There are many myths and legends surrounding Caithness and this page will soon be filled with them

There are many myths and legends surrounding Caithness and this page will soon be filled with them .

If you have any you want to share by all means email lotions@supanet.com with them.

There are some that say that the genetic memories of our ancestors imprint upon us and help us imagine or remember what they have seen. But for now we know, The Loch Of Mey Monster Lives!

METEORITE STRIKE! E

Yes its a fact based story to start with Scarfskerry Harbour which borders the Loch Of Mey

could once have had a meteorite strike which would account for the unusual nature of the rock formations there! www.caithness.org/caithnessfieldclub/bulletins/2006/great_caithness_meteorite.htm

The Link above will tell you much more ... hope it was a rock and not The Loch Of Mey Monster's girl! Is she buried at Scarfskerry Harbour? RITE

She was half woman half seal and she is buried in Olrig. [Castletown about 5 miles from the Loch Of Mey]
If you go in the old old cemetary right up at the back near the masonic graves there is a grave with a big hole in it. It is said that if you stick your foot in the hole and make a wish it is supposed to come true.
Also it is said if you stick your foot in it it will start raining. There is a plaque on the cemetary gate with the story.
A Scottish version of the mermaid, selkies were said to be creatures that can take the form of seals or humans, depending on whether they are in water or on land.
Once their seal-skins were discarded, selkies became extremely attractive to humans and it was not uncommon for relationships to form, with the selkie making the decision to stay on land.
No matter how strong the selkie's ties with her mortal family, however, she would always pine to return to the sea, and so to avoid this possibility men would steal the seal-skins and hide them.Without their skins, the selkies were trapped on land.
A Shetland legend tells of a selkie woman who had been married to her mortal husband for many years and had several children by him (as everybody knows, any children produced by a selkie-human union can be distinguished by having webbed hands and feet).
One day, one of her young sons inadvertently discovered the seal-skin which had been secreted away in his father's hiding place and, wondering what it was, took it straight to his mother. Delighted, she seized the skin from him, put it on and slipped into the water, leaving her family, home and distraught husband behind forever.

A sea creature found washed up om Orkney nearly 200 years ago could be the cousin of the Loch Ness monster. It was claimed yesterday. Geneticist Dr Yvonne Simpson will present her research on the so called Stronsay Beast at the first ever Science festival later this month. Its carcass was found on rocks of the Rothiesholm Head Stronsay by a fisherman in 1808.

Part of the Backbone and a 'bristle' are still in storage at the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Dr Simpson say's there are 'remarkable similarities' between Nessie and the Stronsay beast. [Is it a cousin of 'the Loch Of Mey Monster too? ]

'The drawings of the beasts carcass are remarkably similar to the popular image of 'Nessie'.

Dr Simpson will give an explanation of her research in a festival which runs in Inverness,Skye and Sutherland till the 16th November