Loch Ness Monster hunt ramps up as rhythmic 'heartbeat ... called monster was reportedly made in AD565 by Irish missionary St Columba when he encountered a vast animal in the River Ness.

The myth of the Loch ness monster has been a part of Scottish ... when the Irish monk Saint Columba is speculated to have frightened away a beast in the River Ness who had been attacking locals ...

For centuries, people have claimed to have seen an enormous animal lurking in Loch Ness in ... of Irish monk St. Columba. According to the unlikely account, in 565 CE a giant monster attacked ...

The first story of a monster came from nearby, in the River Ness, which adjoins the Loch, in the year 565 from St Columba. Columba was on a mission to Christianise the area. This particular ...

If anything was going to clear up the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster, it's this ... to have been made in AD565 by the Irish missionary St Columba when he came across a giant beast in the ...

My instinct then was this could possibly be a sighting of the Loch Ness Monster ... sighting of the monster is said to have been made in AD565 by the Irish missionary St Columba when he came ...

The earliest written reference linking such creatures to Loch Ness is in the biography of Saint ... the lake, Columba raised his hand, invoking the name of God and commanding the monster to ...

The stone carvings in Loch Ness depict a mysterious ... was in AD 565 in a biography of Saint Columba, an Irish monk. According to the text, the monster attacked a swimmer and was about to strike ...