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According to lore, the first time the Ogopogo was sighted on the Okanagan Lake was in the 1860s when it pulled down the horses of a settler crossing the lake, trying to get the horses across on foot - but that story sounds a little wild even for cryptozoologists, especially since other sightings of the creature paint it as benign and non-threatening. That said, there's no prove at all thze Ogopogo actually exists, and while this documentary cites many eye witnesses and even shows photographic and even cinematic evidence it does take all the footage with a grain of salt ...

... and that's really one aspect that makes this documentary so good, it never expects its audience to take its findings for granted, even voices doubts about them at times, but presents them as what they are, oral history. And with that in mind, another point the movie makes becomes much more plausible, that Ogopogo - which by the way is named after a 1920s (or maybe even 1910s) music hall tune, rather unrespectfully - might be just another as of yet unexplored species, its actual discovery marred rather than helped by the legend that emerged from it.

That said though, where the whole thing really hits home with me is with the actual First Nation origins of the legend that has little to do with monsters of any kind and much more with simple respect for the lake's water, and that's really the subplot all of us could take away more from.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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