On This Day in Nessie History
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 22nd, 2007
Art by Bill Rebsamen, reproduced with his permission.
On this day, August 22, in AD 565, St. Columba came across a group of Picts who were burying a man killed by a monster that today is linked to the Loch Ness Monster. St. Columba supposedly brought the man back to life. In another version, he is said to have saved the man while the man was being attacked, driving away the monster with the sign of the cross.
Most histories of Nessie point to this event as the first known reference to the Loch Ness Monster.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
If only he had taken some video — or at least a picture! 😛
If he did, everyone would cry hoax or explain it as being otters swimming in a line!
I hear otters were bigger back then.
It was Super Otter!
Wasn’t this supposed to have taken place at the relatively shallow River Ness?
I have always found it interesting how these saints of the Catholic church not only witnessed these creatures, but at least the stories say they fought them or made a deal with them. And yet, to this day the officials of the Catholic church denies any of their existence.