The Body of the Loch Ness Monster Found
It was the morning of March 31, 1972 when a team of scientists from the Flamingo Park Zoo in Yorkshire were having breakfast at the Foyers House hotel. The hotel was on the shore of Loch Ness and the scientists were there trying to prove the existence of the fabled sea monster. As they ate they were approached by the manager of the hotel.
The manager told them that someone had called stating that someone had reported a hump floating on the water near the hotel. The scientists jumped up and walked to the Loch. There they saw the object and rushed to get into their boat to investigate. Twenty minutes later they returned to the shore with the body of the Loch Ness Monster.
News spread throughout the world that the body of the monster had been found. When the general curator of the Edinburgh Zoo saw the body, he realized it was no monster. He declared that the body was that of a bull elephant seal. The body was odd to be sure and looked like it had been frozen for some time. The next day John Shields came forward and admitted that he had been the one to plant the seal in the Loch Ness. He was the education officer at the Flamingo Park Zoo and thought the dead seal would be a great way to prank to colleagues who were coming to investigate Nessie.
He said that he found that seal on an expedition to the Falkland Islands. It had died after he brought to UK so he decided to use the body as a prank. But just the body of the seal wasn’t enough. He shaved off its whiskers, stuffed its cheeks with rocks and kept it on ice for over a week. He made sure to time the discovery of the body with April 1st but things got out of hand when his friends tried to take the body to London and the story got picked up by the news.