How did the story of the loch ness monster start?
A persistently reported monster or colony of monsters in the vast area of Loch Ness in northern Scotland. The loch is some 24 miles long and about a mile wide, with a depth from 433 to 754 feet. A monster was reported here in ancient Gaelic legends as well as in a biography of St. Columba circa 565 C.E. The modern history dates from 1933, when the monster began to receive a significant amount of media attention. Research efforts to produce conclusive proof of the monster’s existence were initiated by different researchers in the 1970s. In 1972 Robert Rines, an MIT physics graduate who went to Loch Ness to search for “Nessie,” obtained some now famous computer-enhanced “flipper” photographs. The photographs were taken by an underwater camera after a sonar device detected what appeared to be two large moving objects. The pictures clearly showed a rhomboid shape that appeared to resemble the flippers on seals and similar aquatic mammals. Other films and photographs of an unidentified obje
