The Truth Behind the Loch Ness Monster's Most Famous Photo #factsdaily #history

The surgeon's photograph, snapped by Robert Kenneth Wilson and shared with the world in 1934, was once thought to show the Loch Ness Monster. For years, people believed it was a real picture of the monster's head and neck. But doubts about its realness grew. Later checks showed the monster was actually quite tiny, probably just a toy submarine dressed up with a fake head and neck. By 1994, everyone agreed it was a fake, made up by Marmaduke Wetherell and friends to get back at the Daily Mail newspaper for embarrassing him before. The photo is famous not because it showed a real monster, but because it's a big part of the Loch Ness Monster story and shows how people can be tricked by hoaxes.