As the latest search comes to an end BBC Scotland News examines the Nessie Contingency Plan, which was drafted in 2001.

He concluded that Loch Ness was inhabited by a large sea ... written sometime before 704, one day St. Columba saw a monster poised to attack a person who was swimming across the River Ness.

The story of the Loch Ness Monster made its first splash in the media on May 2, 1933, when the first sighting appeared in local news by a couple who saw 'an enormous animal' in Scotland's Loch Ness.

A recent live webcam capture near the Clansman Hotel in Scotland has reignited interest in the legendary Loch Ness Monster, ...

But one name that always ends up near the top is the Loch Ness ... or view the monster particularly challenging — and there have been plenty of ambitious efforts over the years. The earliest tale ...

The monster then returned to attack another swimmer in the River Ness, which flows from Loch Ness. St. Columba made the sign of the cross, causing the beast to swim away, the biography said.

One of the best-known things about Scotland is the Loch Ness Monster, affectionately nicknamed ... is found in the Life of St Columba, written in the sixth century. The Irish monk Columba, who ...

Monster hunters from around the world will gather in Scotland and online in search of the Loch Ness Monster. Today in 565 CE, St. Columba reports seeing the Loch Ness monster. According to ...

It did. And Columba was credited with saving the man’s life and performing a miracle. It’s also thought to be the first ever sighting of the Loch Ness Monster. In 1934, London surgeon Dr ...

Legends about the lake date back nearly 1,500 years, when an Irish monk, St. Columba, encountered a ... Here are four reasons the Loch Ness monster, like a walking mummy or howling werewolf ...

The legend of a monster dates back to the Middle Ages when Irish monk St Columba is said to have encountered a creature in the Ness, a river that flows from Loch Ness. The modern myth of Nessie ...