565

The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was in the year 565, when Saint Columba visited Loch Ness. The historian and Abbot of Iona Adamnan wrote of the incident and described it as "the driving away of a certain water monster by virtue of prayer of the holy man". This encounter was later included in the book The Secret Lives of Monsters. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)