Something very curious happened in the British Parliament this week. Two representatives of the House of Commons discussed the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, and one of them suddenly announced that his own great-uncle was one of the first people to see the legendary Nessie in the last century. This statement immediately interested cryptozoologists from all over the Earth.
It all started when Member of Parliament Drew Hendry, representing Scotland in the House of Commons, spoke of an increase in tourists to cities under his jurisdiction, in particular in Inverness, which is considered the birthplace of the famous cryptid. The politician mentioned a mysterious monster, saying that the mythical creature invariably attracts travelers from many countries of the planet.
However, Hendry himself does not seem to have much faith in the monster and considers it rather a successful marketing ploy to attract tourists. Hearing this, another parliamentarian, Bob Stewart, who is an army officer and represents the Beckenham district of London, unexpectedly surprised those present with the statement that Nessie was completely real, and his relative witnessed the appearance of the creature.
Stewart told colleagues:
My great-uncle was then little and went to preparatory school on the shores of Loch Ness. And he saw the monster with his own eyes. This incident was one of those that made Nessie famous and led to an unprecedented rise in local tourism. All Scottish newspapers wrote about it. This happened in 1931. He and another boy were returning from school when they saw in the water a huge dark creature with a small head on a long neck. When the preschoolers told the adults about what had happened, they called the journalists, and soon the story became a real sensation. My relative has lived with this all his life, and many knew him as "the very boy who saw Nessie."
Was there a boy, that is, Nessie?
Then the officer made another unexpected statement. Say, before his death, his great-uncle admitted that he and his friend invented this story, and in fact they had not seen any monster. Strange, isn't it? How could two children in those years have learned about the cryptid, and how did they manage to deceive a lot of adults, including meticulous newspapermen and cryptozoologists, with their rather accurate and believable description of the creature?
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Bob Stewart believes that the old man must have slapped himself so that skeptics would not twist their fingers at their temples, at least after his death. The official fully believes in the existence of the monster, as well as in what his great-uncle saw as a child, the legendary inhabitant of Loch Ness.
And he is right: people's oaths before death in the authenticity of mystical stories, materials or deeds are also very unreliable. In this case, it is enough to remember the famous video about the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot. You can easily find on the Internet Roger Patterson's confession before his death in 1972 that it was a fake, but flipping through several sites, you will also find his confession that there was no hoax. Moreover, it is quite possible that he said both that, and another …