Shocking new images have revealed what a Nessie hunter believes is the Loch Ness Monster.
Eoin O’Faodhagain, 59, has been collecting alleged sightings of the creature via webcam for years, but he thinks his latest is the strangest yet.
He was watching the live cameras on the Visit Inverness website when he saw a black shape breaking through the surface of the lake 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, which was a good thing because I got one of the strangest images I’ve ever seen in Loch Ness.
‘It’s this image of a semi-circular bump, light gray in color with three uniform black spots.
He was watching the live cameras on the Visit Inverness website when he saw a black shape breaking the surface of the lake and moving steadily north against the current.
Defying skeptics, he added: ‘Since no one knows yet what the Loch Ness Monster is, no one can say it isn’t.’
‘If I had looked up 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, I can only suggest it could be a young Nessie.”
Pushing back against skeptics, he added: ‘Since no one knows yet what the Loch Ness Monster is, no one can say it isn’t.’
The monster hunter believes that whatever it was, most of its body was lurking underwater.
He said: ‘The size of the object coming out of the water was not large – only about half a meter long, but there seemed to be a lot going on underwater.
“As he moved further away from the camera you could see a lot of splashes around it, and this was very strange because he wasn’t moving quickly.”
After doing some research, Mr O’Faodhagain was unable to match the unique spots with any other resident of the lake.
The 59-year-old added: ‘The markings of the three black dot pattern are very unusual.
After doing some research, Mr O’Faodhagain was unable to match the unique spots with any other resident of the lake
He said: ‘The size of the object from the water was not large – only about two feet long, but there seemed to be a lot going on underwater.’
‘No seal or otter has such markings, and – as far as an eel is concerned – neither on them.
‘Either way, it moves too rigidly for all these animals, and at a consistently slow pace.
“Snakes may have markings on their skin, but what snake has a two-foot oval bump?”
An avid Nessie hunter, he often logs in to view Scottish waters from his home in County Donegal, Ireland.
He made his latest sighting using a webcam maintained by Visit Inverness Loch Ness (VILN) at Shoreland Lodges, near Fort Augustus on the southern shore of the loch.
If you want to spot the monster yourself, there are VILN webcams watched live online.
The spotting comes right after an Inverness resident was convinced she had spotted the mythical creature after capturing images of large ripples in the lake.
Large ripples (circled) in the water were noticed by Siobhan Janaway and she thinks they could be from the Loch Ness Monster
Pictured: A shadowy figure on Loch Ness in a separate incident
Siobhan Janaway said she initially thought the disturbance on the water’s surface was from a motorboat, but claimed she could see no ships in the area.
She reported the sighting to the official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register, where six other sightings have been recorded so far this year.
According to the site, Fiona Wade reported seeing what “initially looked like a periscope.”
Adding ‘but then two curved areas followed, it moved and about half way up the Loch, about half way between Foyers and Whitebridge.
‘I’ve seen deer crossing before but this was like nothing I’d seen before and I can only describe it as Nessie.’
Separately, Alastair Gray claimed he saw lumps in the lake and father-of-four Steve Valentine also said he saw a ‘black shape’ with ‘a lump’ on August 17.