Could this be the clearest image of the Loch Ness monster ever seen?

[An amateur photographer claims to have taken a photo of the Loch Ness monster in the Scottish Highlands. Photo: Ian Bremner]

A photo taken by a whisky warehouse worker appears to be the clearest proof that the elusive Loch Ness monster might actually exist.

Ian Bremner was driving through the Highlands in search of deer to photograph when he came across a creature that resembles the infamous Nessie, surfacing from the calm waters of Loch Ness.

He didn’t notice the image of the three lumps peaking out from underwater until he got back to his home in Nigg, Invergordon.

The image shows a serpent-like silver-brown creature swimming away from the camera. The front, middle and back parts of the two-metre “monster” emerge from the water as curved humps.

“I’m normally a bit of a skeptic when it comes to Nessie and I think it’s just something for the tourists, but I’m starting to think there is something out there,” the 58-year-old told the Scotsman.

“When I saw it on my screen I said ‘What the hell is that?’ If you’re fishing there it’s the sort of place where you can get a tingle up your spine and second guess what you’re seeing.”

Nessie sightings date back to 1933. The sea monster is said to resemble a limbless, snake-like creature that measures up to three metres in length.

Some of Bremner’s friends have suggested that the image is actually of three seals playing.

“I suppose it could be seals — but I’m not so sure,” he says. “The more I think about it, the more I think it could be Nessie.”

Over the years, there have been 1081 recorded sightings of the mysterious sea monster.