The Famous ‘Loch Ness Monster photo’ (and the man who faked it)

Jacob tells Rosie about a guy called Marmaduke Wetherell, a surgeon who just wanted to cut people open in peace, and how a crazy plot to bring down The Daily Mail is actually what led to the most (totally real!) photo of the Loch Ness Monster in history. Story starts at approx 21:26 We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more there’s this: NYT article about Marmaduke and the hoax: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/weekinreview/loch-ness-fiction-is-stranger-than-truth.html  Background on how ‘The Surgeon’s Photo’ came to be: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lochness/legend3.html  Book Jacob read - Nessie: The Surgeon’s Photograph Exposed by David MArtin and Alastair Boyd: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5541953-nessie  Very nerdy blog deep-diving on all things Nessie and Marmaduke: http://lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2010/08/motives-of-marmaduke-wetherell.html  The recommendations of Aboriginal and Black Lives Matter voices/material/everything you should be looking into right now (CLICK ON LOTS OF THESE PLEASE!):  Listen to: Speaking Out with Larissa Behrendt: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/speakingout/  Pretty For An Aboriginal with Nakkiah Lui and Miranda Tapsell: https://www.buzzfeed.com/prettyforanaboriginal  Breathless - Guardian podcast covering the death in custody of David Dungay Jr: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2019/nov/26/after-the-inquest-david-dungays-family-say-theyre-still-searching-for-justice-breathless-podcast  1619 - New York Times podcast covering the USA’s history of slavery: https://www.nytimes.com/column/1619-project  Floodlines - Atlantic podcast covering the racist response to and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/floodlines/  Read: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss: https://www.booktopia.com.au/growing-up-aboriginal-in-australia-anita-heiss/book/9781863959810.html Welcome To Country by Marcia Langton: https://www.booktopia.com.au/marcia-langton-welcome-to-country-marcia-langton/ebook/9781743585269.html  Australia Day by Stan Grant: https://www.booktopia.com.au/australia-day-stan-grant/book/9781460753187.html The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper: https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-tall-man-chloe-hooper/book/9780143010661.html Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe: https://www.booktopia.com.au/dark-emu-bruce-pascoe/book/9781921248016.html Blood On The Wattle - Massacres and Mistreatment of Aboriginal Australians since 1788 by Bruce Elder: https://www.booktopia.com.au/blood-on-the-wattle-3rd-edition-bruce-elder/book/9781741100082.html So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo: https://www.booktopia.com.au/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race-ijeoma-oluo/book/9781580056779.html White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo: https://www.booktopia.com.au/white-fragility-robin-diangelo/book/9780807047415.html  How To Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal M Fleming: https://www.booktopia.com.au/how-to-be-less-stupid-about-race-crystal-marie-fleming/book/9780807050774.html White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Haamd: https://www.booktopia.com.au/white-tears-brown-scars-ruby-hamad/book/9780522875584.html  #BlackInTheIvory on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackintheIvory?src=hashtag_click  Follow: Lynda June-Coe: https://twitter.com/LyndaJune1  Amy McQuire: https://twitter.com/amymcquire  Nakkiah Lui: https://twitter.com/nakkiahlui  Roxy Moore: https://twitter.com/Roxy_Moore_  Nayuka Gorrie: https://twitter.com/NayukaGorrie  Indigenous X: https://twitter.com/IndigenousX  NITV: https://twitter.com/NITV  Rae Johnston: https://twitter.com/raejohnston  Roxane Gay: https://twitter.com/rgay  Watch: The 8/6/20 episode of QandA (Hard Truths): https://iview.abc.net.au/show/qanda but in particular Meyne Wyatt’s monologue from his play City of Gold at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys2FTUmOnIg  The Final Quarter: https://10play.com.au/the-final-quarter and The Australian Dream: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/australian-dream - documentaries about the racism Adam Goodes faced in the AFL In My Blood It Runs - about a ten year old Aboriginal Boy trying to balance his traditional upbringing with public school education: https://inmyblooditruns.com/  After The Apology: https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1333274179947/after-the-apology - about Grandmothers Against Removals, a group that reveals the racism inherent in the child protection system in this country: https://www.facebook.com/GMAR.GrandmothersAgainstRemovals/  Anything on NITV (National Indigenous TV): https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/  13th - Oscar Nominated documentary about the criminalisation and imprisonment of African Americans: https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741  When They See Us - miniseries about the wrongful imprisonment of the Central Park Five: https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549  Donate: GoFundMe for Justice for David Dungay Jr - the Aboriginal man killed in custody in 2015: https://au.gofundme.com/f/d9qkb6-justice-for-david  FreeHer - many Aboriginal women are in prison just for being unable to pay simple fines. FreeHer aims to pay these fines, court costs etc to keep women out of the prison system: https://au.gofundme.com/f/bfvnvt-freethepeople  Aboriginal Legal Service - provides legal representation for the Aboriginal community: https://www.alsnswact.org.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.