Something unusual happened at Loch Ness in 2026. The Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register recorded 15 in-person reports during the year, compared with six during all of 2025 and only three in 2024. But the number alone is not what makes the year interesting, because witnesses described long bodies, heads, humps, violent disturbances and shapes moving through calm water, often in broad daylight.
At about 1:40 in the morning on August 27, 1979, Marshall County Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson was driving alone through the farmland of northwestern Minnesota when he noticed a brilliant light near the road. It seemed unusually low and bright, and Johnson wondered whether an aircraft might be in trouble. He turned his…
On the night of April 7, 2017, a woman walking her dog through Chicago’s Oz Park noticed a large black shape near the path ahead. At first, it was simply something standing in the darkness where nothing that size should have been. As she got a better look, she became convinced the figure was looking back at her. She…
On the evening of March 26, 2018, people across Derbyshire looked up and saw something that seemed completely wrong. A huge, dark aircraft was moving dangerously low over the countryside, close enough to rooftops and treelines that several witnesses thought they were watching the final seconds before a crash. Yet the…
On July 4, 2013, several fishermen were out on Table Rock Lake near Kimberling City, Missouri, when someone in the boat noticed movement along the shoreline. Through the trees stood a dark upright figure that was difficult to identify from the water. Instead of disappearing immediately, it kept moving long enough for…
On the night of November 7, 2016, a 41-year-old graphic designer was driving along Maple Grove Road on the outskirts of Duluth, Minnesota, when a huge dark animal suddenly crossed in front of her. Another vehicle was approaching from the opposite direction, and its headlights briefly shone through the creature’s legs…