FOR 24 years he has assiduously watched the waters of Loch Ness convinced that it holds a family of prehistoric monsters.
But now Steve Feltham, who is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records for the longest continuous monster hunting vigil of the loch, believes Nessie is no plesiosaur but a giant catfish first introduced by Victorians. Read more
You don't have to rent a boat to hunt for the Loch Ness Monster any more. You don't even have to travel to Scotland.
Google mounted a Street View camera on a boat to give people a 360-degree view of the 23-mile-long loch in all its murky glory, and to allow armchair monster hunters around the world to join the search for Nessie.
You can start your search -- or just check out Loch Ness and get a monsters-eye view of the famous ruins of Urquhart Castle -- right here. Read more
In the course of emails between like minded Nessie people, I was reminded of this land sighting from 1934 which, like most such cases today, tends to move beneath the radar of modern Internet surfers. My fellow Nessie enthusiast pointed out that the provenance of the original story was the March 3rd 1934 edition of the Glasgow Herald which by a stroke of luck I was able to access and reproduce for your interest below. It is a fascinating story and all the more since the beast was so near to the witnesses. I am trying to think of a sighting that was so close in proximity to the observers but for now such an answer eludes me. Read more
No less than 250 million years ago, massive and violent changes in the Earth’s crust carved a gigantic rift across a specific area of the landscape of Scotland, which has since become known as the Great Glen. Over countless millennia, the huge, basin-like Glen began to fill with water, and eventually transformed much of the country into an area populated by countless lakes – or lochs, as they are known to the Scots.
And, without doubt, the most famous and mysterious of all those many and varied bodies of water is Loch Ness, the dark and mysterious abode of the legendary long-necked monster dubbed Nessie. In excess of twenty miles long, nearly a mile wide, more than seven hundred feet deep and home to the famous Urquhart Castle – the origins of which date back to the 6th Century - Loch Ness is a distinctly eerie and magical place. Read more
A sonar image of a large mystery object deep below the surface of Loch Ness has netted boat skipper Marcus Atkinson the Best Nessie Sighting of The Year Award — the first time in several years it has been presented by bookmaker William Hill.
The photograph, claimed by at least one seasoned Nessie spotter to the conclusive evidence of a creature, was a late contender in the contest which has been dormant following several lean years of close encounters with the loch’s most famous resident.
However, 2011 proved to be a bumper year with three “good” sightings reported to the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club which first launched the competition in conjunction with the bookmaker in the 1990s. Read more
An extraordinary new image on Google Earth has given fresh life to the age-old conundrum of whether Loch News really is inhabited by a monster. The image was unearthed by security guard Jason Cooke who was browsing through satellite pictures on the website, presumably on a quiet night, and has reignited the previously slumbering world of Nessieology – there have been no wavelets since a spate of sightings in 2005. Indeed, so worried had Nessieologists become that some were speculating that he/she/it might have fallen victim to climate change in the Highlands.
The object spotted by Cooke looks like a giant tadpole, with an oval body, tail and flippers. Read more
