A teenager claimed he photographed Nessie in a Canadian river thousands of miles away from Scotland. Pic credit: John Thomas Didymus
An American teenager snapped a photo supposedly showing a creature resembling Nesie swimming in a river while vacationing in Canada in 2017 (scroll down to view the photograph).
Seventeen-year-old Matthew D’Amico from Florida visited Alberta’s Banff National Park with his family in May 2017. The family from Florida visited Canada to celebrate the 16th birthday of Matthew’s sister.
Matthew and his sister went hiking without their parents. They were passing the Bow River and admiring the beautiful natural scenery when they noticed something strange inside the water.
The youngsters thought it looked like a long-necked “prehistoric animal.” It appeared to be moving in the river with its head and neck above the water level.
Matthew knew about the Loch Ness Monster native to the deep lakes of the Scottish Highlands. He’d also seen the iconic 1934 photograph taken at Loch Ness, purportedly showing the monster sticking its neck out of the water.
So when he saw what looked like Nessie swimming in a river thousands of miles away from its alleged Loch Ness home in the Scottish Highlands, he instinctively whipped out his camera to capture evidence of a rare sighting.
Teenager claimed Nessie photo was the “most accurate” ever
The Daily Record reported that when Matthew and his sister reviewed the pictures, they realized it looked remarkably similar to the iconic 1934 photo known as the “surgeon’s photograph.”
[Note: The British tabloid, the Daily Mail, published the “surgeon’s photograph” after receiving it from a person identified as Colonel Wilson. Skeptics later dismissed it as a fake created by a hoaxer named Christian Spurling.]
The photo showed the alleged creature’s long neck sticking out of the photo in a posture similar to the celebrated “surgeon’s photograph.”
Matthew was astonished to see how his photo accurately reproduced the 1934 original. He felt a thrill when he first noticed the shape in the water. He and his sister agreed their photo was the best and “most accurate” picture of the elusive lake monster since 1934.
What was the Loch Ness Monster doing miles away from home?
Skeptics insisted the photo did not show a lake monster in the water. They suggested it was likely a branch washed into the river and sticking out above the current.
But while many Nessie enthusiasts agreed the photo was convincing, they couldn’t help wondering how the famous Scottish lake monster found its way to Canada.
Some proposed tongue-in-cheek that Nessie was also vacationing in Canada. They joked that the monster’s trip to North America might explain why there were lately no sightings in its native Loch Ness.
Nessie or Cadborosaurus?
But others suggested that the creature was not Nessie but a Nessie-like aquatic monster native to Canada.
Reports of lake, sea, and river-dwelling Nessie-like creatures have come from around the globe. Paranormal Papers reported that Canada has a version of the Loch Ness Monster native to Cadboro Bay, B.C.
Sightings of Cadborosaurus, or Caddy, date back to the early 1900s. In 2009, Alaskan fisherman Kelly Nash and sons reported filming the creature in Nushagak Bay, southwest of Alaska.