Is it the real deal or just another Loch-Smith spinning a yarn?
Amid a flurry of alleged Nessie sightings of late, one Scottish photographer has purportedly captured the most definitive proof that the iconic Loch Ness monster isn’t just a myth.
”The Loch Ness Centre has recently reported a new sighting of Scotland’s beloved monster, which is possibly the clearest evidence this year of Nessie’s existence,” The Loch Ness Centre, an institution dedicated to finding the mythological monster of the Loch, told SWNS.
The alleged encounter occurred on October 8 at around 5pm after John Howie, who reportedly spotted a 12-to-15 foot Nessie-shaped figure moving through Loch Ness toward the tree-line.
Alas, the alleged plesiosaur subsequently disappeared into the depths, but not before the Scot snapped several photos of the cryptozoological curiosity.
The accompanying slightly fuzzy photo shows the mysterious figure, whose alleged “rump” and serpentine “head” are seen jutting out of the water. And no, it’s likely not just a whale penis.
While the sighting is yet to be verified, Loch Ness Centre reps say they nonetheless “love hearing about these encounters with Nessie.”
“At the Loch Ness Centre, guests can hear real people’s stories, discover artifacts, and listen to scientific debate on the existence of Nessie to help them make up their own mind on images such as this,” Centre reps said.
This reportedly marked the eighth profile sighting this year of the beast, which boasts over “1000 eyewitness accounts and recorded sightings, alongside lots of unexplained evidence,” per the Centre.
Last month, one so-called Sher-Loch Holmes, named Eoin O’Faodhagain, claimed he “won the lottery” after recording an alleged video of the prehistoric straggler.
The grainy footage shows a black mass breaking the water’s surface at about 11 a.m. before quickly dunking back underwater as a boat approaches.
“I immediately knew when it first emerged and began to move that this is no large fish — fish do not have wakes,” O’Faodhagain declared.
However, many critics, including other Nessie detectives, claimed that his monster sighting was a hoax.
O’Faodhagain has been “blacklisted by anyone seriously interested in this mystery,” according to Steve Feltham, a full-time Nessie hunter who has lived in a van at Loch Ness for more than 30 years. “Everyone knows his stuff is rubbish — it has been ducks and sticks for years.”
