# Reuters 1994: Loch Ness is a 14-inch submarine!

> Reuters, 1994. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The confession that ruled out the surgeon's photograph.

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# Loch Ness is a 14-inch submarine!

Reuters, 1994. _Deseret News, 14 March 1994_.

A Reuters report of the Sunday Telegraph's story that the 1934 surgeon's photograph was staged: Christian Spurling, Marmaduke Wetherell's stepson, confessed before his death in November 1993 that he built the head and neck from plastic wood on a 14-inch toy submarine, and that Wetherell's son Ian took the pictures.

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## What it's used for here

The confession that ruled out the surgeon's photograph.

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[The Sunday Telegraph reports Christian Spurling's confession that the surgeon's photograph was a model on a toy submarine](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/loch-ness/events/EVT0CRFXAAP74NE/the-sunday-telegraph-reports-christian-spurlings-confession)

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[Loch Ness](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/loch-ness)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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Reuters (1994). Loch Ness is a 14-inch submarine!. Deseret News, 14 March 1994. https://www.deseret.com/1994/3/14/19097052/loch-ness-is-a-14-inch-submarine/
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