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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  Ogopogo Ontario Resort & Cottage Rentals In The Haliburton Highlands Vacation Resorts Region
Ogopogo is an intimate four-season cottage resort with luxury housekeeping amenities, on-site activities and many nearby attractions that include both the arts and the outdoors.
Ogopogo has the convenience of being located near the towns of Minden and Haliburton and is close to the Leslie Frost Centre, Haliburton Forest and
Paddleboats, canoes and kayaks are complementary at Ogopogo.
www.ogopogoresort.com   (1219 words)

  
  Ogopogo
Ogopogo is dark green in colour, estimated at one to two feet in diameter with a length ranging between 15 to 50 feet.
Ogopogo's head is said to resemble that of a horse or goat head with a beard.
Ogopogo has been sighted by literally hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals who have remained firm in their belief despite the ridicule from legions of nonbelievers.
www.ufobc.ca /Supernatural/Cryptozoology/ogopogo.htm   (724 words)

  
 Ogopogo - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ogopogo is the name given to reputed lake monsters which dwell in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada.
"Ogopogo" is also the name given to a few dragon-like monsters in various role-playing games and other fantasy settings.
Ogopogo is also a word that many people use to describe make-belif creatures.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ogopogo   (175 words)

  
 Brainboost - what is ogopogo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ogopogo is a four seasons resort of luxurious housekeeping cottages on crystal clear Mountain Lake.
Ogopogo is the name given to a lake monster reported to live in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada.
The stamp I carved for Ogopogo is based on a concrete statue that is in a city park along the shore of Lake Okanagan.
www.brainboost.com /search.asp?Q=what+is+ogopogo&lfmq=1   (317 words)

  
 Stories of Ogopogo
In Mary Moon's book Ogopogo, she relates in the early 1920's it was recalled that early white settlers spoke of a Native rock painting showing a fish like animal standing upright.
Ogopogo is protected by Federal Law under the Fisheries Act: "No one shall hunt, kill fish or marine animals by any means of rocket, explosive materials or explosive projectiles or shells." Ogopogo is specifically protected under Provincial Law under the Wildlife Act.
If Ogopogo were depicted along a zodiac it should go forward and in reverse because Ogopogo is a palindrome, the same whether read from left to right or right to left.
sunnyokanagan.com /ogopogo   (8706 words)

  
 TrueAuthority.com - Cryptozoology - Ogopogo
During the days when the early settlers considered the Ogopogo a source of sheer evil, the shoreline of Mission Creek was patrolled daily by the men, armed with guns and ready to protect their homes from an attack by Ogopogo.
Ogopogo, if she exists (they), is unquestionably an animal unknown to science.
Regardless, whether or not "the Ogopogos" came or continue to come from the sea, evidence seems to indicate that underground water veins do exist between the two bodies of water.
www.trueauthority.com /cryptozoology/ogopogo.htm   (2877 words)

  
 BCSCC Website
Ogopogo's original name was Naitaka or N'ha-ha-itq which is of interior Salish Indian origin.
Folden's film is strong evidence that Ogopogo is not merely an optical illusion caused by wind, waves or known animals and identifiable objects on the water.
Ogopogo appearances have been sporadic into the nineties and it is feared that greater encroachment on its habitat by an ever-increasing human population is driving the animals to extinction.
www.bcscc.ca /ogopogo.htm   (717 words)

  
 Ogopogo
One such monster seen with regular frequency is Ogopogo, the lovable unknown sea serpent residing in the depths of a deep Canadian lake.
With all the false Ogopogo's perpetrated by hoaxers, most of the observers at the baptism thought they were looking at another fraud---until the creature dived beneath the surface and revealed its true nature.
Ogopogo could exist elsewhere in Okanagan Lake, he stated, but in his opinion, it was the video of a beaver.
www.theoutlaws.com /unexplained7.htm   (3286 words)

  
 Ogopogo Ontario Resort & Cottage Rentals In The Haliburton Highlands Vacation Resorts Region
Ogopogo is a four-season cottage resort with full amenities, on-site outdoor activities, and many nearby attractions.
Ogopogo's cottages are architecturally designed, new or completely rebuilt in the past seven years.
Ogopogo shores are gently sloping and sandy while the view across the lake is mountainous and forest.
www.ogopogoresort.com /why.html   (576 words)

  
 Eric Shackle's eBook - Ogopogo
Ogopogo has been described as being dark green, 15 to 50 feet long, one to two feet wide, with a head like that of a horse or goat with a beard.
He (or possibly she) is said to be the world's friendliest inland sea monster, living for centuries in an underwater cave in a 30-mile-long lake which is 1,000 feet deep in places.
He and his family were in a house boat by Trader's Cove at the old ferry docks early in the morning when he heard a thump thump thumping (same reported thumping as by Debbie) and thrashing beneath the house boat and the house boat tilted 20° and rocked.
www.bdb.co.za /shackle/articles/ogopogo.htm   (1118 words)

