There is a plaque at one point on Lake Okanogan that
reads:
| "Before the unimaginative whiteman came,
the fearsome lake monster N'ha·a·itk was well known to the
superstitious Indians. His home was Squally Point. Small animals
were carried in the canoes to appease the serpent. Ogopogo is
still seen each year, but now by white men." |
 This is the
sight of the OGOPOGO, one of the infamous group of inland sea
creatures which includes such luminaries as Loch Ness Monster and
Canada's own Memphre. I wonder
if the OGOPOGO is related to BC's other sea creature, the Cadborosaurus?
The earliest record of Ogopogo's existence dates back to 1860
and was ascribed as a ranting of the first European settlers. That is
sixty years before the first recorded reports of The Loch Ness Monster.
In 1926 some 30 carloads of people witnessed the event of the
appearance of OGOPOGO at an Okanogan Mission Beach. Over the past
140 years there have been recording sightings, not all by nuts or
drunks. These have included:
| in the summer of 1989, hunting guide Ernie Giroux
and his wife were standing on the banks of Okanogan Lake when a
bizarre animal emerged from the otherwise placid waters.
"It was about 15 feet long and swam real gracefully and
fast," Giroux told the press. The Giroux's claim to have
see an animal with a round head "like a football;" at
one point several feet of the creature's neck and body came up
out of the water. |
The Giroux's saw the monster at the same spot where, in July 1989,
British Columbian car salesman Ken Chaplin took a video of a what he
described as a snake-like creature about 15 feet long and dark green in
color.
What did Ernie see? Was it a monster or a beaver on
steroids? Decide for yourself!
 This
was the view that Ed Fletcher had 1976. Monster?
 This
is what Eric Parameter saw in 1964.
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