The Loch Ness Monster makes a rare appearance...

LOCH NESS MONSTER

Posted by Jon King on Apr 03, 2009

Tagged with: loch ness monster, mystery, myth & legend, nessie, unexplained, weird nature

The Loch Ness Monster was first sighted by Saint Columba in the year 565, since when countless reports and even some photographs of the elusive Nessie have surfaced. How about you? Ever seen the Loch Ness Monster? Do you even believe she exists…?

Nessie: Jurassic Myth or Cuddly Toy?

One cuddly creature we’d all love to snuggle up to is Nessie, the fabled Loch Ness Monster.

Reported to inhabit the fathomless depths of Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland, it is said that the Loch Ness Monster — or one of his ancestors — was first sighted by Saint Columba in 565 AD, when the early Christian patriarch reportedly saved a swimmer from the jaws of a mysterious lake monster.

Sadly the camera was still a millennium and a half away from being ready for commercial use back then, so we had to wait until 1933 before the first known photograph of the Loch Ness Monster arrived, revealing what appeared to be the elusive beast basking on the loch’s surface, washing its back.

A year later we were treated to what has become probably the most famous photograph to date(above)—the head and shoulders of the Loch Ness Monster peering out of the loch and looking rather like a submarine’s periscope. Either that, or a rubber swan!

In any event, many other photographs and bits of footage of the Loch Ness Monster now exist.

But what we want to see, of course, are your videos of the elusive beast.

Creative license permitted, but as always it had better be good…

image: unique historic image