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London tabloids（小报） printed eyewitness² accounts and they desperately³ wanted a photo to go with the stories. In 1934, a London surgeon named R. Kenneth Wilson provided this snapshot. The image was immediately dubbed⁴ "the Surgeon's Photo". It was printed and reprinted, appearing in countless⁵ newspapers and books, and the Loch Ness legend continued to grow.

 

Then nearly 60 years later, a man named Christian⁶ Spurling made a stunning⁷ revelation. The photo was the brainchild(想法) of his stepfather Duke Wetherell, a flamboyant（爱炫耀的） big game hunter, the Daily Mail（每日邮报）had sent to Loch Ness to capture Nessie（怪兽的昵称） on film. According to Spurling, when Duke failed to come up with a photo, the paper fired him. So Wetherell decided⁸ to settle the score（以牙还牙）. Wetherell took a toy submarine, fashioned a Nessie-shaped head and neck, and launched the monster in the shallows of Loch Ness. He took the famous photo and later convinced the London surgeon to claim it as his own.

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