2. • Origins
• Physical appearance
• Photographs and films
• Searches for the monster
• Possible explanations

3. The term "monster" was reportedly applied for the
first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by Alex
Campbell, the water bailiff for Loch Ness and a
part-time journalist, in a report in the Inverness
Courier after a reported sighting of a “monsterfish”,
“sea serpent” or a “dragon”.
Here is a picture of
the Loch Ness
Monster. Whether
true or not, we do
not know.

4. • Amphibious
Creature
• 45 foot long
• Bulking body
• 4 large flippers
for swimming
• Grey scaled
body
• Sharp teeth
• Long neck
Artistic Impression of
the Loch Ness Monster

5. An Image of its home, Loch
Ness
Where does it
live?
Loch Ness,
ScotlandWhy?
Loch Ness provides
a suitable
environment. It has
some deep
underwater caves
and plenty of
aquatic animals.

6. "Surgeon's Photograph"
(1934)
The "Surgeon's Photograph"
purported to be the first photo of a
"head and neck". Dr. Wilson claimed
he was looking at the loch when he
saw the monster, so grabbed his
camera and snapped five photos. After
the film was developed, only two
exposures were clear. The first photo
(the more publicized one) shows what
was claimed to be a small head and
back. It is probably the most famous
as well as controversial photo of
“Nessie”.

7. On 3 August 2012, skipper
George Edwards published a
photograph he claims to be
"The most convincing Nessie
photograph ever", which he
claimed to have taken on 2
November 2011. Edwards'
photograph consists in a
hump out of the water which,
according to him, remained
so for five to ten minutes. It is
the latest photo of “Nessie” so
far.
A hump like structure rising out of the water,
as seen above in the picture.

8. On 26 May 2007, Gordon Holmes, a 55-year-old lab technician, captured
video of what he said was "this jet black thing, about 45 feet (14 m) long,
moving fairly fast in the water." Adrian Shine, a marine biologist at the
Loch Ness 2000 centre in Drumnadrochit, described the footage as
among "the best footage [he has] ever seen." BBC Scotland broadcast the
video on 29 May 2007. STV News' North Tonight aired the footage on 28
May 2007 and interviewed Holmes.
Stills from Gordon Holmes Video

9. Sir Edward Mountain
Expedition (1934)
Having read the book by Gould,
Edward Mountain decided to finance
a proper watch. Twenty men with
binoculars and cameras positioned
themselves around the Loch from
9 am to 6 pm, for five weeks starting
13 July 1934. They took 21
photographs, though none was
considered conclusive. Captain James
Fraser was employed as a supervisor,
and remained by the Loch afterwards,
taking cine film (which is now lost)
on 15 September 1934. When viewed
by zoologists and professors of
natural history it was concluded that
it showed a seal, possibly a grey seal.

10. In 1969 Andrew Carroll, field researcher for the New York Aquarium in
New York City, proposed a mobile sonar scan operation at Loch Ness.
The project was funded by the Griffis foundation. This was the tail-end
of the LNPIB's 1969 effort involving submersibles with biopsy
harpoons.
The trawling scan, in Carroll's
research launch Rangitea, took
place in October. One sweep of
the loch made contact with a
strong, animate echo for nearly
three minutes just north of
Foyers. The identity of the
contact remains a mystery. Later
analysis determined that the
intensity of the returning echo
was twice as great as that
expected from a 10-foot pilot
whale.

11. Eels
A giant eel was one of the first
suggestions made. Eels are
found in Loch Ness, and an
unusually large eel would fit
many sightings. Eels are not
known to protrude swanlike
from the water and thus
would not account for the
head and neck
sightings. Dinsdale dismissed
the proposal because eels
move in a side-to-side
undulation.

12. In a 1979 article, California biologist
Dennis Power and geographer
Donald Johnson claimed that the
Surgeon's Photograph was in fact
the top of the head, extended trunk
and flared nostrils of a swimming
elephant, probably photographed
elsewhere and claimed to be from
Loch Ness. In 2006, paleontologist
and artist Neil Clark similarly
suggested that travelling circuses
might have allowed elephants to
refresh themselves in the loch and
that the trunk could therefore be
the head and neck, with the
elephant's head and back providing
the humps. In support of this he
provided a painting

13. CONCLUSION
The Loch Ness monster is still one of the must arguable
cryptid. Popular interest and belief in the animal has
varied since it was brought to the world's attention in
1933. Evidence of its existence is anecdotal, with
minimal and much-disputed photographic material
and sonar readings. Yet people still believe in this
creature and it still remains the most famous and
widely known example of crypto zoology.