Loch Ness Monster 'Beyond Doubt' Real: Scottish Police Chief

Documents released in the last week show that the Sottish authorities took the matter of a Loch Ness Monster seriously. They were concerned for its safety, and the security of the lake. A famous photo taken is called the 'surgeon' picture taken by Kenneth Wilson in 1934. The image is considered to be a hoax because the scale of the photo is all wrong. It must have been something very small floating on the surface. The image here is more recent, and shows a very large animal with a long neck sticking out of the lake.

"That there is some strange creature in Loch Ness seems now beyond doubt, but that the police have any power to protect it is very doubtful," a Scottish police chief wrote back in the 1930s in a newly released letter expressing his concern that a London man might harpoon Nessie. The 1930s constable was only one in a long line of Scottish authorities who've sought to protect Nessie from harm, cryptozoology expert Loren Coleman says, and they were still doing it as recently as 1999.

Coleman knows because he was all set that year to search for Nessie in a homemade sub with a man who was absolutely sure he had bumped into the monster in a dive 30 years earlier. They planned to take along a harpoon to take a DNA sample. But Scottish authorities nixed the trip, showing, Coleman says, that officials have taken Nessie more seriously than they let on. “There’s always been the sense that quietly…they were taking the reports more validly. There was a serious acknowledgment that the Loch Ness monster exists,” Coleman tells the Christian Science Monitor.

via www.newser.com

The Loch Ness Monster has been seen for decades in this lake. One of the theories is that it is a prehistoric plesiosaur that is moving from locke to locke. That is why is not seen often surfacing for air, which he wold need to do about every 8-10 hours. The idea Loren Coleman had would be the best way to to this. With modern color sonar, they could get up close to anything that was underwater of large size.