Posted on 08/31/2023 1:52:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A HOLIDAYMAKER is said to have captured the most exciting pictures to date of a monster in Loch Ness.
But Chie Kelly kept the remarkable images to herself for five years because she was too afraid of being ridiculed.
I FOUND NESSIE! I captured most exciting picture of Loch Ness Monster to date but kept it secret for years over fears of being ridiculed
A HOLIDAYMAKER is said to have captured the most exciting pictures to date of a monster in Loch Ness.
But Chie Kelly kept the remarkable images to herself for five years because she was too afraid of being ridiculed.
Her shots show a giant, eel-like creature slowly spinning on the surface of the loch, where such sightings have been reported for centuries.
Translator Chie, 51, was finally inspired to come forward after last weekend’s organised hunt for the fabled Loch Ness monster.
She showed her photos to an experienced Nessie-hunter who has said they are the most convincing images he has seen in decades.
Chie said: “I have always believed there was something in Loch Ness. There is something unusual there but I don’t know what it is.
“What I saw looked like a serpent. It was definitely a creature and it was moving. At the time I did not want to face public ridicule by making the photographs public.”
The pictures were taken near the village of Dores, on the eastern shore of the loch, in August 2018, when Japan-born Chie was on holiday in the area with her businessman husband Scott, 68.
“My husband was originally from the Inverness area and Dores beach is a very special place to me as it where he used to take me when we first met,” said Chie.
“We had lunch in the Dores Inn and then started walking around.
“I was just taking pictures with my Canon camera of Scott and our daughter Alisa, who was then five, when about 200 metres from the shore, moving right to left at a steady speed, was this creature.
“It was spinning and rolling at times. We never saw a head or neck. After a couple of minutes it just disappeared and we never saw it again.
“At first I wondered if it was an otter or a pair of otters or a seal, but we never saw a head and it never came up again for air.
“It was making this strange movement on the surface. We did not hear any sound. There were these strange shapes below the surface. I could not make out any colours — the water was dark.
“I could not accurately assess its length but the two parts that were visible were less than two metres long together.”
But Chie, who was living in Ascot, Berks, at the time was too nervous to publicise the pictures.
The family has since moved to near Fortrose on the Black Isle — about 20 miles north of the loch.
When hundreds of volunteers joined a search for Nessie last weekend, she showed her images to Steve Feltham, who has been hunting the creature for 30 years.
He said: “These are the most exciting surface pictures I have seen. They are exactly the type of pictures I have been wanting to take for three decades.
“They are vindication for all the people who believe there is something unexplained in Loch Ness.
“They are remarkable. I have studied them and still do not know what it is. It is not driftwood.
“It is a moving creature and totally unexplained.
“We are lucky the Kellys have decided to go public at last. They are absolutely genuine.”
ect that Nessie may be a giant eel.
The following year, images of a large creature were captured on sonar off Invermoriston by a tourist boat skipper.
Experts think the creature was about 32ft long.
Last weekend’s Nessie hunt drew fans from around the world to the 23-mile-long, 755ft-deep loch.
And a documentary crew using a thermal imaging drone during the search believes it detected a large creature on the bank.
The team from Dragonfly Films will unveil its footage in the season finale of TV series Weird Britain.
Producer Tim Whittard said: “With this equipment we were able to see immediately if any animal breaks the water’s surface. It did detect an unusual heat signature — a large mass near the shore.”
I don’t blame you
Fuzzy pics of rocks
She should submit her ufo photos
If it does exist it’s probably some supposed extinct sea creature that spawns in Loch Ness.
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I don’t think rocks if it was moving and floating on the surface. More like an unevenly weighted piece of driftwood rolling around.
Trash bags.
Unless it’s the submarine Sherlock Holmes found.
Someone else remembers that movie.
I traveled all the way to Loch Ness about 20 years ago and didn’t see a thing!
Things like that pop up from the interaction of several boat wakes. If you see a film of this phenomenon it looks exactly like a serpent in the water.
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Last week, Japanese scientists placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water.
Were you expecting to?
Do the chickens have large talons?
The Loch Ness Monster Turns 83: The Story of The Surgeon’s Photograph
Is the Surgeon’s Photograph a hoax? Unfortunately, yes. In 1994, 60 years after it graced the pages of the Daily Mail, Christopher Spurling verified the photograph as a hoax by admitting his involvement in its production. Spurling was the stepson of Maramaduke Wetherell, a famed big-game hunter who had been hired in 1933 by the Daily Mail to find the Loch Ness Monster. He returned from his expedition with evidence of enormous footprints leading from the lake’s shore into the water. However, Natural History Museum researchers concluded the tracks had been made with a dried hippo’s foot, which were popular umbrella stands at the time. Humiliated, Wetherell retreated from public view. After Spurling revealed the photograph as a hoax, he explained that Wetherell had enlisted his help to create a model of the monster’s neck and place it on a toy submarine. Robert Kenneth Wilson was chosen to give the photograph to the media because of his trusted reputation as a doctor.
Nessie is often mistaken for a mossy rock but the most cunning thing is she loves when you question her existence.
I'd stick with stills. They really capture the moment.
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