The “Loch Ness Monster” Jen Wetherell, 1934

Also known as The “Surgeon’s Photo”. This fuzzy picture, made in April 1934, is known all over the world. During 60 years this photo gave rise to the most incredible speculations about a living saurian inhabiting Loch Ness Lake in Scotland. It also caused a lot of rumors and conjectures, initiated some submarine expeditions and gave rise to the whole industry of tourism in a little Scottish town.
That was till 1994 when the adopted son of the author of the falsification Christian Spurling – told the public about his stepfather Marmaduke Wetherell contracted by the London newspaper Daily Mail for the search of the big animal, failed to find it and decied to make this fake photo with the help of his stepson Christian and son Jen. That is Jen - the real author of the picture. “Nessie” was constructed in haste and was supported on the surface with the help of a toy submarine.
In order to make the story hang together well, the swindlers induced the local surgeon Robert Kenneth Wilson to call himself the author of the photo.