Word: ogopogo
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...Ogopogo Dwarfed...
Fantastic monsters unknown to natural science seem to have a predilection for the waters of British Columbia. Thence, with almost convincing regularity, have come tales of Okanagan Lake's "Ogopogo"-a mighty serpent "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog" (TIME, Aug. 15, 1932). And thence last week came two descriptions of a phantasmagoric sea serpent big enough to dwarf the 30-foot Ogopogo...
Like Lewis Carroll's Snark and several other mythical animals, the Ogopogo was first heard of in London. Some seven years ago in a musical show, Co-optimists, Jessie Matthews sang...
...looking for the Ogopogo...
...years later touring members of the Vancouver Board of Trade were guests of the Vernon, B. C., Rotary Club. Someone sang the Ogopogo song, the Rotarians picked it up, went Ogopogo hunting. But long before that Indians had seen the mysterious lake-serpent. Most likely explanation is that the Ogopogo is a mother otter followed by her pups swimming in tandem...