“He said ‘I just saw a black shape in the water. “Steve Valentine visiting from Urmston in Manchester was on holiday with his family when he saw something from the Deepscan boat as they were returning from a tour at around 1pm,” Gary Campbell of the Official Loch Ness Monster Register wrote in an August 17th entry. The fourth and fifth official sightings that were recorded both took place in the month of August. Prior to that the Loch Ness Monster had been officially spotted 13 times in 2020, 18 in 2019, 15 in 2018, 14 in 2017, and 11 in 2000.
They have recorded just five sightings this year after there also being just five in 2022. However, none of those sightings were good enough to be logged in the Official Loch Ness Monster Register.Ģ023 has actually been a very slow year for the Official Loch Ness Monster Register.
In April, tourist John Payne, 55, from Newport in Wales seen Nessie as he was looking over the water from his hotel window. Etienne Camel, a pharmacist from Lyon in France, and his wife Eliane also claimed to have spotted the monster while taking photos on the west side of the loch.
