This picture taken by a London Surgeon named Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson in April of 1934, was the beginning of modern lore in regards to Nessie the Loch ness Monster.
However this picture was later claimed to have been an elaborate hoax performed by Duke wetherell according to his step son Christian Spurling. Mr Spurling said that his stepfather had faked the picture, having had Christian Spurling make the body shown in the picture out of a toy submarine and some tinplate.
Mr Spurling claimed in a 1975 article that his step father had made the picture along with Maurice chambers. Strangely enough, It was Maurice chambers that Colonel Robert Wilson had claimed he was on his way to see when Nessie appeared.
Ian Wetherell also claimed that he had seen other pictures, in which the shoreline was clearly visible, and that these pictures had been discarded due to the obvious flaw in Nessie’s size when calculated with the Horizon.
As the story goes, Wetherell decided to make the hoax after having been ridicule by the newspaper the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail had sent wetherell to find out the truth about Nessie, while there wetherell found tracks of a four toed creature that he believed was over twenty feet long. He made plaster molds of it, and made the find public, however when the London Museum of History claimed the footprints where those of a Hippo the Daily Mail decided to ridicule Wetherell in a most unrespectful manner.
Wetherell’s vengeance was to create the monster, and have Wilson claimed that he himself had taken the picture.
The plan was to later laugh publicly at the Daily Mail when they came forth to tell the truth about the Hoax.
However so much publicity was brought on by the picture, that all that had taken part of the hoax decided to keep quiet.
Does this mean that Nessie never truly existed?
The simple answer is NO.
there is something in the depths of the Loch Ness Lake.
There are too many sightings that have been reported since the 1800’s for it not to be real.
However what it is may not be a monster at all. At least not in the sense of a sea creature from Myth.
In October 13, 2013 ABC News did a report about a Marine Science instructor named Jasmine Santana. Santana was Snorkeling in Toyon Bay when she noticed an eye looking at her from the floor of the sandy bottom.
A little exploration revealed the carcass of an 18 foot Oar fish. The Find was extremely rare, Oar fish are seldom seen, and their bodies almost never recovered.
This specimen was 18 feet long, however Oar fish are known to grow to up to 50 feet .
It took 20 people to finally bring out the Oar fish out of the water.
Oar fish usually live in the deep parts of the ocean, which is why most humans have never truly seen one. Although Oar fish are not mythological creatures, the idea that this could be what is truly inside the deep water of the loch ness lake only makes sense.
After all Oar fish only swim between 600 feet and 3 thousand feet under the ocean, can grow to 50 feet in lengths and be over 300 pounds.
So even if you do see Nessie, know that you are still witnessing something amazing, and that most of us will never see!
