Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness monster, the mythical beast that has been the Holy Grail of cryptozoologists for decades, may be nothing more than exceptionally-large eels, BBC News reports. The most famous photo of “Nessie,” as the mythical beast has come to be called, the so-called “Surgeon’s photograph” of 1934, has been revealed as a hoax. What’s […]

The history of Loch Ness Monster sightings is a long one. The legend of “Nessie,” a huge but mysterious sea creature that supposedly lives in the murky waters of Loch Ness, a 26-mile-long lake near Inverness, Scotland, is said to extend back 2,000 years. Soldiers of the Roman Empire arriving in Scotland noted drawings of […]

Has the Loch Ness Monster been captured on video (again)? An 8-year-old girl captured what appears to be something bobbing about in the water of the Scottish lake. As Yahoo News reports, the footage comes as a team of scientists is planning to scour the lake for DNA evidence of the elusive cryptoid. Laria Annand […]

A dead sea creature that strongly resembles the mythical Loch Ness Monster, also known as “Nessie,” was found a few days ago after it had washed ashore on a U.S. beach. This isn’t the first time that Nessie has thought to have been found dead along the edge of a body of water, but a […]

The Loch Ness Monster, the mysterious beast that hides deep in the waters of its namesake lake, was once again spotted on the surface this year. Diana Turner, a tourist from Michigan, was just watching a live feed focused on the part of the loch near Urquhart Castle. She then reported seeing a “wake movement” […]

Has the Loch Ness monster been spotted in Alaska? A new video has sparked rumors about the mythological aquatic creature, and some believe it has finally been captured on film. The video was shot by the Bureau of Land Management Fairbanks District Office Public Affairs Specialist Craig McCaa and Ryan Delaney on October 18. On […]

A video that appears to show a mysterious 15-foot monster swimming in the icy waters of the Chena River in Fairbanks, Alaska, has gone viral online, with many baffled viewers debating its nature, and a few wondering aloud whether Scotland’s Loch Ness monster has finally relocated to Alaska. The video, showing what appears to be […]

Scottish photographer and whiskey warehouse worker Ian Bremner, 58, may have captured the Loch Ness Monster (aka Nessie) with his camera. Bremner was driving through the Scottish Highlands when he took the picture. Bremner claims that he was out looking for red deer to photograph, according to the Huffington Post. He tends to spend his […]

What appears to be skeletal dinosaur remains have washed up on the shores of Loch Ness, causing local residents to wonder if something happened to the monster that’s supposed to haunt the lake. A dog walker found the grisly remains on the shores of Loch Ness on June 29 and called Help2Rehome Scotland, an animal […]

A mysterious creature was spotted last week in the Thames River very near to the O2 Center by a passenger on a United Emirates Air cable car. The man, identified by only by his YouTube username “Penn Plate,” captured the image on video and posted it. Once he posted the video on YouTube, it received […]

A bizarre video surfaced last week on YouTube that purportedly shows something strange in the Thames River. Could it be the Thames River monster? Laypersons and biologists alike are stumped as to what the mysterious creature in the video could be. Earth Mystery News reports that it could be anything from an “alien creature” to […]

This week, Queen Elizabeth II will become Britain’s longest reigning monarch. As such, she’s bound to have a fair few skeletons in the royal closet, but perhaps the strangest of all is Her Majesty’s youthful obsession with the Loch Ness Monster. Throughout history, monarchs have often been compared to monsters, courtesy of their bloodthirsty and […]

The legendary Loch Ness monster, “Nessie,” may only be a large catfish, according to one man. 52-year-old Steve Feltham, an avid researcher of the subject, says that after nearly three decades of searching for the elusive creature, he has now concluded that there probably isn’t an actual Loch Ness monster, according to Fox News. The […]

Is the Loch Ness monster actually a catfish? That is the theory that one longtime watcher has concluded with. Steve Feltham, 52, has been searching for the elusive monster, also known to the locals as Nessie, for nearly 25 years. Now, after all that time, Feltham says he has figured out just exactly what the […]

A possible Loch Ness Monster sighting in a photo provided by Google has the internet going crazy this week. According to the Telegraph, photos from Google’s street view have given Nessie hunters some interesting things to look at, and some say that the photos may have actually captured the mysterious “creature” — again. Of course, […]

Tuesday, Google paid homage to a milestone for Nessie enthusiasts in a Doodle: the 81st anniversary of the storied Loch Ness Monster. With the last “sighting” of the creature in 2014, armchair hunters can now use Google Street View to search out the loch in hopes of getting a glimpse of lake monster, citing the […]

The Loch Ness Monster, nicknamed “Nessie,” has been a legend, intriguing people all over the world since the early sixth century. There have been hundreds of sightings throughout the years, but so far, no clear evidence has led to the confirmation that the famous monster exists. However, that hasn’t stopped believers from searching the waters […]

The Loch Ness Monster may have been found, and Google Street View is to thank. The internet giant called on a team of experts to bring its Street View cameras to the famed lake in Scotland, where legend claims that the prehistoric creature lives somewhere below the water. The effort by Google turned up some […]

“Homer Simpson is a vegetable in a coma, and has been for over 20 years.” So hypothesizes a theory of how and why the lives of the iconic and legendary Simpsons have unfolded the way they have for the past 20 or so years, reports the Huffington Post. The Simpsons theory, posted by Reddit user, […]

