Anna Kendrick Thinks She Locked Eyes With the Loch Ness Monster

Hollywood star Anna Kendrick may have had a real-life cryptid moment in Scotland.

While visiting the set of “The Traitors” earlier this year, Kendrick says she experienced something straight out of a Scottish legend.

According to the actress, her trip included a stop at Loch Ness, the famous body of water linked to one of the world’s best-known mysteries. Kendrick described herself as a skeptic, lumping Nessie in with UFOs and Bigfoot. But that didn’t stop her from feeling like she was part of the myth for a second.

“The trip was incredible, we went all round Scotland. We went to Loch Ness. And I’m a card-carrying skeptic. It’s like UFOs and Bigfoot, what are we talking about?” Kendrick told reporters.

Then she dropped the moment that sent fans buzzing.

“There was a thing and it came out of the water and it looked right at me. It might have actually just been one suspicious ripple. But I’m telling you there was something. I felt it.”

Kendrick didn’t say whether she snapped a photo, but her playful confession is already making the rounds online. Social media users are joking that she should call Charlie Sheen, who once famously claimed he was hunting mythical creatures himself.

Whether it was Nessie or just a wave, Kendrick’s story fits neatly into the Loch Ness legend, which dates back to the 6th century but really took off in the 1930s after a famous (and later debunked) photo of the “monster” hit newspapers. Sightings have continued ever since, despite decades of scientific surveys finding no hard evidence.

Still, the myth endures, and Kendrick’s experience adds one more name to the long list of believers—or at least curious witnesses. Even skeptics like her can’t resist the magic of Loch Ness.