Photograph allegedly taken by cell phone camera last week at Lake Windemere

A pair of kayakers allegedly recently photographed a Loch Ness style of monster swimming in Lake Windemere near Bowness, Cumbria.

Westmoreland Gazette (Thursday 2/17):

This is believed to be the eighth sighting in the past five years of the mysterious hump-backed creature.

Tom Pickles, 24… and fellow kayaker Sarah Harrington, 23… who work for an IT firm in Shrewsbury, were staying at Fallbarrow Hall, Bowness, as part of a team-building residential training course.

They had paddled 300m out onto the lake near Belle Isle when they spotted a mysterious creature the size of three cars gliding across the lake.

“It was petrifying, we paddled back to the shore straight away,” said Mr Pickles.

“At first I thought it was a dog and then saw it was much bigger and moving really quickly at about 10mph.

“Each hump was moving in a rippling motion and it was swimming fast.

“I could tell it was much bigger underneath from the huge shadow around it. “Its skin was like a seal’s but its shape was completely abnormal, not like any animal I’ve ever seen before.”

They watched it for about 20 seconds before it plunged out of sight.

Ms Harrington said: “It was like an enormous snake.

“It freaked us all out but it wasn’t until we saw the picture that we thought we’d seen something out of this world.

“All I could think was that I had to get off the lake.”

Mr Pickles’s picture perfectly matches the description of an earlier sighting from the shores of Wray Castle in 2006 by journalism lecturer Steve Burnip.

“I’m really pleased that someone has finally got a really good picture of it. I know what I saw and it shocked me,” said Mr Burnip, of Hebden Bridge.

“It had three humps and it’s uncanny the likeness between this and what I saw five years ago.”

The Sun article

Cryptomundo

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Lake Windemere has no connection of any kind to Loch Ness.

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