A Nessie enthusiast who uses a webcam focused on Loch Ness to try to make sightings from his home in Ireland has recorded another intriguing clip.
Veteran webcam spotter Eoin O Faodhagain has made multiple sightings of what he believes are unexplained objects on the water over the years, including one on a visit to the famous loch in person.
And his latest clip shows something large coming in and out of the water, about 500 metres from the shoreline at Urquhart Castle.
Taken on Tuesday, May 24 at 12.30pm, Eoin said he has already submitted it to Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register record keeper Gary Campbell.
Though he is worried it might not be accepted due to a recent controversy over sightings from the loch's webcam, which you can read about here.
Speaking about the latest sighting, Eoin said: "It was excellent surface conditions when the sighting took place.
"The sighting only lasted for over a minute, but the footage clearly shows an object rising high out of the water, showing at first one large hump, then two humps, and then, disappears completely, showing only the flat surface of the water afterwards."
Estimating the object to be at least 18 feet long and 4 feet high out of the water or more, The clerical officer, who fell in love with the Loch Ness Monster mystery after spotting a "large Mottled Brown Hump" from a bus near the Loch just before Invermoriston in 1987, said whatever the object was, it was grey or black in colour and left nothing on the surface of the water after it was gone.
He added that the only other object on the water was a cruiser but that it was 300 metres from where the object first emerged.
Speaking about the webcam footage, Author Roland Watson, who runs the Loch Ness Mystery blog, said: "I would appeal to Historic Scotland to place a webcam at the castle as the images are too distant to be conclusive.
"At that time of day castle tourists would spot anything unusual and should corroborate the webcam with closer pictures."
Veteran expert Steve Feltham, who has set a world record for the longest vigil of looking for the Loch Ness Monster, believes the webcam footage may simply be of a person in a canoe.
He said: "I've cleaned up the image a little and I think it clearly shows a person in a canoe, you can even make out the paddle.
"Canoeists are coming up the loch at a rate of at least a dozen a day now, so expect more sightings from the webcam. The impression that the Canoeist seems to disappear is totally in character with the quality of that webcam.
"An 8.5metre long orange inflatable boat with 5 grown men in it appeared to disappear, and in the most recent footage of what was actually paddleboarders they appeared to disappear."
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