Teh One Who Knocks
02-17-2016, 12:41 PM
Rob Waugh for Metro.co.uk
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Is the Loch Ness monster a gigantic, prehistoric beast trapped for centuries in the icy waters of a Scottish loch?
Nope, it’s a swan.
That’s the conclusion of a new book, Hunting Monsters by Darren Naish, which suggests that one of the iconic photos of the monster is, in fact, a swan.
Hugh Gray’s picture, taken in 1933, was the earliest photograph of the monster – seemingly showing an eel-like head and flippers bashing the water.
But the reality is a little more prosaic, Naish suggests.
Naish says, ‘Without giving too much away, I want to say that the famous Hugh Gray Loch Ness monster photo of 1933 is not a swimming dog, or a salamander-like beast, or giant anachronistic Tullimonstrum… but a swan.
‘Yes, a swan. And the infamous Peter O’Connor photo of 1960 – the one that depicts what looks like an inflated plastic bag with a stick for a head – has proved to be the inverted hull of a kayak called a Tyne Prefect.
‘You can even see the base of the rudder support!
http://i.imgur.com/PZKgoNc.jpg
Is the Loch Ness monster a gigantic, prehistoric beast trapped for centuries in the icy waters of a Scottish loch?
Nope, it’s a swan.
That’s the conclusion of a new book, Hunting Monsters by Darren Naish, which suggests that one of the iconic photos of the monster is, in fact, a swan.
Hugh Gray’s picture, taken in 1933, was the earliest photograph of the monster – seemingly showing an eel-like head and flippers bashing the water.
But the reality is a little more prosaic, Naish suggests.
Naish says, ‘Without giving too much away, I want to say that the famous Hugh Gray Loch Ness monster photo of 1933 is not a swimming dog, or a salamander-like beast, or giant anachronistic Tullimonstrum… but a swan.
‘Yes, a swan. And the infamous Peter O’Connor photo of 1960 – the one that depicts what looks like an inflated plastic bag with a stick for a head – has proved to be the inverted hull of a kayak called a Tyne Prefect.
‘You can even see the base of the rudder support!