A couple holidaying in a quaint cottage overlooking Urquhart Castle in the Scottish Highlands have become the latest people to spot the Loch Ness monster. The sighting, which occurred last week, has been described as 'the best footage for 20 years',
The pair recorded the spectacle after spotting something strange in the water. The video footage reportedly shows a large creature going in and out of the water. The sighting was logged on the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register and marked the fourth glimpse of Nessie in 2022, reports Edinburgh Live.
The log read "a couple on holiday for a week were staying in a cottage overlooking Urquhart Castle when they saw something in the water at 6.16am. They took a video which was later examined by a local photographic and video expert who said that what they captured was clearly animate, came out of the water before going back in again. And then out once more and was definitely larger than, for example, the bird life in the loch."
The couple wish to remain anonymous and have said they have been nothing other than amused by reports of Nessie sightings in the past but could not explain the remarkable footage.
The sighting follows another earlier in April by local man Glenn Blevins. He told the website: “I was near Aldourie Castle working on the banks of the loch when I saw a large animate object in the water between both banks at approx 9.30am. It was dark in colour and stayed there for around 20 seconds before sinking into the water. I watched it with binoculars that I’d taken with me in the hope of seeing ospreys that had recently returned to the area. It was difficult to estimate the size but it was definitely larger than a seal and given the angle, there may have been two, one behind the other.”
He explained that he had lived in the area for over 30 years and had worked regularly around the loch during that time and had fished many times on Loch Ness. He said he’d never seen anything like this before and felt privileged to have witnessed it.
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