If he didn’t have the incredible luck of accidentally snapping a Loch Ness Monster, did he have the incredible luck of accidentally snapping three seals lined up in a ideal position to look like Nessie?
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Accounts of a beast living in Scotland’s Loch Ness, which is located in the Scottish Highland and stretches for about 23 miles, have been around for 1,500 years, according to History.com. However, their reception revealed their disbelief as they claimed the image to be nothing more than three seals chasing each other in a straight line, according to the Metro.
“I suppose it could be seals”, Ian continues, “But I’m not so sure”. Nessie, the slimy lagoon monster who captured the imaginations-nay, hearts-of many a young believer.
“When you’re up there you’re constantly looking in the water to see if you can spot anything in there”, Bremner told the Express.
“This is the first time I’ve ever seen Nessie in the loch”, he said.
He added that he’s “normally a bit of a sceptic when it comes to Nessie”, but now he’s changing his mind.
The Loch Ness monster first achieved notoriety in 1933 after a story was published in a local newspaper describing not a monstrous head or hump but instead a splashing in the water that appeared to be caused, the photographer said, by fighting ducks.
‘You start seeing things even when you know fine there’s nothing there’. (Note to Bremner: you’ll probably have better luck finding deer if you’re not pointing your camera into a large body of water.) “When I saw it on my screen I said ‘what the hell is that?'” Bremner said.
In 1934, the famous “surgeon’s photograph” was shot.
His friends are major party poopers, and are trying to tell Ian that what he actually captured were three seals.
The monster and the tourists who come to look for it are thought to be worth around £30million to the Highland economy.
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It was later revealed to have been made by him using a dried hippo’s foot of the type used as umbrella stands at the time. Is that the camera-shy creature playing in the water?
