It’s not surprising that this infamous 1934 photo purported to depict the Loch Ness Monster is a confirmed hoax; what is surprising is exactly who the target of that hoax was. The perpetrator was U.K. hunter Marmaduke Wetherell, who’d been hired to track down the monster by London’s Daily Mail the year before. When the paper tarnished Wetherell’s reputation by discrediting the photographic evidence of the creature that he’d faked, he decided to get revenge on the Mail with the image pictured here, created with a toy submarine. And it largely worked, as the paper ran with the photo and many people believed it to be authentic for decades.
Life is not a Spectator Sport 