Loch Broom is a
15 km long sea loch located on the North West coast of Scotland. It varies in width from 0.5 to
1.5 km. It has a healthy stock of wild
brown trout and is quite shallow compared to Loch Ness. That have been reports
of a mermaid and a monster in the Loch.
Fishermen spellbound by tame fishing 'monster
I HAVE now received from Inverness reference
library a copy of the article on mermaids printed in the Inverness Advertiser
on 20th January 1832. The man who reported seeing the mermaid said he was
crossing in a boat from Ullapool, when opposite the Green Stone point, the crew
discovered a figure, apparently that of a man, sitting upon a rock, and engaged
in fishing. As it was unusual to find any person fishing on the Sabbath day,
the men rowed the boat towards the object of their curiosity, and to their utter
amazement found it to be partly the likeness of a human being, of which the
uppermost half resembled a female, and was white as snow, and the other half
was of a sky blue colour, and had fins and a tail like a fish. The monster was
very tame, and the crew say that it did not seem to be afraid of them, and it
had soft rolling eyes, and gazed at them for some time, occasionally turning
towards some sea-maws that were flying above in the air! (Sea-maws are
seagulls.) Thanks again to Donald Macdonald-Ross of Niagara who also sent me a
transcript of the article. Donalds great grandmother was a Chirsty Macdonald
from Reiff in Coigach and he has been doing a great amount of genealogy
research. He has a homepage dealing with the history and genealogy of Coigach at http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~coigach
In August 1906 a monster was reported :
Two excise officers reportedly fired at a 90 foot
(30 metre) long monster as it charged towards them at some 60 miles per hour,
resulting in the creature diving. Local fishermen also spotted the monster, and
it was also claimed that a 100 tonne yacht was lifted out of the water when it
came into contact with the beast.
Source :Loch Broom Monster, Cardiff Times 18 August
1906
However a discussion in The Zoologist that year
declared it to be a basking shark.
I
wasn’t aware that basking sharks could move that fast as I thought they were
slow moving. So was it Nessie paying a
visit?
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