Water Monster · Okanagan Lake, British Columbia · 1926
BC-1926ID case-bd3d2d5ea1Added to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Water Monster
- When
- Jul 21, 1926to the day
- Where
- Okanagan Lake, British Columbiato approximate level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
J. I. Logie and three others in a car witnessed a fifteen-foot-long creature with a sheep-like head racing alongside their vehicle on Okanagan Lake.
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Details
- Creature
- Water Monster
- Where
- Okanagan Lake, Kelowna, Westbank First Nation #9, Regional District of Central Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 21, 1926
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-bd3d2d5ea1
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Source trail (5)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 1 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), July 22, 1926
Newspaper · 1926-07-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 6 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), July 24, 1926
Newspaper · 1926-07-24 - Image 3 of The Dermott news (Dermott, Ark.), September 2, 1926
Newspaper · 1926-09-02
Show 2 more sources
- Image 6 of The Searcy news (Searcy, Ark.), September 2, 1926
Newspaper · 1926-09-02 - Image 4 of The dispatch-news (Lexington, S.C.), October 20, 1926
Newspaper · 1926-10-20
Further reading
- The Great New England Sea Serpent, J. P. O'Neill (1999)
Account of the 1817 Gloucester sightings and later reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
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