1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class. It's a production of I 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey everyone, I'm Eves and welcome to This 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: Day in History Class, a podcast that proves history happens 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: every day. Today is April. The day was at four, 5 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: the Daily Mail printed a photo of what was said 6 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: to be the Lockness Monster. The image, known as the 7 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 1: Surgeon's Photograph, is widely believed to be a hoax. Lockness 8 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: is a lake in Scotland. The myth of the crypto 9 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: known as the Lockness Monster may have his origins all 10 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: the way back in the first century CE. The Picks 11 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: people's who lived in Scotland many centuries ago, carved an 12 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: image of a beast with an elongated beak, and Scottish 13 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: folklore does contain stories about mythical water creat years, such 14 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: as the Kelpie, which is a shape shifting water spirit. 15 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: Stories around mythical creatures inhabiting Lockness specifically were also documented 16 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: hundreds of years ago. According to a biography about St. Columba, 17 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: the st encountered a beast in the River Nests. The 18 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: River Ness is a river at the northern end of Lochness. 19 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: There were several other references to large mysterious creatures in 20 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 1: Lockness documented before the twentieth century, but the modern legend 21 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: of the Lockness Monster began to form in the nineteen thirties. 22 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: In April of nineteen thirty three, Aldi and John McKay 23 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: were driving home when they reportedly saw a huge animal 24 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: in Lockness. On May twond the Inverness Courier published a 25 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: story on the siting. The story was written by a 26 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: reporter named Alex Campbell and its headline was strange spectacle 27 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: on Lockness, What was It? In the article, Campbell reported 28 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: that the creature's body resembled a whales. After quote rolling 29 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: and plunging for fully a in it, the creature quote 30 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: disappeared in a boiling mass of foam. Campbell's story was 31 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: embellished later the McKay's clarified their sighting. Aldi saw an 32 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,399 Speaker 1: object of some sort, but John only saw splashing, and 33 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: Aldi saw two dark humps, not one body that resembled 34 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: a whale. After the story was published, interest in the 35 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: legend of the Lockness Monster grew. Some people were skeptical 36 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: of the existence of a monster, while others reported more 37 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: sightings of the beast. London newspapers sent correspondence to Scotland 38 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: a circus offered a reward for capturing the monster, and 39 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: some people claimed seeing the creature on land. The Daily 40 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,639 Speaker 1: Mail even hired big game hunter Marmaduke Weatherall to find 41 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: the monster. He reported finding the footprints of a large animal, 42 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: but plaster casts of the footprints were sent to the 43 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: Natural History Museum in London for analysis. The museum determined 44 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: that the footprints had been made with a stuffed hippo 45 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: foot that may have been the base of an umbrella 46 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: stand or ash tray, but eyewitness accounts continued to pop up. 47 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty four, it was alleged that English physician 48 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: Robert Kenneth Wilson photographed the creature. The photo was published 49 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: in The Daily Mail on April nineteen thirty four. The 50 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: blurry image appeared to show a creature with a long neck, 51 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: small head and back emerging from the waters of Lockness. 52 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: Over the years, skeptics dismissed the object in the image 53 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: as driftwood or an elephant. Others challenged the scale of 54 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: the object in the photo, which is often presented cropped. 55 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,839 Speaker 1: Others believe that it is a hoax that was part 56 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: of an elaborate revenge plot by Marmaduke Weatherall, but there 57 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: were also people who believed the photo was of some 58 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: unidentified creature. Some have suggested that Nestie, as the monster 59 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: is known, is a police star that survived extinction. Many 60 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: people have flocked to Lockness to investigate the myth or 61 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: in the hopes of getting a glimpse of the monster. 62 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: Researchers have even used camera surveillance and sonar to explore Lockness. 63 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: There's no conclusive evidence that proves the Lockness Monster exists, 64 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: but the legend persists. I'm Eve Jeff Code and hopefully 65 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: you know a little more about history today than you 66 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 1: did yesterday. 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