What may have been the best evidence that the Loch Ness Monster is indeed real was inadvertently destroyed almost 40 years ago, after a rented pleasure boat suffered a violent collision with an unknown object in Scotland’s vast and mysterious lake widely believed to house the bizarre sea creature. One of the passengers on the […]

The Loch Ness Monster has allegedly been spotted by a Swedish enthusiast who came across the beast while on Google Earth. According to the Mirror, 52-year-old Bjarne Sj was at his home in Stockholm, Sweden when he spotted a long, thin object in Loch Ness on Google Earth. He then took a picture of the […]

The Loch Ness monster is one of the most beloved mysteries on the planet. The monster is debated, discussed, and occasionally photographed. Called Nessie for short, the Loch Ness monster is treated as a sort of mascot, a beloved legend, and a sighting is a treat. Nessie’s relatives have even been sought out — a […]

Amateur zoologists in Vermont claim they have new proof of Champ, a distant cousin of the Loch Ness Monster said to inhabit the waters of Lake Champlain. As the Daily Mail notes, the researchers used a DolphinEar hydrophone system to record loud clicking noises that they assert are the echolocation of the monster. Cryptozoologists Katy […]

New evidence that the Loch Ness monster is more than just a folk tale or an elaborate hoax went on display at the first-ever Scottish Paranormal Festival in Stirling, Scotland, this week. But is the dramatic photo that appears to be the head of a sea creature breaching the waters of the scenic and mysterious […]

New documents have revealed that England’s Natural History Museum once allegedly hatched a plot to kill and kidnap the Loch Ness Monster, pitting the institution against the Royal Scottish Museum and stoking the ire of Scottish nationalists. In his recently published book Britain’ s X-traordinary Files, author David Clarke exposed the documents, according to the […]

As a vote on Scottish independence moves forward, one of the country’s most famous residents seems to have skipped town as a stunning new photo reveals a creature resembling the Loch Ness Monster in England’s Lake Windermere. Ellie Williams captured the amazing photograph, according to The Mirror, which depicts a lake monster resembling the fabled […]

Though it seems amazing, Lloyds of London once actually insured the Loch Ness Monster, as part of the strangest cryptid hunt that the 20th century likely ever saw. The odd turn of events that involved London’s premier insurance market in the strange sightings at the Loch began when whiskey manufacturer Cutty Sark offered a reward […]

The mystery of the Loch Ness monster has been troubling humanity since time immemorial now. Sightings of “Nessie”, as the Loch Ness Monster is also known, have been reported almost every year since 565 AD. In the modern era too, people have reported seeing the elusive creature often with inconclusive evidence. In the latest such […]

Though some experts have said that the Loch Ness monster likely does not exist, a new round of photos and a video have sparked interest in the cryptozoological phenomenon yet again. Amateur photographer David Elder was snapping photos of a swan from a pier at Fort Augustus when something strange caught his eye. He told […]

Charlie Sheen has the money to do pretty much whatever he wants, and this week the 47-year-old actor decided he wanted to look for the Loch Ness Monster. So that’s exactly what he did. Sheen reportedly got together with two friends — former MLB catcher Todd Zeile and Brian Pekk — and made a spur-of-the-moment […]

The Loch Ness monster has sparked a fight among Scottish tourism officials about whether the legendary paleolithic monster is real or just a legend. The business community in Highlands is reportedly split over how to market the monster to tourists. It has become so divided that George Edwards, the owner of Loch Ness Cruises, sent […]

No one knows whether the Loch Ness monster is actually real, but one tour company has finally decided not to take any chances. Jacobite Cruises, a Loch Ness tour company that ferries over 100,000 sightseers across the lake each year, has finally purchased some monster collision insurance: About $1.5 million worth for its fleet of […]

Just a few days after the Loch Ness monster popped his head up in Scotland another mysterious creature has emerged. A sea serpent was recently spotted by three men in Lake Hornindalsvatnet. And this isn’t just any old sea serpent. According to Ghost Theory, the Serpent of Hornindalsvatnet has been swimming in the waters of […]

A new Loch Ness photo has emerged to revive interest in what is perhaps the world’s most famous cryptid, and as per usual, this time the picture is supposed to be the real deal. The new Loch Ness photo is, color us skeptical, much the same as the pics of the Loch Ness monster that […]

While there are many competing views on the validity of teaching creationism in schools receiving taxpayer dollars, most will likely agree that using a mythical creature such as Nessie, the monster of Loch Ness lake in Scotland, is probably a mistake when crafting a biology lesson. Eternity Christian Academy in Westlake, Louisiana, however, would disagree, […]

A new sonar photo has emerged, depicting what one man claims is the legendary Loch Ness Monster. In what is literally the most convincing evidence of Nessie’s existence in the last four minutes, the grainy picture depicts a long ‘serpent-like creature.’ No, really. The above picture was snapped by boat skipper Marcus Atkinson, who took […]

The Loch Ness monster gets all the press but Ogopogo could be the real thing. A man visiting Lake Okanagan in British Columbia caught the mythical creature, Ogopogo, on film. Richard Huls, the man who filmed Ogopogo, said: “It was not going with the waves. It was not a wave obviously, just a darker color. […]

This week we have a new sighting of the elusive Loch Ness Monster of Scotland and there’s photographic evidence to go along with the find. Loch Ness hunter William Jobes, 62, took the photo shown above and he says it wasn’t by mistake, he’s been hunting Nessie for 45 years. The photograph was taken hear […]