Eye-popping new footage shows Nessie emerging from her watery lair – or so a monster hunter claims.
For years, Eoin O’Faodhagain has been racking up sightings of the monster via webcam, but he reckons his latest is his strangest yet. It shows a black shape breaching the surface of the loch and moving steadily north against the current – and Mr. O’Faodhagain can think of only one explanation.
He said: “I kept zooming in and out of the video clip, and just as well because I got one of the strangest images I have ever got in Loch Ness. “It’s this image of a half-circle hump, light grey in colour with three uniform black spots. If I was looking up in the sky at it, I would have said it was a UFO, but I was looking at a webcam over part of Loch Ness."
“I have no idea what this strange moving object is, only to suggest it could be a young Nessie. As nobody to date knows what the Loch Ness Monster is, nobody can say it isn't.”
Whether the shape was a head, a hump, or something else entirely, Eoin reckons most of its mass was hidden underwater. The 59-year-old said: “The size of the object out of the water was not big – only maybe two feet long. But there seemed to be a lot going on underneath the water. As it moved further from the camera, you could see a lot of splashing going on around it, and this was very peculiar as it was not moving fast.”
He’s also been unable to match those distinctive spots with any of the loch’s other inhabitants. “The markings of the three black-spot pattern is very unusual,” he said. “No seal or otter has markings like that, and – as for an eel – no on that as well. Anyway, it is moving too rigidly for any of these animals, and at a constant slow pace."
“Snakes might have markings on their skin, but what snake has a two-foot oval hump?” Eoin often logs on to watch the water from his home in County Donegal, Ireland. He made his sighting using a webcam maintained by Visit Inverness Loch Ness (VILN) at Shoreland Lodges, near Fort Augustus on the loch’s southern shore.
The VILN webcams can be watched live online at visitinvernesslochness.com. This would make it the eighth supposed sighting of the fabled creature this year. The seventh came from a woman who says she got a glimpse of the Loch Ness Monster after spotting huge ripples in the water.
Siobhan Janaway first mistook them as coming from a powerboat. But taking a second glance, she noticed no vessels were on the famous loch. Local Siobhan said what she thought was the mythical beast was moving at great speed.
She took a photo – showing a large trail of air bubbles visible to the human eye. Siobhan, from Inverness - near the loch - said: “There was something causing turmoil in the water off Foyers Point. Then it coalesced into a single object moving at speed just under the surface causing at least a 20 metre white wake.”