Players thought a mod was real — and it made the myth even bigger.
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Players thought a mod was real — and it made the myth even bigger.

The popular Misterix mod added a killable sea serpent to Fisher's Lagoon, but so many players installed it that they started believing instant death upon touching the monster was an actual base game feature — causing random unexplained deaths in the water to be wrongly credited to 'Nessie'.

Verdict:Busted

Source: Loch Ness Monster (GTA SA)CC BY-SA

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The 'Nessie' model itself — the sea serpent players swore was base-game but was actually a Misterix mod creation.
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The 'Nessie' model itself — the sea serpent players swore was base-game but was actually a Misterix mod creation.

Another shot of the fake 'Loch Ness' monster in the water — the mod that fooled an entire playerbase into thinking instant aquatic death was canon.
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Another shot of the fake 'Loch Ness' monster in the water — the mod that fooled an entire playerbase into thinking instant aquatic death was canon.

Fisher's Lagoon on the map — ground zero for all those bogus 'Nessie killed me' stories from mod-blind players.
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Fisher's Lagoon on the map — ground zero for all those bogus 'Nessie killed me' stories from mod-blind players.

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