The 1,300-Year Search for the Loch Ness Monster: A Timeline

Monster hunters are gathering in northern Scotland this weekend for what is being billed as the biggest search for the Loch Ness monster in 50 years.

, which will have volunteers monitoring the surface of the lake for “inexplicable” movements, comes after several prominent efforts to spot the creature and more than a thousand independent sightings.

sixth Century

Preaching religion, finding monsters.

The monster made its first recorded appearance in the biography of a Catholic…