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New video of a Loch Ness Monster sighting was captured on a webcam that was filming the area this week. The footage, according to the witness to spotted the creature, appears to show a “long anaconda-type neck.”
The sighting occurred on Tuesday, October 14, at around 2:39 p.m. while longtime Nessie hunter Eoin O’Faodhagain was monitoring one of the Visit Inverness Loch Ness webcams. O’Faodhagain has recorded more than two dozen sightings of the Loch Ness Monster over the past few years.
In the video, the Loch Ness Monster appears to break the water’s surface shortly after a tourist boat passed. It can be seen moving and then passing out of view on the Shoreland Lodges webcam, one of four cameras that have been set up around the fabled body of water.
“Neck was 3 to 4 feet high and the thickness of a man’s thigh,” Eoin O’Faodhagain wrote. “A fast moving wake was seen first, then the neck appeared high out of the water. Similar to neck I captured on the same webcam in April of this year, in similar weather conditions, calm. Spirit of Loch Ness tourist cruiser went by same area a minute earlier.”
“When last viewed, it is high out of the water, as a high as a man, but you can see from the footage, it is neither man nor wildfowl, or seal or otter, what else could it be? Only Nessie, because I am at a loss trying to explain it as anything else,” O’Faodhagain told the Daily Record.
“There is no bird that has a neck that thick and long, you can even see the shadow of it on the water, of how high and big in thickness it is. Seals do not swim with their necks up continuously for over a minute out of the water, and neither do otters.”
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Sightings of the Loch Ness Monster go back as far as the sixth century when it was mentioned in a book titled Life of St. Columba. Since then there have been an untold number of sightings of the creature (over 1,100 of which have been recorded by the Official Loch Ness Monster Register).
Last year, the research group Loch Ness Exploration deployed a hydrophone device, which detects and records noises underwater, into the water, 100 feet under the surface and picked up a strange sound. The recording was made on August 10 in the same location in the loch where a famous underwater photo was taken in 1972.
“We deployed the hydrophone which was lowered down to 30 meters below the surface close to where Robert Rines’ strobe camera was placed in 1972,” Alan McKenna of Loch Ness Exploration explained. “At around 10:41 a.m. we started to pick up a strange sound. This is the first time hearing the pulse or heartbeat so clearly. I’m not suggesting it’s a heartbeat I’m merely using that as a description.”
A few months later, Shaun Sloggie, a ship captain with Cruise Loch Ness, and maritime pilot Liam McKenzie both claimed that sonar on their vessel detected a large object somewhere deep underneath their boat at a depth of around 321 feet.
“While the exact nature of these readings remains under investigation, preliminary analysis suggests they could represent substantial underwater presences or potentially large aquatic creatures inhabiting the loch,” a report on the anomaly read.