Sailor's letters reveal astonishing wartime loch monster encounter

THE Loch Ness Monster may have been caught by the Navy during World War II, according to extraordinary new evidence.

- BY RECORD REPORTER

The encounter only came to light after a man unearthed letters sent to his late sailor grandad from Nessie investigators.

Lewis Tyler, who served aboard HMS Ocean Swell laying antisubmarine nets, is said to have caught a sea serpent in the gear at the loch.

His grandson John Gibbens revealed the astonishing story - and still has the letters that prove it.

He told What's The Jam website: "After he died I found letters among his papers approaching him for information about an encounter in Loch Ness.