Editing Loch Ness Monster (section)

===Peter MacNab (1955)===

Peter MacNab at [[Urquhart Castle]] on 29 July 1955 took a photograph that depicted two long black humps in the water. The photograph was not made public until it appeared in Constance Whyte's 1957 book on the subject. On 23 October 1958 it was published by the ''Weekly Scotsman''. Author Ronald Binns wrote that the "phenomenon which MacNab photographed could easily be a wave effect resulting from three trawlers travelling closely together up the loch."<ref>Binns, Ronald. (1983). ''The Loch Ness Mystery Solved''. [[Prometheus Books]]. p. 102</ref>

Other researchers consider the photograph a hoax.<ref>[[Steuart Campbell|Campbell, Steuart]]. (1991). ''The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence''. Aberdeen University Press. pp. 43–44.</ref> Roy Mackal requested to use the photograph in his 1976 book. He received the original negative from MacNab, but discovered it differed from the photograph that appeared in Whyte's book. The tree at the bottom left in Whyte's was missing from the negative. It is suspected that the photograph was doctored by re-photographing a print.<ref>[http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_macnab_photograph "The MacNab Photograph"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419192638/http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_macnab_photograph |date=19 April 2017 }}. The Museum of Hoaxes.</ref>