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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

When was the Loch Ness Monster first spotted?

Did you know that the first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was 1,450 years ago?


The first known recorded sighting of old Nessie comes from an early Christian Irish missionary, by the name of Saint Columbia. In 565 A.D., Saint Columbia reported a “certain water monster” in the 24-mile long loch near the village of Drumnadrochit, Scotland.[1]


However, Nessie has been pretty shy since her famous sighting in 1925, until last year after a 90 year game of hide and seek.[2]

According to Glen Campbell, founder of The Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club, Nessie has now been captured on satellite imagery after all these years.[3]  





[1] Macduff Everton, “Nessie, Un-Loched?” Islands Magazine (May-June 1987), 12.
[2] “No Loch Ness Monster sightings for first time since 1925,” BBC News, February 7, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-26081992
[3] Liz Fields, “Loch Ness Monster Reportings on the Rise After Sighting on Apple Maps,” ABC News, April 20, 2014, http://abcnews.go.com/International/loch-ness-monster-report-rise-sighting-apple-maps/story?id=23394714.

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