Nessie’s as big as a double-decker bus, says monster hunter who failed to take photo of elusive beast while visiting Loch Ness (but sketched what he saw after ‘while it was still in his mind’) – amid spate of ‘sightings’
A man who claims to have seen the Loch Ness monster today insisted it was as big as a ‘double decker bus’.
Sash Lake from Box, Wiltshire said he caught sight of the elusive Nessie while visiting the Scottish loch on October 7.
Failing to get a picture of the beast, he instead sketched out what he claims to have seen ‘while it was fresh in his memory’.
Mr Lake said he was on his way out of Drumnadrochit by coach and simply ‘admiring the view’ while the coach was driving past the loch when he saw a shape that made him ‘jump out of his skin’.
He said: ‘It started to rain and a light fog rolled in. My view and vision was partly limited due to the trees alongside the loch.
A man who claims to have seen the Loch Ness monster said it was as big as a ‘double decker bus’ as he sketched down a drawing of the mythical creature
Sash Lake from Box, Wiltshire, visited the famous loch near Inverness, Scotland, on October 7 this year as he caught sight of the creature which made him ‘jump out of his skin’
A report from June 15 this year said a tourist reported a 65ft long dark shape in the loch
‘But something caught my eye for approximately five seconds and made me jump out of my skin.
‘I saw a huge black mass or hump in the middle of the loch, roughly the size of a double-decker bus. I would say it was around 75 to 100 yards away from me.’
Mr Lake added: ‘I was confused and in disbelief’.
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Mr Lake then ‘jumped’ to his feet to get a better look he said, but trees ‘completely blocked’ his view.
After five to eight seconds, Mr Lake looked back to where he believed he saw the creature, but there was nothing there.
It was at this point that Mr Lake attempted to sketch down what he had just seen.
The sighting was on October 7 at 12.20 pm but has only just been reported to The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register.
It is compiled by Nessie expert Gary Campbell who has been doing it since 1996. It is the eighth credible sighting of the folklore beast this year.
The previous sighting was made by nurse Fiona Wade on 31 August.
The 60-year-old said she saw three humps in the water.
Three days earlier local Siobhan Janaway saw ripples in the water.
And fellow Nessie spotter Alastair Gray said he saw the Loch Ness Monster on August 26. Dad-of-four Steve Valentine said he spotted a ‘black shape’ with ‘a hump’ on 17 August.
On 15 June, Etienne Camel and his wife Eliane, from Lyon, France were visiting Loch Ness and claimed to have spotted a 65ft long dark shape moving just beneath the surface of the water for several minutes.
Mr Lake explained how he was on his way out of Drumnadrochit by coach and simply ‘admiring the view’ while the coach was driving past the loch
A reported sighting of the mythical creature on April 5 this year
It is the eighth credible sighting of the folklore beast this year
Another tourist, Ceci, from the USA, said she also saw something mysterious for a number of minutes on 31 May.
On 5 April, Francesca McGarvey, of Paisley, was visiting with her mum and dad when she claims she spotted humps in the water.
Last month, shocking new footage showed what a Nessie-hunter believed was the Loch Ness Monster.
For years, Eoin O’Faodhagain, 59, has been racking up supposed sightings of the creature via webcam, but he reckons his latest was the strangest yet.
He was watching the live cameras on the Visit Inverness website when he saw a black shape breaching the surface of the loch and moving steadily north against the current.
Mr. O’Faodhagain couldn’t believe what he was seeing: ‘I kept zooming in and out of the video clip, and just as well because I got one of the strangest images I have ever got in Loch Ness.
‘It’s this image of a half-circle hump, light grey in colour with three uniform black spots.
‘If I was looking up in the sky at it, I would have said it was a UFO, but I was looking at a webcam over part of Loch Ness.
‘I have no idea what this strange moving object is, only to suggest it could be a young Nessie.’
Arguing back against skeptics, he added ‘As nobody to date knows what the Loch Ness Monster is, nobody can say it isn’t.’
The monster hunter believes that whatever it was, most of it’s body was lurking underneath the water.
What IS the Loch Ness Monster?
Rumours of a strange creature living in the waters of Loch Ness have abounded over the decades, yet scant evidence has been found to back up these claims.
One of the first sightings, believed to have fuelled modern Nessie fever, came in May 2, 1933.
On this date the Inverness Courier carried a story about a local couple who claim to have seen ‘an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface’.
Another famous claimed sighting is a photograph taken in 1934 by Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson.
It was later exposed as a hoax by one of the participants, Chris Spurling, who, on his deathbed, revealed that the pictures were staged.
Other sightings James Gray’s picture from 2001 when he and friend Peter Levings were out fishing on the Loch, while namesake Hugh Gray’s blurred photo of what appears to be a large sea creature was published in the Daily Express in 1933.
Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London physician, captured arguably the most famous image of the Loch Ness Monster. The surgeon’s photograph was published in the Daily Mail on April 21, 1934 – however it was later proven to be a fake
The first reported sighting of the monster is said to have been made in AD565 by the Irish missionary St Columba when he came across a giant beast in the River Ness.
But no one has ever come up with a satisfactory explanation for the sightings – although in 2019, ‘Nessie expert’ Steve Feltham, who has spent 24 years watching the Loch, said he thought it was actually a giant Wels Catfish, native to waters near the Baltic and Caspian seas in Europe.
An online register lists more than 1,000 total Nessie sightings, created by Mr Campbell, the man behind the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club and is available at www.lochnesssightings.com.
So what could explain these mysterious sightings?
Many Nessie witnesses have mentioned large, crocodile-like scutes sitting atop the spine of the creature, leading some to believe an escaped amphibian may be to blame.
Native fish sturgeons can also weigh several hundred pounds and have ridged backs, which make them look almost reptilian.
Some believe Nessie is a long-necked plesiosaur – like an elasmosaur – that survived somehow when all the other dinosaurs were wiped out.
Others say the sightings are down to Scottish pines dying and flopping into the loch, before quickly becoming water-logged and sinking.
While submerged, botanical chemicals start trapping tiny bubbles of air.
Eventually, enough of these are gathered to propel the log upward as deep pressures begin altering its shape, giving the appearance of an animal coming up for air.
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