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In the course of emails between like minded Nessie people, I was reminded of this land sighting from 1934 which, like most such cases today, tends to move beneath the radar of modern Internet surfers. My fellow Nessie enthusiast pointed out that the provenance of the original story was the March 3rd 1934 edition of the Glasgow Herald which by a stroke of luck I was able to access and reproduce for your interest below. It is a fascinating story and all the more since the beast was so near to the witnesses. I am trying to think of a sighting that was so close in proximity to the observers but for now such an answer eludes me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A further bit of research also produced the following clipping from the Northern Chronicle of the 7th March. The details are largely the same though the distance is given as 20 yards instead of 20 feet. Newspaper reporters are not always the best at transmitting such “minor” details (as I have found in recent reports) and somebody got “feet” confused with “yards” or vice versa but it does add the detail that the sighting occurred about 8pm.

 

Read more here: http://lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2012/09/nessie-on-land-harvey-macdonald-case.html