Why the search for the Loch Ness monster (and other beasts) continues - It’s been 90 years since that first blurry photograph

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Why the search for the Loch Ness monster (and other beasts) continues - It’s been 90 years since that first blurry photograph

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By Neil J. Gostling
Loch Ness monster
The famous picture that shaped popular ideas about the way the Loch Ness monster looked, turned out to be a fake [Image: Marmaduke Arundel ‘Duke’ Wetherell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]

Neil J. Gostling takes a look at stories of the Loch Ness monster and why the quest for such creatures is a source of fascination

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 somethi