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Neil J. Gostling, Associate Professor in Evolution and Palaeobiology, University of Southampton

Why the search for the Loch Ness monster (and other beasts) continues 90 years after that first blurry photograph

Hugh Gray was taking his usual post-church walk around Loch Ness in Scotland on a November Sunday in 1933. His amble was disrupted when he saw something bobbing above the water two or three feet from him.

He quickly snapped several pictures of what he described to the Scottish Daily Record as “an object of considerable dimensions”.

A few months earlier, in April 1933, local hoteliers Aldie Mackay and her husband had described a whale-like beast to the Inverness Courier. Then, in the summer of 1933, a man called George Spicer stated: “I saw the nearest approach to a dragon or prehistoric animal that I have ever seen in my life.”

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