From Loch Ness to the Essex Serpent, why are humans so keen to invent sea monsters?

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From Loch Ness to the Essex Serpent, why are humans so keen to invent sea monsters?
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As Sarah Perry’s novel becomes a TV drama, the human need to escape reality with a shiver of fear remains as strong as ever

As a boy I believed so implicitly in the Loch Ness monster that I made my dad drive us all the way from Southampton to Scotland to see it. The night before, in a dream, I saw its shape snaking through the marshes at the lake’s edge. I was terrified.

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