What happened
Loch Morar on Scotland's west coast is the deepest lake in the British Isles, and its monster, known as Morag, has reports going back to 1887. The most famous dates from August 1969. Duncan McDonell and William Simpson were out in a motorboat in the evening when – as they told it – the boat struck something large, and the animal began to approach them. According to their description, it was brown, 7–9 meters long, with rough skin, three humps rising about 45 cm above the water and a head about 30 cm wide. McDonell pushed it away with an oar, Simpson fired a shot from a rifle, and the creature slowly sank and disappeared. The case revived interest in the loch, and in the following years watches were carried out there, described in the 1972 book “The Search for Morag.”
Witnesses
Duncan McDonell and William Simpson, local men traveling together in the boat.
Explanations and hypotheses
No physical evidence survives, and the account rests solely on the word of two witnesses. Skeptics note that in falling dusk and in the confusion it is easy to overestimate an animal's size; suggestions have included a swimming deer, a seal or a submerged tree trunk, although none of these explanations accounts for every detail. By 1981, 34 reports of Morag had been collected, half of them involving several witnesses. The creature remains the best-known Scottish lake monster after Nessie.
Unexplained There is no convincing explanation.
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