Grandpa's First Pet: 1903

As a boy, Grandpa Uno's first pet (pictured below) was the talk of his Costa Rican town of Guapiles. No one had seen anything like it. Though nobody could determine if it was male or female, based on its erratic genitalia, he called it a "she" and no one could have been the wiser. Her name was Betsy. The creature grew at an exponentially rapid rate, as Grandpa fed it the entrails of recently slaughtered sheep - whatever parts were not to be used by the local meatpacking plants - and daily portions of Uno's Burger Sliders.

In 1912, the creature was too large to be harbored in Costa Rica, and authorities forced Grandpa Uno to relocate her to Scotland, where he had little choice but to abandon her in a lake - or "loch" - where the locals began to call her "Nessie."