All Tom Pickles and Sarah Harrington wanted to do was to spend a day kayaking on the foggy waters of Lake Windermere in England – only for them to come face-to-face with England’s version of the Loch Ness monster! And thanks to Tom’s cat-like reflexes in whipping out his phone, point and shoot, they have now captured what experts are calling the “the best evidence of the monster yet.”

Both Tom and Sarah were kayaking on the lake, the site of eight previous sighting, as part of a team building exercise with his IT company when he saw an animal the size of three cars speed past him on the lake and no, we are pretty sure it wasn’t Spongebob.

He said: “It was petrifying and we paddled back to the shore straight away. At first I thought it was a dog and then saw it was much bigger and moving really quickly at about 10mph. Each hump was moving in a rippling motion and it was swimming fast.

“Its skin was like a seal’s but it’s shape was completely abnormal – it’s not like any animal I’ve ever seen before.”

To add to the dramatic effect, Tom’s picture perfectly matches the description by journalism lecturer Steve Burnip of an earlier sighting from the shores of Wray Castle back in 2006.