Pictures Of Legendary ‘Loch Ness Monster’ Are Deemed ‘Most Compelling Photos Ever Taken’

While on vacation with her husband, Chie Kelly found a strange creature in the water and decided to take photos of it. However, she was reluctant to share for fear of being ridiculed. She digitally joined the snaps to create a well-arranged video showing something moving on the loch.

After six years, Kelly decided to go public with her discovery following a massive search for a “Loch Ness monster.” Kelly and her businessman husband Scott witnessed the large unidentified eel-like creature moving left and right within 100 meters before it disappeared.

New Loch Ness monster photos are “most compelling ever taken”

Last August, several volunteers in Scotland set out to find the creature of interest to no avail, leading Kelly to share her discovery with veteran Nessie hunter Steve Feltham, who holds a world record for the longest vigil of looking for the Loch Ness Monster— for over 30 years from Dores. “They are the most compelling surface images of the phenomenon,” Steve said.

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Steve added that “putting all 71 frames out there will hopefully spark international debate and an analysis.”

“They still defy explanation. I don’t think there are otters— those creatures are much smaller than what is in the images, or divers,” he added. “It also appears there may be two objects. They certainly warrant further investigation.”

What Kelly thinks of the Loch Ness monster photos now

Kelly recounted how “she 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. 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.”

Kelly, who was with family from Ascot Berkshire, said she thought it was a pair of otters or a seal, but they “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 colors— the water was dark.”

She concluded that she had held on to the photos this long because she “did not want to face public ridicule by making the photographs public.”