While walking her dog
near Inverness, Scotland, on August 31, a 60-year-old nurse claimed spotting the
Loch Ness Monster for around 40 seconds.
Fiona Wade, from
Cannich said that she was driving back home when she saw three humps in the
water.
“I couldn’t get my head
around it when I saw it. It was something I couldn’t explain, couldn’t
rationalize,” Fiona, a nurse, said.
“When I travelled to
work in the 80s and 90s I would pass Loch Ness at least once a week. It was my
patch so I’m very familiar with that area. Plus I’m an outdoors person. I go
camping, I do hill walking – I know what should be around lochs.”
“I’m very rational and
scientific as that’s part of my job. It wasn’t a submarine. I’m not a monster
hunter. I just don’t see what else it could have been.”
Unfortunately, Wade
missed the rare chance to take a picture since she was behind the wheel.
“I was just driving
past like I normally would. I saw something in the loch initially thought ‘Oh
that’s a big stag.” Then I thought it may have been a boar but it had a long
neck. But I glanced again and I saw what I can only describe as a second hump.”
“Then I saw a short
head. It was a really weird feeling. I couldn’t stop on the road. I knew it
wasn’t going to be there for long. I didn’t have time to get out and take a
photo.”
“It was there for around 40 seconds before disappearing.
I know it sounds irrational and ridiculous. But I saw something that was no
animal, no sea creature.”
The sighting is the seventh of Scotland’s myth
creature this year.