Water Monster · Fort Augustus, Alba / Scotland · 1961

UNI-1961ID case-4cf380f719Added to map Nov 3, 2026

The account

Mourners at a funeral reported the monster popping out of the water nearby and pushing off in the opposite direction at a spanking pace.

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Creature: Water Monster
Where: Fort Augustus, Highland, Alba / Scotland, PH32 4AU, United Kingdom
mapped to town level · from the report's own words
When: Nov 1961
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Nov 3, 2026
Case id: case-4cf380f719

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Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

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 7 of The Key West citizen (Key West, Fla.), November 5, 1961
Newspaper · 1961-11-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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