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“Surgeon's Photograph”

Stories5

Lachlan Stuart's Three Humps Photograph, Loch Ness

July 14, 1951 · Whitefield croft, south-east shore of Loch Ness, opposite Urquhart Castle, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources · 4 photos

22Thinly documented

G. E. Taylor's 16 mm colour film, Loch Ness, 1938

May 29, 1938 · North shore of Loch Ness, opposite Foyers, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources · 2 photos

33Partially documented

Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

c. 1934 · North shore of Loch Ness along the A82, near the Altsaigh (Alltsigh) Burn, about 2-3 miles northeast of Invermoriston, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 43 sources · 3 photos

22Thinly documented

Marmaduke Wetherell's Loch Ness Monster Footprints

December 1933 · South shore of Loch Ness, near Foyers, Highland, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources · 2 photos

22Thinly documented

Hugh Gray's Photograph: The First Claimed Photo of the Loch Ness Monster

November 12, 1933 · Mouth of the River Foyers, Foyers, Loch Ness, Scotland

Cryptid · Creature · 28 sources · 4 photos

36Partially documented

Names9

Surgeon's Photograph Event · 4 stories
April 1934.
Karl Shuker Person · 57 stories
A zoologist and cryptozoologist, Karl Shuker turns up again and again in this archive.
Daily Mail Organisation · 13 stories
A London newspaper with a long reach into the strange.
Steuart Campbell Person · 13 stories
A BUFORA investigator who kept offering down-to-earth answers.
Nessie Term · 11 stories
Nessie is the name the archive gives the Loch Ness Monster, and it has become a template for lake monsters worldwide.
Constance Whyte Person · 9 stories
Constance Whyte wrote More Than a Legend, published in 1957, and spent years following up on the Loch Ness Monster.
Alastair Boyd Person · 3 stories
A researcher who spent years taking apart the most famous images of Loch Ness.
David Martin Person · 3 stories
Two men named David Martin appear in this archive.
Inverness Place · 3 stories
A Highland town on the River Ness, close to the loch that made it famous.

Documents2

Defense Intelligence Reference Document Invisibilty Cloaking Theory And Experiments Report

Defense Intelligence Agency· 29 pages

…Further dissemination of the photographs in this publication is not authorized. This product is one in a series…
AAWSAP DIRD, Invisibility Cloaking Theory and Experiments, March 2010 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 2010-03-02· 29 pages

…Further dissemination of the photographs in this publication is not authorized. This product is one in a series…

Videos14 · see all

Loch Ness Monster - The Surgeon's Photo

From Hugh Gray's Photograph: The First Claimed Photo of the Loch Ness Monster

The Surgeon's Photograph 'HOAX'

From Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

From Myth to Hoax | Episode 38: The Surgeon's Photo, Robert Wilson

From Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

Loch Ness Monster: The Surgeon's Photo

From Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

Surgeon's Photo: real or fake?

From Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

The Enigma of the Second Surgeon's Photograph

From Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

April 19th, 1934: The 'Surgeon's Photograph' of Nessie

From Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

Loch Ness Monster Hoax of 1934

From Loch Ness Monster: the Surgeon's Photograph

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