US EditionThe Loch Ness monster and the story behind the mysterious water beast theories - 90 years since first photo
- In 1933, Hugh Gray took the first photograph claimed to be of the Loch Ness monster, which sparked a wave of monster mania.
- There is evidence to support the existence of plesiosaurs, which are three-meter-long reptiles that resemble the Loch Ness monster. However, it is unlikely that the Loch Ness monster is a plesiosaur.
- Despite the lack of conclusive evidence, interest in the monster remains high, with millions of tourists visiting Loch Ness each year.
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Latest Loch Ness Monster sighting 'clearest yet' after first photo 90 years ago
This Sunday marks 90 years since the first official photo of the Loch Ness Monster, and decades later, people are still trying to snap the rumoured beast that lives in the murky water
There’s probably no monster in Loch Ness. But we did find one of its best-kept secrets
Drumnadrochit, Scotland (CNN) — It’s not the volume of water in Loch Ness that impresses, although that’s substantial. It is, after all, 23 miles long with steep walls that plunge into a 754-foot abyss deep enough to submerge Edinburgh Castle twice over. It’s the unsettling darkness that stands out. Peat washes into the loch from surrounding rivers and streams, creating water as rich a brown as the tea that flows from pots in guesthouses in the …
The Loch Ness monster and the story behind the mysterious water beast theories - 90 years since first photo
On 12 November 1933, a man named Hugh Gray may well have started the orginal viral trend when he snapped the first known photograph of a creature lurking in Loch Ness.
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…
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