A Robot Searched Loch Ness and Found the 'Monster'

In April 2016, a robot dove into Loch Ness hunting for the Loch Ness Monster — and nearly 600 feet down, its sonar found a 30-foot shape with a long neck. Was it Nessie? This is the true story of what it was. Then, in 2018, scientists tested the loch's water for DNA, and one animal turned up almost everywhere. From the 1933 sighting that started the legend, to a WWII bomber found by monster hunters, to the "Surgeon's Photo" hoax and the toy submarine that may still be on the bottom, this is what's really down there. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open 0:44 The Black Water 2:20 How the Legend Began 4:59 The Bomber in the Deep 6:31 Sixty Years of Sonar 8:34 2016: The Robot and the Monster 11:39 The Other Fake Monster 14:18 2018: Testing the Water 16:12 The Eel Answer 18:06 What Lies Beneath New documentaries every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Subscribe to Beneath The Black. Sources (every fact in this video is checked): BBC News (2016): bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-36024638 The Guardian (2016): theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/13/loch-ness-monster-remains-discovered-by-robot The Guardian (2019): theguardian.com/science/2019/sep/05/loch-ness-monster-could-be-a-giant-eel-say-scientists PBS NOVA: pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lochness/legend.html IWM War Memorials Register: memorials.iwm.org.uk/memorial/44525 Brooklands Museum: brooklandsmuseum.com (Vickers Wellington N2980) Historic Environment Scotland: Urquhart Castle history The Loch Ness Project: lochnessproject.org Credits: Urquhart Castle footage: Le Monde en Vidéo, CC BY 3.0 Loch Ness shoreline footage: Gestumblindi, CC BY 3.0 Images via Wikimedia Commons: William Hole (CC BY-SA 3.0); kitmasterbloke (CC BY 2.0); Alan Wilson (CC BY-SA 2.0); Murgatroyd49 (CC BY 4.0); The TerraMar Project (CC BY 2.0); dronepicr (CC BY 2.0); Bmazerolles (CC BY 4.0); Winsorbishop (CC BY-SA 3.0); Bernard DUPONT (CC BY-SA 2.0); Emőke Dénes (CC BY-SA 4.0); jujurenoult (CC BY 4.0); Mikenorton (CC BY-SA 4.0) Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) Archive film: Prelinger Archives (public domain) Stock footage: Pexels, Pixabay, Mixkit. Some scenes are illustrated reconstructions and are labelled on screen. Narration is a synthetic voice. #LochNess #LochNessMonster #Nessie