First Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2023 with wave that's 'too big for a fish'

02 March 2023 , 11:56

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First Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2023 with wave that's 'too big for a fish'

Spooky footage has shown “the first Nessie sighting of 2023” after something "too big" to be a fish was spotted in the murky depths of Loch Ness.

Under the gently lapping freshwater waves of Loch Ness is one of Scotland's most famous fairytales and the hunt for Nessie is decades old.

Veteran Nessie hunter Eoin O’Faodhagain "couldn't believe" what he saw when he was monitoring a webcam video of the loch from his home.

Two clips from the lake captured something stirring in the mysterious depths close to Shoreland Lodges, near Fort Augustus on the loch’s southern shore.

Eoin, 58, said: "My reaction was I couldn't believe what I was viewing, and it all happened so fast

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"In the first video clip, something moves on the surface for a couple of seconds then you see two shadowy wakes moving in two lines under the surface.

'I couldn't believe what I was viewing' an excited Eoin said (Credit: Visit Inverness Loch Ness via Pen News)

“It probably moves left like this for about 15 feet then it is gone."

Eoin, from County Donegal in Northern Ireland, believed the water was "too agitated" for the disturbance to have been caused by a fish.

He continued: "The second unusual occurrence happened slightly further out in the loch – you see a large white round disturbance on the surface.

"You would think it is just a fish jumping, but it is not like that at all. It is too big and the water is too agitated."

Eoin said the waves are too big to be caused by a fish (Credit: Visit Inverness Loch Ness via Pen News)

He added: "You may not see a body, but there’s definite movement in the water that cannot be explained by natural occurrences."

Eoin estimated the wake was six to eight feet long.

“But nobody will ever know what the true size is hidden under the water, to cause such a wake in the first place,” he said.

“Something is causing these wakes, that we are not seeing.

Eoin said he hadn't seen anything for months until this footage emerged (Credit: Eoin O’Faodhagain/Pen News)

“This image is very large on the water, and it looked so out of place.”

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Eoin added that he hadn't seen anything himself in several months.

“In the last few months I have seen nothing like this to even record,” he said.

“I suspect it is the same animal in both images – I think you would be foolish not to, especially after seeing nothing for months.”

Michael Havis