What lies beneath
It was mid-April 1933 when Aldie Mackay, manager of the Drumnadrochit Hotel in the Scottish Highlands, and her husband John Mackay were driving to Inverness along the shore of a long, narrow lake. Aldie looked across the lake - still as a millpond that day - to Aldourie Castle rising from its spring gardens. All was calm until a commotion about a kilometre from shore caught her attention. She cried out for her husband to stop the car, and for “fully a minute” they watched an enormous black whale-like creature roll and plunge, sending water “cascading and churning like a simmering cauldron”. It disappeared in a boiling mass of foam, sending out waves
