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It gets better, they also discovered that the prints were all 100% identical to each other.
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And the theory goes, that someone had just used the stuffed taxidermy rear foot of a hippopotamus to stomp track prints into the mud along the Scottish Loch!.
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Welcome to the Compendium, an assembly of deep dives where today we'll tackle tales, monsters and the art of pulling a Nessie over our eyes.
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Sounds like we might be talking about the Loch Ness Monster.
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Nessie.
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Nessie.
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Who nicknamed her that?
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I don't know, I think it's just because it's obviously from Loch Ness.
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Oh yeah, okay.
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Of course.
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Yeah, I want to take you down a trip down memory lane.
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Because growing up, I was always really fascinated by things like UFOs, hauntings, and weird artifacts have been discovered in various places around the world.
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But the story of the Loch Ness Monster was always one of those mysteries that really captivated my imagination growing up.
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And even though I grew up in South Africa, my mother's side of the family are all from the highlands of Scotland, so I felt like this really deep connection to, the legend of the Loch Ness, almost as if it was like, in my blood.
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But I don't just want to tell you about the legend itself.
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Oh no, we're adults now.
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We're grown up.
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We don't believe in mysterious creatures lurking beneath the ocean.
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Wait, we don't?
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Do you believe in the Loch Ness Monster?
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I believe that there is, must be some truth to the Loch Ness Monster, right?
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In terms of like, whether it's real or not, but there's something that someone must have seen at one point in time.
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Well, that's what I'm going to be talking to you about today.
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Oh, okay.
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Because it's a story of many facets and I wanted to share with you a tale about one man's vengeful plot to single handedly ruin the reputation of a national newspaper known to us as the Daily Mail, which for our non UK listeners was and still is a very powerful, very racist, very old tabloid newspaper here in the UK.
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I think a lot of other countries are aware of the Daily Mail.
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I feel it does get quite a bit of reach in America and Australia.
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Yeah.
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Well, English speaking countries.
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Yeah.
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I mean,
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it is garbage.
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I mean, it's sometimes a good read.
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Yeah, it's entertaining.
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Just.
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Treat it as, I don't know, fiction.
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But that's what we're going to be talking about today.
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This plot for revenge, if you will, against the Daily Mail.
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And the thing is though, his plan worked so well that it actually shaped what we think we know about the Loch Ness Monster today.
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I can't believe that.
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The Daily Mail is linked to the Loch Ness Monster.
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Another scandal.
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And you're exactly right.
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This is a scandal and so today, I'm going to be telling you about the Great Loch Ness Monster Hoax.
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A story.
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That was almost lost to history altogether, because if it wasn't for a pair of very dedicated Nessie hunters and a deathbed confession, we wouldn't have this story to tell today.
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This sounds cinematic.
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They should absolutely make this into a film.
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But first, should we do introductions?
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Yeah.
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For those of you tuning in for the very first time, I'm your host Kyle Risi.
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And I'm your co host Adam Cox.
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And you are listening to The Compendium, an assembly of fascinating and intriguing things.
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We are a weekly variety podcast where I, Kyle Risi, tell Adam Cox all about a topic that I think you'll find both fascinating and intriguing.
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From groundbreaking events to unforgettable people.
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We do this all in a simple one hour ish episode giving you just enough information to stand your ground at a social gathering.
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So Adam, before we dive in, what have you got for me for this week's All The Latest Things?
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Um, in some ways it's actually well timed, but you'll see why.
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there's a link to the main story.
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So, uh, there was a lady, I think it's a lady, in Philadelphia who has a emotional support animal and she was due to visit this baseball game, so she took her emotional support animal to the stadium but was denied entry.
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Can you guess why?
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Because it was the Loch Ness Monster?
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It wasn't the Loch Ness Monster.
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I have no idea was it because it was not an emotional support animal?
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What would you
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think an emotional support animal is?
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Like a Labrador.
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Yeah.
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A dog, basically.
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Yeah.
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Well, this was an alligator.
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Was this, where was this, Florida?
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Oh no, Philadelphia.
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okay, philadelphia, yeah, great.
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Reject them.
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But I bet if that was Florida, they'd be like, sure, come on in.
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They basically said, this is not a typical animal, but apparently it's helped her through depression and has been a very good support animal.
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And it doesn't bite at all.
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It's never been known to bite a human.
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How
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big is the alligator?
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Um, it's quite big.
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I think it's, um,
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yes.
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This is the video.
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Oh, wow.
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She's just walking it through a fountain, in a public place.
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See, this is dangerous.
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Like, she could argue that this is not going to attack anyone, but we don't know that.
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The lady that owns this, animal, says that the alligator will only accept, dead food, will not eat any live food.
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So it's very odd, but he apparently gets lots of attention.
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He's famous for his hugs and kisses.
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Yeah.
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Although kisses, I don't know if I want to
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be kissed by him.
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No, just in case.
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That's ridiculous.
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Well, don't be so mean on Wally.
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That's his name.
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Oh, is that
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his name?
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That's cute.
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Yeah, that's my newsletter for this week.
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So, in all my latest things for this week, I found out that female cockroaches, at this moment in time, in our history of evolution, of the modern world, are actually turning against romance.
