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While the Loch Ness Monster continues to elude all efforts to photograph, film, or capture it, another lake monster is making news in Canada. Recent video has some Canadians wondering if Ogopogo, the famous lake monster said to reside in Okanagan Lake, has a cousin living in Kalamalka Lake.
According to the witness, Alison Tinck, she was walking on the Okanagan Rail Trail in Coldstream, British Columbia at around 9:30 in the morning when she spotted three bumps and a head moving diagonally across the water.
“I don’t know what happened, it just sort of came into my realization that there was something out there,” Tinck told local news outlet Castanet. “And so I opened up my camera and I started filming it, and it went for about 42 seconds and then it disappeared.”
What makes the sighting notable is that Canadians are already familiar with another lake monster, Ogopogo, that also appears from time to time in British Columbia, Canada. According to Tourism Kelowna, Ogopogo is believed by the Okanagan people to be a spirit which takes on the form of an aquatic serpent. The first reported sighting of Ogopogo by a European settler was in 1872 when a woman named Susan Allison claimed she saw a dinosaur in Okanagan Lake.
Tinck doesn’t think what she saw was Ogopogo though, telling Castanet, “I don’t think it would manage to get its way from Okanagan Lake into Kal Lake.”
Mysterious lake, sea and river monsters have been spotted all over the world
In 2023, police in Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico went hunting for a Loch Ness-type lake monster believed to be living in a reservoir near a large dam. Around that same time, a sea monster was spotted in the Bristol Channel near Clevedon in the United Kingdom – far away from the Scottish Highlands.
A month later, a mysterious “serpent-like creature” was spotted in a New Orleans lagoon, baffling locals and park officials. And just a couple of months after that, Sharlie the Lake Monster, as locals refer to it, was seen in Payette Lake near the town of McCall, Idaho.
Is it possible that all of these creatures are actually the Loch Ness Monster, or some relation to the legendary creature? It is if you believe the theory that creatures like the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot live in a parallel universe and travel the planet using portals.