Comments on: Ogopogo: Denizen of the Deep

By: ovocato

ovocato — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:29:27 +0000

I live at vernon (the little town) on okanagan landing and have seen ogopogo for myself (on the lake). The article fits my description cause I’ve seen it 3 times.

By: Noir

Noir — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:43:53 +0000

In the Denver zoo is a photo posted in the big cat area of a woman and her child being photographed by her husband. What they didn’t notice until the picture was developed was that a mere few feet away was a cougar in the grass getting ready to spring. When you’re concentrating on your subject it’s easy to not notice things going on around you in a picture even when they would be quite alarming.

By: John Kirk

John Kirk — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:18:34 +0000

Still trying to find the owner of the photo. The person is a bit of a mystery and I have had no luck with finding him.

I’ll keep readers informed about this and let you know as soon as I get word of any sort.

By: youcantryreachingme

youcantryreachingme — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:12:11 +0000

John, you wrote “We do not have the rights yet to show this picture on Cryptomundo, but I am working on it”.

How’s that going?

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:14:13 +0000

ZenBug’s last comment actually goes with the first white man’s account of Ogopogo. According to the story I read, a man bought an island (I don’t know if there are more than one) on the lake. He was heading out to his island on a small to medium sized boat (too small for horses) and had 2 horses tied to the boat, swimming behind him. All at once the horses were pulled under (both of them) and he had to cut them loose or be pulled under himself. Ogopogo is there, no matter what it actually is.

By: ZenBug

ZenBug — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:43:20 +0000

@Kathy,

I believe the natives in BC used to take animals out in canoes into Lake Okanagan and sacrifice them to what they called “Nitaka” which apparently means “Lake Demon”. It’s been suggested that Nitaka was Ogopogo…back when it had a much cooler name.

By: Kathy Strain

Kathy Strain — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:27:48 +0000

Native Americans do have stories of “water monsters” that are thousands of years old, so it would be interesting to conduct a correlation between those stories and locations of modern “sightings.” Best of luck to you John!

By: cradossk

cradossk — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:57:52 +0000

i seriously doubt very much that it is a sturgeon, but that seems to be the argument put forth alot of the time when dealing with ‘lake monsters’

By: cradossk

cradossk — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:56:56 +0000

Its a sturgeon

By: ZenBug

ZenBug — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:41:53 +0000

I’m sure it does happen sometimes. It’s just that when they thing that you didn’t notice at the time is a lake monster that isn’t supposed to exist, I’d say it’s far more likely that you are simply misidentifying something common that just doesn’t look so common when taken out of the context of a broader perspective. Especially since usually - as in this case - it’s an ambiguous shape like a “hump”.

Granted, though: I have yet to see this particular photo.

And I’d still like to know what other large animals are in that lake that could be misidentified. …Anyone?