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Ogopogo (Lake Monster; Okanagan Lake; British Columbia)

Sharon Hill said:
Can I ask a question? Your user name has "cryptid" in it. So how much do you know about the topic and where do you get your information?
I'm asking because Ogopogo is like one of the top 10 zoologically-discussed cryptids. It's very odd you never heard of it. But, maybe you are not... of my generation (who were around in the late 1970s.)
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Oh I was around in the late 70's....I am 62..Did not get interested in cryptozoology until a couple years ago and it's been mainly things like Bigfoot, Alien Big Cats, Lochness etc....I really have not dug any deeper than those...And besides what frigging difference does my user name make...I can call myself Dr Seuss and not know shit about Cat In The Hat...Of course some profess to be know it all's and could not get in out of a shower of shit.
 
Cryptid Matter said:
Oh I was around in the late 70's....I am 62..Did not get interested in cryptozoology until a couple years ago and it's been mainly things like Bigfoot, Alien Big Cats, Lochness etc....I really have not dug any deeper than those...And besides what frigging difference does my user name make...I can call myself Dr Seuss and not know shit about Cat In The Hat...Of course some profess to be know it all's and could not get in out of a shower of shit.
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Chill out. I was just curious. I've been around the newer cryptid groups a bit and it's mostly 20-somethings who get all their shallow opinions from YouTubers and never picked up a book on the topic. They go for skinwalkers, the rake, and mermaids as their favorite cryptids which is a shift from the original idea.
 
Sharon Hill said:
Chill out. I was just curious. I've been around the newer cryptid groups a bit and it's mostly 20-somethings who get all their shallow opinions from YouTubers and never picked up a book on the topic. They go for skinwalkers, the rake, and mermaids as their favorite cryptids which is a shift from the original idea.
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:lolling: Not a problem...Sorry did not mean to come off as an ass...
 
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Doesn't sound like the sort of demographic that would be that keen on Hogarth, tbh.
 
New Ogopogo footage surfaces from 2018.

Description from the original uploader to YouTube:

''Me and my dad where fishing off a doc in Kelowna BC and spotted something massive in the water. The thing looks like it is close in the video but it was a few hundred yards off shore and it was huge, I would say atleast 60 feet long you could visually see it rolling in the water. During this video there was a small group of people videoing off shore as well. Toward the end it goes into a small bay so me and my dad hopped in the truck and drove toward the area it was headed but when we got to the bay it was nowhere to be seen. ''


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A father and son fishing trip in British Columbia took a fantastic turn when they spotted a large aquatic anomaly that could be Canada's legendary lake monster Ogopogo. The intriguing encounter occurred back in the summer of 2018, but footage from the sighting only appeared online earlier this month when it was posted to YouTube by witness Blake Neudorf. In his description of the video, the young man marveled that he and his father "were fishing off a dock in Kelowna, BC and spotted something massive in the water."
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https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-fishermen-film-ogopogo
 
jessica_ said:
I always note that those who have seen Ogopogo describe its appearance as being distinctly different than any other sea/lake/river cryptid such as Champ, or Nessie who are usually described as having a Plesiosaur-ish appearance. Ogopogo is always described as being serpentine and much darker in color. Which means that not all of the cryptids living in lakes or rivers are the same kind of animal. My guess is that Ogopogo could be an unknown kind of eel. Would love to read what everyone thinks about this!
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I think outsized eels are potential candidates for many lake monster sightings.
 
Lake Crescent in Ontario, Canada, apparently also has a lake monster, called 'Cressie'.
There's a show on it on tv right now, but of course the (yawn) skeptic Joe Nickell has to make his appearance (on all these shows apparently). I'm surprised he's not claiming that these creatures are weather balloons!
 
Recent video documentary now available on Amazon Prime - Cursed Waters: Creature of Lake Okanagan.
Review seems decent enough. Is it worth renting for £4.99?

https://www.dreadcentral.com/review...-a-surprisingly-poignant-cryptid-documentary/

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Not ogopogo, but sure interesting. The current idea may be that its methane or upwelling - I'm trying to find a limnologist to weigh in.

West Kelowna resident witnesses strange ‘pulsing’ waves on Okanagan Lake​

https://www.castanet.net/news/West-Kelowna/507279/Pulsing-waves-on-lake
Stuart Zatorski noticed a strange pulsing in the middle of the lake near Kalamoir Regional Park.

“It’s awfully big and it’s in the centre of the lake. It looks like it’s pushing out waves to the shore all around it. There’s no boats out on the lake. I don’t know, it’s just really weird I thought,” said Zatorski, who lives on Lakeview Cove Road.
 
We often get waves here but the boats that made them are over the horizon before they get here.
 
RaM said:
We often get waves here but the boats that made them are over the horizon before they get here.
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It does seem to be an enclosed pattern - oval or circular?
 
Ogdred Weary said:
I think outsized eels are potential candidates for many lake monster sightings.
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Lake Champlain in Vermont was very recently and arm of the sea and eel migrations happened until the building of dams.

At the south end of the lake a century or more ago some animal went through the turbines and was as big around as an arm and was cut into chunks. By measuring up the chunks they came up with a figure of some ungodly length like 120-180 ft.

A diver in another Vermont lake, Lake Memphremagog, was a recovery diver and at depth he was surrounded by a forest of very large menacing eels that were standing straight up on their tails. Memphy is an aggressive serpent and has chased motorized water craft at speed with it's head elevated out of the water by 4 ft and eyes glowing red. Native tales suggest subsurface channels between theses lakes and others.

Another note from the Gulf of Mexico (America?) is that there are so many giant eels with heads the size of horses, that it was considered whether people could be marketed eel meat due to the large supply of these that might be exploited.

Sturgeon are another candidate and Lake Champlain also had a type of small whale and the skeleton of one was found when blasting a railroad that dated to about 11000 or so years ago.
 
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