Other Aquatic · Loch Ness, Alba / Scotland · 1996
UNI-1996ID case-8b9b93801eAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- When
- Apr 9, 1996to the day
- Where
- Loch Ness, Alba / Scotlandto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents2 independent
The account
Witnesses report two humps rising from the water and leaving a trail north of Fort Augustus.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Aquatic
- Where
- Loch Ness, Dores, Highland, Alba / Scotland, IV63 7YD, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Apr 9, 1996
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-8b9b93801e
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- 1996-04-09 - Fort Augustus, Loch Ness
Loch Ness Register
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - 1996-04-09 - Fort Augustus, Loch Ness
Loch Ness Register
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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