fakery- Nessy

Colonel Robert Wilson, a respected surgeon took the following image now known as the 'Surgeons' photograph in 1934, when he supposed snapped it as he drove past loch ness. This appeared not long after the NHM had disproved footprints from the Loch as having been faked.

For years skeptics were sure that the photo was somehow a hoax. But no rigorous studies of the image were conducted until 1984 when Stewart Campbell analyzed the photo in a 1984 article in the British Journal of Photography. Campbell concluded that the object in the water could only have been two or three feet long, at most, and that it probably was an otter or a marine bird. But as it turned out, Campbell was wrong. The object in the water was not a form of marine life. It was a toy submarine outfitted with a sea-serpent head. This was revealed in 1994 when Christian Spurling, before his death at the age of 90, confessed to his involvement in a plot to create the famous Surgeon's Photo, a plot that involved both Marmaduke Wetherell and Colonel Wilson.According to Spurling, he had been approached by Wetherell (his stepfather) who wanted him to make a convincing serpent model. Spurling did this, and this model was then photographed in Loch Ness. The picture was then given to Wilson, whose job it was to serve as a credible front-man for the hoax.
Apparently Wetherell's motive was revenge, since he was still smarting from his humiliation over the hippo-foot tracks. "We'll give them their monster," his son later remembered him saying.

The image was often cropped down by the media which allowed the monster to appear bigger then it actually was in comparison to the water, and yet for many years the legend and story of the loch ness monster have been passed down. All caused by three men and an odd need to make the Loch more famous.