OTD 1933: Loch Ness monster hunting
craze begins
Last year, alleged sightings of the Loch Ness
monster rose to eight - the highest number since 2000. In recent years, the
most sightings were made in 1996 when 17 accounts were logged with the official
register. More sightings were made in the 1930s and the 1960s, when sometimes
more than 20 a ...
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CBF Morning Run: Seeing how the sausage is
made, pruning jobs at Scotts, booking a room in ...
1933, Loch Ness Monster sighted. The newspaper
Inverness Courier ran a story about a local couple that said they saw “an
enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.” The story of the “monster”
(the Courier editor chose that name) became worldwide news when London reporters
descended ...
The Loch Ness Monster could be a
freak of nature
It was on this day 85 years ago, May 2, 1933, that an
extraordinary story appeared in The Inverness Courier newspaper and began a
global phenomenon. Aldie Mackay, a hotel manager, and her husband were driving
past Loch Ness on a sunny, cool and calm afternoon in April 1933 when
they saw ...
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