News Animals Seen Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster? Data suggest the odds are low “When you learn data science, you find that it can be applied to more or less anything” The existence of Nessie, shown in a 1934 photograph that turned out to be a hoax, probably can't be explained by a giant eel living in Loch Ness, a new study suggests. Keystone/Stringer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Meghan Rosen September 26, 2023 at 9:00 am There were drones, there were boats.