By John Glenday

An historian has lifted the lid on what he believes to be the true genesis of Nessie, the mythical beast said to inhabit the inscrutable waters of Loch Ness, after unearthing an obscure semi-autobiographical account from the 1950’s written by a man who claims to have earwigged on the entire scam.

Gareth Williams, science historian at the University of Bristol, makes the claim in his new book A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness, after coming across a key passage in the novel Marise, by ‘Stephen Lister’, in the course of his research. In it the narrator claims to have Read full story ›

Source: The Drum