The first Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2026 reportedly occurred on the evening of Thursday, March 5. A webcam user viewing the infamous Scottish waters captured the new video.
Eoin O’Faodhagain, a frequent livestream watcher, recorded the Loch Ness Monster sighting while viewing a webcam feed operated by Visit Inverness Loch Ness and located at the Clansman Hotel on the loch’s coast.
He writes in the description to the video of his latest Loch Ness Monster sighting on YouTube, “Black object rises and sinks 4 times against the current, captured on VILN Clansman Webcam at 17.20pm on the 05/03/2026. There was calm conditions with a slight ripple current moving north, object moving south.”
This is the latest in a long series of sightings of the Loch Ness Monster
Eoin O’Faodhagain has recorded more than two dozen purported sightings of the Loch Ness Monster over the past three years. Last October, he captured video of a “17-foot-long” anomaly moving in the fabled Scottish waters.
“I was puzzled, wondering what this spectacle was that was unfolding in front of my eyes on the surface of the loch,” he said about that sighting. “I had never seen movement like this before – it was very strange and fascinating.”
In August of 2025, he reported another Loch Ness Monster sighting on the Clansman Hotel webcam.
“I first noticed a large disturbance in the water on the right-hand side of the screen, more than halfway across the loch. Then two humps partially emerged from the water, then submerged, then a large single hump appeared, then the webcam rotated,” he told The Inverness Courier.
One Loch Ness Monster expert has given up hope of ever finding proof
Adrian Shine is semi-retired from the Loch Ness Project after 52 years of research. He now believes the deep Caledonian Canal running through the body of water creates an illusion. It is that illusion that people mistake for the mythical creature
“The sightings are caused by ship wakes. Here they develop this multi-humped form, and that’s what people often see,” he told The Sun in January. “There are other phenomena too — Nessie’s long-necked form is birds on a calm surface.”