🌊 Nessie’s Fury: Fishermen Barely Escape Vicious, Calculated Attack on Loch Ness

LOCH NESS, SCOTLAND, 1937 – The calm, dark waters of Loch Ness were violently broken in the winter of 1937, transforming a routine night of fishing into a harrowing battle for survival. The four-man crew of the small boat, the Morag, reports they were deliberately stalked, tested, and ultimately attacked by a massive, unidentified aquatic creature—an encounter that far exceeded the passive sightings typically associated with the Loch Ness Monster.

The youngest crew member, Euan McLoud, now 23, recounted the terrifying events, stating that the Loch “stopped feeling familiar” that winter.

The Initial Signs: Calculated Intrusion

The crew, led by the steadfast Skipper Angus, set out under a moonless sky toward a deep-water trench, a favored fishing spot. The first signs of trouble were subtle but unsettling:

The Pulse: A deep, irregular “thump or knock” began sounding from beneath the water, too heavy and slow to be the boat’s engine or hull.

The Ruined Nets: Upon retrieving their first net, the fishermen found it had not snagged on a rock but was “torn clean through” with strands twisted and stretched—suggesting something heavy and flexible had forced its way through the mesh. The fourth net retrieved was found with “wide gashes”—a deeper, more violent destruction.

Skipper Angus, despite his outward calm, took the damaged nets seriously. However, the crew’s decision to press on brought them deeper into the creature’s territory.

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The Attack: Intent and Intelligence

The encounter escalated dramatically as the crew began their return to shore. The water’s surface swelled with a “slow, heavy rhythm” as large masses moved just beneath the hull. The creature, whatever it was, was keeping pace with the Morag.

The creature’s first direct move was a terrifying demonstration of force:

The Ramming: It struck the hull not once, but repeatedly from starboard and port, jolting the entire boat violently and attempting to capsize them or, as crewman Callum suggested, “separate us.”

The Breach: Amidst the chaos, the creature surfaced right at the starboard beam, only a few meters away. The long, dark neck and rounded head, with its blunt snout and dark, unblinking eyes that absorbed the lantern light, towered over the deck. The sight pinned the men in place, confirming the massive scale of their attacker.

The Manipulation: The most chilling aspect was the creature’s deliberate control. It surfaced and submerged with purpose, creating deliberate, strong swells and water ridges that forced Angus to constantly correct the tiller. The creature was not randomly attacking; it was “guiding us,” manipulating the water to steer the boat where it wanted.

“It knows exactly how to manipulate the water to steer us,” the crew realized, facing a threat that moved with uncanny intelligence.

Final Stand and Retreat

In a desperate, final confrontation, the creature surged directly in front of the Morag, its neck rising “several meters out of the water,” effectively blocking the path to the shallower shelf that offered safety. The boat drifted helplessly, mere meters from the massive, dark form.

Angus, however, refused to surrender control. Even as the creature’s eye fixed on him, he held the throttle steady. Just as slowly as it appeared, the creature turned its head and slid back into the water, allowing the Morag to surge past.

The attack had ceased, not due to the fishermen’s efforts, but because the creature itself chose to disengage. It allowed them to reach the shallow shore.

“We saw it,” Callum stated plainly once safe on the jetty. Crewman Fergus, still shaken, confessed, “I’ll never understand why it let us go.”

Skipper Angus offered the final, sobering assessment as they moored the damaged vessel: “It guarded something, or warned us. Either way, we don’t return to that trench. Not again.” The terrifying account from the Morag crew suggests that the legendary inhabitant of Loch Ness is not merely a shy leviathan, but a powerful, territorial entity capable of calculated and violent attack.