Though the world’s biggest hunt for Scotland’s Loch Ness monster may have ended in a series of mysterious underwater “gloops” that oh-so-coincidentally evaded Cryptid-enthusiasts’ audio recorders, there still may be hope that Nessie swims among us.


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Back in 2018, photographer Chie Kelly was enjoying lunch at a local inn, snapping photos of her husband and daughter before the famed Inverness loch when she noticed something that looked “like a serpent” “spinning and rolling” in the water before her.



“I was just taking pictures with my Canon camera of Scott and our daughter Alisa, who was then five, when about 200 meters from the shore, moving right to left at a steady speed was this creature,” the 51-year-old translator explained to The Telegraph of the photos, which she kept private until recently out of fear of “public ridicule.”


Though Kelly, a long time believer in the Loch Ness monster, noted she “never saw a head or neck” attached to the slithering beast, and that the creature later “disappeared”  —  “I don’t know what it was but it was definitely a creature, an animal,” she explained — Loch Ness monster hunter Steve Feltham had more confidence that Kelly had caught Nessie on camera.



“These are the most exciting surface pictures [of Nessie] I have seen,” he explained, heralding the photos as “exactly the type of pictures I have been wanting to take for three decades.”


“It is rare to see something so clear on the surface,” Feltham continued, lauding Kelly for her decision to “go public.” “They warrant further investigation. It is not driftwood — it is a moving creature and totally unexplained.”


We can only chalk this up as being one small step for Loch Ness monster enthusiasts … and one giant leap back for the evidently camera-shy Nessie.