Steve Feltham

I’ve spent my life hunting the Loch Ness Monster

I had no choice but to try

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Monks from Fort Augustus Abbey fishing on Loch Ness in 1935. According to the biography of St Columba from 565 AD, the saint stopped the monster from eating a pict (Getty Images)

The Guinness Book of Records states that I have carried out ‘the longest continuous vigil hunting for the Loch Ness Monster’. Others call me the world champion at looking for something that’s not there. Personally, I view it as an act of patience. However you describe it, my world record currently stands at 32 years, two months and a couple of days. I spend my days watching and waiting, full time, summer and winter, for one good glimpse of the Loch Ness Monster. 

There is an energy that pours off the Loch. I feel it enter my chest and almost lift me

My mission these past three decades has been to film one of these animals and also to bring any evidence that I find to the general public’s attention. It’s a slow job. Over the years I have only had one possible surface sighting of something that I consider to be unexplained, which I freely admit is not a particularly successful tally.

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