Scottish Police Believed In Loch Ness Monster, Conspired To Protect It
Posted by Justin on May 11th, 2010
Newly released government documents confirm that Scottish police believed there was a strange, beautiful creature in the Highlands lake of Loch Ness, and no one was going to kill it on their watch.
The files from the National Archive of Scotland show that local officials asked Britain’s Parliament to investigate the issue and confirm the monster’s existence — in the interests of science.
“That there is some strange creature in Loch Ness now seems beyond doubt,” wrote William Fraser, a senior police officer, “but that the police have any power to protect it is very doubtful.”
…Fraser’s letter to officials in London warned that he feared hunters Peter Kent and Marion Stirling were “determined to catch the monster dead or alive” and planned to use a “special harpoon gun.”
Kent was preparing a major operation including 20 experienced hunters and Fraser said he warned of the “desirability of having the creature left alone.”
Why wasn’t this a Saturday morning cartoon show when I was growing up?
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May 11th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
I think it was: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxHr3G2wGow