New 'Nessie' Sighting...Second Report This Summer

At first glance it looks like another dark ripple on the water.

But study the photograph more closely and a dark hump and tail can be seen poking through the water's surface, or so a life-long hunter of the Loch Ness monster hunter claims.

William Jobes, 62, believes that he may have at last captured the elusive creature on camera after 45 years of trying.

Mr Jobes was walking along the Abbey footpath in Fort Augustus with his wife Joan in May this year when he spotted what appeared to be a head bobbing above the water 200 to 300 yards from the shore.

'I had a wonderful shock,' Mr Jobes said.'I have actually been coming up to Inverness for the past 45 years and I have never seen anything like this before.'
Amateur photographer: Mr Jobes says the beast went under the water then came back to the surface

Amateur photographer: Mr Jobes says the beast went under the water then came back to the surface

Quickly grasping his camera, Mr Jobes from Irvine in Ayrshire, managed to take a single picture before the 'head' disappeared under the surface.

However, to his delight a dark, hump-like shape broke the waves and he was able to take more photographs of the apparent sighting on May 24 at just after 11.10am.

Mr Jobes is convinced it was not a seal or piece of wood.

'To be honest I know the difference between a piece of wood or a particular animal,' he said.

'I immediately did think it was a seal but it's head was like a sheep.'

However, veteran Nessie hunter Steve Feltham, remains sceptical, although he admits the hump photograph cannot be immediately explained and is worth further investigation.

'The river comes out there and something large could have come down the river and flowed out there,' he suggested.

Mr Jobes' is the second potential sighting of nessie so far this summer.

Last month Foyers shop and cafe owner Jan Hargreaves and her husband Simon believe they caught a glimpse of the creature.

The apparent sighting of Nessie comes after a couple were left shocked when they discovered the rotting body of a sea monster while walking along a beach at Bridge of Don, Aberdeen.

Margaret and Nick Flippence made the incredible find as they exercised their dogs at the popular beauty spot.

Mr Flippence, 59, who lives nearby, said: 'We were stunned. I thought, "oh my God what is it?"

Curled up by the foot of sand dunes was the 30ft-long body of the unidentified animal with head, tail and teeth all discernible.

The Loch Ness Monster has been the subject of many sightings in the Scottish Highlands, including this picture taken in 1934 apparently showing the creature.

Some experts believe that the beast represents a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs, a type of carnivorous aquatic reptile from millions of years ago.

Nessie is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next.

The myth surrounding the creature has developed since it was first brought to the world's attention in 1933 when George Spicer and his wife saw 'a most extraordinary form of animal' cross the road in front of their car.

They claimed that the creature had a long body and a narrow neck resembling an elephant's trunk.

Evidence of the creature is mainly anecdotal and many of the supposed photographs are claimed to be carefully staged hoaxes.

However, the regular sightings and the number of photographs suggest that there could be something lurking in the depths.

Experts are now examining the pictures with one suggesting it could be the body of a whale.

Before the discovery of the enormous sea carcass, a large creature, 20 to 30ft long with humps on its back, was filmed moving through the waters of an Alaskan bay.

The unidentified creature which was filmed by local fisherman in 2009 has already drawn comparisons to Scotland's infamous Loch Ness Monster.

Scientists believe that the Alaskan creature could be a Cadborosaurus - a type of sea serpent that got its name from Cadboro Bay in British Columbia and is said to roam the North Pacific.

Paul LeBlond, former head of the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of British Columbia, told Discovery News: 'I am quite impressed with the video.

'Although it was shot under rainy circumstances in a bouncy ship, it's very genuine.'

The Cadborosaurus willsi, meaning 'reptile' or 'lizard' from Cadboro Bay, is an alleged sea serpent from the North Pacific thought to have a long neck, a horse-like head, large eyes, and back bumps that stick out of the water.

In 1937, a supposed body of the animal was found in the stomach of a whale captured by the Naden Harbour whaling station in the Queen Charlotte Islands, a British Columbia archipelago.

