More news from Loch Ness

Monday 18th May 2026

Please forgive me for not being particularly excited about these latest “sightings“ of the Loch Ness monster. Whilst I am sure that the majority people who report these amorphous blobs are completely sincere in their belief that they have encountered a mysterious giant creature in the lake, very few of them are any use as evidence for the existence of such a creature. JD

Loch Ness Monster makes fifth ‘appearance’ of the year, after another sighting … – Inverness Courier

The Loch Ness Monster has made her fifth ‘appearance’ of the year after another possible sighting added to a flurry of recent encounters.
 

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Jonathan Downes
Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and an eleven year old granddaughter called Evelyn.