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What, they don't want to settle
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down?
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They don't want to get comfy with the male cockroaches.
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Why?
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Well, it's our fault.
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We are disrupting the libido of the female cockroach.
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And the reason for that, and I'm specifically talking about the German cockroach, which is the typical kind of cockroach that you'll find in homes.
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So years ago, we actually discovered that cockroaches love sugar so we started creating these traps using corn syrup that was mixed with poison so they'd be like these little, uh, like little container things that you leave in your kitchen and then the cockroaches will go inside these like little cockroach hotels.
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So because we were killing all the roaches that love sugar, natural selection meant that the cockroaches who had a distaste for anything sweet started becoming the prominent batch, if you will.
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Now, to them, sugar tasted bitter, it was almost kind of like similar, like biting into dark chocolate when you're expecting it to be milk chocolate.
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And that kind of like, ooh, and sometimes they can have they can tolerate small amounts, but the vast majority of them, like they avoid sugar at all costs.
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But here's the fascinating bit.
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So As part of this emergence of having this dislike for sugar, it ended up affecting their love lives.
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Because usually when a male cockroach is trying to woo a female, He produces this sugary secretion from underneath his wings.
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He's got like a gland there that coats his back, and he'll actually offer himself up to the cockroach to like, just have a little bit of a nibble on a little bit of a lick, that's gross.
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But because these cockroaches have developed an aversion against anything sweet, the female cockroach doesn't like romance.
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God, I feel a little bit sorry, I've never felt sorry for a cockroach before will always remember that time in Forteventura when the one, like, entered the house.
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Beep beep beep beep
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beep beep beep beep! What, did we give it a name?
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Um...
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It was very fast, I remember.
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It was just scuttling all over the place, and was like doing these zigzags all around the room.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I remember that as well, really vividly.
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I was chasing it with a broom.
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You were!
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And I got it out the house.
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You did! You swept him out.
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I'm sure he gave it a name, like PD or something.
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I feel like it's PD here.
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Great.
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So yeah, that's all my latest things for this week.
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So today's story is about a British South African man named Marmaduke Ardenal Weatherall and his mission to destroy the Daily Mail after they had publicly ridiculed him, after he had claimed that he had discovered footprints belonging to the Loch Ness, even though he, in fact, faked those footprints in the first place.
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And as a result, and in retaliation to this ridicule, Marmaduke set out to orchestrate one of the most successful hoaxes, while simultaneously being one of the least successful revenge plots in history.
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Do you know the bit that surprised me the most out of that?
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What's that?
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That the Loch Ness Monster has feet.
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I always just always thought it was like a giant snake, so the thought that it's now got feet has really confused me.
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Do you know what, that's interesting, when I was researching this, and I was listening to some of the accounts that people had when they were describing their sightings of it, some people said that it had no feet at all, and I was like, I've never known a Loch Ness monster to not have legs.
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No, I've always known it to not have legs.
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So the hoax part of this story was to convince the Daily Mail that beyond a shadow of a doubt, the Loch Ness Monster was in fact real.
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And that photographic evidence presented to them was actually genuine.
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And this part of his plan worked an absolute treat.
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If anything, it worked too well because there are still millions of people today.
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That still believe the famous image of the Loch Ness Monster is in fact real.
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Do you know which image I'm referring to?
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I think so.
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It's like a grainy black and white with a head popping out of the water.
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Am I right in thinking that?
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That is exactly it.
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So it's taken from a distance.
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It's a bit grainy because it was like the 1930s.
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So yeah, that image, when you Google the Loch Ness Monster, that's the image that you get.
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Oh, from the 1930s.
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I didn't realize that old.
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Yeah, really old.
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So, the revenge part of Marmaduke's plan was then to destroy the Daily Mail by revealing to the world that the images of the Loch Ness Monster that he had sent to the Daily Mail were in fact fake.
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And so, with egg on their face, he hoped that this would destroy the newspaper's credibility and lead to their downfall.
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However, this didn't quite go to plan because as we know, the Daily Mail still continues to spew forth sensationalist headlines and gossip even to this day.
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The Daily Mail actually has a really long history.
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I was quite surprised to find out that it actually goes right back to the 1800s.
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And it was one of the first tabloid newspapers that was ever to exist really in the United Kingdom
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Yeah, I'm surprised even back then it had this kind of hate or kind of lies because I don't know, you think that time was like the war period.
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And so therefore, everything was above board.
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And it was only like got to like the 70s or 80s when things like just started.
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Going a bit awry with reporting.
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A lot of people will remind people that, the Daily Mail has its roots in early fascism.
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But what we know of fascism today wasn't what It was back then.
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It was actually a very progressive kind of way of thinking.
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It was like new labor, if you will, obviously what came out of fascism, during the war has a stigma.
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But it's not really what it means today.
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Okay.
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But yeah it was a tabloid paper even back in the 1800s.
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So fast forward to the early 1930s, a time when the Great Depression was affecting people globally.
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It was during this period that People all over the world became fascinated with mysterious creatures said to inhabit the Loch Ness in Scotland and the newspapers played a significant role in of course fueling that fascination as they always do because what's at the centre of it?