Samples of the animal were brought to the Provincial Museum in Victoria, where curator Francis Kermode concluded they belonged to a fetal baleen whale.

The animal's remains, however, later disappeared.

James Wakelun, a worker at the whaling station, last year said that he saw the creature's body and 'it wasn't an unborn whale.'

Like other cryptids, animals whose existence is suggested but not yet recognised by scientific consensus, the Cadborosaurus has existed only in grainy photographs and eyewitness accounts. - dailymail

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Locals Report Recent Loch Ness Monster Sighting

Foyers shop and cafe owner Jan Hargreaves and her husband Simon believe they caught a glimpse of Loch Ness’s most elusive resident — Nessie.

It was while taking a break on the store’s front decking — looking out to the loch — when Mrs Hargreaves and kitchen worker Graham Baine spotted an unusual figure cutting a strange shape through the water.

“We were standing looking out and saw something that looked bizarre,” said Mrs Hargreaves.

“I said to my husband to come and have a look.

“We stand here all the time and look out and we see boats and kayaks but it didn’t look like anything we have seen here before.”

Despite the unidentified creature being quite a distance from their vantage point, 51-year-old Mrs Hargreaves said it had a long neck which was too long to be that of a seal and it was black in appearance.

“It went under the water and disappeared for probably 30 to 40 seconds and then came back up again,” said Mrs Hargreaves.

“It was around for a good four to five minutes. It was just so strange.”

Keen to stress she is not seeking publicity, Mrs Hargreaves does firmly believe what she saw was the Loch Ness Monster.

“It was so exciting,” she declared.

Since August last year, The Waterfall Cafe and Foyers Stores with post office, opposite the village’s famous Falls of Foyers, has been run by Mr and Mrs Hargreaves.

Nessie hunter Steve Feltham, who lives in a former mobile library turned research centre on Dores beach, said he heard about the possible sighting when he popped into the store last week and believes because it was from residents rather than tourists, it is more credible.

“I’m excited by the fact it was locals who had seen it,” said Mr Feltham.

“It’s quite a distance from the shop to the water and they watch everything that goes on there.

“For them to be impressed then there is a possibility it could have been Nessie.”

What particularly excited Mr Feltham was that it was from the exact same vantage point where Tim Binsdale shot the best footage of the legendary creature back in 1960.

“I’ll put the sightings with the other sightings,” said Mr Feltham. “I will also continue to carry out surface observations.”

The sighting was recorded on Wednesday afternoon between 2.30pm and 3pm. - inverness-courier

NOTE: here are a few recent 'Nessie' related posts - Science Professor Believes Loch Ness Monster Family Exists - Retired Detective Insists 50 Year Old Loch Ness Monster Footage Authentic - Nessie Surfaces Again?...Lon

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Science Professor Believes Loch Ness Monster Family Exists

Photo by Dr. Robert Kenneth 1934

To be honest, I have never been confident or comfortable with the claims of the well-known freshwater cryptids throughout the world. The Loch Ness Monster has the most extensive history and legend thus making it, to me, the most credible of the lot...though I still have trouble believing in it's existence. Since the modern story of this creature is well known I'd like to offer a bit into it's background...then leading up into the present day.

Existence of the creature known as the Loch Ness Monster was recorded in Celtic and Norse folklore, though accounts of sightings can be traced back to St. Columba in 565 AD.

Loch Ness is a large loch of over twenty-one square miles and an unfathomable 800 feet deep. It is one of several lochs that became interlinked when the Caledonian Canal was completed during the 19th century opening out into the North Sea.

Loch Ness, Scotland (marker)

The water of Loch Ness is very murky because of the high concentration of peat and the loch's great depth. Many believe its bottom is interspersed with large caves in which Nessie rests in. While many scientific studies have been undertaken to hunt for Nessie and to make topographical images of the bottom of Loch Ness by use of sonar surveys, these studies have been unable to prove or disprove the existence the monster.

