Nessie Mystery Turns 75

Monday, November 17th, 2008

More than 1,000 people claim to have seen the Loch Ness monster since a mysterious shape was first photographed 75 years ago.

References to a monster in Loch Ness date back to St Columba’s biography in 565 AD.

But the myth only took its modern form when reports of a strange object and then a series of mysterious photographs appeared in press during the 1930s. The BBC website has marked the 75th anniversary of the appearance of the first of these photographs with a recap of the most iconic Nessie images to date.

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