BEYOND NESSIE
Aldie Mackay, a hotel manager, and her husband John were driving past Loch Ness in 1933 when they saw a large beast with a whale-like body in the water. “The creature disported itself, rolling and plunging for fully a minute, its body resembling that of a whale… the water cascading and churning like a simmering cauldron,” read an article in the Inverness Courier at the time. The story sparked a flurry of pieces in the local paper about (alleged) sightings of Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, bolstering a legend that goes back to Saint Columba, an Irish monk in the 6th century AD – even though proof has yet to be found.
The monster – real or not – has made
