Comments on: Ogopogo 1934

By: aspenparkland

aspenparkland — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:50:05 +0000

Ogopogo was used as a term for lake monsters in Alberta at the time. If you check my catalogue of Alberta lake monster articles, Ogopogo is used from 1927-1949

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:06:19 +0000

Actually, I was led to think the term “Ogopogo” was coined by an English vaudevillian touring the area in the early twentieth-century. He supposedly included it in a song. Guess I was wrong.
I guess he merely popularized an existing term.
My “Bad.” Whenever the “moniker” came from, it is unforgettable.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:51:42 +0000

While it could certainly be a journalistic mistake, I tend to find that terms like “Ogopogo” were used loosely, applying to any Canadian Lake Monster, if the news reporter so wished to employ it thusly. The story from Alberta seems to be talking about something seen in an Alberta lake.

Furthermore, the “pogo” part of the word Ogopogo caught on and was transposed to be used for other Canadian aquatic cryptids, e.g. Igopogo (Lake Simcoe, Ontario, from 1952?) and Manipogo (Lake Manitoba, Manitoba, named in 1957).

Of course, since the term “Sea Serpent” is used with Ogopogo in this 1934 article, considering that Ogopogo is a Lake, not a Sea Monster, one must assume that the media played fast and loose with cryptid terminology back then.

By: fossilhunter

fossilhunter — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:12:59 +0000

Greetings All!
I have a question of nomenclature. I have thought that “Ogopogo” was only used for animals sighted in Lake Okanagan. Last I checked, that lake was not 77 miles southeast of Edmonton. Has the term “Ogopogo” had a historically larger area of use? Or is this just some journalist, not worth his/her salt (in the original sense), not fact checking?