What happened
Ogopogo is Canada's most famous lake monster, and stories of a water creature in Okanagan Lake were already known to the valley's Indigenous inhabitants. In 1968, Art Folden, driving along Highway 97 beside the lake, noticed something large on the calm water that looked like a living creature. He pulled onto the shoulder and, with a home movie camera, shot footage showing a dark shape and a clear wake on the water – by his estimate about 100 meters from shore. The film circulated on television programs for years, and one computer analysis suggested that it shows a massive, three-dimensional object. In 1980, about 50 tourists on a beach in Kelowna watched something in the lake for three-quarters of an hour, and the valley readily uses the legend as a tourist attraction.
Witnesses
Art Folden, a passing driver who filmed the phenomenon from the shore.
Explanations and hypotheses
In 2005, Benjamin Radford and Joe Nickell analyzed the footage and concluded that the object was much smaller than had been assumed and could therefore have been a swimming animal or a boat. Other Ogopogo sightings are explained as waves, logs, beavers and otters. The popular sturgeon hypothesis has a weak basis, as the presence of these fish in the lake has not been confirmed. Proponents believe the film shows something far larger than any known inhabitant of Okanagan Lake.
Disputed A likely explanation exists, but some of the facts are still disputed.
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