{"id":3448,"date":"2025-10-01T14:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/loch-ness-monster-could-have-been-caught-during-world-war-ii\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:08:57","slug":"loch-ness-monster-could-have-been-caught-during-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/loch-ness-monster-could-have-been-caught-during-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Loch Ness Monster could have been caught during World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-01 14:08:54<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The Loch Ness Monster may have been caught by the Royal Navy during World War II, according to extraordinary evidence unearthed by the grandson of a sailor.<BR><br \/>\nLewis Tyler, who served aboard HMS Ocean Swell laying anti-submarine nets, reportedly trapped a sea serpent in the gear during operations on the Scottish loch.<BR><br \/>\nHis grandson John Gibbens revealed the story after finding letters from Nessie investigators among his late grandfather\u2019s papers. <BR><br \/>\nHe told What\u2019s The Jam: &#8220;My late grandfather was on the Ocean Swell \u2013 a ship putting down anti-submarine nets across harbours in World War II. I had no idea he had seen a serpent during his lifetime. But after he died I found letters among his papers approaching him for information about an encounter in Loch Ness.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nTyler, who later served on the Royal Yacht and once showed the young Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret around the engine room, died in 1975.<BR><br \/>\nGibbens added: &#8220;Sadly I don\u2019t have the account my grandfather was able to provide\u2026 It would be great to find out what he said.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-01 14:08:54 The Loch Ness Monster may have been caught by the Royal Navy during World War II, according to extraordinary evidence unearthed by the grandson of a sailor. Lewis&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}