CRAIG BROWN: Good-Ness! It's still a monster of a mystery...
By Craig Brown for the Daily Mail Published: 22:50, 3 July 2024 | Updated: 22:57, 3 July 2024 e-mail View comments Whatever happened to the Loch Ness Monster? Until Lord Lucan went missing back in November 1974, the Loch Ness Monster commanded all the attention. The two now vie for top position, with the Yeti in third place. Of course, Nessie, as he or she is known, never, strictly speaking, went missing as no one had seen it in the first place.
It was not as though there was ever a time when it could be seen sunbathing on the shores of Loch Ness on a daily basis, or cruising along, waving to passers-by. Nessie’s career didn’t take off until the 1930s, when it became fashionable for those visiting Loch Ness to claim they’d seen the monster. Nowadays, 24-hour webcams on the shores of Loch Ness mean we can all say we’ve spotted it without even having to make the effort of actually go-ing there.
For such a standoffish creature, The Loch Ness Monster attracts obsessive stalkers, most notably a man called Ted Holiday, who spent most of the 1960s and 1970s trying to spot him. Nessie’s career didn’t take off until the 1930s, when it became fashionable for those visiting Loch Ness to claim they’d seen the monster, writes Graham Brown (pictured: Mystery creature in the Loch Ness) Mr Holiday used to explain the lack of confirmed sightings by saying that Nessie had acute telepathic powers and so would appear only.
