Tourists at Scotland’s Loch Ness have reported a wave of Nessie sightings, with the tally for 2026 already reaching 13 reports. The thread buzzed with debate over whether the sightings are genuine, accounts of how other cryptids like Bigfoot and Tsuchinoko (a legendary snake-like creature from Japanese folklore) were later exposed as hoaxes, and a rundown of “-ssie”-named lake monsters found around the world.
Tourists at Scotland’s Loch Ness have reported a series of sightings of the mysterious creature known as Nessie. New accounts include a report of a “head and tail” seen in the water and testimony describing a “mysterious shadow.”
[Photo] Is activity surging this year? Sightings keep piling up at Loch Ness
As of July, the 2026 sighting count had already reached 7, but further reports added to the “Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register” have pushed this year’s total to 13 so far. The latest entry, logged on July 27, comes from John Wallace and Jamie Wallace, visitors from Renfrewshire, Scotland, who reported a possible encounter with Nessie.
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Pretty sure some people already came forward and admitted it was their own prank
Guess UFO performance specs have improved too
One showed up on the top of my head recently (joking about a bald spot)
Apparently some kinds of clams live that long too
it's funny how nobody ever tries to actually settle it with real science
Both the crop circles and that famous Nessie photo —
the people behind them already confessed
So Tsuchinoko and Bigfoot are both fake too?
What a letdown
Apparently the Bigfoot footage was staged by someone wearing a costume.
As for Tsuchinoko, people point out it's suspicious that its appearance keeps changing depending on the era.
The latest theory is that people were probably just mistaking a cat lying flat on the ground for it.
Tsuchinoko is probably just a snake mistaken for something else while it's got prey in its belly (making it look bulged)
Bigfoot, lol, just a prank
Well, it's become a tourism cash cow at this point, so they can't exactly stop now lol
What's "mootilation"?
The world's "-ssies"
Asshie (Japan, Lake Ashi)
Issie (Japan, Lake Ikeda)
Ojasshie (Japan, Ojaga Pond)
Kusshie (Japan, Lake Kussharo)
Chusshie (Japan, Lake Chuzenji)
Tessie (USA, Lake Tahoe)
Tosshie (Japan, Lake Toya)
New Nessie (off the coast of New Zealand)
Nessie (Scotland, Loch Ness)
Hasshie (Japan, Hashima City)
Bessie (USA, Lake Erie)
Hossie (USA, Lake Hodges) *also known as Hodgee
Mini-Nessie (England)
Messie (USA, Lake Murray)
Mossie (Japan, Lake Motosu)
Yeah, when you actually go to Inverness there's a ton of Nessie merch for sale lol
And the buses to Loch Ness are always packed — it really is a vital tourism resource.
https://imgur.com/Q2U7YEW.jpeg
Yep, case closed
The one that actually started it was Hugh Gray's photo (1933)
That's a different thing from the "Surgeon's Photograph" model shot
Well if we're going there, you could just as easily ask how Japan's current finances are supposed to cover that kind of budget — tax cuts and the numbers clearly don't add up either
I do think the target of "occult" belief has been shifting from cryptids and UFOs to politics lately
And finding out a plesiosaur basically had a sea-turtle-sized body with a long neck stuck on totally killed the fantasy for me
Never heard of that one
If we're talking Japan it's gotta be Kusshie from Lake Kussharo
Or was it Lake Kutcharo? Can't remember
With underwater drones these days you could fake as many sightings as you want
It's pretty much done for as a mystery
Right, right
There was even a report of it crossing a road, wasn't there
Here's the sketch from that one
Doesn't look anything like a plesiosaur
A sketch of Nessie from that report
There was real romance to it back in the day
Background and Key Points
The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register is run by the Loch Ness Centre in Drumnadrochit and has logged reported encounters since 1996, building on a legend that dates to 1933, when newspaper reports of a “monster” first drew crowds to the loch. The most famous image, the 1934 “Surgeon’s Photograph,” was revealed in 1994 to be a toy submarine staged by associates of a man with a grudge against the Daily Mail. Nessie tourism is now worth tens of millions of pounds a year to the Scottish Highlands, which is the “cash cow” posters keep referencing. For Japanese readers, the thread’s comparison points are folkloric: Tsuchinoko is a legendary short, thick snake-like creature reported across rural Japan for centuries, and the various “-ssie” lake monsters (Issie, Kusshie, Mossie, and so on) are homegrown Nessie parodies attached to Japanese lakes, reflecting how thoroughly the Loch Ness template was absorbed into Japanese pop culture.
The thread didn’t really split over whether Nessie is real — nobody defended that — but over how cynical to be about the sightings being a deliberately sustained tourism ritual versus a genuine, if credulous, folk tradition people still enjoy participating in.
One correction worth noting: the poster who says “the guy admitted it before he died” is conflating the Surgeon’s Photograph confession with the actual first Nessie sighting, Hugh Gray’s photo from 1933, which was never debunked in the same way. The thread also never mentions that plesiosaurs, Nessie’s supposed template, are marine reptiles unrelated to dinosaurs at all — birds are dinosaurs’ true living descendants, a point one poster raises but the group never fully unpacks.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Breaking News+) thread “[Cryptid] Mysterious Sightings Keep Piling Up at Loch Ness — 2026 Reports Already at 13, What’s Behind the Surge?.”
