A video has surfaced supposedly showing Canada's version of the Loch Ness Monster, Ogopogo, swimming in Lake Okanagan. Be warned, the video is terrifying. (It isn't terrifying.)
The video was taken by Robert Huls, whose ability to grab a cellphone and hold the camera button for thirty seconds somehow makes him a cryptozoology expert. "It was not going with the waves. Just a darker color," Hulls said. "This made me think it had to be something else. It proves something is down there. Whether it's Ogopogo or not, it is a different story, but there is something at least down there."
"Honest to God, if it is another Cthulhu, that exterminator is going to HEAR about it!"
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A lot of commentators are pointing out that logging is one of the major industries in the Okangan area and are therefore suggesting that Huls' video is nothing more than logs floating in water. And that argument is supported by the fact that nothing has ever made less sense than "It was not going with the waves. Just a darker color".
"A darker what now?"
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But skepticism is, to me, only one of three ways to take this story. Another would be to rally our forces against the inevitable attack from the Ogopogo. "This is no time for skepticism!" We shall shout to our troops. "The stakes here are no less than the future of humanity!"
"Worst case: We fight thousands of logs!"
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But I've decided to read this story is with excitement. The idea that our world might have monsters roaming around in it that we have no idea exist gives me a tingly, excited feeling. I like that I could go for a hike and happen upon a yeti boxing match or wander down an alley to find mummies gambling illegally or fall down an opening in the Earth and discover an underground society of sophisticated dinosaurs.
"I find your reading of Descartes pedestrian at best!"
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I think this is a question of whether we believe our world is static or not. Can things suddenly change? Are we open to monsters? Or do we find that frieghtening, and then work to explain anything extraordinary away in order to preserve our world as it is?
"Thank God I don't have an imagination anymore."
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Do you believe something lurks beneath the waves of Lake Okanagan? Or do you just want to believe something lurks beneath the waves of Lake Okanagan? Let us know in the comments!
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