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Sean Murphy & Ashley Summerfield

Nessie's back! Man records first official Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2022 after three-month drought

Three months had passed without an official recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster, but that all changed on last week when Eoin O'Faodhagain's webcam spotted something unexplainable. Irishman O'Faodhagain, 57, who regularly records sightings via the Loch Ness webcam, said that two objects appeared to be "moving parallel to each other across the middle of the screen".

The veteran spotter from Co Donegal, whose first sighting of the 'monster' came back in 1987, shared the video of the dark shapes moving about on the surface of the loch. The sighting was marked up on the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register to become the first official sighting of 2022, reports The Daily Record.

When one person commented that the dark shapes could be a log or some debris, Eoin responded: "The more northerly object takes a sharp turn to the left leaving an unusual wake, you would have to rule out a log or debris, and it is not consistent of a seal to react in such a manner."

Inverness-based Registar keeper Gary ­Campbell, who has recorded more than 1,136 alleged sightings of Nessie over the past 26 years, recently stated that the start of the year and the end of winter is usually a quiet time for the monster. He added that did not mean they haven't had any reports in 2022, far from it, but much like the majority of claimed sightings if they are explainable they don't make it into the registrar. It appears the latest video was deemed credible enough to be unexplainable and therefore has been added to the list.

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