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...Wyck's brains, disliked his brutality. But in spite of small-town rumor he never con sidered Dr. Wyck crazily evil until the terrified behavior of one of Dr. Wyck's patients gave him a clue. When the patient went insane with fear, when the first symmelus (monster with lower extremities fused) was born at the hospital, David was beginning to put a misty two & two together, and only his sound medical training kept him from getting an answer outside of medical arithmetic...
Times. Believers agreed that the creature must have floundered up the stream which connects Loch Ness with the North Sea, since obviously it could not have surmounted the locks in the Caledonian Canal which leads from the lake to the Atlantic. Englishmen began to take the monster seriously when Lieut. -Commander R. T. Gould, R. N. retired, author of The Case for the Sea Serpent, collected 51 eye witness accounts and drawings, which he duly detailed in the London Times. It was about 50 ft. long, he had concluded, and not more than five feet thick, with long, tapering neck...
...days later Photographer Malcolm Irvine of Scottish Films, Ltd. created a national sensation when he emerged from the Highlands with what he claimed were actual cinema photographs of the monster, splashing through Loch Ness at 10 m.p.h...
...last week the question had become of such moment that Sir Arthur Keith, famed anthropologist, felt impelled to write the Daily Mail: "Strange to say, it is just the great number of witnesses and the discrepancy in their testimony that have convinced professional zoologists that the 'monster' is not a thing of flesh & blood. I have come to the conclusion that the existence or nonexistence of the 'monster' is not a problem for zoologists but for psychologists...