  
 Ogopogo
Ogopogo is a fabled aquatic monster which is said to inhabit Okanagan Lake.
Like "Nessie," the Orm of Loch Ness, Ogopogo is variously described as having the head of a sheep or a horse and a long serpentine neck, and is reported to swim with an undulating motion; it is generally "sighted" as several humps moving rapidly through the water.
The name "Ogopogo" is a palindrome from a comic English music-hall song, "Ogopogo Song." Okanagan Lake has temperamental weather conditions, which might explain the apparition, and an ill-defined lake bottom, which gives rise to speculation about long-trapped dinosaur eggs released by movements of the Earth's crust.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005895   (139 words)

  
 Ogopogo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The eel-like Ogopogo ranges from 5 to 20 feet in length and 1 to 2 feet in diameter.
The first known sighting of Ogopogo was in 1860, when Lake Okanagan was first colonized by European settlers.
Ogopogo footprints have been found, all varying in shape and size.
library.thinkquest.org /C004978F/ogopogo.htm   (140 words)

  
 Ogopogo the Chameleon (Skeptical Inquirer January/February 2006)
Ogopogo seems to have several distinct incarnations: as an Indian legend, as an elusive biological beast, and as a lovable local mascot.
Not Ogopogo, or at least not the Indian stories upon which it is supposedly based: that of the fearsome N’ha-a-itk.
The song (which whimsically claimed that Ogopogo’s parentage was the result of an illicit union between an earwig and a whale) established the name of the creature.
www.csicop.org /si/2006-01/ogopogo.html   (3962 words)

  
 Ogopogo our own Lock Ness
In Mary Moon's book Ogopogo, she relates in the early 1920's it was recalled that early white settlers spoke of a Native rock painting showing a fish like animal standing upright.
The first one was parallel to the shore and moving north and south in only six feet of water, there was no wave or ripple but a slight rolling swell, and the later view was of it in the middle of the lake moving towards the northwest.
(Ogopogo is observed to have a lighter, even white, underside which might make him less obvious from beneath) When he got up to the surface, they told him they had seen Ogopogo.
www.a-s-lakeviewbedbreakfast.ca /ogopogo.htm   (5458 words)

  
 Lake Monsters: Ogopogo, Canadian Lake Monster
According to Ogopogo expert Arlene Gaal, armed settlers patrolled the shoreline in case of attack by the monster.
Photos of Ogopogo are numerous and include the 1964 Parmenter photo; the 1976 Fletcher photo; the 1978, 1979 and 1981 Gaal photos, the 1981 Wachlin photo, the 1984 Svensson photograph.
Ogopogo hunters have failed to come up with that piece of unimpeachable evidence that will prove to the world that the aquatic monster exists.
www.strangemag.com /ogopogo.html   (1286 words)

  
 Ogopogo - the Ledgendary Lake Monster
Ogopogo's likeness appears on t-shirts, postcards and a friendly-looking concrete statue of a dragon-like monster which has been constructed in City Park as a reminder for tourists and residents.
Despite doubts about the creature's existence, sightings of Ogopogo continue to this day at the risk of ridicule by those who consider the legend a whole lot of bunk.
Some of the explanations for the phenomenon are that Ogopogo is some kind of prehistoric water serpent able to thrive on the plentiful fish stock and hide out in many of the crevices in the lake.
www.vtours.com /kelowna/ogopogo.htm   (484 words)

  
 Ogopogo of Okanagan Lake
Canada's most famous water monster is Ogopogo of Lake Okanagan in the south central interior of British Columbia.
I haven't been fortunate to have seen Ogopogo in the 10 years that I have lived in the Okanagan but I know people who have!
At the top is a great viewpoint site, a gazebo built by the Kelowna City Parks department that offers an inspiring view of not only the city and the floating bridge, but miles and miles both up and down the lake.
www.tourcanada.com /ogopogo.htm   (627 words)

  
 Ogopogo Stamps   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ogopogo is a lake monster purported to inhabit Lake Okanagan in Canada.
Native Americans referred to this creature as the "snake in the lake" or "devil of the lake" (N'ha-a-itk) and believed it lived on Rattlesnake Island in the lake.
This Ogopogo stamp is one of a set of four stamps commemorating legendary Canadian animals.
www.pibburns.com /cryptost/ogopogo.htm   (161 words)

