Enduring mystery … Image of the Loch Ness monster, photographed in Scotland in 1934. Source: News LimiteÂd.[SatNews] "The first thing that came into my head when I saw it was, "That's the Loch Ness monster."
A satellite image of Scotland's famous Loch Ness has revealed … something in the water.
The Apple Maps image appears to show a disturbance in the water, which pundits said could be 30 meters in length, complete with two flippers.
The person who made the discovery, Andrew Dixon, told the Daily Mail he did so by a total fluke. "I was looking at satellite images of my town and then just thought I'd have a look at Loch Ness,"Â he said.
"The first thing that came into my head when I saw it was, "That's the Loch Ness monster. It was the shape of it, I thought it had to be something more than a shadow."
But others have discredited the claim. A posting on the site Daily Dot argued that the image in the water is a boat that has been blurred out by Apple maps, leaving just the wake.
The Daily Dot report shows a GIF of a boat on the water leaving flipper-like trails.
Something in the water … the 2009 aerial image from Google Earth showing what appears to be a large animal in Loch Ness. Source: News Limited
It's not the first time that satellite images have yielded apparent sightings of a large, dinosaur-type creature in the waters of Loch Ness.
In 2009 a Google Earth image appeared to show a large animal in the water lurking just off the shore.
There had been a dearth of sightings of "Nessie"Â before the recent Apple maps "discovery"Â, with some even suggesting that environmental factors triggered by climate change may have killed the elusive creature off, once and for all.
