Loch Ness monster watcher astounded as ‘head and neck’ emerges from the water

A Nessie watcher was left stunned after the “head and neck of Nessie” emerged from her watery home in a series of shocking pictures.

Eoin O’Faodhagain was watching Loch Ness via webcam last Tuesday when he spotted something break the surface in the fading light, reported Penn News.

The footage captured by Eoin, 59, shows a black shape emerging from the loch, lingering for close to four seconds before it vanishes again in the blink of an eye.

It starts off as just a dot but quickly resembles the distinctive outline of Nessie standing over the water

Mr O’Faodhagain said: “It literally pops up and is gone in the same breath.

“I think it is the elusive head and curved neck of Nessie – you could not say it is like anything else that is normally swimming around Loch Ness.

“It is striking that it appeared just at the point of darkness because the webcam goes into black-and-white mode shortly afterward.

“Most people watching the webcam would have given up at that stage because of the falling light, but it shows you have to persevere. And what an amazing sight, however short, you get for persevering.”

The watcher compared it to the famous Surgeon’s Photograph, the 1934 snap of Nessie which has often defined her in the public imagination despite its dubious origins.

He said: “It is more curved than the surgeon’s photograph – if anything it’s more alive looking. There is nothing known in the animal kingdom has a curved neck like that we know about – forget about seals and swans, there is no comparison whatsoever.

“I remember Tim Dinsdale, describing a sighting of Nessie in a TV interview, said the head and neck was like a snake – and it certainly looks snake-like.”

Mr O’Faodhagain made his sighting using a webcam maintained by Visit Inverness Loch Ness (VILN) at Shoreland Lodges, near Fort Augustus on the loch’s southern shore.

The Loch Ness Centre is located at the old Drumnadrochit Hotel, where it is said manageress Aldie Mackay first reported seeing a “water beast” in Loch Ness 90 years ago.

The incident led to a global and long-lasting fascination with finding the elusive monster, spawning hoaxes and hundreds of eyewitness accounts.

The centre has also topped the list of UK destinations that Brits are desperate to visit after a surge in interest in monster hunting.

There have been seven recorded by the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register already in 2023 – the same number of last year.