On This Day in Nessie History
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 22nd, 2007
Art by Bill Rebsamen, reproduced with his permission.
On this day, August 22, in AD 565, St. Columba came across a group of Picts who were burying a man killed by a monster that today is linked to the Loch Ness Monster. St. Columba supposedly brought the man back to life. In another version, he is said to have saved the man while the man was being attacked, driving away the monster with the sign of the cross.
Most histories of Nessie point to this event as the first known reference to the Loch Ness Monster.
If only he had taken some video — or at least a picture!
If he did, everyone would cry hoax or explain it as being otters swimming in a line!
I hear otters were bigger back then.
It was Super Otter!
Wasn’t this supposed to have taken place at the relatively shallow River Ness?
I have always found it interesting how these saints of the Catholic church not only witnessed these creatures, but at least the stories say they fought them or made a deal with them. And yet, to this day the officials of the Catholic church denies any of their existence.