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When police believed 'beyond doubt' the Loch Ness Monster was real...and tried to protect it from a harpoon-wielding mob out to catch the beast

When police believed 'beyond doubt' the Loch Ness Monster was real...and tried to protect it from a harpoon-wielding mob out to catch the beast
Documents from 1938 - five years after the first photo purporting to show the rumoured beast was taken - detail efforts by the authorities to safeguard Nessie.

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