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Three-Arched Abomination. Before the year was out, the elusive monster of Loch Ness had been sighted again & again. In one four-week stretch at the height of the tourist season, it was seen 20 times. Its pictures even appeared somewhat foggily in the Illustrated London News...
...spate of speculation which followed its sudden notoriety in the press, the Loch Ness monster was variously identified as a school of otters, a killer whale, the wreck of a German zeppelin, a giant squid, an "abomination with a three-arched neck" and a seagoing dinosaur...
Whatever else it might have been, the monster was a benison to the innkeepers of Inverness-shire. Reckoning its value as a tourist attraction at a good ?5,000 a season, the grateful Scots christened the beast Bobby and did everything they could to make him feel at home. In 1937 Dom Basil Wedge, science teacher of a local Benedictine school, reported that Bobby had hatched a brood of progeny. The little monsters, said Dom Basil, had been observed by his pupils, and each measured about three feet. At about this time the press took to calling Bobby Nessie...
...Scottish Naturalist and Explorer Donald John Munro, R.N., C.M.G., tried to form a Loch Ness Monster Co. to investigate Nessie. Then in 1941, a pilot of Mussolini's air force solemnly announced that he had bombed the Loch Ness monster out of existence...
...explained, the navy for testing purposes had laid some 300 horned mines in Loch Ness in strings of eight. When they surfaced they rolled over once or twice, giving the impression of a living organism; then they sank. "At a distance," said he, "they make a fine monster...