Storsjoodjuret — the Swedish Loch Ness has a capture attempt on record and it's wild

This is the one that breaks my brain. In 1894, the hunt was so serious that a professional monster-trapper named Captain Hiram was actually commissioned. They built this giant contraption — a sort of iron cage with a bait chamber — and lowered it into Storsjön. The creature was described as a giant ……