Loch Ness.. Model?

I remember growing up the loch ness monster was definitely real. Sometimes I would see commercials for specials on the history channel "Searching for Nessie" and it was scary! Since then I have never really looked into the history behind the so-called "monster" that I have realized, while getting older and wiser, does not exist. I remember seeing many a time the photograph of a head sticking out of the water. It looked like some kind of reptile and definitely nothing I had seen before at the aquarium or the zoo. "A highly respectable British surgeon, Colonel Robert Wilson, was driving along the new road on the northern shore of the Loch on April 19, 1934 early in the morning when he said that he noticed something moving in the water. He happened to have a camera with him, so he quickly stopped his car and snapped a photo."
This photograph turned into living breathing proof that Nessie was in fact living and breathing. For decades people swore she was alive and living in the loch. The picture was named "the Surgeon's photograph" because Wilson did not want his name attached to it.Many investigations were led to try and figure out if the picture was a hoax. One scientist in the mid '80s believed that it was a marine bird or some kind of otter. This was believed to be the case because it looked from the picture that whatever it was could not have been more than two or three feet long.
This theory was disproven in 1990 when discoverers realized that the picture was in fact a toy submarine with a sea-serpent head. The plot unraveled and a man named Christian Spurling confessed to his involvement in the fake "Surgeon's photo." Apparantely Spurling's uncle came to him asking if he would make the figure and Spurling agreed. Then, his uncle gave the picture to Wilson because he was an upstanding surgeon and he thought it would be more believable coming from him. What was the reason behind the entire hoax one might ask? Spurling's uncle once found "loch ness tracks" on the ground in Scotland, which were later proved to be hippo tracks. The man wanted revenge for being humiliated at the truth behind his "discovery." I guess what goes around comes around, it's just a shame he had to terrify so many young children in the process.