Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1934
UNI-1934ID case-7ef8cd075fAdded to map Nov 3, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Apr 23, 1934to the day
- Where
- Loch Ness, Alba / Scotlandto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Curators of the London zoo and experts from the South Kensington museum dismissed authenticated photographs of a Loch Ness monster as impossible, insisting no such creature exists in any lake.
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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
- Apr 23, 1934
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 3, 2026
- Case id
- case-7ef8cd075f
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 2 of The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.]), April 23, 1934, (Home Edition)
Newspaper · 1934-04-23
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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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