Names / Person

Aldie Mackay

Person 5 stories, 1933 to 1969

Spring 1933. Aldie Mackay, manageress of the Drumnadrochit Hotel, was driving from Inverness to Drumnadrochit with her husband John. Near Abriachan Pier, the calm loch suddenly erupted in a tremendous upheaval. She first thought of two ducks fighting, but it was far too extensive. In April 1933 the Inverness Courier reported her sighting of a whale-like creature. Her account set off a wave of reports, leading to the Spicer land sighting that July and Arthur Grant's encounter on the Abriachan road in January 1934.