French tourists Etienne and Eliane Camel were visiting Loch Ness when they spotted a huge, dark shape making waves in the water.
They claim to have seen a 65-feet long dark shape lingering beneath the surface for several minutes before disappearing into the depths of the famed Scottish lake.
The pharmacist, from the French town of Lyon, was capturing holiday moments with wife, Eliane, on the West banks of the loch near to Invermoriston when the sighting was made.
He told The Telegraph: “It was quite strange. I am a man of science so I never believed that the Loch Ness monster is a prehistoric animal. But when I was taking a picture I saw this long, long shadow. I called my wife over and we saw the shadow move."
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Etienne continued: “I thought maybe it was a cloud, but there was none, or a boat, but none was near or reefs. There were small waves, like something was moving. It was 15-20m long and was about 150m away. It was quite strange and then it disappeared."
While he 'could not tell' whether it was a creature, he claims 'something was moving under the water'.
"I have never seen such [things] in lakes - and we have many where we live - before," Etienne admitted.
Another man who has spent about half his life searching for the Loch Ness monster recently admitted to the BBC he thought he'd have had an easier time finding Nessie.
Dorset resident, Steve Feltham, quit his job and moved up to Scotland in 1991 to live on the shores of Loch Ness and search for the mythical monster after first visiting the mysterious loch as a seven year old.
He admitted he thought it would be easier to track the monster down, having had his first sighting within year one of being there but not getting a proper sighting since.
"I had one glimpse of something like a torpedo going through the water," Steve recalled.
"I did think this job was going to easier as I had a sighting in the first year and I thought it wouldn't be long until a second sighting would come along.
"And that is where I'm stopped, at that moment, still waiting for that second glimpse of something unexplained. Because I am here full-time I speak to hundreds of people who do report something that we can't identify."
The first stories of Nessie emerged in 1933, after Francesca McGarvey from Castlehead, Paisley, saw a dark shape emerge from the water.
Press reports at the time said the supposed creature resembled a plesiosaur, a species of marine reptile extinct for more than 65 million years.
Amelia Jones