Documentary Filmmaker Reports First "Official" Loch Ness Monster Sighting of 2022

A sketch made by Huntley of the object he reportedly saw in Loch Ness. *(Jamie Huntley / The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register)*

Documentary filmmakers Warren Speed and Jamie Huntley were near the Boleskine Cemetery on the shore of Loch Ness in Scotland on March 30th when the duo spotted something unusual in the water at approximately 11:18 a.m.

"Unbelievable as this sounds, me and my cameraman Jamie [Huntley] saw something very large and unexplainable in the loch yesterday morning!" Speed told The Inverness Courier in an interview on March 31st. "We were just pulling up to Boleskine burial grounds and I saw something like a very large upturned boat out of the corner of my eye, then Jamie shouted stop."

Huntley got a better look at the object than Speed, and reported the sighting in detail to The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register (edited below for readability).

Driving down road past Boleskine cemetery, myself as passenger in vehicle, I looked towards [the] cemetery and then [a] large object/creature in the loch caught my eye. At first, I thought [the object] was a big boulder or something, as [it was my] first time to the area [and] I don't know the layout. I said to my friend driving, "What's that? It's huge!"
I could see movement and the water breaking against it, so [I] told [my] friend to stop the car. Where the car stopped, trees obscured the view, so he reversed and the object/creature was fully gone.
I had [my] phone out and took pictures of the ripple in water expanding from [the] point the object/creature disappeared down. The object/creature was reflecting the water so [it] looked wet, almost like a whale skin crossed with a fish skin. It was dark in colour, darker than the water surrounding it; there were dark greys, black, browns in colour. It almost looked like how a whale hump might look breaking the surface minus the fin.
There was a definite movement, but [I] didn't see too much of the movement before [the] trees obscured it. It was a very big size, at least 15 [feet] long, maybe bigger, around the middle of the loch.
There was a small speedboat that came up the loch after my sighting, but [it] wasn't anywhere near the spot I seen the object/creature. But [I] wouldn't be surprised if they had seen it too in the distance, as they started circling around the area. Using their speedboat as a reference, it was much larger than the boat, as an estimate I'd say the object was around [seven feet high] out of the water.

Unfortunately for Speed, he missed most of the object’s appearance as it submerged in the loch before he could focus his attention on it.

"By the time I stopped the car, a few meters later, trees were covering our view. I quickly reversed, Jamie jumped out, but all he got on his phone camera were very large circular ripples," Speed said. "If we had arrived literally 10 seconds earlier we would have caught this on camera, we're both absolutely gutted! But in another way, amazed!"

The ripples caught on camera by Huntley. *(Jamie Huntley / The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register)*

Speed and Huntley were at the loch to film a documentary about unexplained activity in the area.

"I’ve always liked weird and bizarre things, plus I'm a filmmaker and all the different tales around Loch Ness seemed too good of an opportunity to miss," said Speed of his interest in anomalous phenomena surrounding the loch. "We have come up to see what we can find. We are of a neutral mind but there are so many stories that there can't be smoke without fire. We are not here just for Nessie—we are here for everything. It's hard to make conclusions on possible sightings but we will present everything we find in a documentary for people to make up their own minds."

Despite his recent glimpse of something unexplained in the loch, Speed remains skeptical of Nessie's existence.

"Personally I would have to see her with my own eyes to believe it," he said. "None of the pictures seem that believable, and I've done loads of research, but it's more the stories behind it—the stories are a bit weird and spooky.”

This report is the first “official” sighting of the Loch Ness Monster to be recorded so far in 2022, following a false alarm on March 23rd by Nessie enthusiast Eoin O’Faodhagain who recorded a suspicious wake on the loch that was later found to have been caused by two paddleboarders.

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