Water Monster · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1960

UNI-1960ID case-db52f0983eAdded to map Nov 3, 2026

The account

A police chief reports that the Loch Ness monster is accepted to exist and faces threats from adventurers attempting to capture it.

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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: Nov 1960
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-db52f0983e

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

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Image 4 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), November 25, 1960
Newspaper · 1960-11-25
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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