Photographs taken on the banks of Loch Ness in Scotland in 2018 have been put together to form a video of what appears to be the Loch Ness monster.
The footage was put together by New Zealand actor, writer, podcaster and stand-up comedian Rhys Darby and his joint hosts of a comedy podcast named Cryptic Factor, Leon Kirkbeck and Dan Schreiber.
They say the rediscovered photos have been “transformed into the most compelling video of a mysterious beast since the globally famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage”.
The Patterson–Gimlin film was an American short motion picture of an unidentified subject said to have been a “Bigfoot”, with footage shot in 1967 in Northern California.
The Loch Ness images were originally taken by Chie Kelly in 2018, as she and her husband Scott were walking its banks.
When they saw something surfacing in the water, she captured over 70 rapid-fire photos using the camera’s “sports mode’”.
In late 2023, the images were shown to professional “Nessie” hunter Steve Feltham (60), who has spent 32 years living at Loch Ness in search of proof of the monster.
Feltham contacted his friend Dan Schreiber of the comedy podcast The Cryptid Factor, who exclusively obtained the images.
Podcast co-host and film industry professional Leon 'Buttons’ Kirkbeck used time stamped metadata to place the 71 images chronologically, and the result is a video which the team says “clearly shows a large, unidentified creature moving in the loch, and at times breaking the surface to reveal part of its body”
.This video has been released alongside a special episode of The Cryptid Factor podcast, which is now available on Acast.
The Cryptid Factor podcast is “dedicated to all things weird that are yet to be defined by science”.
The episode ‘#088 The Illusive Exclusive Issue’ is here
