A longtime Loch Ness Monster keeper says he “won the lottery” by recording a new video of the mythical creature — possibly his eighth sighting this year — but some Nessie fans have captured the footage.
“This picture belongs in any exhibition related to the Loch Ness Monster,” Eoin O’Faodhagain, who captured the moment, told the Telegraph. “I won the lottery with this video clip.”
The footage was taken on August 27 by O’Faodhagain, an Irishman who observed the mythical monster through a webcam. It is the eighth reported sighting of Nessie this year.
O’Faodhagain’s raw footage shows the black mass breaking the surface of the water at about 11am before quickly sinking into the water as a boat approaches.
“I immediately knew when it first appeared and started moving that this was not a big fish – fish don’t have wakes,” O’Faodhagain said.
“The emergence of this creature from the water and its movement is not like a seal or an otter. So what’s bigger than the two creatures in Loch Ness? Only the Loch Ness Monster was the obvious choice,” he said.
Eoin O’Faodhagain captured this image of what he believes to be the Loch Ness Monster on August 27. Visit Inverness Loch Ness via Pen News
O’Faodhagain said he saw a “clear black shape of a hump,” adding that the creature he saw was quite large. “Fifteen or 20 feet wouldn’t be too much.”
Nessie has reportedly been seen six times by someone on the famous loch this year, with the seventh sighting claimed to have been recorded from the Visit Inverness Loch Ness webcam at Shoreland Lodges near Fort Augustus on the south coast.
But while O’Faodhagain is steadfast in his belief that he saw the mythical Scottish creature, other Nessie fans are more skeptical.
The picture is possibly the eighth sighting of Nessie this year. Visit Inverness Loch Ness via Pen News
Steve Feltham, a full-time Nessie hunter who has lived in a van on Loch Ness for more than 30 years, told the outlet he suspected O’Faodhagain’s sightings may not be genuine.
O’Faodhagain has been “blacklisted by anyone interested in this mystery,” Feltham told the outlet. “Everybody knows his stuff is rubbish – it’s been duck and stick for years.”
According to Feltham, nine out of 10 Nessie sightings are false alarms — including O’Faodhagain.
An increase in famous fake webcam sightings in recent years has led officials to tighten the criteria for what can be considered official Nessie sightings.
Other Loch Ness Monster enthusiasts are doubling down on O’Faodhagain’s sightings as legitimate. Visit Inverness Loch Ness via Pen News
People can access online webcams to try and see the Loch Ness Monster for themselves. Visit Inverness Loch Ness via Pen News
O’Faodhagain claims no potential sightings will be recorded, although he insists, “The quality of the sightings can’t be better unless you’re actually standing there with a high-powered camera.”
A new visitor center in the Drumnadrochit Hotel building — where Nessie was first reported spotted in 1933 — opened this summer, bringing newer technology to the hunt to try and track down the mythical creature.
A webcam set up to try and see the Loch Ness Monster can be accessed online at visitinvernesslochness.com
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
