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