Loch Ness Monster 'spotted' in drone footage from wild camper

It's one of Scotland's greatest mysteries that has done wonders for tourism in the Highlands, but the Loch Ness Monster remains as elusive as ever.

The mythical creature has been carrying the the country's folklore on it's back singlehandedly for the last nine decades, but we're still waiting for it to formally introduce itself.

Plenty of believers are still heading down to Scotland's famous Loch Ness in the hopes of catching a glimpse at the beast, however, we haven't got any firm proof of it yet.

Thankfully though, the latest generation of Nessie hunters are pretty tech savvy and can use all kinds of mod cons on their missions to try and track the legendary creature down.

Or, you might just be a wild camper who seemed to be in the right place at the right time.

Take a look at this:

Outdoorsman and professional pilot Richard Mavor was left stunned when he spotted something which appeared to resemble the large long-necked beast.

The 55-year-old shared an extraordinary clip on YouTube showing what he had captured lurking near the banks by sending his drone high up above the water.

Richard had been out shooting content for a video he was creating, while aiming to conquer the 62-mile Great Glen Canoe Trail in August 2021 to raise money for the charity Alzheimer's Society.

But when he and his pals rewatched the footage, they noticed there was a mysterious figure which seemed to be swimming in the water alongside them.

Speaking to the Daily Record about his drone 'discovery', the outdoors lover said: "I couldn't believe it.

Richard Mavor thought he'd got Nessie on film (YouTube/Richard Outdoors)

"I had to rewind the footage several times and have watched it several times since. I don't know what it is but it certainly has the same shape as previous sightings of Nessie," he said. "The more I watch it I think, 'Crikey!'

"There really wasn't anything in the area that could be. There was no driftwood or anything like that so who knows.

"I didn't notice what I had picked up until others told me to watch out for it.

"It could be a trick of the light but we can't be sure."

Although the alleged sighting sparked a buzz among Nessie hunters, experts weren't as easily pleased and suggested that it was likely a hoax.

Steve Feltham, who has 'sat watching and waiting on the shores of Loch Ness full time since 1991 for one decent sighting', told LADbible said he was certain it wasn't the real deal.

But experts reckoned the clip taken by the wild camper was a hoax (YouTube/Richard Outdoors)

He leaned more towards the idea which YouTube channel ParaBreakdown had put forward, as the content creator claimed that 'Nessie' was actually a toy plesiosaurus.

Steve told us in 2021: "Hoax. No question about it. I would expect a confession along the lines of, 'Fair cop, it was just for a laugh, it was for charity, etc.', any time soon.

"I have spent many hours as a passenger in a microlite flying low over the loch, trying to spot a silhouette in the dark waters, and things just do not show up that clearly."

The mystery of the Loch Ness Monster has been puzzled over for almost 100 years, with the creature often described as large, long-necked and with one or more humps protruding from the water.

And according to Mr Feltham, who got 'hooked' on the search for Nessie when he was just a boy, the mystery continues despite the excitement surrounding the most recent video.

He went on: "lt seems that Mavor had duplicated a bit of the film. There was a perfect match. Mavors had actually duplicated a few frames of the shot to use elsewhere in his travelog video giving us a perfect 'before and after' shot."