Loch Ness Monsters Tale

The Loch Ness Monster is one of the World’s great mysteries. It was first recorded in 565AD when St Columba was travelling north through the Great Glen to Inverness to meet the Pictish King, Brude or Bridei. On Loch Ness he met some people burying the body of a man who had been killed by a water monster. Columba ordered one of his men to swim out and retrieve the man’s boat so that they could use it, but as he did so the monster surged towards him. On seeing this, St Columba immediately commanded the beast to retreat in the name of God, which it did, and all lived happily ever after.

First recorded when St Columba visited the loch in 565AD, it is not mentioned again until 1933 when it was seen in the water off the village of Foyers, 12 miles from Aldourie. However, one of Oliver Cromwell’s soldiers recorded seeing floating islands on the loch in the middle of the 17th Century.

Since 1933 there have been numerous sightings and numerous scientific studies and, while scientific opinion is generally opposed to the idea of a monster, there is still enough doubt to leave the matter open to debate.