Google celebrates the Loch Ness scam – may have made new discoveries – Aftonbladet

Google Maps celebrates 80-year anniversary of one of the most famous Loch Ness bluffs.

And may have found the lake’s world-famous beast.

– Is there a log, a bird or beast? says a spokesperson for nätjätten to The Telegraph.

On April 21, 1934, the British newspaper the Daily Mail, the most famous picture from the hunt for the mythical creature in the lake Loch Ness in the Scottish highlands. The image, called “The Surgeons Photography”, proved more than 40 years later instead be an elaborate hoax.

It looks like “Nessie” the head and neck is in fact a developing båtsleksak with a extension to make it look like the beast swam in the water.

To celebrate the 80 years since the hoax spread across the world, Google launched early hours of Tuesday Swedish time, the possibility for anyone who wants to search themselves of the lake in search of “Nessie”.

With the help of his street view camera that already immortalized many parts of the world, they have made it possible to through Google Maps “go” around the entire lake and look after the equipment this weekend is mounted on a boat that mapped the lake.

There have also been new underwater images of divers who all now can access online, says Google through their mapping blog.

The Telegraph also reports that this weekend’s image acquisition may have yielded results – beast may have been caught on camera.

Although Google say they are stuck object in the image.

– Is there a log, a bird or beast? says a spokesperson for nätjätten to The Telegraph.

– We were also surprised by the discovery.

A small detail to note if you surf into Google Maps to take a closer look at the new “Street View images” of the Loch Ness is that the little Google-old man as you would normally drop down on the map to get into exploration mode has been changed – to a small green Nessie.