The Inverness Courier Loch Ness report

The Inverness Courier, on 2 May 1933, carried a report of a large creature seen in Loch Ness. The sighting it described had happened earlier, on 15 April 1933 according to British Online Archives.

The Inverness Courier ran its report dated 2 May 1933. That is the print date of the newspaper report, and the sighting it described came earlier. British Online Archives dates the sighting to 15 April 1933 and attributes it to Aldie Mackay. It says she claimed she and her husband were out driving when she spotted an enormous creature in the loch, swimming. National Geographic describes the Courier piece as an unsigned report carrying what a married couple said they saw. The Scottish Banner credits the feature to Alex Campbell, who worked as a water bailiff and also did journalism.

The Courier's report, as quoted by Wikipedia and National Geographic, said the creature rolled and plunged for about a minute, with a body like a whale's. The water churned like a simmering cauldron before the animal vanished in a mass of foam. The couple told the paper that its final plunge sent out waves big enough for a passing steamer.

National Geographic gives Loch Ness as a lake 22.5 miles long and just under two miles wide at its broadest, with depths reaching 788 feet. British Online Archives says sightings in the area grew more frequent in the nineteenth century, and that the 1933 article drew substantial attention to the creature.