St. Columba and the Monster

The earliest legend about the Loch Ness monster recorded is the story by Adamnan of St. Columba's encounter with the beast.

Guilty for being partly responsible for the death of many men in the Battle of Cul-drebene, St Columba set out to mainland Scotland on a pilgrimage to spread Christianity across the land.

During this time, on his way to visit with the Pictish king in Inverness, he encountered some Picts burying what remained of one of their own people - badly savaged by a creature in the Loch.

The dead mans boat lay on the other side of the water, so Columba ordered one of his followers to swim over and retrieve the boat.

During this the servant was attacked by a creature that reared out of the Loch to attack the swimmer.

Columba commanded the beast to return to whence it came and it vanished beneath the waters of the Loch leaving the swimming man unharmed.

St.Columba and the lake beast

Sightings

The most common description of Nessie is that of a large dinosaur-like monster who holds a great resemblance to a Plesiosaur. It is usually said to be about 40 to 45 feet in length with long, slender neck, a "head like a horse," a long tail, humped back and flippers in place of legs and feet. The back varies according to the sighting. Some reports say it has a single hump while others say it has two.

Often seen on the western edge of Loch Ness in the vicinity of the ancient Urquhart Castle, sightseers have in this century supposedly taken many photographs of Nessie. In all, there have been at least three thousand reported sightings of Nessie since 1933 although there are several recorded sightings from the 1800s.

Supposed underwater image of the Loch Ness Monster

The earliest police reports of sightings begin in October 1871 in which D. Mackenzie told how the creature moved slow, looked like a log at first but then the back came into view which resembled "an upturned boat." This description has been used repeatedly to describe the back of Nessie.

The next recorded sighting was by Roderick Matherson in 1885 in which he said the creature "was the biggest thing I ever saw in my life." In 1888 Alexander Macdonald saw the creature as well. In 1889 a "great horrible beastie" was reported to be in the loch by several people the same day.

There were sporadic reports of Nessie for several years but April 1933 saw the beginning of an all-new era. Between April 1933 and August 1934, over 50 sightings were reported with the majority of these being by more than one person at a time. A London surgeon, Robert Kenneth in 1934, took the most famous of Nessie photos. Then Nessie seemed to take a break and the next recorded sighting wasn't until 1936. With few sightings during the 1940s the Loch Ness monster began being seen again on a regular basis during the 1950s.

Dr. Robert Rines (left)

In 1972 and 1975 Dr. Robert Rines of the Academy of Applied Sciences in Boston used side scan sonar to take full body shot photos of a large object with what could be flippers. When Dr. Rines returned to Loch Ness in 1990 he was unable to find the object or creature again.

In the following article, Virginia Tech science professor emeritus Henry Bauer believes that a family of large aquatic cryptids still occupies the lake, and it’s only a matter of time before their existence is proven:

Henry H. Bauer

newsadvance - By Darrell Laurant - Henry Bauer has something in common with me, and most probably with you — he’s never seen the Loch Ness Monster.

In his case, however, it isn’t from lack of trying. The Virginia Tech science professor emeritus has made a number of trips to Scotland hoping to catch a glimpse of the world’s most elusive aquatic beast, only to be disappointed. But not disheartened.

“Almost all of the sightings have been random,” he said, “and they tend to catch people by surprise.”

In other words, you can’t meet “Nessie” by appointment. That is, if he or she actually exists.

There appear to be three possibilities:

-The Loch Ness Monster is nothing but a figment of some Scotman’s imagination, a legend that has morphed into a mass hallucination among the believers.

-There was a Loch Ness Monster once upon a time, but now it’s dead.

-A family of Nessies still occupies the mile-wide, 20-mile-long lake, and it’s only a matter of time before their existence is proven.

Bauer describes himself as “about 95 percent certain” of the third option. He will be one of the speakers at an “UFOs at the Lake Conference” at the Mariner’s Landing Resort on Smith Mountain Lake, which is a neat coincidence. A movie in production called “Lake Effect” has been filmed there, and one of its components is a Nessie-style monster.

