“A family of Nessies” from space

Tuesday 22nd September 2026

These photographs are mildly intriguing. They don’t look like the various photographs that have come from Google Earth in the past which were obviously of boats.  Julie Fraser, who discovered the images on Google Earth, believes: “the shapes bear a far closer resemblance to large marine creatures. “Taking a closer look and enlarging the images – they don’t look like boats, and look like whales or something similar with an arc to their back.” I think that if she is correct, they are probably seals. But what are they? JD


One tourist concludes it’s a “little family” of Nessies. – Facebook

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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.