Source : Perth Now news
An American tourist was stunned when he spotted what appeared to be the Loch Ness Monster in his holiday photos from Scotland.
Nickolas Wiegand was on holiday from the States, and boarded a tour bus to travel to the loch – long rumoured to be home to a huge sea creature dubbed the Loch Ness Monster.
While he took masses of pictures and videos during the trip, which took place on 18th May 2026, it wasn’t until he checked them later in the day that he made the shocking discovery.
He said: “I was only looking through the viewfinder of my camera rather than the lake itself. We were driving at a pretty fast rate down the roadway directly next to Loch Ness.
‘Because our tour was limited on time, I did not have time to watch my recorded footage until after the tour was over.”
When Nickolas conducted a “careful review of footage”, he saw “something mysterious and unknown” in the water.
He explained: “In the footage and in the still photographs, you can clearly see a dark image of something breaking the water surface as we drove by.”
“The object is relatively large, gauging the distance from where we were on the bus to the distance of the water, using road signs on shore to gauge what was the size of whatever was in the water.”
Somewhat surprisingly, Nikolas’ spot marks the fifth sighting of Nessie this year.
The first happened on 1 March, when Tony Inhorn, a student from Washington DC, and his girlfriend Grace, both 26, claimed to have seen something in the water.
The next month, on 21 April, American Sara Gubicza said she had seen a “shark-type fin” in the loch, while two days later, Margaret Sunstrum and Joan Sweeney, from Ontario, Canada, said they think Nessie is at least as big as a whale.
The last sighting before Nickolas’ one came on 25 April this year, when Holly Palmer and Scott McMillan, from Worcester, alleged they’d caught sight of the elusive creature.
The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness monster goes back as far as 565 AD, while the first “modern” sighting was in April 1933.
