Kootenay
Lake Creature
“Kootenay Lake is located in
British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Kootenay River.
Its 65
miles (104kms) long and approximately 3 miles (5 kms) wide.It varies in depth
from 33 feet (approx 10 metres) to a
maximum of 490 feet ( 160 metres) . Large enough to house a few monsters. In October 1900 a Captain WJ Kane reported
seeing a lake monster in the lake. He described it as being large and
bulky. A 12 year old boy also saw
something on October 10th 1900, on the shore of Kootenay Lake, George Goudereau
saw a 12ft ( 4 metres) creature that looked like an alligator crawl
out of Crawford Bay and made its way towards a pile of rubbish on the
shore. George watched as it used
its claws and its snout to search
through the pile. After a while it went back into the lake leaving a trail of
tracks of webbed feet. The creature became known as the Canadian Alligator.
The area also has another prehistoric creature
,Big Bertha,a 10-foot Kootenay white sturgeon that weighs over 350 pounds.
However sturgeon don’t normally come out of the water to forage.”
Since writing this I
have discovered more information. Another sighting “The monster…is ten feet long, six inches in diameter at the
largest part and has a most hideous head.” Dec. 1900, George Graves and
son, of Nelson.
In July 1937 Naomi
Miller and family saw something :
“We…were barely out
of sight of Kaslo…a black head reared followed by at least one hump above the
water some eight feet behind… We sat hypnotized until the ‘Ogopogo’ dived….”
Then in 1953 two men
from Boswell reported a sighting “The visible part about twenty feet long, showed brownish in
the sunlight, and the surface looked rough like a tree trunk with moss growing
upon it.”
Naomi Miller stuck to
her sighing and when interviewed in 2015 wrote:
“My alternative
thought is that the “thing ” that I saw may have had the form of a dinosaur .
(We did not have pictures of dinosaurs when I was a child.) The water monster
beside our boat turned in front of us toward shore, Had it long enough legs
proportionate to its length it might have walked a few steps before diving
under!”
The local indigenous
people have a legend that in ancient history there was a sea monster Yawunik
that ate the local livestock and was chased up the river and back to the lake.
It was eventually killed by a giant.
So the lake has a
history . As for the large sturgeon:
The story of Big
Bertha, a monster of a sturgeon who calls Kootenay Lake home!
https://kootenaymountainculture.com/koogopogo-super-sized-sturgeon/
How ever most of the sightings do not sound like a
fish but something amphibian. The mystery remains.
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