The Spicers Land Sighting

 July 22, 1933

Mr and Mrs George Spicer, a couple from London, we’re returning from their lovely Scottish vacation by automobile in the early evening hours. Along their side the murky and deep waters of Loch Ness turned. Their route put them somewhere along the Dores to Flyers road, suddenly their headlights illuminated something truly disturbing. About 200 yards beyond the front of their vehicle, was a monstrosity that Mr. Spicer likened to a prehistoric beast. It’s length spanned that of the road, and the creature moved in a series of jerks. Elephant gray skin, and what they believed to be a neck that undulated in an up and down direction Loch ward. The couple noticed what they thought was a sheep, or small animal being carried by the creature. Almost a small appendage to the front of the body. (They were never able to confirm.) Within seconds the creature had bounded over the roadway and down the brush into the Loch. One quick mention to this story is that the monster could not have slid down the side of the road without obstruction. There is a wall that exists in this part of the stretch, it is now believed the monster may have scaled this wall. 

The Spicer’s sighting is one of the most popular in that of Nessie lore. Never before had a more detailed land sighting been recorded. What I find most interesting about this story, is that Mr. Spicer was truly disturbed by the way the creature moved, as if the unnatural jerks stirred and horrified his human instincts. In later interviews with newspapers, Mr. Spicer likened the monster to that of a dinosaur or some prehistoric beast. My biggest issue with this comparison is how out of line it is with what they recorded to have witnessed. The elephant gray skin is obviously infers this creature was mammalian. The undulating neck I will admit is not very mammalian like, but it does not reflect any creature in the fossil record. Plesiosaurs as we know could not lift their necks above water, and had a stiff neck. The neck in this sighting is more closely related to that of an invertebrate. I surmise that the monster the Spicer’s saw was not a dinosaur, but some undiscovered species of mammal.