2026-07-21 12:09:30
A tourist has seemingly captured the Loch Ness Monster on camera after snapping a picture of an unidentified “green mass” in the water.
Sharon Herbert, from from Kent, England, was visiting Scotland’s fabled Loch Ness on holiday and she snapped a picture of a mysterious object during a cruise on the water on June 23.
She reported the sighting to the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register, which reported the captain of the Loch Ness cruise could not explain the object in the picture.
The report reads: “Sharon Herbert, visiting from Kent, took a picture of an unknown object close to the Jacobite cruise boat at 10.27am as it came to shore at Urquhart Castle.
“Jacobite Cruises have confirmed that their skipper says there is no explanation that they can offer as to what the green mass is.”
The sighting came just weeks after American tourist Nickolas Weigand visited the infamous site in Scotland in May and spotted a “mysterious” object in the water after reviewing footage from the trip.
Nickolas – who was filming the loch on his camera during a bus tour – couldn’t explain the strange sighting so he made a report to The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register, telling the organisation: “At the time of the filming, I was only looking through the viewfinder of my camera rather than the lake itself.
“We were driving at a pretty fast rate down the roadway directly next to Loch Ness. Because our tour was limited on time, I did not have time to watch my recorded footage until after the tour was over.
“After careful review of the footage, I discovered something mysterious and unknown deep in the water quite far away from shore.”
He added: “In the footage and in the still photographs I captured from the video, you can clearly see a dark image of something breaking the water surface as we drove by.
“The object is relatively large, gauging the distance from where we were on the bus to the distance of the water, using road signs on shore to gauge what was the size of whatever was in the water.”
The sightings come after experts warned a lack of reports could mean Nessie may have met her death.
According to the Daily Star newspaper, Rob Long, from the Loch Ness Exploration [LNE] team said: “There is a real fear for her as it normally is not this long that we go without a single glimpse.
“Normally people from our team will see her but so far, none of us have. Others have claimed to but we have not seen waters this quiet.
“The viewings have gotten less over the years, but never this scarce for us. Despite the lack of viewings, 2024 was the year we got the most definitive proof that Nessie exists – with the sonar recordings among the best we have ever got.”
He went on to add: “So although the viewings were scarce, they were of better quality. Now there’s nothing.
“Nessie has been there, we all know it, but she is clearly getting wise to people looking for her. We also think she is being put off from additional activity in the loch, such as people wanting to try cold water swimming.”
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