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Podcast: Let's Get To The Bottom of That
Episode: The Lochness Monster | Mythical Creature or Hoax?
Description: The modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaperĀ Inverness CourierĀ relates an account of a local couple who claim to have seen āan enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.ā The story of the āmonsterā (a moniker chosen by theĀ CourierĀ editor) becomes a media phenomenon, with London newspapers sending correspondents to Scotland and a circus offering a 20,000-pound sterling reward for the capture of the beast. After the April 1933 sighting was reported in the newspaper on May 2, interest steadily grew, especially after another couple claimed to have seen...