Editing Loch Ness Monster (section)

=== Aldie Mackay (1933) ===
The best-known article that first attracted a great deal of attention about a creature was published on 2 May 1933 in ''[[The Inverness Courier]]'', about a large "beast" or "whale-like fish". The article by Alex Campbell, water bailiff for Loch Ness and a part-time journalist,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-04-12 |title=Loch Ness Monster: Is Nessie just a tourist conspiracy? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-22125981 |access-date=2024-01-25 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> discussed a sighting by Aldie Mackay of an enormous creature with the body of a whale rolling in the water in the loch while she and her husband John were driving on the A82 on 15 April 1933. The word "monster" was reportedly applied for the first time in Campbell's article, although some reports claim that it was coined by editor Evan Barron.<ref name="Binns" /><ref name="monster1933">''Inverness Courier'' 2 May 1933 "Loch Ness has for generations been credited with being the home of a fearsome-looking monster"</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Campbell |first=Steuart |date=14 April 2013 |title=Say goodbye to Loch Ness mystery |work=The Scotsman |url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/steuart-campbell-say-goodbye-to-loch-ness-mystery-1-2893334 |url-status=live |access-date=18 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211081757/https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/steuart-campbell-say-goodbye-to-loch-ness-mystery-1-2893334 |archive-date=11 December 2019}}</ref>

''The Courier'' in 2017 published excerpts from the Campbell article, which had been titled "Strange Spectacle in Loch Ness".<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 September 2017 |title=Report of strange spectacle on Loch Ness in 1933 leaves unanswered question – what was it? |url=https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/report-of-strange-spectacle-on-loch-ness-in-1933-leaves-unanswered-question-what-was-it-139582/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221183348/https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/report-of-strange-spectacle-on-loch-ness-in-1933-leaves-unanswered-question-what-was-it-139582/ |archive-date=21 February 2020 |website=The Inverness Courier}}</ref><blockquote> "The creature disported itself, rolling and plunging for fully a minute, its body resembling that of a whale, and the water cascading and churning like a simmering cauldron. Soon, however, it disappeared in a boiling mass of foam. Both onlookers confessed that there was something uncanny about the whole thing, for they realised that here was no ordinary denizen of the depths, because, apart from its enormous size, the beast, in taking the final plunge, sent out waves that were big enough to have been caused by a passing steamer."</blockquote>

According to a 2013 article,<ref name="auto" /> Mackay said that she had yelled, "Stop! The Beast!" when viewing the spectacle. In the late 1980s, a naturalist interviewed Aldie Mackay and she admitted to knowing that there had been an oral tradition of a "beast" in the loch well before her claimed sighting.<ref name="auto" /> Alex Campbell's 1933 article also stated that "Loch Ness has for generations been credited with being the home of a fearsome-looking monster".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoare |first=Philip |date=2 May 2013 |title=Has the internet killed the Loch Ness monster? |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/02/internet-killed-loch-ness-monster |url-status=live |access-date=18 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212145304/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/02/internet-killed-loch-ness-monster |archive-date=12 December 2019}}</ref>