A large aquatic creature said to lurk in a long…

A large aquatic creature said to lurk in a long, deep freshwater lake of the Scottish Highlands, close to Inverness and Urquhart Castle. Sightings multiplied after a road was cut along the shore in 1933, and a celebrated photograph credited to a London surgeon showed a long neck rising from the water, later exposed as a toy submarine hoax. Repeated sonar sweeps found nothing. Believers fondly call the cryptid Nessie.

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