Ophiolite
Recalcitrant Procrastinating Ape
You imply that the hoax, which indeed it was, was what started the myth of the monster. It did not. The so-called "surgeon's photograph" you are referring to was not by any means the first reported sighting. That honour, if honour it be, goes to St. Columba. Other sightings occurred with interest becoming widespread in the early 1930s. The hoax followed that intial surge of interest (and continued long afterwards).The Loch Ness Monster was shown to be a hoax. Some guy admitted it was a hoax. He faked the picture with some sort of homemade decoy type thing and tried to trick his friends. When everybody believed it he just rolled with it I guess.
The hoax was, reportedly, revenge on the Daily Mail (?) who had embarrassed the instigator by debunking his discovery of footprints allegedly belonging to Nessie.
Given your garbled understanding of this myth, forgive me if I place little credence in the assertions you make in support of your beliefs about UFO/UAPs.
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