"Loch Ness Monster" Blogs & Blog Posts

In 1933, a fellow named Hugh Gray snapped this image of  "an object of considerable dimensions" emerging from Loch Ness in Scotland. Gray was convinced that he had captured a photo of "Nessie," the mysterious creature that was part of the local lor...

In 1991, Steve Feltham quite his job, moved to the village of Dores on Loch Ness, and began hunting Nessie full time. Early on, he "had one glimpse of something like a torpedo going through the water," Feltham says. "I did think this job was going...

The 1958 image above depicts one of the more common kinds of Loch Ness Monster sightings, described by the photographer Peter A MacNab as a "black or dark enormous water creature… cruising on the surface" of the lake. Writing in The Skeptic, St...

Unfortunately, anyone who spotted the Loch Ness Monster in the last few days will be disappointed to learn that what they saw may have been an alpaca. Apparently a small herd escaped from their pen at Loch Ness Alpacas where visitors can enjoy an "ex...

In 1975, the Royal Scottish Museum received this incredible sketch, purportedly drawn in 1936 by someone who spotted Nessie emerging from the water near Drumnadrochit on the west shore of Loch Ness. Apparently the drawing has been carefully cataloge...

University of Derby molecular ecologist Michael Sweet floated a theory that the Loch Ness Monster might actually be a whale's penis. See examples below in Sweet's tweet. (Of course, the famed "Surgeon's Photograph" of 1934 above is a known hoax but i...

Located on a hillside overlooking Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, the beautiful Fern View House is for sale. It's the perfect location to scan the Loch for signs of Nessie. Asking price is £900,000. "The property's location on one of the mos...