Loch Ness Monster expert 'has video' of baby Nessie poking head above water

01 October 2023 , 11:51

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Loch Ness Monster expert 'has video' of baby Nessie poking head above water

A veteran Loch Ness Monster hunter claims he has footage of the beast (or possibly her child) poking her head above the water - and has called it his 'strangest ever' sighting.

The clip, captured by Eoin O'Faodhagain, shows a humped black shape breaching the surface of the famous water before moving steadily north against the current. Eoin has been eagerly watching a webcam pointed at the loch for many years, but claims he had never seen anything like this shape appear before. He even believes it could be a 'Young Nessie', a potential offspring of the legendary creature.

Eoin O'Faodhagain claims he saw a 'young Nessi' pop above the surface of the famous water (Credit: Visit Inverness Loch Ness via Pen News)

Sharing his discovery he said: "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. As nobody to date knows what the Loch Ness Monster is, nobody can say it isn't."

He made the discovery while watching a Loch Ness webcam from his home in Ireland (Credit: Visit Inverness Loch Ness via Pen News)

Whether the shape was a head, a hump, or something else entirely, Eoin reckons most of its mass was hidden underwater. The 59-year-old said the size of the object out of the water was "not big", and was perhaps only two feet long. Despite this, it seemed to make a lot of impact, and he added: "There seemed to be a lot going on underneath the water. As it moved further from the camera, you could see a lot of splashing going on around it, and this was very peculiar as it was not moving fast."

Eoin has also ruled out other potential causes for the sighting, and said the distinctive spots did not match any of the loch's other inhabitants. He said: "The markings of the three black-spot pattern is very unusual. No seal or otter has markings like that, and - as for an eel - no on that as well. Anyway, it is moving too rigidly for any of these animals, and at a constant slow pace. Snakes might have markings on their skin, but what snake has a two-foot oval hump?" Eoin often logs on to watch the water from his home in County Donegal, Ireland. He made his sighting using a webcam maintained by Visit Inverness Loch Ness (VILN) at Shoreland Lodges, near Fort Augustus on the loch's southern shore.

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