“Loch Ness Monster”
p. 77 · Read in the full issue
In The Solomons
Letter to the Editor.
WITH pleasure and satisfaction I read in the October “P.1.M.” a letter from Mr.
M. E. Livingstone, of Salamaua, New Guinea, in support of my encounter with the “Loch Ness Monster.”
It seems difficult for many to believe that my story is authentic, in spite of the fact that my brother saw the “monster,” as well as I. Perhaps now the “Doubting Thomases” will believe I really did see the creature of which I wrote, and that it was not the result of a heavy supper, or of too much “home-brew.”
I sent a description of the serpent to the Australian Museum, but they could not classify it. They said several similar creatures had been seen and reported at different times, but none had ever been caught. Until one is captured, they-stated, it is impossible to say what it is.
I am, etc.,
Geoff Gaskell.
Tulagi, 5.1., December 1, 1935.