NEW NESSIE SIGHTING?
Woman claims she spotted the Loch Ness Monster pop out of the water on live webcam
Caroline Barnett made this 'sighting' while watching the Loch Ness Monster webcam
RIGHT before Christmas, the Loch Ness Monster has popped up again.
Sightings of the Loch Ness Monster have reached another record for this century after a woman claims to have spotted Nessie over the internet.
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Business consultant Caroline Barnett, 42, from Farmborough, near Bath, was watching the Loch Ness Webcam at 10.20am on Wednesday when she saw something move slowly up the loch.
She said: "It popped up and down - and kept doing it. It kept splashing about.
"It was quite a size - the size of a boat but it was hard to tell because it was the other side of the loch.
"I didn't know if I believed in Nessie but this is certainly some Christmas present and quite a surprise."
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The sighting - the 13th this year - comes just six days after another spotter saw a mysterious creature with a 4ft neck and a head "the size of a rugby ball".
Ricky Phillips, a British military historian said he was "baffled" by the sight.
Mr Phillips, 40, also works as a tour guide and was leading a party of eight foreign tourists who went on a cruise on Loch Ness.
It was as he rested at the River Oich, just as it flows into Loch Ness at Fort Augustus, that Mr Phillips saw the strange sight at 2.40pm.
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"It was a grey creature - almost bird like - in a grey stretch of water. It's neck was three to four feet long, a head the size of a rugby ball and a ridge across its eyes," said Mr Phillips.
"The previous Wednesday I had heard a strange noise as I was stood by a cafe at the edge of the loch in Fort Augustus. The noise sounded almost metallic, but like something was blowing air - like Darth Vader.
"I have swum and sailed with whales and dolphins, seen hundreds of seals, and it sounded like nothing I have ever heard. I spun around and saw something grey, just a side of a body and a flipper.
Mr Phillips is adamant it was his second sighting of the fabled beast.
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He continued: "Last Thursday after my tour party went on their cruise I decided to take a walk along the river Oich, mainly to see the old bridge, and was taking a few pictures of the loch and the scenery when I again heard that curious noise.
"I looked up from my phone and saw a long, straight neck, all completely grey, and a narrow face, which was only about 20ft away and then it turned and disappeared all in a few seconds.
"I looked down and realised that it was in my picture, so zoomed in and there it was. It actually looks like a giant bird or a peacock in the face, with high ridges above its eyes and what almost looks like a beak.
"I know dinosaurs came from birds and that many had hard lips, almost like a beak - but this is simply what I saw. It seems to have almost a frill on its neck. It is very odd.
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"All I will say is that, if I was going to fake a Nessie, I would certainly have made it look less like a bird and more like... well, more like what we think Nessie looks like!"
Irish missionary St Columba is first said to have encountered a beast in the River Ness in 565AD.
Among the most famous claimed sightings is a photograph taken in 1934 by Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson.
The image was later exposed as a hoax by one of the participants, Chris Spurling, who, on his deathbed, revealed that the pictures were staged.
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