# That damn lake monster in sctoland? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 22, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damn-lake-monster-in-sctoland/133437 "2002-10-22T23:23:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damn-lake-monster-in-sctoland/133437/21 "2002-10-23T12:48:44Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by aahala_ > I don’t recall if it was the original newspaper publication or the negative of the photo itself, but there was a portion of the photo that had for decades been ignored, which after Spurling’s was told, confirmed it has a hoax. The [third link](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lochness/legend3.html) I gave touches on this, although doesn’t specifically say it: The whole photograph (about halfway down the page) shows the far shore of the loch. From this, the angle of view could be determined, and therefore the distance to the object calculated, and therefore its height. The portion of the monster poking out of the water turned out to be only a foot high. The fact that Wetherall knew about this “uncropped” version of the photo, when all the newspapers ever since have carried the cropped version, is further evidence that he was in on it. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damn-lake-monster-in-sctoland/133437/22 "2002-10-23T15:38:37Z")
Here’s a [fun](http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WolfFiles/wolffiles.html) link. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damn-lake-monster-in-sctoland/133437.md?page=1)