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They try to capitalise on the fears and the insecurities of ordinary people.
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Now the notion of a mysterious creature residing in the Loch is far from a new thing even before the famous photographs of the Loch Ness monster surfaced, there were literally countless legends about eerie and sometimes ominous Creatures In many of Scotland's 30, 000 lochs, in fact, written accounts of strange creatures in Loch Ness date back right back to the 6th century AD.
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And these accounts tell of mysterious beasts that would occasionally like seize people and children and just pull them into like a watery grave.
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Yeah, but do you think that was just, like a old folks tale that people tell around a campfire and things like that?
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100%.
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Oh, okay.
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There's no question about it.
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Because, remember, the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist, so of course there are going to be tales, aren't there?
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Sure.
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I mean, these stories were nothing new, but what captured the world's attention about the Loch Ness Monster in 1933 was that there was this sudden burst of eyewitness testimonies from like the local villages and from tourists who were visiting the area, who claimed that they had seen a dragon or a giant serpent or some sort of huge hideous beast frolicking in the water and sometimes even on the land.
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So sometimes these eyewitness testimonies said that it had webbed feet, sometimes it had flippers, sometimes it had no limbs whatsoever.
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So the reason why there was this sudden burst of reports was because the brand new A82 road had just opened that was running alongside the northern shore of the loch.
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And so this just meant that a lot more people had access to the loch and could observe it.
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So many of these sightings which were all rooted in legend started becoming more and more popular.
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But of course, at the time, many scientists agreed that the sightings were all just probably hoaxes, you know, obstacle illusions, or even just people hallucinating.
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I don't think it's any of those.
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I just think it's people like a good story.
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I think so.
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Yeah.
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Because anything, especially if you're a family and you've got young kids, you'd like to tell a story, right?
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Whether it's, I don't know, some.
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gremlins, whatever down the bottom of the garden or whatever it might be.
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That's right.
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And like you visiting this beautiful area of Scotland and you're speaking to some of the locals and they might talk to you about some of the legends that are happening.
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And yeah, you can just imagine how something like that would just run away with your kids imaginations, right?
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Yeah, like Chinese dragons and things like that in China.
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Here in Scotland, Loch Ness Monster.
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So even though a lot of these scientists just assumed that people were just hallucinating, People just didn't seem to care much.
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They really wanted to believe that there was this mysterious ancient creature that was hiding beneath the depths of the Loch Ness.
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So this belief only just grew stronger over the years.
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And the interesting part is that even though there were many different sightings, all of the stories rarely matched up with each other.
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So despite this, people just around the world were just fascinated by this idea of this mythical creature.
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And as the rumours spread, increasing numbers of people began travelling down to the loch, hoping to catch a glimpse of this elusive monster.
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And soon, claims of the monster's sightings were coming in from Boy Scout troops, Who are starting to spend weeks just camping near the water, fishermen, hunters, and explorers all joined in the search, making the Loch a gathering place for those that were really captivated by the mystery.
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So probably the most widely published accounts of Nessie came from sources that were typically deemed really credible enough for various publications to publish, which only acted to further catapult the legend into the mainstream.
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So there were, these were usually people who were like really well respected people of the community, like professors, teachers, and interestingly enough, even priests in the area were coming forward with their own accounts of the Loch Ness Monster.
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And at one point, they even had a Nobel Prize winner say that they had actually seen the Loch Ness Monster itself.
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So if you've got all these well respected people coming forward saying that they've seen it, it's going to just add credibility to it.
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Mm-hmm.
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and maybe that got you headlines as well, like, because you said that you've seen it, then you can be, I don't know, quoted in a paper or whatever to say like, Oh, so and so's seen it.
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And then that brings attention to whatever you're doing in society.
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Yeah, potentially.
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And also If you are a well respected person in society, then you're not looking to find fame and glory, right?
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Because you already have it.
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So the argument could be made that therefore adds more credibility to your story because you're not after a quick 15 minutes of fame.
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Yeah.
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But also, many times stories came from couples who claimed that they'd seen the beast together and so their accounts just reinforced each other's, making the reports seem even more believable.
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But by the late 1920s, the legend had grown so much That newspapers from the UK, Europe and the United States were literally sending reporters to the loch to cover the story full time.
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So people were thinking it actually exists then because if you're sending a reporter there to basically camp out, wait for a sighting.
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Yeah, I guess it's because it's like the media is going to go where the interest is, right?
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And because the interest is therefore going to sell papers.
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So of course they're going to go down to the lake, right?
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So radio channels across the world were regularly interrupting their programs to provide urgent updates.
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Urgent.
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Urgent updates, breaking news.
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Unlike the most recent sightings of the monster because people just could not get enough of it.
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And for a time, the Legend of the Loch Ness Monster was quite literally the biggest headline of the time.
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And of course, the Daily Mail was so deeply invested to ensure that they were one of the front runners when it came to providing people with what they wanted, often running full front page Nessie updates because It provided a surefire way of making money and this period of history was just deemed Nessie mania.
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It seems bizarre, nessie News.
