A veteran beast hunter says he was “stunned” when a webcam focused on Loch Ness supposedly captured a new sighting of the famous monster.
The images, taken on June 12 over a span of about three minutes, were captured using a webcam at the Clansman Hotel on the lake’s edge and appear to show something moving just beneath the surface of the Scottish loch.
Eoin O’Faodhagain was watching the water on a livestream from his home in Ireland when he saw a mysterious hump emerging from Loch Ness near its northern end.
He claims to have detected a “jet-black anomaly slowly appearing on the surface of the lake, less than a hundred meters from the shore.”
The Nessie Hunter said: “I was a little dumbfounded because it didn’t dissolve into nothing, but kept materializing more and more distinct and blacker.”
The images, taken on June 12 over a span of about three minutes, were captured using a webcam at the Clansman Hotel on the lake’s edge and appear to show something moving just beneath the surface of the Scottish loch.
Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Alleged sightings of the Loch Ness Monster have captured people’s imaginations for centuries. The first sighting of Nessie dates back to the 7th century.
Eoin O’Faodhagain (pictured) was watching the water via a webcam from his home in Ireland when he spotted a mysterious hump emerging from Loch Ness near its northern end.
The veteran Nessie hunter estimates that the hump measured up to nine feet long at the surface.
Mr O’Faodhagain claims the unknown object had to be alive as it “moved very slowly in a controlled manner and disappeared without causing further disturbance”.
The 59-year-old said: “This object has none of the characteristics of seals or otters,” he said.
‘The object moves as if it were a fish or an eel, flexing its bodies more.
‘It’s very difficult to say what is definitely Nessie, but it’s easy to say what it isn’t.
‘And when you rule out the known creatures that inhabit Loch Ness, what are you left with?’
It is, he stated, an “inexplicable anomaly.”
Alleged sightings of the Loch Ness Monster have captured people’s imaginations for centuries. The first sighting of Nessie dates back to the 7th century.
The mysterious beast first came to the world’s attention when a sighting of the monster was published in The Inverness Courier in May 1933. A year later, the supposed first photograph of Nessie was taken by a London surgeon named Robert Kenneth Wilson.
O’Faodhagain says the unknown object had to be alive as it “moved very slowly in a controlled manner and disappeared without causing any further disturbance.”
The most famous photograph of Nessie was taken by a London surgeon called Robert Kenneth Wilson and published in the Daily Mail in April 1934 and for 60 years many people considered it proof of the monster’s existence.
The image supposedly showed the creature’s head and neck.
It was published in the Daily Mail in April 1934 and for 60 years was widely regarded as proof of the monster’s existence. However, by the 1990s most experts had concluded that the photograph was part of an elaborate hoax.
Sightings of the amphibious creature continue to this day. Over the years, O’Faodhagain has accumulated multiple entries in the Official Record of Loch Ness Monster Sightings.
But new restrictions regarding webcam sightings have kept his recent contributions off the record.
VILN webcams, which captured the images, can be viewed live online at visitinvernesslochness.com
Hotel Clansman has been contacted for comment.