Dubbed "Nessie" by loving conspiracy theorists around the world and probably the most iconic of Scottish legends (which is saying something, considering that Scotland's national animal is the unicorn), now fans of the incredible can go on a quest to find Loch Ness Monster on Google!
Earlier this week, the first Loch Ness Monster Google celebration became apparent when the major company dedicated one of its famous doodles to the first-ever picture of what appeared to be a monster in the now-famous Scottish lake, the 1934 "Surgeon's Photo," which began the legend behind the beloved monster.
The Loch Ness Monster Google doodle shows how the first "photograph" of Nessie was first staged, as it contained a few men inside to make the whole thing look as scary as it was at the time of its first release.
While Nessie's legend is very old, it had gone unmentioned for about one thousand years until resurfacing in the early 20th century.
As Live Science reports, the picture that started the Loch Ness Monster Google celebration, "Surgeon's Photo," was first published in The Daily Mail in 1934, depicting the head of a monster with a very long neck who was poking out of the lake's waters, taken by a London surgeon named Kenneth Wilson - who ultimately admitted that the picture had been a hoax.
According to Time Magazine, though, the doodle wasn't where the Loch Ness Monster Google celebration stopped: they also added a new feature on their Street View cameras where users can get a glimpse of Nessie in its natural habitat in the famous Scottish Highlands lake.
The Guardian wrote a long piece about how the Google Earth search for Nessie was depriving "mystery" from fans of the legendary monster or even fantasy in general - but, on the whole, it seems like the Loch Ness Monster Google adventure was widely loved!
