Spicer’s report that the creature appeared to be carrying a small lamb or animal of some sort also echoes the black-and-white classic, as the brontosaur can be seen snatching men with its jaws and shaking them around. Like in King Kong, a long-necked dinosaur had landed in the modern day. Spicer had been driving with his wife along the shore of the soon-to-be-famous lake in Scotland when he claims to have seen “a dragon or prehistoric animal” with a long neck crossing the road fifty yards ahead. A few months later, the Courier fanned the embers of the glowing legend by publishing a letter by a Londoner, George Spicer. King Kong had opened in London four days before this sighting and instantly became a hit. In writing it up for the Inverness Courier, he embellished his friends’ testimonies, turning a splashing that might have been caused by fighting ducks and two dark humps spotted in the distance into a frolicking creature with the body of a whale. Three young anglers were fishing for trout on Loch Ness in 1930 and they witnessed “a great commotion with spray flying everywhere.” Crucially, they did not spot any monster.īut this story stayed with reporter Alex Campbell who, in 1933, heard that two of his friends had just seen something in Loch Ness while driving along its shore. The specific origin of the Loch Ness monster has actually been traced back to the 1930s. “The beast, hearing this command of the holy man, fled terrified in pretty swift retreat.”Įxcept that this story was written one hundred years later by a biographer who had never met Saint Columba and who weaved a tale filled with magic and devilish creatures to match the saintly exploits of the time that often contained references to dragons and serpents. We are told the missionary invoked God’s name and commanded the creature to turn back and ignore Columba and his companions. This creature’s true origin is often said to date back at least to the year 565, with Saint Columba, an Irish missionary who travelled to Scotland, allegedly encountering a great roaring beast in the River Ness, northeast of the loch. In their book, Abominable Science!, authors Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero convincingly argue that this scene might very well be the beginning of the modern Loch Ness monster legend. The creature topples the raft, and as the surviving crew members make it to shore, the monster emerges from the sea and reveals itself to be a massive, four-legged dinosaur, akin to a brontosaur. Through the thick fog, a long neck emerges from the waters, topped by a saurian head.
In a particularly striking scene, the crew of the ship Venture encounters one of them while at sea on a raft. Kong himself lives on Skull Island, which is also populated by dinosaurs.
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Nothing substantial has ever been found, except for a fascinating hypothesis: that the myth of Nessie was born in a famous movie released in 1933.Įven if you were not alive in 1933, you have undoubtedly seen footage from this black-and-white classic which used stop-motion animation to bring to life a giant ape in front of mesmerized audiences. Nessie’s legend, like the lake it is meant to inhabit, has been thoroughly examined. This “incredible discovery” does not move the needle on the plausibility of the Loch Ness monster. I am used to reporters blowing a mouse study out of proportion (often with the help of the drum-beating scientists themselves and their university’s public relations office) and declaring cancer over but the hype monster here would make a snack out of these laboratory mice. “Get your binoculars out.” Even the BBC claimed that African fossils “show ‘monster’ could have lived in Loch Ness.” A British digital publisher told us that an “incredible discovery” made the existence of the Scottish sea serpent “plausible.” Nobody had ever been able to prove it was real, “perhaps until today,” one of their tweets read. Recently, old Nessie was in the news and trending on social media. The Loch Ness monster will simply not die, nor will its legend.
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