Loch Ness monster stories continue making their way into the social consciousness, with a newly unearthed report from the 1930’s recently surfacing. The report documents concerns of a Scottish police officer who claimed that a British man wanted to kill the beast in the 1930s.
A recent article in the Christian Science Monitor describes the former Scotland chief constable William Fraser from Inverness-shire expressing his wish to protect the Loch Ness monster, often affectionately also dubbed “Nessie.”
“That there is some strange creature in Loch Ness seems now beyond doubt, but that the police have any power to protect it is very doubtful,” the police officer wrote in the report.
Another report from local authorities wanting to protect the mythical creature arose after an alleged sighting in 1999. A researcher in a homemade submarine claimed that he saw the animal and applied for permits to go back with a harpoon gun, but was denied by local authorities.
There has been hype for centuries about the mysterious aquatic creature in Scotland’s Loch Ness. The incredible hype surrounding Loch Ness has left most of the world unaware that there are two other lochs nearby that have reported sightings of strange creatures as well: Loch Lochy and Loch Oich.
Loch Ness is the largest freshwater body in the U.K. Along with other lochs and a network of smaller lakes, canals, and rivers, it makes up the Great Glen rift valley in the Scottish Highlands, connecting the North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.
Some of the Nessie believers rationalize that it probably represents multiple animals, as the creature’s first sighting was as early as 565 A.D. Multiple alleged sightings point toward the animal being a plesiosaurus, an aquatic dinosaur or dinosaur-like animal, estimated by scientists to have been extinct for about 65 million years.
No body of a Loch Ness monster has ever been recovered in all the years of searching, but Loch Ness keeps attracting millions of tourists each year. In 2008, it was voted as Great Britain’s premier tourist destination by the Royal Automobile club.
A recent article in the Christian Science Monitor describes the former Scotland chief constable William Fraser from Inverness-shire expressing his wish to protect the Loch Ness monster, often affectionately also dubbed “Nessie.”
“That there is some strange creature in Loch Ness seems now beyond doubt, but that the police have any power to protect it is very doubtful,” the police officer wrote in the report.
Another report from local authorities wanting to protect the mythical creature arose after an alleged sighting in 1999. A researcher in a homemade submarine claimed that he saw the animal and applied for permits to go back with a harpoon gun, but was denied by local authorities.
There has been hype for centuries about the mysterious aquatic creature in Scotland’s Loch Ness. The incredible hype surrounding Loch Ness has left most of the world unaware that there are two other lochs nearby that have reported sightings of strange creatures as well: Loch Lochy and Loch Oich.
Loch Ness is the largest freshwater body in the U.K. Along with other lochs and a network of smaller lakes, canals, and rivers, it makes up the Great Glen rift valley in the Scottish Highlands, connecting the North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.
Some of the Nessie believers rationalize that it probably represents multiple animals, as the creature’s first sighting was as early as 565 A.D. Multiple alleged sightings point toward the animal being a plesiosaurus, an aquatic dinosaur or dinosaur-like animal, estimated by scientists to have been extinct for about 65 million years.
No body of a Loch Ness monster has ever been recovered in all the years of searching, but Loch Ness keeps attracting millions of tourists each year. In 2008, it was voted as Great Britain’s premier tourist destination by the Royal Automobile club.