The producers of “Lake Effect” didn’t enlist Henry Bauer as a technical advisor, but they should have. As the pursuit of Nessie has changed from hobby to obsession, he has read everything he can find on the beast, pro and con.

“I’m a scientist,” he said, “and so I have an open mind, both ways. I’m just trying to help get at the truth.”

The initial spark for Bauer was a chance encounter with a book by Tim Dinsdale, described as the only person ever to capture the Loch Ness Monster on film. You’ve probably seen a famous still photograph from that footage, a grainy image of what appear to be eel-like loops protruding from the water of the Loch.

Naturally, that photo has come under withering fire from debunkers. It’s a boat, it’s a sturgeon, it’s an imperfection in the film.

“I took a year’s sabbatical in 1972,” Bauer said, “to study at the University of Cambridge in England. Naturally, I took a side trip to Loch Ness, Dinsdale happened to be there, and I met him.”

Bauer leans toward the theory that the Loch Ness Monster (or monsters) is a prehistoric creature that somehow became landlocked when the Ice Age closed off Loch Ness’ former connection to the ocean.

“There is another body of water called Loch Morar, also near the ocean, and there are legends surrounding creatures there, too,” Bauer said.

If you’re picturing Loch Ness as a small body of water, think again. This is no glorified farm pond.

“It’s 700 feet deep at one point,” Bauer said.

Nor is it surrounded by Loch Ness Monster tourist attractions.

“There aren’t any summer cottages and only a few hotels,” Bauer said. “The local planning committee is very conservative, and they want to keep the place pretty much like it’s always been. You can buy a Nessie doll in some stores, but that’s about it.”

Obviously, there are Nessie questions with no current answers. Since there have been sightings since the 1930s, the creature either has a very long life span or it has reproduced. And if one of the beasts has died, why was no carcass ever found?

On the other hand, Bauer said, no one has been able to explain certain sonar findings that appear to show large objects in motion.

For all its size and presumably carnivorous diet, Nessie has never tried to eat one of its human neighbors, or even a tourist. Rather, the beast seems reclusive and shy, appearing only by chance and disappearing just as quickly.

Or else this is all a hoax. Like any true scientist, Henry Bauer just seems to be enjoying the puzzle.

“I guess you’d say I’m into oddball science,” he said with a chuckle.

Ottawa Citizen - June 11, 1960

Nessie Surfaces Again?

© Richard Preston

STV - The legend of Nessie has resurfaced with a new sighting and pictures of the Loch Ness monster.

Richard Preston, a landscape designer, has been the latest person to spot a mysterious shape that might be the Loch Ness monster and capture a series of images on camera.

While working on Aldourie Castle gardens on the banks of the Loch Ness, 27-year-old Mr Preston spotted a shape on the loch's surface out of the corner of his eye.

He told STV News: “I was just walking through the castle gardens and I spotted something in the distance. When I looked closer I could clearly see the four hump-like features. I thought I’d take a picture of it, to see if there was anything in it, to see what others thought.

“I was surprised that it stayed there as long as it did. I took various shots of it before it suddenly disappeared. I literally just turned my back and it was gone.”

He showed one of his friends who was also convinced there was certainly some mystery in the pictures.

When asked whether or not he believed in the monster, Mr Preston said: “Well there’s definitely something in the myth.There were no ripples in the water, no boats, nothing around. I have no idea what it was, but it undoubtedly looks like Nessie.”

The latest sighting has brought hope to monster enthusiasts, as it had been a relatively quiet spell for spotting any activity in the Loch. Fears had been mounting that Nessie might be dead since reports of any sightings had been diminishing.

In July 1930, three people in a boat at the north end of the loch saw a 6m long hump-like shape travelling fast through the water. In April 1933, Aldie Mackay saw a violent disturbance in the water and a hump “like that of a whale” while driving along the north side of the loch.

NOTE: not sure...but I really doubt that this is Nessie or any other lake monster...Lon