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Movies Week in Review – May 19th – 24th

We saw some great movies this last week. If you’d like to know what we thought, click on the links below to read the full reviews. We started off the week with “The Water Horse,” a fanciful movie that investigates the legend of the Loch Ness monster and suggests one possible way it came to be in existence. We go back in time to World War II and see a young boy named Angus find a strange stone by the loch—a stone which turns out to be the egg of the mythical water horse. He cares for the creature until … Continue reading →

The Water Horse (2007)

A legend has been had in Scotland about a mythical creature known as a water horse. While two tourists are traveling through the area of Loch Ness and stop in at a pub, coming come across a picture of a creature rising from the water, they’re willing to dismiss it as a fake until a man sitting in the corner motions them over to tell them the story behind the picture. During World War II, a young boy named Angus MacMorrow was clambering around the stones on the edge of the loch when he discovered a strange rock. He took … Continue reading →

Nessie: Scotland’s Beloved “Pet” Monster

I’ve always been fascinated by accounts of things like UFO sightings, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster. Today as I was surfing History.com’s “This Day in History,” one of the items caught my eye because it related to the Loch Ness Monster. The Story That Started It All On May 2, 1933, the Inverness Courier ran a story about a local couple who had claimed to see “an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the [lake’s] surface.” The couple was Mrs. and Mrs. John Mackay and they actually saw whatever it was on April 14, 1933. The newspaper story would … Continue reading →