  
 Monster Tracker - search for Ogopogo
It is against this backdrop of scientific fact that the legend of Ogopogo has come to exist.
The First Nations people feared and revered this sacred creature, which they called N'ha-a-itk, and the early settlers, hearing these stories felt it necessary to patrol the shores of Lake Okanagan to protect their families.
Ogopogo has been described as being between 6 to 20 metres in length, fl to tan in colour with a characteristic snake-like body and has been seen with or without appendages.
www.monstertracker.com /ogopogo.cfm   (364 words)

  
 In Search of Ogopogo
Ogopogo is a fresh water lake monster that inhabits British Columbia’s Lake Okanagan in Canada.
Indians have a long oral tradition of the creature and were always careful never to venture on the lake without some small animal they could throw to the creature as an offering so the monster would not attack them while they were on the water.
Ogopogo was first filmed in 1968 and has since been filmed several more times.
www.chuckstraub.com /Letterboxing/ogopogo.htm   (914 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first documented sightings of the Ogopogo by European settlers date back as far as 1860 and occur as the area was being colonized by the first, though the first clear sighting, witnessed by a large group of people, occurred in 1926 at an Okanagan Mission Beach.
Ogopogo was filmed again in 1989 by Ken Chaplin, who was with his father Clem Chaplin and who was talking about where he saw the Ogopogo when suddenly both of them saw a snake like animal swimming the lake, the animal is seen doing turns and even flicked its tail creating a splash.
The filmmakers were about to name the creature in the film after the Ogopogo until an Aboriginal protested that use of the name compromised Aboriginal religion, although other Aboriginals encouraged the use of the name "Ogopogo." Thus, the creature became "Mee-Shee" and the film was called Mee-Shee: The Water Giant.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Ogopogo   (734 words)

  
 Intergenerational Travel Affects Ontario Canada's Ogopogo Resort
Bruce McClennan, owner of Ogopogo Resort (http://www.ogopogoresort.com), a family and couples luxury cottage resort in the Ontario resort region of Haliburton Highlands, has noticed a significant increase in travel among grandparents and grandchildren over the past four years.
Ogopogo is an Ontario vacation resort that focuses “First and foremost on safety.
To learn more about Ogopogo Resort and how they are catering to intergenerational tourists, please visit their web site at http://www.ogopogoresort.com or call 1-866-405-8938.
www.prweb.com /releases/200649/5/prweb384932.htm   (786 words)

  
 MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Autumn 2002: Mysterious Sea Serpents Part III: Ogopogo
Ogopogo's lair is believed to be in the many unexplored caves located between the island and the mainland.
Since 1924, when the name Ogopogo was applied to the creature, it has obliged by appearing more and more often, and no one to date has been injured or killed by the creature.
Ogopogo has become a beloved feature of the Lake Okanagan area, and has even been made an honorary citizen of the city of Kelowna.
www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/2002/Autumn/SeaSerpents   (2841 words)

  
 Cryptomundo.com » The big question: Is Ogopogo a sturgeon?
Ogopogo is Canada’s most famous lake cryptid and in these columns I hope to help Cryptomundo readers come to an understanding of an animal that is very real and not just the stuff of legend.
Both Arlene Gaal, the noted Ogopogo researcher, and the late Jim Clark, co-founder of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, wrote to the Federal Department of Fisheries to ascertain whether sturgeon are a constituent member of the piscid population of Okanagan Lake.
Ogopogo sightings are often in the same area of tha lake - that would be where the sturgeons mate.
www.cryptomundo.com /cryptid-universe/ogopogo-sturgeon   (2764 words)

  
 Ogopogo
Ogopogo is said to be dwelling at the bottom of Lake Okanagan in British Columbia.
A little known fact is that Ogopogo was discovered in 1926, before the first reported sightings of the Loch Ness Monster.
Even though many skeptics dismiss the sightings as hoaxes and delusions, scientists are not that quick to deny the possibility of an animal such as the Plesiosaur, having been believed extinct for 65 Million Years, may still be lurking in the world's deepest lakes.
www.canadians.ca /more/profiles/o/o_ogopogo.htm   (191 words)

  
 Another Tale Of Ogopogo
Clark, actually bumped into Ogopogo while swimming in the British Columbia lake in July of 1974.
Ogopogo's estimated length was 25-30 feet; breadth, 3-4 feet.
Drawing by Ogopogo witness and bumpee, Mrs B. Clark.
www.science-frontiers.com /sf053/sf053b10.htm   (319 words)

  
 Ogopogo
Ogopogo was originally thought to be the same creature found in Loch Ness, but Cryptozoologists, (people that study about monsters,) believe that the seven metre Ogopogo is a is a primitive whale.
In one such sighting, Ogopogo was witnessed by a group of 30 people back in 1926.
Ogopogo probably lives far beneath the surface of the Okanagan Lake.
www.brandonsd.mb.ca /lanes/LeSeur/Heritage_Fair/ogopogo.htm   (392 words)

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