Canada's Loch Ness Monster Caught on Tape?

We had some creature show up here in AK during the filming of some reality show I guess. Didn't follow the story very close. Must be global warming.

 

Even more unbelievable that it's the lake monster is that the news media paid the guy for the video.

Whatever line of work we're in, it's the wrong one if all we have to do to bank a fresh couple hundred bucks is take a few seconds of unwatchable shaky video of absoluely nothing and sell it to the nearest news outlet as positive evidence of alien invasion. Man I can't believe that guy was able to sell that! How many minutes of spoiled video are on your memory cards? There's a fortune there!

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I don't think that crappy video, or any of the many others I've seen, show anything conclusive. Winds on Okanagan Lake can be tricky, especially near shore, and produce some interesting wave patterns. That may explain some of the 'sightings' over the years. The lake is quite deep, and it's entirely possible there are some significantly large sturgeon living in it. If nothing else, the legend of Ogopogo makes a good tourist story.

 

Does anyone else find it odd that everytime something like that hits the news, it looks like video was shot from a camera/camcorder from the 1980s??? Even fully zoomed on my cell phone I can get better quality than that! I wonder if it was intentionally compressed to such low quality to give it the allure of something you can't quite make out but can see that there was a difference of something on the surface.

 

I want to film an "interview with Bigfoot." It would be sort of like Carl Reiner's & Mel Brooks's Two Thousand Year-Old Man. Bigfoot would be played by a guy in a cheap gorilla suit. The shots of the interviewer would be good, clear video, but the shots of Bigfoot, sitting on a chair in the same room, would be completely blurry.

There's no shortage of wackaloons, from Bigfoot believers, to believers in "complementary and alternative medicine" (which is a fancy way of saying quackery), to believers in astrology and crystal power and psychics, to believers in a man in the sky who will make everything right after we die. Sheesh!

 

Only one or two ever granted interviews. They're very shy, except for this one:

Here's a whole bunch. The first is a repeat, but one of the first several features Ogopogo.

 

My first thought, when reading the title of this thread: "That must be some seriously big piece of fly paper!"

Tom

 

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Ogopogo Rules!

 

One of them is set on top of Kokanee glacier. I've been there. On top of the glacier. The last 100 meters or so of the climb is over a very steep boulder field, and was the scariest hike I've ever done. (The Keyhole Route.)

 

Fortunately (in a perverse sort of way) my biggest hiking scares were very early in life. I've never given my father a second chance to force my head over the edge so I could see 2000 metres straight down. I was quite content to sit quietly admiring the view from the middle of the rock pile, but nooo.....thankfully I had the presence of mind to stop squirming before we both went over.

Now, as long as the rock I'm standing on isn't moving, or what I'm hanging on to doesn't break off in my hands, then I can say I've survived worse.

 

Why is it only Countries that have successful Countries below them, appear to have issues with 'monsters in lakes'?

Scotland, Canada....erm that's it. I recon a psychologist could have something to say on this?

 

scientists estimate that about 99% of the species currently inhabiting Earth are unknown.

in these "sightings" i find it a bit ludicrous that we have entertained the notion that we "know better"

 

The fear of hiking the Keyhole route was that the jumble of boulders which constitute about the last hundred meters of elevation gain don't permit easy progress. There are places where you are on a ledge so narrow that turning sideways would cause your backpack to push you off. And there are places where there's only a step the size of your foot, followed by a giant stride to another foot-size step. The exposure is never more than maybe a couple of meters, but that's far enough to break an ankle or crack open your head. At the very end, just before the top, there's a very steep scree slope, less scary by far than the boulders, but still dicey.

I am not a climber, and I'm not comfortable scrambling, and I don't have great balance. There was a skier along, and she had no difficulty at all.

There's actually a sign at the foot of the boulders stating that it's the end of the trail, and advising people not to proceed farther, but hikers have placed cairns to mark a route.

It was quite a thrill to make it to the top, though, and walk on the snow covering the glacier. I would not have been able to do it alone, but I had a very good guide.

 

Given all the tourist traffic (and money) that goes north to see them, maybe the psychologist should focus on the southern inhabitants.

 

Well that pretty much confirms the rumor for me. I am going to get a expedition together, yeah, a expedition, any of you guys want in?
We can stake out the lake, find a SUV driver or two for bait, and when the big Sasquatch eatin snake, goes for the SUV drivers, we catch it. From the video I estimate if we get about 25 Prii together, Gen III preferred, that extra gas MPG will make this a more eco friendly hunt. We tie the big snake to the tops of our cars and all make our way into town and the record books!

......or it could just be a Male Beaver chasing a Female Beaver upriver for a little fun!

 

What I don't understand is the timing of seeing Ogopogo. It's hardly the proper time of the year for attracting tourist traffic. Most of the Loch Ness stories start in about March or April, with followup into the summer. Nobody except the locals want anything to do with visiting the far north in winter...

 

Let the monster eat the SUV drivers before you catch it, please.