Nessie hunters board a boat on Loch Ness for what is being described as the biggest search for the Loch Ness Monster since the early 1970s on Aug. 27, 2023, in Drumnadrochit, Scotland.

The first Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2025 was reported in January when a man visiting Dores Beach in Scotland noticed a large mass underneath the water’s surface—and he provided photo evidence.

The legendary Loch Ness monster was reputedly spotted by a second person the same week a shutterbug snapped what have been hailed as the “most exciting ever’’ photos of it.

Loch Ness monster legends date as far back as 565 A.D., according to DW. The Irish monk Saint Columba detailed an attack on a swimmer by a mysterious creature.

The first Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2025 was reported in January when a man visiting Dores Beach in Scotland noticed a large mass underneath the water’s surface—and he provided photo evidence.

Brian Brant March 6, 2025 he Loch Ness Centre/SWNS The first Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2025. A man may have gotten the first glimpse and photo of the Loch Ness Monster this year.

This photo, purported to be of the Loch Ness Monster, was taken near Inverness, Scotland in 1934. One of the participants revealed on his deathbed that the pictures were staged.

Some 90 years ago this month, the publication of a photo purporting to show a creature traversing the waters in Loch Ness, Scotland, started what may be the very first viral trend. On Nov. 12, 1933, a ...

As the story goes, he confronted the monster, which had been terrorizing locals, and banished it into the loch. The global phenomenon of the Loch Ness monster really began 90 years ago, in 1933.

Nessie hunters board a boat on Loch Ness for what is being described as the biggest search for the Loch Ness Monster since the early 1970s on Aug. 27, 2023, in Drumnadrochit, Scotland.© Jeff J ...

Aimee Todd, the Loch Ness Centre's marketing manager, told USA Today that when the image was taken on Jan. 29, the water was calm and conditions were perfect — which is unusual for the winter ...