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* Danny Dunn and his friends once went searching for a lake monster in central Africa, thinking it might be a dinosaur. It turned out to be (no, really!) a giant electric walking catfish.

* Steve Alten writes a lot of books with [[Sea Monster|Sea Monsters]]; his novel Meg was about [[Kraken and Leviathan|a Megalodon (sixty foot prehistoric shark) that makes it to the surface after surviving down in the Marinara Trench]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. His more recent novel ''The Loch'' deals with, of course, [[Stock Ness Monster|the Loch Ness Monster]]. In a twist however, Nessie isn't a peaceful plesiosaur but a giant eel with a taste for tourists.

* Erasmus Darwin had an encounter with this critter in ''The Amazing Dr. Darwin''.

* According to the ''[[Star Trek Stargazer]]'' novels, the trope isn't just confined to Earth. The Kandilkari have "The Lake Dweller That Roars", though it's unclear as to whether it's real or not. Nol Kastiigan seems to think so, but it's not certain.

** Sarah Jane was able to [[Name Drop]] the Loch Ness Monster during an argument with Rose as to which Companion endured the most incredible "space stuff". Rose couldn't trump it. ("School Reunion")

** [[Negative Continuity|And the Borad becomes the Loch Ness Monster]] in the [[The Nth Doctor|Sixth Doctor]] serial "Timelash."

* [[Truth in Television]]: Some of the giant fish pursued on ''River Monsters'' have a reputation for bumping boats or dragging fisherment into the water, feats often attributed to the scarier versions of this trope.

* In the ''[[Andy Griffith Show]]'' [[Reunion Movie]] ''Return to Mayberry'' some locals - including Earnest T. Bass - try to convince people there's a lake monster.

== Video Games ==

* The Lok Pik Monster in ''[[The Spellcasting Series]]''. It basically serves as the [[You Shall Not Pass]] guardian of the first game's final chapter.

* 'Gourdy' is a monster of unknown attributes that supposedly lives in Gourd Lake in''[[Ace Attorney]]''. Lotta Hart's attempts to get a picture of him become a key plot element in case 1-4. While there's no canon evidence of Gourdy's existence, a piece of official fanart shows the cast enjoying a picnic by the lake while a dark Nessie-like shape is seen poking out of the lake in the far background.

* In [[Pokémon]] Lapras is a plesiosaur, the sort of creature Nessie is often explained as being and its production name was Ness. Draw your own conclusions.

** Gyarados is based on legends about magic carp jumping over the Dragon gate and becoming dragons but its abode being in lakes in its appearances in Red and Blue seem to be inspired by lake monster myths.

* ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' features the wading lake monster, which is rather more [[AI Roulette|frustrating]].

* There's also Sally, the Lake Salamanca monster in [[City of Heroes]]. Sally is peaceful, though, and dives below the water if you attack her.

** Incidentally, something funny went on in translation here. The character's English name refers to the longstanding theory that the "real" Loch Ness Monster is a plesiosaur. But the original Japanese name is Brachio Wave -- referring to the Brachiosaurus, which did sorta look like a plesiosaur from the neck up, but didn't live underwater. Between this and its incredible size (40 feet tall and twice as long, making it one of the most colossal creatures ever to walk the Earth), a Brachiosaurus couldn't hide in Loch Ness if it wanted to.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', there's an underground tram running from Ironforge to Stormwind. In the middle, the tram runs between two humongous aquaria. One aquarium contains a plesiosaur named "Nessy".

* There's an easter egg in the original ''[[Zoo Tycoon]]'' that will let you keep these in your zoo.

* One level of ''[[Lemmings]]'' is titled "Hunt the Nessie", and takes place on the back of a serpentine lake monster.

* While not the plesiosaur type, ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' has the Del Lago, a mutant salamander.

* [[Scooby Doo]] has encountered the Loch Ness monster or similar lake monsters on a regular basis but always seems surprised to learn they're fake. The direct-to-DVD movie ''Scooby Doo and the Loch Ness Monster'' reveals the monster to be a scam but at the end (like ''The X-Files'' example above) shows a real creature in the Loch. Scooby met lake monster that was compared to Nessie in ''The New Scooby Doo Movies'' episode "Loch Ness Mess" and met Nessie again (apparently out of continuity) in the ''Scooby's All-Stars'' episode "A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing."

* An episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' was actually about Homer and Mr. Burns attempting to capture the Loch Ness Monster.

* In ''[[South Park]]'', Chef's parents (who live in a castle in Scotland for some reason) insist that they keep having run-ins with Nessie, who keeps asking for $3.50.

* The 2011 Disney short ''The Ballad of Nessie'' tells the story of how Nessie ended up at Loch Ness after her home was paved over to build a miniature golf course.

* ''Disney's [[Doug]]'' had Doug and Skeeter investigate the existance of the Lucky Duck Lake Monster on occasion. Said monster is a featured character in [[The Movie]].

* An episode of ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' centers around this, in the end it turns out to be a [[Mechanical Monster]] created by MAD.