By Tim Binnall
A British man vacationing at Loch Ness earlier this week has been credited with the year's second official sighting of the site's legendary 'monster' after he spotted an inexplicable anomaly on the sonar of a cruise liner. According to a local media report, Tom Ingram was on holiday at the iconic Scottish location this past Monday afternoon when he decided to embark on one of the many popular boat tours which offer participants the chance to possibly catch a glimpse of Nessie. While most such 'monster hunting' excursions fail to find the famed cryptid, it would seem that this particular trip wound up being something of an exception.
"At around the half way point," Ingram recalled, "we were alerted to a strange shape forming on the sonar." While the savvy traveler initially suspected that the guide was putting on a bit of the show for the tourists in town, "it quickly became apparent that what we were looking at was in real time and big." The oddity in question is believed to have been located at a depth of around 400 feet and appeared to be approximately 30 feet long. Intriguingly, it was also spotted at the same area of Loch Ness where a similar sonar sighting is believed to have occurred back in the autumn of 2020.
Fortunately, Ingram managed to snap a picture (seen below) of the sonar monitor and submitted it to the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register. While the weird blob may be hard to decipher in the image, his report and the accompanying photo were apparently remarkable enough to merit acceptance as the second official sighting of 2022. The case comes on the heels of this year's first official report, which took place just a few days earlier when a filmmaker visiting Loch Ness caught sight of a curious creature that emerged from the water. No doubt the back-to-back sightings within a week are welcome news to Nessie fans following months in which no one had seen any sign of the famed creature and worries about its fate were beginning to percolate.