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There have so far been only a handful of sightings of the Loch Ness Monster in 2025. Some of them haven’t even been considered to be “official,” but this most recent Nessie sighting was considered to be credible enough that it caught the attention of the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register.
According to the keepers of all official Loch Ness Monster sightings, “A visitor to the area reported that they were there for the Loch Ness Quest. He said that he was at the high vantage point over looking Urqhart Bay when he spotted a small motor boat entering the Bay. When he checked it out through binoculars he spotted something long and thin pop up in the boat’s wake. It vanished a few times but he managed to catch it on film. The sighting lasted 3-5 minutes and took place at 3.40pm.”
Unfortunately, the only part of that footage that the the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register has shared with the public is a still image that is far from being definitive proof that the creature is lurking in the fabled waters of Scotland.
The man’s sighting came, as mentioned, as part of the Loch Ness Centre’s Quest Festival. The Centre reported that during the event, “an extensive search of Loch Ness using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and baited camera traps captured incredible footage of enormous pike for the first time—potential evidence of a viable food source for the legendary Loch Ness Monster.”
Another remarkable discovery during the search weekend, the ROVs also unearthed a relic from one of Loch Ness’s most renowned monster hunters – Dr. Robert Rines. Cabling from his original 1970s strobe light equipment, used in his ground-breaking underwater expeditions to capture images of Nessie, was found resting deep in the loch’s sediment. Alongside the cabling, the ROV also uncovered the ruins of the old Temple Pier, from where historic British racer John Cobb set off in his attempt to break the world water speed record—a tragic endeavour that ultimately cost him his life.
Last month, a resurfaced police report from 1938 detailed how local law enforcement clashed with a group of people who were determined to hunt down Nessie with a “special harpoon gun.”
Only four years after that report in 1942, a man named Charles Rankin claimed that he buried the Loch Ness Monster’s partially burned remains beneath St. Ninian’s school in Gourock, Scotland, but it was covered up by the Royal Navy.