The report triggered a surge of public interest and sightings, and fixed the name Loch Ness Monster. Spicer's description is also the first of a long necked, plesiosaur-like animal, which is how the creature is usually pictured today.
In 2013 researchers including Daniel Loxton argued that his account may have been inspired by the long necked dinosaur in the film King Kong, which was a hit in his home city of London in 1933, the year he reported the sighting. That is an argument from coincidence of timing, not proof, but it is one reason to treat the account cautiously.
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