Others who have called on him over the years include Eric Idle, Robin Williams, the Chinese State Circus and Billy Connolly, who asked him to be a guide for some of his A-list friends for a day. In 2019, Steve was the star of a film about him by a director from Oscar-winner Ridley Scott’s company. Steve was recently featured in BBC series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing where he showed the sonar chart that he believes is sold proof that Nessie is in Loch Ness (Image: BBC) A part of my time is taking part in debunking fakes”. “A large part of what I do is trying to work out what they are seeing and nowadays with the internet, it has made it so much easier to knock up fake photographs. People would be sent along with the good, bad and b****** as I like to call it and offer a varying quality of photos or it may be something they saw an hour ago or years ago. Steve said: “If someone has a sighting, they would tell the staff at the hotel or local pub or shop and they would say ‘you should tell that person on the beach’. He often has people visit him at his base on Dores Beach, where he sells figurines to help pay for his upkeep. Steve’s reputation of being a ‘Nessie Hunter’ led people to tell him their sightings or tip him off with information. I stared at it and thought ‘blimey that’s it’.” “For five seconds, it shot against my vision. It was 11am and I saw something that was going against the lake’s current as it was a torpedo and it was a white streak pushing against the waves and current. Steve recalled: “There was one sighting in the first year I was here. Steve has had one sighting in the 1990s when he suddenly saw something shoot across the water. Yet he confessed “trying to find a dark object in dark water is not ideal”. He would even fly in a light aircraft with a friend over the waters to spot Nessie. In his campervan, Steve would investigate reported sightings and travel around the area to watch over the waters for a week. I sold up, quit my job and I wanted to solve the mystery.” “I thought I wanted to find the Loch Ness Monster. Steve with his former mobile library home at Dores in 1991 (Image: Daily Record) If I want an adventure or to get married and have kids. He said: “I had a voice in my head ‘Why aren’t you looking for the Loch Ness Monster?’ and I was at the tipping point of my life of settling down, having a wife, kids and the trappings of life. Steve’s life hit a turning point in 1991 when the then-28-year-old entered a partnership at a security company to fit burglar alarms in the Bournemouth area and he quickly grew tired of his mundane life. Growing up in Wimborne and Corfe Mullen areas, he returned to the Highlands which “fuelled my interest” in the creature and would also make solo trips to Scotland to watch over Loch Ness to “solve the mystery”. I researched the area, information, the history at the library and ultimately ended up arguing with my classmates about it. My English teacher said we had to give a 10-minute talk about a subject and I did it on Nessie. “I think he thought I would be interested for a day or two but it became my Bible. “What they were doing to fund their search was selling folders of photos, sightseeing, and information about the monster and my Dad bought me one of those. “These were grown men looking for monsters,” he recalled. READ MORE - Brain May's Dorset woods - where are they and can you walk in them? His father bought Steve a file from the group which was full of photos, data, and information about the Loch Ness Monster and he was left fascinated by the creature. But despite the rumours and hearsay, the 59-year-old has been staying in his campervan on Dores Beach with a set of binoculars to spot the mythical creature he believes is out there.īorn in Weymouth, Steve’s interest for the Loch Ness Monster began when he was aged seven during a family trip to the Highlands and he spoke to the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau, who were based alongside the lake. Nessie, who he states is “the size of a transit van”, is allegedly swimming in the Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. A love for the unknown creature saw Steve Feltham leave his job, girlfriend and home in Dorset to pursue the legendary beast that many claim is real. For more than 30 years, a man born and raised in Dorset has been on the lookout for one of Earth’s biggest mysteries - the Loch Ness Monster.
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