault, where rocks slide against each other with no vertical movement, is the reason for creating the phenomenon people have called the Loch Ness monster.
The creature rose to fame in the 1930's when surgeon Kenneth Wilson claimed to have a picture of a creature popping its neck out from the river.
The image was deemed a fake and scientists have failed to prove the existence of the monster since.
Scientists have gone to great lengths to figure out of anything abnormal lives in the lake, such as attaching cameras to dolphins and miniature submarines according to NBC.
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