Monsters of the deep cover

AFTER NEW NESSIE SIGHTING WE REVEAL OTHER SCOTTISH BEASTIES

- JAMES MOORE

OCH aye, there's plenty of not-so “timorous beasties” out there.

This week we revealed that the Loch Ness monster is back, with the latest recorded sighting being hailed the best in 30 years.

A two-minute video of a mysterious object lurking in the water has emerged, filmed by a local resident. It has reignited the legend of an ancient long-necked animal long said to inhabit the murky depths of the Scottish Highlands. Yet the fabled Nessie is not the only mythical creature living in the nation's lochs, if the folklore tales are to be believed.

Here JAMES MOORE takes a plunge into the most fascinating stories...

LYING just south of Loch Ness is Loch Oich. The body of water is said to be home to a creature dubbed Wee Oichy.

Tales of a magical flying “deformed pony” are associated with the loch as far back as the 19th century.

But in 1936 two tourists boating on the loch described seeing a 12ft serpent with coils and a “shaggy, doglike head” swimming just 30ft from them.

Around the same time local bridge keeper Simon Cameron said he saw a humped form with a dog's head in the water there.