#rogue wave

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There is something in the waters of Lake Okanagan, British Colombia. It is the subject of myths and legends. And It has stymied the likes of both Leonard Nimoy and The History Channel... But We're pretty sure we've got it all figured out. Also, borders. What's up with those?

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Lake Okanagan as seen from space.

The Syilx People have inhabited The Okanagan Valley and River Shed for thousands of years. To them the lake was sacred and was the home of, as well as the body of a nature spirit called, N’ha-a-itk. Offerings of food, tobacco, and herbs would be ceremonially given to the spirit in exchange for safe travels across the lake.

Susan Allison grew up on the lake as part of one of the early European "Pioneer" families in the area. She was the first non indigenous person to describe a creature in the lake in 1872. She claimed if looked like "A Dinosaur."

In 1924 "the creature" received the name that it is most known by. Ogo-Pogo was a creature described in a English Music Hall song that year. Although the song is not about Okanagan (The Ogo-Pogo was from Hindustan and played the banjo), people around the lake began using the name.

Ever since coming to non-indigenous attention, the search for what is in the lake has gone on.

Captain Shorts, entrepreneur who began hauling passengers and cargo in his row boat up and down the lake, before putting a steam engine on his small boat. He claimed to have found a bone belonging to "The Okanagan Monster" that was actually a whale bone.

For decades the only way to traverse from one end of the lake to the other was by steam ship. Captain Shorts went out of business because he couldn't compete with the railroad owned passenger ships on the lake.

In he early 1970's entrepreneur, Eddie Haymour bought Rattlesnake Island in Okanagan. The Island was traditionally seen as the home of N’ha-a-itk by the Sylix. Eddie wanted to build an amusement park there. The provincial government of British Columbia shut him down. This would lead to him seizing The Canadian Embassy in Beirut Lebanon, and eventually to the British Columbian Supreme Court ruling that a conspiracy had been enacted against Eddie to drive him insane and lose the island.

One possible (and very cute) explanation is that people are misidentifying known animals as Ogopogo. Most notably otters swimming single file. (Image © Joe Nickell)

Other sightings are most definitely waves. Due to the hydrology and geology of the lake itself, freak rogue waves do occur.

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