New Loch Ness Monster Photo Being Hailed As ‘Clearest Evidence,’ But Is It?
The latest picture captured of what some believe to be the legendary Loch Ness Monster is getting a lot of attention in Scotland and all over the world. According to The Mirror, cryptid hunter John Howie snapped a photo of an approximately 15-foot figure on October 8th before it disappeared underneath the water.
By the way, a cryptid is an animal, such as the Loch Ness Monster, that is purported to exist without any verifiable proof. Bigfoot is another example. They’re either complete fabrications or really good at hide-and-seek.
This is the eighth major Nessie sighting of 2o23 and John Howie’s photo could take the top prize for the best picture of the cryptid yet. A spokesperson for the Loch Ness Centre in Scotland says the picture John Howie sent “is possibly the clearest evidence this year of Nessie’s existence.” I don’t know about “clearest evidence.” In my humble opinion, it doesn’t look any better than the photos of the Loch Ness monster I’ve been seeing in books since I was a kid. That includes the infamous 1934 hoax below.
A view of the Loch Ness Monster, near Inverness, Scotland, April 19, 1934. The photograph, one of two pictures known as the ‘surgeon’s photographs,’ was allegedly taken by Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson, though it was later exposed as a hoax by one of the participants, Chris Spurling, who, on his deathbed, revealed that the pictures were staged by himself, Marmaduke and Ian Wetherell, and Wilson. References to a monster in Loch Ness date back to St. Columba’s biography in 565 AD. More than 1,000 people claim to have seen ‘Nessie’ and the area is, consequently, a popular tourist attraction. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
John Howie’s ‘Loch Ness Monster’ Photo
So what does this latest photo snapped by John Howie show? As you might be able to see in the Instagram post below, the 12- to 15-foot “monster” appeared to be drifting toward the tree line along the shore of Loch Ness. I want to believe but I have questions about this and every other cryptid photo.
We live in an age when even cellphones have amazing cameras. Are you telling me that we can’t get an image of something swimming in a Scottish lake that’s less grainy than this? Why does everyone who spots a cryptid seem to be working with a flip phone from the ’90s? Wouldn’t a so-called “cryptid hunter” like John Howie want to arm himself with a professional-grade camera? How about a telephoto lens? I’m just saying.
