“APRIL FOOL.”
LOCH NESS MONSTER. “Captured at Last. Locli Ness Monster Brought to Edinburgh.” These headlines appear in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, a weekly magazine devoted to the more stolid type of pictures, science and exploration. Under the headlines a photograph showed a monster 100 ft long, with a 20ft tail and weighing 36 tons, being caught i.n a huge steel net on the shores of Loch Ness, with two tugboats waiting to head the monster back in case it escaped. Another picture depicted a vast crowd viewing the monster in Edinburgh, the caption stating that an American circus proprietor’s offer of £500,000 was likely to be refused for scientific reasons. The only justification for these and other equally wild pictures was found in the magazine’s dateline, “April 1.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 111, 10 April 1934, Page 7
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