Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1934
UNI-1934ID case-5118db33aaAdded to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jan 19, 1934to the day
- Where
- Loch Ness, Alba / Scotlandto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Four Benedictine monks from Fort Augustus Abbey added their testimony to the increasing group of residents and tourists who have seen the unbelievable.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Loch Ness, Dores, Highland, Alba / Scotland, IV63 7YD, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 19, 1934
- 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
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-5118db33aa
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 28 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), May 14, 1934
Newspaper · 1934-05-14
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Further reading
- The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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.
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