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A ‘monster’ in the bowels of Girona: welcome to the quest for the “Spanish Loch Ness”

  • May 23, 2022
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On October 8, 1998, at ten o’clock in the morning, a small excursion boat departed from the shore of Lake Banyoles. The 141 passengers traveling in it are

A ‘monster’ in the bowels of Girona: welcome to the quest for the “Spanish Loch Ness”

On October 8, 1998, at ten o’clock in the morning, a small excursion boat departed from the shore of Lake Banyoles. The 141 passengers traveling in it are French pensioners vacationing in Spain. A few minutes after leaving,Crazy” The name of the boat began to sink, and in the blink of an eye, the ship disappeared to the bottom of the lake as if it never existed.

21 people were killed and 38 injured. The shipowners were sentenced to three years in prison for gross negligence, and the Banyoles town hall was declared legally liable for the tragedy. It was a series of irregularities that led to all this. No mystery. However, since there had always been in the lake, the reminders that something strange had happened were not absent. Welcome to Loch Ness Spanish.

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In his book “Catalunya Misteriosa”, Sebastián d’Arbó described that at the end of the 19th century there was a stagecoach traveling from Olot to Banyoles f.While crossing the shore of the lake, he was attacked by a monster.. But the story of the stagecoach is first and foremost a popular story. If we go to the records, we find little evidence of this encounter.

not the same as another shipwreck: the shipwreck of 26 May 1913. In this incident, a tourist boat capsized for no apparent reason and 10 out of 12 passengers were lost. No one was able to recover the bodies, and indeed “months later, some human body parts emerged in a state of advanced decomposition floating in the water.”

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But the story comes from afar. Said to have lived on the lake as early as the 8th century”a wild, creepy and indestructible beast […] His whole body was covered with sharp bone spikes, and although he had wings, he could not fly because of his enormous size.” His eyes “sparks sparks” and his breath “is so plagued that it withers plants, makes people and animals sick.”

The damage they had done around the lake was so great that the monster’s presence reached Charlemagne’s ears. The emperor, who was fighting the Muslims in Catalonia, sent several hundred soldiers to restore order. Legend has it that they were all destroyed. Rather, one of the legends.

In another, the inhabitants of Banyoles sought advice from Mero (or Emeri), a prominent monk who had a reputation for holiness from Narbonne. Mero went to the lake, looked for the beast, and brought it to the center of the city to prove that it only ate plants, algae, and the like. It’s like an episode of Scooby-doo the bad guys were finally Charlemagne’s soldiers (who rapes, robs and kills at will, disguised as a monster).

Could there be a monster in Lake Banyoles?

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The lake itself is curious. It has a tectonic origin, but first of all it is karst. In other words, when it formed about 250,000 years ago, it was due to tectonic movements produced by the emergence of the Pyrenees, but the main element of its formation was (as if it were a gigantic cave). erosion and other such geological events.

Actually, More than 90% of the water comes from here. the nearby region, Alta Garrotxa, where it is filtered and flowed through a series of underground channels into the lake. The remaining 10% is due to the surface waters reaching Banyoles via rivers. On top of that, the differences with Loch Ness are getting bigger with every step we take.

Loch Ness is an elongated body of water with a surface area of ​​approximately 60 square kilometers and a depth of more than 200 meters in its deepest parts. Bathles has a surface of just over one square kilometer and a maximum depth of about 40 metres. Even in the hypothetical case that he really is a monster, common sense this should be much smaller than Nessie.

If any of these are unlikely to make sense anyway, data makes this much less likely. However, the real appeal of Banyoles is not its reliability, at Xataka we did not go crazy with ‘crypto’ and subscribed to cryptozoology: the Spanish ‘Loch Ness’ is interesting for what it tells us about the road. where people conceptualize physical space and human history. The stories we tell ourselves say it all about us, and so there is more information in the sociology of these things than a thousand mysterious programs.

Source: Xataka

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