April 1934. A photograph of the Loch Ness Monster appeared, and it became the yardstick for every Nessie picture that followed. It was made by Marmaduke Wetherell for the same newspaper that had embarrassed him over the footprints near Foyers in 1933. In the 1990s, Alastair Boyd and David Martin investigated it. In 1994 Christian Spurling confessed, and the image was exposed as a fake. Later cases are still measured against it. Hugh Gray's 1933 picture never had such a confession, while Lachlan Stuart's three humps of 1951 are often set beside it.
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