New Mystery Loch Ness Photo
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 3rd, 2006
Compare the two photographs taken on the underwater cam within Scotland’s Loch Ness. It is clear that in one the surface of the bottom shows a permanent group of objects to the right and nothing to the left. In the other, a cam image capture, you can see a long object on the bottom, on the left. The difference in time was within minutes, so the object was definitely animate.
What is it? An eel? A salmon on the bottom? One of Adrian Shine’s lost sturgeons? A baby Nessie? The tentacle of a giant squid? A seal? An ad man for Toyota? A British bannister? What?
Thanks to the discoverer of this imaged object, Dan Reidmiller, for sharing this with the readers at Cryptomundo.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Loren, many thanks, as always, for your post and for something new to look at.
I’m going to default to eel or fish, because that’s the most likely candidate, but it’s terribly interesting nonetheless! There’s definitely something there. Maybe Mr. Reidmiller can produce more photos from the same location in the coming days? Maybe it will come back!
I hope a baby Nessie! I am truly one of those people who hopes that there is something out there. I find these photographs very interesting, they intrigue me, because they are not clear, which gives the photos a wonderful mystical feel! I hope Nessie is a new species, or a supposedly extinct sea dinosaur. I hope it is not just an eel, or salmon.
Intriguing. It’s a…something. So vague I can’t say what, but if it’s alive rather than being carried by current, I’d have to agree with Mysteriousness. It took me a minute to even see what was being talked about. I’m curious about further developments.
Looks like an eel to me.
It’s making me hungry for sushi.
couldn’t they add windshield wipers to the lense? All that plant life is making it hard to see anything. If it is nessie, it’s the tip of the tail.
Ever seen a sturgeon? Look at its dorsal fin which is actually many fins that run the length of the fish’s back. People pull sturgeon’s out of the Loch upwards of 20-40 feet in length! Sturgeons usually stay on the surface, so a quick glance at this fish and the undulating fins on its back give the appearance of something serpentine in the water. However, the pic isn’t that clear, but it could be a sturgeon as well.
I’m glad to contribute.
Actually, I captured those pictures from this website, Loch Ness Live Cam (they say their underwater cam will be online “soon”, but it hasn’t been online in some time) a few years ago.
I was doing some house cleaning: throwing out old cd backups, etc., when I came across them again; I thought I had already sent them to Loren as that was my original intention when I captured them.
I’d really like to see that underwater cam come back online. I used to have it on my desktop and would occasionally glance at it as I was doing other things.
I personally think it’s an eel. The pity is there is nothing there that could give a frame of reference for size.
Quite clearly a 7.2-foot Sasquatch playing a vigorous game of Ping (or is it Pong?) with an overweight chupacabras wearing pirate boots!
I don’t see anything.
Your kidding me right? This could be anything. My guess would be eel, from what I can see. And that isn’t much. This photo is just as bad as all the blurry BF photos. But if I was to have to take a guess it would be eel. The more I look at it though, I guess it could be a fish. I do think I can see fins. I’d like to see a photo of the same spot a couple days later and see what might have drifted in. You know, see if the landscape has changed any, with clearer photo’s of course.
If I had to pick something I would have to go with the eel. Just not clear enough to really tell much of anything.
I’ve got to enhance this before I can make my call.
Blobnessie
Blobsquanesyeti. Clearly diurnal, clearly aquatic, clearly Hungry For The Lens.
IMHO the scale of the picture is what’s important (i.e. is the visible part of the loch bottom 2′ across or 20′ across?) As someone who has lived on water my whole life and snorkeled and scuba’d (probably not a real word), my first impression of the object being discussed (if I’m even looking at the right thing) is that it’s not very big at all, bordering on tiny. If it were possible to place something of known dimensions in front of the actual camera at a known distance and take a similiar shot, it would be very helpful.
Blob-Nessie!!! I’m not seeing anything here @ all. Do you have an enhanced view?
Jimmy? Jimmy Hoffa? LOL Just kidding of course. Fun photo! Really hard to see much, but hey, who knows what it is. Curious to see if anyone can enhance the photo. Eel seems to be getting the most votes for now.
I find it interesting just to see under water photos from Loch Ness.
I have to agree a scale marker of some sort would be an improvement.
I can just barely see it and have no idea what it is.
Saying that being able to get photos from there is awesome!
