Well not really. The modern myth was born. Local folklore goes back 1,500 years.
On May 2, 1933, the newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to have seen "an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface." The story became a media phenomenon. One London newspapers offered a 20,000 pound sterling reward for capture of the beast. That was alot of coin back then.
Loch Ness, located in the Scottish Highlands, has the largest volume of fresh water in Great Britain, has a depth of nearly 800 feet and a length of about 23 miles. After a newpaper ran an article on May 2, 1933, interest grew as more monster hunters headed north to try to see or, better yet, capture the beast.
A famous 1934 photograph seemed to show a dinosaur-like creature with a long neck emerging out of the murky waters, leading some to speculate that "Nessie" was a solitary survivor of the long-extinct plesiosaurs. If you do a google image search, its easy to find all of these old photos (and some new ones thanks to photoshop).
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