Put on your detec­tive hat and pre­pare all your inves­tiga­tive tools, because you’ve been assigned a new case to solve: the mys­tery of the Loch Ness Monster!

Is it an otter? Is it a seal? Is it a log? Or is it a mon­ster, lurk­ing beneath the sur­face? Dive in, and you may just find out…

Nes­tled in the hills of Scot­land lies Loch Ness, a deep, murky lake with a long, sto­ried his­to­ry. But we know it as the home of the Loch Ness Mon­ster, a mys­te­ri­ous crea­ture that has long cap­ti­vat­ed the imag­i­na­tions of peo­ple around the world.

In 1933, the most well-known arti­cle detail­ing an eye­wit­ness account of the Loch Ness Mon­ster was pub­lished, gain­ing imme­di­ate pub­lic atten­tion. Since then, numer­ous arti­cles have been pub­lished by peo­ple claim­ing to have seen the leg­end, a crea­ture described as look­ing like a dinosaur or drag­on. Then, in 1934, the first pho­tographs of the crea­ture were released. The race was on to uncov­er the truth. Decades lat­er, after numer­ous expe­di­tions, doc­u­men­taries, first­hand accounts, pic­tures, and videos, the world still ques­tions the exis­tence of this monster.

Now, Sib­ert Award-win­ning author Can­dace Flem­ing uses all of her non­fic­tion tools, inves­ti­ga­to­ry skills, and sto­ry­telling prowess to dive into the leg­end. Fol­low along as she con­sid­ers the evi­dence and tries to dis­cern between fact and fic­tion, all in hopes of find­ing the answer to the ques­tion that has long inspired the world: is the Loch Ness Mon­ster fact, or fiction?