Loch Ness Monster Essay

On May 2, 1933, Mrs. Aldie Mackay saw something in the still calm waters of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. This was the first modern sighting of an aquatic beast, said to be a plesiosaur, inhabiting the waters of the Loch Ness lake. Known as “Nessie,” the Loch Ness Monster has brought about a lot of dubiousness around the world. Although there had been plenty of reported sightings from people all around the world who have visited Loch Ness to determine whether Nessie is real or not, there is also a lot of scientific evidence that debunks the myth. The Loch Ness monster is a made believe, legendary creature that has been fooling people for over thirteen centuries.
The earliest written reference to a monster inhabiting the Loch Ness waters dates back to the year 565 when Saint Columba, an Irish missionary, traveled to Scotland to introduce Christianity to the country. As he was traveling through Loch Ness, he saw some of the Pict folk burying a man that was bitten by a sea monster while swimming in the waters. Columba ordered one of his men to swim …show more content…
Although he did not find any monster, he did find some footprints that possibly belonged to Nessie leading to the water. Unfortunately, after researchers from the Natural Museum of History conducted further studies on the footprints, they revealed that the footprints belonged to a hippo.
In the year of 1934, a year after the Loch Ness monster made headlines, a British surgeon, Robert Kenneth Wilson, came forward with a picture that appeared to be a head of a serpent-like creature. Wilson claimed he took the picture on April 19, 1934, as he was driving around the Loch when he spotted something moving in the waters. For many decades, Wilson’s photo, “The Surgeon’s Photo,” was believed to be the best evidence of the possible existence of an aquatic monster living in the Loch (Boese