Loch Ness Monster - Arthur Grant

Road-running was an uncharacteristic performance by Nessie, but one that it repeated on the brightly moonlit night of January 5, 1934. At about 1 A.M. a young medical student named Arthur Grant was whizzing along the loch road near Lochend when he saw a large, dark blob shadowed by the bushes along the road ahead. As he approached, the object bounded across the road, almost colliding with Grant's motorcycle. In the moonlight the young man saw a creature with a small eellikc head with oval eyes, a long neck, a bulky body thickening toward a long, rounded-off tail, and four flipperlike legs. It was, he thought, about 18 to 20 feet long and had a dark skin rather like a whale's.

Leaping off his machine, Grant pursued the creature as it loped rapidly away and splashed into the loch. Grant marked the spot by the road and, upon reaching home, drew a sketch of the monster.

"Knowing something of natural history," Grant declared some time later, "I can say that 1 have never seen anything in my life like the animal I saw. It looked like a hybrid-a cross between a plesiosaur and LI member of the seal family. (Peter Costello, In Search of Lake Monsters , pp.30-32)

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