What I know: more than a century after the event, someone reported that Saint Columba rebuked a water beast in the River Ness in 565. A saint drove off a beast with the power of God. This river monster was folded in with lake monster after the 1933 stories.
I'll admit that my personal research was meager, so there might be a lot of other verified stuff out there. I'm generally pretty lazy. But I checked as far as Wikipedia and The History Channel and The Iverness (whatever they call their paper), and saw the agreed upon timeline of:
565 - St Columba saw something in the river
1933 - Reports of Loch Ness Monster go viral
1934 - People start relating stories of previous things they had heard (especially that doctor who is purported to have seen something in 1870).
The other reports I've seen are even sketchier than the above, but again, I'm lazy and didn't dig too deep.Statistics: Posted by Mike — Sun Oct 04, 2020 6:59 pm
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