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Loch Ness is one of the largest and deepest expanses of water in the United Kingdom

Reports of a monster inhabiting Loch Ness date back to ancient times.

The first written account appears in a 7th-century biography of St. Columba.

According to that work, in 565 , the monster bit a swimmer and was prepared to attack another man,
when Columba ordering the monster to "go back." It obeyed,

In 1933 the Loch Ness monster's legend began to grow, In April a couple saw an enormous animal-
which they compared to a "dragon or prehistoric monster"-and after it crossed their car's path, it
disappeared into the water.

In December 1933 , Marmaduke Wetherell, found large footprints that he believed belonged to "a
very powerful soft-footed animal about 6 metres long."

But after closer inspection , zoologists at the Natural History Museum determined that this was
made with an umbrella stand or ashtray that had a hippopotamus leg as a base;

English physician Robert Wilson photographed image-known as the "surgeon's photograph"-


appeared to show the monster's small head and neck. The Daily Mails printed the photograph,
sparking an international sensation

In 2018 researchers did a DNA test Loch Ness for understood what organisms live in the waters. No
signs of a large animal were found,

But there were many eels signs, and people through that this monster wos a big eel.

there is no real evidence but the Loch Ness monster remained popular and people known
monster as a nessie

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