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Many people visit Scotland each year with the hope of getting a glimpse of the infamous, mythical Loch Ness Monster. Very few actually end up seeing anything but water. Not April Newton, an American tourist who not only believes she saw the Loch Ness Monster, she even was able to snap a few photos of it.
While taking a sight-seeing cruise on the loch, Newton says it was only a matter of minutes before she spotted something moving in the fabled waters.
“I waited my entire life to visit and try to find Nessie — and there she was,” she told The Scottish Sun. “Several serpent-like humps appeared one at a time.
“They caused rings of water to ripple out like something was rising from below. I’ve seen illustrations of her looking like a large snake or dinosaur with a long neck. The shapes I saw are Nessie.”
April Newton said that while most of the passengers on the cruise were gathered at the front of the boat, she and a traveling companion were looking on from the rear of the boat when they spotted the Loch Ness Monster. Newton also reported that the water was calm and there were no other boats in the area when she snapped the photos (which can be viewed here).
She said that after her Loch Ness Monster sighting some of the other passengers on the boat were “pretty disgruntled they missed out on seeing it for themselves” and a few even suggested what she was just “something put in the loch and controlled by a remote to attract tourists.”
The cruise guide, however, said “he had been doing this for years and hadn’t seen anything like [her photographs] before.”
“People say monster sightings are just a natural phenomena coupled with a wild imagination,” she said. “But I truly believe I found something which can’t be explained.”
As Loch Ness Centre General Manager Nagina Ishaq pointed out after April Newton’s sighting and subsequent photos, “It’s a phenomenon boasting over 1,000 eyewitness accounts and recorded sightings, alongside lots of unexplained evidence.”