Why We Need the Loch Ness Monster By Jeannette CoopermanSurely the most delightful of our monsters is Nessie. In a new, already acclaimed book, Laura Fernández investigates how we have responded to the Loch Ness Monster in different eras—a quest that tells us who we have been in different eras, and what we have needed. Or a cruise boat offering MONSTER SNACKS and MONSTER ALCOHOLIC DRINKS. In 1975, Nature magazine dignified Nessie as Nessiteras rhombopterix, “inhabitant of Loch Ness with diamond-shaped fins.” The real (REALITY) doesn’t exist.