Multiple reports of the Loch Ness Monster still come in each year with the most recent Nessie sighting reported to be as far afield as North Carolina. The fabled beast, believed to exist in the Scottish Highlands, is now feared to have moved away from its home country after allegedly being spotted in foreign waters.
A snake-sea-like creature, which shares a striking resemblance to Nessie, was spotted with its head out the water off the Atlantic Ocean, the Mirror reports. Horrified witnesses saw its body surface before it dipped back into the water, leaving them questioning whether or not it was the mythical creature.
Chasin Tails Outdoors Bait & Tackle store posted a clip of the monster, with the caption: ''it's something you don't see everyday. Whales or the Loch Ness monster in the port this morning. Never seen one inside the inlet like this."
Thousands of baffled social media users took to the comments to speculate what the beast in the footage was. One person replied: “Now that is strange. Odd looking head for sure."
Some suggested the sea creature was perhaps a 'gator' while others said it might be a 'baby whale'. However, another commenter was quick to shut this theory down as they wrote: "No way it is any of the animals mentioned, including a baby whale or alligator.
"Its motion is too graceful, it has protrusions on head and a long feather-like flipper in the rear. I honestly don't know of any sea creature that fits that description".
Meanwhile other conspiracists were convinced the beast was the mythical Loch Ness Monster which is thought to live in Scotland. One comment read: "Definitely a Loch Ness monster. I saw two the same day I saw Bigfoot walking a black panther on a leash.
There is much debate surrounding whether or not Nessie is a fictional creature or not but this isn't the first time a wild theory about the creature has emerged. To settle the debate, we have accumulated a few recent sightings to distinguish between what's fact and what's fiction.
Last year, Sue Keogh, 60 watched a documentary about Nessie when she realised she had spotted the same creature in her home town of Penrith, Australia. Sue believes she has finally 'solved' the mystery and claims to know exactly what the beast was.
The documentary showed the classic 1934 black and white image of Nessie with a mysterious figure looming in the rippled water. Sue saw the distinguishable elongated neck and short snout of the beast and instantly recognised it to be a shadow puppet shape her father used to make.
The 60-year-old is now certain that the Loch Ness Monster is an elaborate hoax. She even recreated the image herself and while there is some resemblance, not a lot of people believe her theory.
Sue explained: "The Loch Ness Monster has been around for years, and when I was watching the show I just knew what it was instantly. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
"When you're a kid and your parents put their hands together to make a bird or a dog on the wall or whatever, like a shadow puppet, it's similar to that. I think the Loch Ness Monster is a bloke lying under the water with his arm striking out the water.
"My dad used to do that thing on the wall and I knew what it was - it's just a dark photo of a man's arm. You can see a bit of the body, that'll just be the bloke with this body under the water. How can that not be it?
"I took the same photo right in front of the TV when I was watching the show. I saw it and said that's the loch ness monster. Being as it's a man, it's his arm. He's under the water, and his arm's longer. That's his forearm and his hand like that, twisted to the side."
Sue recreated the image using her arm and uploaded her theory online but many people don't agree with her thoughts.
Another alleged sighting of Nessie last August turned out to be an escaped Alpaca going for a swim. When a long necked creature was seen in the waters, people jumped to conclusions and assumed it was the infamous beast.
This comes after Boffins revealed a new bombshell Nessie theory which suggested that the beast may have actually been a freshwater dinosaur. Fossils of small plesiosaurs which were long necked reptile creatures from the dinosaur age have now been discovered in a 100 million-year-old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert.
Dr Nick Longrich, who produced some of the new study at the University of Bath, revealed plesiosaurs would have been able to live in Loch Ness. However, he added that 'the fossils suggest an asteroid killed the last plesiosaurs 66million years ago' so the theory maybe doesn't work.
Scientists studied the fossils which included neck, back bones and teeth from 12ft long adults and an arm from a 5ft baby. They believe the creatures routinely lived and ate in fresh water among frogs, turtles, crocodiles and the enormous aquatic dinosaur spinosaurus.
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