10 Movies That Left Behind Crazy Things On Film Sets
7. A Loch Ness Monster Prop Sank To The Bottom Of Loch Ness - The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
Stories of lost props don't get much more ridiculous - or amazing - than this.
Billy Wilder's 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes features a sequence involving the Loch Ness monster, and so a 30-foot Nessie prop was created to execute the scene, which was to be filmed on the actual banks of Loch Ness.
However, Wilder ultimately decided that he didn't like the prop creature's humps, and insisted that they be removed despite warnings that doing so would make the prop less buoyant while shooting in the water.
Unsurprisingly, this caused the model to topple over and sink to the bottom of Loch Ness during shooting. With the crew unable to retrieve it, it simply sat on the bottom of the loch untouched for a whole 47 years. To complete the scene, Wilder moved shooting to a studio with an entirely new Nessie prop.
In 2016, Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime conducted an underwater survey of Loch Ness using robots, and their imaging scan showed what is very clearly the soggy Nessie model resting in the loch's depths.
However, seemingly no attempt has been made to "rescue" it to date.
