Water Monster · Fort Augustus, Alba / Scotland · 2018
UNI-2018ID case-a831e3b1e7First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Dec 13, 2018to the day
- Where
- Fort Augustus, Alba / Scotlandto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
[name] reports seeing a grey creature with a long neck and rugby ball-sized head at the River Oich inlet before it disappeared.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Fort Augustus, Highland, Alba / Scotland, PH32 4AU, United Kingdom
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 13, 2018
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-a831e3b1e7
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- 2018-12-13 - Fort Augustus, Loch Ness
Loch Ness Register
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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
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