4. The Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster started to gain popularity after a road was built along the northern shore of Loch Ness in 1933. Those who drove claimed to have seen a large animal in the lake. A famous big-game hunter name Marmaduke Wetherell. He was able to locate large footprints that lead into the water, but retreated from public once the Natural History Museum concluded that the prints were made by a dried hippos foot which, at the time, were commonly used for umbrella stands. Colonel Robert Wilson brought in the popular photograph shown above, but in 1994 it was revealed that the photo had been identified as a fake because Christian Spurling admitted of being apart of the hoax with Wetherell and Wilson. The “monster” was actually a serpent head tied to a toy submarine.