By Tim Binnall
An Australian tourist visiting Loch Ness snapped an intriguing photo of what may be the site's legendary 'monster.' The possible Nessie sighting reportedly occurred on the afternoon of July 21st as witness Oscar Gray was observing the famed Scottish site from the shore near the iconic Urquhart Castle. To the tourist's profound surprise, he suddenly noticed "the top of a dark green flat-topped head pop out of the water." Amazingly, Gray subsequently saw two similarly colored humps emerge behind the larger anomaly, suggesting that the three shapes were all one large aquatic creature.
The puzzling forms were trailed by "quite decent white waves" approximately 1,600 feet behind the suspected Nessie, leaving the astonished witness to theorize that they came from a submerged tail "swimming through the water." The brief sighting concluded with the mystery creature submerging back into Loch Ness, and Gray "never saw it again for the rest of the day." Despite being understandably awestruck by what he had spotted, the witness managed to snap a photo (seen here) of the wondrous sight before it vanished back into the water.
After submitting his story and image to the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register, the venerable website added it to their tally of recognized reports, bringing this year's on-site accounts to nine. For those keeping score at home, 2026 has already surpassed the past two years' total number of cases (6 in 2025 and 3 in 2024) and is now just one shy of the ten that were counted in 2023 and three short of this decade's high water mark of 13 sightings in 2020.