Clicking on the submarine then treats the viewer to a video of a very English gentleman, with a grey unkept beard, stating he had lived there for 41 years and was still looking for Nessie. If you ask me he should of been doing something better with his time. Perhaps visiting a hairdressers, buying two dozen razor blades or even taking up lessons in speaking with a Scottish accent. Because it is a little more than disappointing to have Nessie Anglicised by a English man speaking, I'm sure in Scotland there are a lot of Scottish people available who could of said something about the most loved of creatures. In Rome do as the romans do, which is not to speak with an English accent. I am more than sure this man didn't hear about the episode of 1918.Yes, although Google had elected to say the search for Nessy has been 81 years, the actual legend of Nessy has been going on for a considerably longer period. It was in 1981 that Doug McGregor and his friend Fraser McDonald decided to do a little bit of their own searching for Nessy. It had been a long beautiful summer this year which had touched the latter part of August as well. Which is surprising for Scotland because generally speaking the weather in Scotland is always colder, wetter and more miserable than it is in England. Hence the dour outlook many Scots possess, not to mention the tendency to have pale skin and red hair. Which is altogether a different subject, not related to copper. Fraser and Doug were 15 and 16 respectively, they lived not far from Lochness and would often fish there, taking their dog Harry along with them. This August however there had been five aledged sightings of Nessy. It might of been because of the gloriously long summer and on account of the water level dropping slightly. However, for what reason it was we shall never know, just that Nessy was being quite active, or brave or maybe even because the Loch had become a place for people to spend time and staying cool. Hence it was more likely Nessy would be spotted.
Fraser and Doug decided to swim in the Loch and they took with them some fishing tackle. They had been successful and caught a number of fish but Fraser decided he would now fish for Nessie. He hooked one of the fish on his line and swam out. Doug also thought this was a good idea and it is said they were both competitive lads so was not unusual for them to try and out fish even for Nessie. Their dog Harry stayed at the shore. We know this because later on after the search for the lads a butcher's bone was found with a number of teeth marks in it. Unfortunately neither lad returned home and Harry to was never seen again. Their clothes were left on shore, with shoes and bags they had put food into. There were also several fish in a bag. They had worn plumsoles and these were never recovered as was their underwear. The entire village of Drumnadrochit, came out in search, the police were called in from Inverness and for a two weeks they rowed boats up and down. They based themselves at Castle Urquhart from where the search was centralised. But this was nearly a century ago and searching was not as professional as it is nowadays. They threw hooks in the Loch and just pulled them along hoping they would catch onto something. But it was like searching a haystack for the Loch is no small thing (24 miles long) and it is exceptionally deep. A stone is now place not far from where the lads went missing and their families mourned. It was a sad time and this episode did not get into the papers of the whole of the UK because newspapers in those days were not as tabloid in nature. Or it may well of been because of the saturation of news around the Great War.
It is said, Nessie did take the bait and eat their fish, but it is also though Nessie may of eaten Fraser and Doug as well. On late August nights the laughs and voices of teenage lads can sometimes catch the breeze as it rolls off the Loch where the last moments of these young lads and a dog called Harry were had. Sadly though Nessie has become a phenomenon of comedy and crackpot monster hunters this event is forgotten. Except of course for the little known bounty which was put on Nessie's head by the local priest, which still has not been collected. A small statue of Harry could of been seen until 1983 when it was removed or stolen.
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