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It's 8 14th, 1933, in the Scottish Highlands near the town of Inverness.

Audie Mackay sits in the passenger seat as her husband drives along a quiet country road.

Audie rolls down the window to let in the afternoon breeze,

poking her head out to look in the dark water of the lake next to them. She begins to turn her head back to the road, but something catches her eye, a mysterious movement on the lake. Audie looks

across the water, which has been completely still until just seconds ago. Now she watches as it churns.

She traces the waves back to their source and lets out a gasp.

Audie cries for her husband to stop the car.

As the car screeches to a hall,

Adi shouts for him to look at the lake.

And with a shaking hand, she points to a shape rising out of the lake's depths.

Audie's stomach sinks as she watches an enormous, black, whale-like creature emerging from the water

and then crashing back down below.

Audi watches as waves big enough to have been caused by a steamship reverberate through the lake

before disappearing in a mass of foam.

Audi and her husband stare in shock

as the lake grows still once more. They wait on the roadside for half an hour, but the creature

never reappears. Audie's account of these events will soon be published by the Inverness Courier.

Her story of a monster

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