Week in Insights: What Goes On Under the Surface Is a Mystery

I was pretty excited to see that May 22 marks the anniversary of the day in 1933 when Aldie and John Mackay saw “something resembling a whale,” marking the first modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.

Except that a May 2, 1933, report in the Inverness Courier says a local couple claimed to have seen “an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface” in April of 1933.

And another recounting suggests that a couple witnessed the first modern sighting when “a most extraordinary form of animal” crossed the road in front of their car on ...