Sasquatch, 1941
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 3rd, 2009
Lethbridge [Alberta] Herald
November 28, 1941
ECHO OF THE OGOPOGO
Living at the coast, I was wondering to myself whether being in the vicinity of the ogopogo I would come across this monster. But the ogopogo seems to have died a natural death after creating quite a sensation for a time. I wonder if anyone has really seen an ogopogo.
In place of the ogopogo another monster has now appeared. It is the Sasquatch giant monster of the Harrison Lake area. Three canoes of Indians who arrived terror-stricken at Harrison Hot Springs, after a flight from Fort Douglas at the head of the lake, are prepared to swear to that.
The huge hairy monster is said to have disappeared for several years, and his sudden arrival struck terror into the hearts of the Indians.
When it comes to “seeing things,” Indians are not the exception when we remember the seeing of a monster some years ago in a Scottish loch.
Thanks to Jerome Clark.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
It’s weird that this should be posted when the last post was about the death at lochness. I personally believe that chances of finding a lake cryptid are better when it comes to Champ or Ogopogo.
“The huge hairy monster is said to have disappeared for several years, and his sudden arrival struck terror into the hearts of the Indians”.
Does anybody ever check weather patterns when it comes to these sort of things? I wonder about an extreme weather coincedence when it comes to the mothman, forcing it into New Jersey becoming to the locals the “Jersey Devil” (or the “Snallygaster” to others). Though those might be extreme cases, is there anyone out there who looks for correlations in extreme weather when it comes to cryptid apperances and (perhaps in some cases) disapperances.