Columba

Saint Columba was a 6th century holy man who experienced the first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster in 565. The historian and Abbot of Iona Adamnan wrote of Columba's experience and described it as "the driving away of a certain water monster by virtue of prayer of the holy man". When summarising the history of the Loch Ness Monster and its relation to Zygon and Skarasen presence on Earth in his alien exposé The Secret Lives of Monsters, Justin Richards took note of what Columba saw in 565 and quoted Adamnan's writings. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)