A fireman has been left baffled after he recorded a "classic" sighting of the Loch Ness Monster. Forestry worker Ross MacAulay has lived all his life around Loch Ness.
Having never seen Nessie he counted himself as a non-believer in the mythical animal. Ross has now had to reconsider his scepticism after photographing what appears to be a 12ft creature on his phone.
In doing so, the 35-year-old captured the first "accepted" sighting of Nessie on a mobile phone this year. The other five have been by the loch's webcam.
Ross is a firefighter at Drumnadrochit, lying on the shore of Loch Ness. He is also a tree feller and fencer for Forestry and Land Scotland, working around the loch.
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