Loch Ness

What is the loch ness monster?

The loch Ness Monster, what is it? Lets go back in time to find our where it all started, back in Scotland there were a tribe of Picts that were covered in tattoos as the word Pict means painted people. This tribe built stones near the loch ness, and they were covered in carvings. All of the carvings were of animals that were recognised all except one. This one >>>>

As you can see it doesn’t look like any animal. This weird animal has a beak or muzzle, a locket or spout on its head and flippers instead of feet. Could this be the loch ness monster? Well this carving is the first evidence of that the loch ness monster may exist. A biography of Saint Columba has the first written evidence of the loch ness monster. In this book it says that St Columba was on his way to visit the Pictish King when he saw a man swimming in the loch ness about to be attacked by a large beast from the water. Could this possibly be the loch ness monster? Well the word soon got out about this “monster” in loch ness and the Daily Mail soon got all the headlines.

As well as the papers the public got interested. This mysterious monster in the lake got so big that a British Circus was willing to pay £20,000 ($59,977.05) for the capture of it. Loads of fishermen, farmers and the locals set off in boats to find this monster, whilst others sat at the waters edge waiting to see this Monster. One of the most excited person was Marmaduke Wetherell>>>>> Marmaduke was a film director and game hunter who was hired by the daily mail (a newspaper company) to find the loch ness monster. After only a few days Wetherell founds some footprints in the ground they were 20 feet long (6 meters). He quickly made plaster casts and sent them to the Natural History Museum in London. This new discovery made more hunters eager to find this mysterious beast came to the loch ness and the lake soon got very popular the hotels had “No Vacancy” and there were traffic jams in both directions. Then in January the results were back from the Museum and they were very disappointing. It turned out that they so called “loch ness footprint” was actually a stuffed hippo’s foot printed into the mud. Could this be the end of the mystery of the loch ness monster?