Nessie IS real

Police chief convinced over monster & feared harpoon mob attack on it

- ZAHRA KHALIQ

POLICE believed the Loch Ness Monster was real “beyond doubt”, and even tried to protect it from a harpoon-wielding mob.

A report, written in 1938 by Inverness-shire chief constable William Fraser, shows he was convinced of Nessie’s existence and raised the alarm over two people attempting to capture it “dead or alive”.

Unearthed 87 years later by Kenny Welsh, of the Loch Ness Centre in the Highlands, the letter details how police feared for the creature's safety as rumours of sightings fuelled public frenzy.