Other Aquatic · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1944
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A plane destroying a serpent on Loch Ness is an absurd, mechanical twist.
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Oct 1944to the month
- Where
- Loch Ness, Alba / Scotlandto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The Italian press announced a plane destroyed a huge serpent-like animal on the surface of Loch Ness.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Loch Ness, Dores, Highland, Alba / Scotland, IV63 7YD, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 1944
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-0b85ea2222
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 56 of Detroit evening times (Detroit, Mich), October 1, 1944, (FINAL, THE AMERICAN WEEKLY)
Newspaper · 1944-10-01
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.