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Nessie fans fear their favourite monster may be dead, it emerged yesterday. There was only one decent sighting in Loch Ness last year and a recent documentary explored the possibility that the monster might be sleeping with the fishes. Now Nessie watchers have warned that there are "reasons to be fearful".
Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club president Gary Campbell said sightings were becoming increasingly rare. The only one in 2009 he considers credible was near the Clansman Hotel in June. Gary added: "We were so relieved to have heard about this sighting.
"When it was reported, nobody had seen anything for a year. If it hadn't been for that one, we would have been really, really worried. "Ten years ago, we had a lot of good sightings but in the last two or three years, they have tailed off." There were, however, a number of "more dubious" sightings during 2009.
These included a sonar contact witnessed by 'Allo, 'Allo star Vicki Michelle while she was on a pleasure cruise on the loch in May, during a week-long run of the stage version of the BBC1 sitcom at Eden Court in Inverness.
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