Creatures, Myths & Legends

Lost Nessie movie prop found in Loch Ness

By T.K. Randall
April 13, 2016 ·  17 comments

The loch has been used as a backdrop in numerous movies. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Ian Stewart When Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime sent a robot in to loch ness in an attempt to locate evidence of the Loch Ness Monster, the last thing they expected to find was a 30ft model of it.

Discovered using high tech sonar equipment, the fascimile of the world's best known lake monster had featured in the 1969 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes which starred Sir Robert Stephens as the titular detective and Sir Christopher Lee as his brother Mycroft Holmes.

The model itself was built by special effects artist Wally Veevers who had worked on numerous movies including Stanley Kubrick's science fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

"Nessie" found in Loch Ness almost 50 years after the Sherlock Holmes movie prop was lost https://t.co/msDwomYAM5 pic.twitter.com/domw5pwR9H

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"We have found a monster, but not the one many people might have expected," said marine biologist and veteran Loch Ness Monster researcher Adrian Shine.

"The model was built with a neck and two humps and taken alongside a pier for filming of portions of the film in 1969. The director did not want the humps and asked that they be removed, despite warnings I suspect from the rest of the production that this would affect its buoyancy."

"And the inevitable happened. The model sank."

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