Is this the king of all Monster sightings or a co-loch-ssal load of hooey?
Amid a flurry of Nessie sightings of dubious veracity, one Loch Ness Monster hunter claims he spotted the genuine artifact and that it was as big as a “double-decker bus.”
While the sighting reportedly occurred on October 7, it was only just reported to The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register.
“I was confused and in disbelief,” aptly-named Nessie obsessive Sash Lake told Jam Press of allegedly hitting the Loch Ness Monster motherload.
The Box, Wiltshire in England native claims that he saw the mythical plesiosaur while visiting the legendary Loch, near Inverness. He had reportedly been leaving the body of water at around noon when it “started to rain and a light fog rolled in,” per Lake’s account.
The sightseer explained that while his “view and vision was partly limited” due to the loch’s surrounding trees, “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,” the petrified Brit recalled. “I would say it was around 75 to 100 yards away from me.”
Unfortunately, as is the case with many so-called Nessie sightings, his encounter with the beast was fleeting: Following the sighting, Lake said he reportedly jumped to his feet to get a better look, but the trees obscured his view for several seconds.
When he looked back to where he initially saw the black mass, “there was nothing there,” per his account.
Alas, the Nessie sighting was too brief for Lake to get a video, but he did manage to quickly sketch what he saw from memory, as seen in accompanying photos.
This marks the eighth allegedly credible sighting of the cryptozoological curiosity, as deemed by The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register.
The previous alleged sighting was made on August 31 by nurse Fiona Wade, 60, who claimed to have seen three humps in the water.
There have also been a flurry of — for lack of a better word — unverified sightings.
Earlier this month, a Scottish photographer snapped an alleged photo of the Scottish water monster that was dubbed “the clearest evidence this year of Nessie’s existence,” by The Loch Ness Centre, an institution dedicated to finding Nessie.