Ogopogo, Canada's Loch Ness Monster is Caught on Tape!

Finally! It's here! Documented proof! We've all been waiting for a long time to see some sort of video evidence that there are weird things going on out in the world. I mentioned in a previous blog that the unknown intrigues me, but I remain a skeptic. I do require proof and it now seems as though it is in our hands. Frankly, I'm surprised the Internet and the Nightly News hasn't blown up with this story yet, as inescapable proof has been presented of an actual Lake Monster!

Granted, it's not everyone's favorite, the legendary Loch Ness Monster (Nessie to her friends). It's not even Champ from Lake Champlain. But hey, we'll settle for the fourth rate Canadian lake monster, Ogopogo of Lake Okanagan in British Columbia. We'll take whatever crumbs you can throw at us, and if it's our hockey loving friends from up north, so be it!

Here is the video. Prepare to shed tears of rejoicing....



Wait. What?

Well that was anti climatic, wasn't it? Ogopogo is just a couple of logs floating in the water? Hmmm. Who would have guessed.

Sorry folks, nothing to see here. Move along, move along.

Thank you Yahoo News for giving people hope of something terrifyingly amazing, only to dash them into the ground before stomping on them and taking a poop over the pieces.

Loch Ness Monster on Google Earth!

I know I mainly do the movie and TV thing on this insignificant blog o' mine, so this falls in the category of "other junk that amuses me".

Apparently, this dude (who, no joking, is The Security Guard of Nottingham) was surfing Google Earth and found a picture of the legendary Loch Ness Monster. Dun Dun Duuuuuhh!! Right off the bat, that sterling example of London News Journalism, The Sun, has proclaimed that after five trillion years Nessie has finally been found and all it took was some dude paying attention while surfing the Internet.

Now, I dont' know about you, but take a look at the picture below and all doubts are instantly erased! I mean, how can you not tell that's ye ol' Nessinator.

Nessie!

Honestly, though, I do have a pretty active imagination. One that would be thrilled if something like this came to light. Nessie, Yeti, Sasquatch (though I'm pretty sure I saw him shopping at the store I work at today), UFOs, Donkey Kong. The idea that these things could exist excites the inner Mulder in me.

But first and foremost, I am a healthy skeptic about all this. That movie fueled love of the unexplained is governed by another part of me; Mr. Logic. This is why I both love and hate the series MonsterQuest on the History channel. It teases you with cool things that may be revealed and only finds just enough maybe sorta signs that there is a slight possibility something neat is going on.

I gotta see proof. Actual scientists need to show me tangible evidence before I can fully drink the Bermuda Triangle kool-aid.

And I hardly think a picture of what could easily be a couple of young lovers enjoying an afternoon in a row boat found by Jeb Smith on his laptop constitutes tangible evidence.

So, until the next photo op with Nessie comes around, I'll just keep believing these things are part of a vivid imagination.