Overview
- Gary Campbell, who maintains the official Loch Ness sightings register, told the Daily Star he thinks there are several creatures in the lake, "probably a whole family."
- His database now records more than 1,165 reported encounters spanning accounts from 565 AD to recent years.
- Campbell traces his commitment to a personal sighting on 14 March 1996 of a "black thing" rising from the water with no visible head, eyes or teeth.
- He argues the animals dwell deep in Loch Ness and surface only briefly, which he says would explain the rarity of observations.
- Researcher Adrian Shine reiterates that each report can be explained scientifically, and no verified physical evidence has settled the question.