In the animal world things get out of hand, especially under water. How else can it be, for example, that a monster has been up to mischief in Scotland’s Loch Ness for more than 1500 years? Incorrigible realists will now again claim that its existence is extremely doubtful, but its myth electrifies humanity to this day and lures curious people from all over the world to the Highlands. Oberschleißheim has not yet been able to present itself as a tourist magnet, which of course can now change, thanks to the divers of the Bavarian riot police.
After measuring the waters of the rowing regatta course using sonar at the beginning of the year, they discovered a huge fish when evaluating the images. Smaller than Moby Dick, but a bringer in terms of tourism. Two meters long, 80 centimeters wide and, like the great white shark, always ready to attack people. A thrilling story could have been spun out of it and the whole world would have got goose bumps at the sight of the monster from Oberschleißheim, which would have grown a meter longer every day in the media. But the divers and the chairman of the Munich rowing company, Willi Bock, thoroughly screwed that up with their exaggerated sense of reality. Both of them explain that it is a completely normal catfish that does not bite people. Despite persistent inquiries from a reporter, Bock did not want to use the word “monster”.
So much material remains unused for a thriller, because the monster waller has been proven to hunt people twice. Each time it was four girls in their rowboats that he attacked. “They were standing in the shore area and suddenly there was a crazy bang. The girls in the boat screamed, then water ran into the boat and then you saw something gray,” Bock told Bayerischer Rundfunk. Accompanied the scene with appropriate music – the film “The Gray Horror” would be a hit. But no, Bock seeks and finds expert explanations for the terrible events. Either the catfish perceived the oar blades lying flat in the water as prey or he mistook the entire rowing boat for a catfish. In addition – and at the latest with this a thriller becomes a nature film – people are not part of his prey scheme. He even hides from them. Apparently successful. The failed monster of Oberschleißheim has already survived about 15 Ash Wednesdays unscathed.