By Tim Binnall
A monster-hunting camera lost in Loch Ness over 50 years ago has reportedly been restored to working order after being recovered from the site last year. The remarkable relic was serendipitously rediscovered in March of 2025 when a National Oceanography Centre test of an autonomous underwater vehicle at the iconic Scottish location snagged the device and pulled it to the surface. Initially a mystery to researchers conducting the submarine trial, the oddity caught the eye of Nessie enthusiasts, who quickly identified it as a camera trap deployed during a search for the site's famed monster back in the 1970s.
Designed to snap four pictures in succession when a bait line was pulled, the device was inexplicably never retrieved by researchers at the time and sat fairly well-preserved within its waterproof container for decades until being found last March. To that end, the film inside the camera was, amazingly, still able to be developed. Alas, the photos showed no sign of the site's famed monster. Meanwhile, the camera itself had become inoperable until experts from the BBC's program The Repair Shop got their hands on the device and managed to painstakingly bring it back to life. The fully restored camera is now on display at the Loch Ness Centre, where it serves as a fascinating glimpse of the rich history of monster-hunting at the site.