It looks like a log crossed by another log at a 45 degree angle, which looked like some sort of plant in the first photo. The 45 degree object has changed and looks more solid in the bottom photo. As a matter of fact it looks very similar to the object of interest on the bottom.
Were these stills taken with a still camera or video? If not from a video, these photos could possibly be Doctored-up and fake. Either way, there really is nothing conclusive here at all.
Looks like an eel to me… maybe. Picture’s so blurry it’s hard to make heads or tails of it…
If the photos are clear, people will say they are fakes!
I see nothing there except underwater vegetation.
Oh…… now I see it.
This is a joke …. right?
Did you get a grant to test cryptofans with Rorshach images?
No, really, I see nothing until my therapist says there’s something there.
I captured those pics a few years ago when the underwater cam was online. The site says the underwater cam will be back up soon, but they’ve been saying that for about two years now.
I agree: there should have been something placed near the cam that would have given a size reference. Something indicating depth would have been nice, too.
I thought I had forwarded these pics to Loren back when I captured them from the Loch Ness website as that had been my intention. I was clearing out some old backup cds and came across the pics again so I decided to make certain he got them.
What is the thing that appears along the bottom in the background? Could be an eel or possibly a sturgeon. I think an eel is more likely but then again, one nevers knows.
I would love to see someone donate a quality underwater cam that can relay decent pictures. The surface cams pointed at the loch itself are virtually useless in the search for Nessie.
Can someone give me directions on how to see it, please. There is supposed to be something on the bottom left, but I don’t see it.
fuzzy-
Is that a caribbean or south american chupacabras?
everyone-
In all seriousness it is too blurry. If I had to guess I’d say eel.
VoiceOfReason-
The object is actually more in the center of the frame. Locate the bunch of vegetation in the center of the top picture. Then look directly to the left of the vegetation in the bottom picture. It’s sort of light brown.
It’s too indiscernible to make a clear cut picture of anything except for underwater plants. Is the Loch Ness webcam up and running again? It had been shut down for quite some time.
The underwater camera was positioned in about three feet of water (1 metre) beside a busy jetty.
It is possibly an eel, but this camera never could produce anything other than ambiguous images where it was located.
There are other pictures from this camera on my Loch-Ness.org in the Questions page for anyone who is interested.
I’ll be honest, if someone were to just show me these pictures without any mention of Nessie, I would not think anything unusual was occurring here. That could be so many things that it is a bit rash to me to jump the gun and say this could be Nessie. It could be an animate object alright, but it isn’t clear that it is a living object. It could be an animate log drifting about or a whole lot of other mundane things. I don’t see any evidence here for even a sturgeon, let alone a large underwater cryptid in my opinion.
I see alot of things in the picture that could be debris moving about by the curent.If there is anything other than organic matter drifting in the photo than my vote is eel.With the low visibility the minds eye can see almost anything.We see what we want to.
I agree with Dharkheart–the video cams at the Loch Ness website are pretty much useless. I check them out daily because I think they are interesting, but they are too far away from the water. If Nessie were to swim by Urquhart bay, you wouldn’t be able to tell what it was. And it has been stated that the cam theses pictures were from was placed in 3 feet of water–why bother? If Nessies are as big as we believe, what would 3 feet of water accomplish? I’ve heard for many years from the skeptics that if you convince yourself you’re gonna see a Nessie, you will. I do not believe that. I have spent 3 long weekends going around Lake Champlain hoping to see a sign of Champ and I saw nothing that I could even make myself think I saw it, and I believe in Champ! I want so badly to see Nessie in these pictures, but. The skeptics will say anything because they are sceptics!
I kind of hate to say this, but these photos don’t look like underwater photos at all to me. They look like photos of a body of water, overhung by branches, shot through out-of-focus weeds.
If I close one eye, squint, and hold my breath, I can see, a wee fishee.
Here is a couple of links to footage from 2006.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/326788/lochness_2006_nessie_footage/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/326116/lochness_2002_nessie_footage/
In 2003 i took what i think is the best nessie head picture to come from lochness i took this on the underwater cam and this thing is easy to see it is right in your face it may well be in 3feet of water but make your mind up on this one anyone know what it is.
Link to picture on Noras site it is the one on the left i have the Original picture and will post it when i can.
http://www.geocities.com/nessie_hunter/Images/JohnNora.jpg
Actually, I can see nothing on the left, in either one of the pictures…