{"id":476699,"date":"2025-10-05T21:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476699\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T21:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:19:18","slug":"a-monster-hunter-from-the-us-flew-3000-miles-with-her-equipment-to-look-for-the-loch-ness-monster-and-claims-to-have-picked-up-a-mysterious-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476699\/","title":{"rendered":"A monster hunter from the US flew 3,000 miles with her equipment to look for the Loch Ness Monster &#8211; and claims to have picked up a mysterious sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By JOHN PAUL BRESLIN FOR THE SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  16:55 EDT, 5 October 2025   |  Updated:  16:55 EDT, 5 October 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A woman who has dedicated almost 15 years of her life hunting for what she believes are undiscovered creatures in a vast US lake has turned her attention to Loch Ness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Katy Elizabeth, 40, travelled more than 3,000 miles with an expensive array of gear, including wildlife cameras, underwater microphones and a deep-diving robot to hunt for Scotland\u2019s mythical beast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The cryptozoologist, from <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/florida\/index.html\" id=\"mol-2f4052d0-a20b-11f0-b0ef-8b593f9dfebc\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a>, said she had dreamed of making the trip since she was seven-years-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As part of her upcoming documentary, Expedition Scotland: The Search at Loch Ness and Loch Morar, Ms Elizabeth spoke to witnesses and recorded 20 hours of underwater sounds in her hunt for evidence of the Loch Ness Monster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She believes there is already one \u2018strange sound\u2019 that warrants further analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She said: \u2018I\u2019m not sure exactly what it was yet, because I have to go over every type of fish and underwater creature in Loch Ness and the sound they make.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It doesn\u2019t sound like a boat motor or anything like that, I\u2019m very familiar with those sounds..\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ms Elizabeth, of Warwick, Rhode Island, has spent several months every year since 2012 scouring Lake Champlain, in Orlando, Florida, investigating reports of a strange creature said to lurk there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Katy Elizabeth, 40, travelled more than 3,000 miles with an expensive array of gear, including wildlife cameras, underwater microphones and a deep-diving robot to hunt for Scotland\u2019s mythical beast\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5e4c471f323a0069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/102723565-15164353-image-a-14_1759682335850.jpg\" height=\"863\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Katy Elizabeth travelled more than 3,000 miles to hunt for Scotland\u2019s mythical beast\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Katy Elizabeth travelled more than 3,000 miles to hunt for Scotland\u2019s mythical beast<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-81146e4da38cc4c9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/102723659-15164353-image-a-17_1759682451311.jpg\" height=\"342\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The 40-year-old during her hunt for the Loch Ness Monster\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The 40-year-old during her hunt for the Loch Ness Monster<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-49e05c58015e1427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/102723703-15164353-image-a-19_1759682884922.jpg\" height=\"628\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The cryptozoologist, from Florida, believes one \u2018strange sound\u2019 warrants further analysis\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The cryptozoologist, from Florida, believes one \u2018strange sound\u2019 warrants further analysis<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Dubbed Champ, there have been more than 600 sightings of the long, underwater animal in the 124-mile-long lake since the 17th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">During her search there, Ms Elizabeth recorded \u2018complex\u2019 underwater clicks that she says prove the existence of undiscovered creatures she believes could be reptile, amphibian or a hybrid of both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She theorises that the noises are echolocation used by large animals to hunt, navigate and communicate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She even believes there could be a link between them and the creature many believe inhabits Loch Ness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She believes that these findings indicate these animals are most likely \u2018a related species, if not the same species\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She also finds it intriguing that there are reports from all over the world of water-based creatures that have similar \u2018morphological descriptions\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She added: \u2018The Native Americans here call these animals the horned serpents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Then you talk about the Celts, with the water horse and the kelpies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018At that time, these people didn\u2019t interact with each other that we\u2019re aware of. So, to me, it\u2019s more than just a myth.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ms Elizabeth has a documentary coming out on Amazon Prime in December about her trip called<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In a potential teaser for what she plans to discuss in the documentary, Ms Elizabeth said: \u2018My theory has to do with the ocean.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;There\u2019s a connection there somehow. That\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        A monster hunter from the US flew 3,000 miles with her equipment to look for the Loch Ness Monster &#8211; and claims to have picked up a mysterious sound<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JOHN PAUL BRESLIN FOR THE SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL Published: 16:55 EDT, 5 October 2025 | Updated: 16:55&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[92,577,12,47724,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-476699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-rhode-island","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115323651170126061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}