Kayakers Snap Photo Of England’s Version Of The ‘loch Ness Monster’

[Num7]

A friend of mine just sent me this article about a sea monster sighting.

Nothing puts a damper on a serene afternoon's kayaking like the sight of a primeval sea monster.

That was the rude lesson for Tom Pickles and Sarah Harrington, who'd taken their watercraft out on the foggy waters of Lake Windermere, only to encounter what appeared to be "an enormous snake" swimming by.

"It was petrifying and we paddled back to the shore straight away. At first I thought it was a dog and then saw it was much bigger and moving really quickly at about 10 mph," the 24-year-old Pickles told The Telegraph. "Each hump was moving in a rippling motion and it was swimming fast. Its skin was like a seal's but its shape was completely abnormal—it's not like any animal I've ever seen before."

But what did Pickles and Harrington expect? Didn't they know that Lake Windermere is reputedly the home of the British version of the Loch Ness monster? In the past five years, sojourners on the lake have reported eight sightings of a Nessie-like serpent.

But the kayaking couple rallied from their shock and snapped the clearest photo of the Windermere "monster" since the sightings began. A journalism professor and his wife inaugurated the recent spate of Nessie-esque encounters on the lake back in 2006 reporting they had seen a "giant eel" somewhere between 15-20 feet long.

Ever since then, researchers have set out upon the lake with sonar equipment, in pursuit of "Bow-Nessie," as the creature's British compatriots like to call it. But so far, their efforts haven't borne fruit.

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What do you think it is ? Just a very big catfish ?

 

[CarpeNemo]

As far as I know large catfish don't look like that, and the especially larger ones tend to stay near the bottom waters.

And it's moving with speed, whatever it is. Look at the water behind it! It also doesn't have a log shape so it likely isn't a log trapped in fishing line or being towed.

While I won't say it's for sure another Loch Ness monster, it sure doesn't look like any of the usual suspects.