The sighting was interesting enough to make it into the national news media, most prominently The Illustrated London News ( ILN from hereon). The artist is uncredited in the original caption. They described the exposed part of the body as between 6 to 8 feet (Gavin) or 8 to 10 feet (Geddes) long and likened the head to that of a donkey in size, so this was a sizeable creature. It was likened at one point to a “hellish monster of prehistoric times”, was described as opening and closing its large mouth, of breathing through said mouth, and of having hanging structures of some sort within the mouth. On seeing a large, dark, approaching object from their boat, Geddes and Gavin first heard it breathing and then had a reasonably close-up view of a large, hump-backed, scaly creature with a rounded, tortoise-like head, a “large red gash of a mouth”, and a prominently serrated back. These drawings originally appeared in the Illustrated London News but are here reproduced from Heuvelmans (1968). The Soay monster as sketched by (A) Tex Geddes and (B) James Gavin.
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