Named after the First Nations people who first inhabited the area, it was created when melting glaciers flooded a valley 10,000 years ago.

[2] The lake monster has been mostly described as being a serpentine creature with smooth dark skin with a large body thicker than a telephone pole and being up to 15 m (49 ft) in length.

The monster has said to move at incredible speeds, coiling its body in vertical undulations, and propelling itself with a powerful tail.

[3] According to historian Mark M. Orkin, the creature received its name "on a night in 1924 when the strains of an English music-hall song were first heard in the city of Vernon, British Columbia".

The Secwepemc and Syilx natives regarded the Ogopogo, which they called the Naitaka, as "an evil supernatural entity with great power and ill intent.

Oral traditions often described visiting chief Timbasket, who rejected the required sacrifice, denying the existence of the demon.

He pulled off the road and filmed what he claimed to be footage of the alleged creature, showing a large wake moving across the water.

[citation needed] Folden noticed "something large and lifelike" out in the distance on the calm water and pulled out his home movie camera to capture the object.

A 2005 investigation conducted by Benjamin Radford with Joe Nickell and John Kirk for the National Geographic Channel television show Is It Real?, utilized surveyor boats to find the actual distance of the alleged creature from the shore.

[13] In 1989, John Kirk reportedly saw an animal which was 10.7 to 12.2 metres (35 to 40 ft) long and consisted of "five sleek jet-black humps" with a lashing tail.

Chris Bull, who ran the local fishing department, would later state it was possibly meant to grab attention from the community.

In 2005, FBI video specialist Grant Fredricks concluded that the object "was very consistent with debris from a fallen tree in the water," noting that it "very slowly bobs up and down."

Eight days later, south of the original sighting, Viloria had pulled his car over to look at the Highway 97 widening project when Weagers spotted another disturbance.

Members of the show MonsterQuest examined the photographs and found no evidence of tampering, as featured in the 2009 episode "Lake Demons".

[20] In 2009 an expedition was led by Ogopogo enthusiast Bill Steciuk which consisted of thermal imaging by helicopter, a zodiac chase boat, and a dive team to investigate various caves reported near Rattlesnake Island and Squally Point.

The expedition started near the break of dawn where immediately the Chase Boat encountered a cluster of bird activity North of Rattlesnake Island hinting something large was preying below the surface.

The thermal imaging helicopter found large heat trails near the surface offshore of Squally Point.

The following day, diver Craig Smiley was dropped into the lake near Rattlesnake Island, and hydroacoustic baiting via underwater recordings by Bill Steciuk were used to lure in the creature.

When the sound frequency increased, Smiley's signal was temporarily lost after sediment was stirred around him supposedly triggering an animal.

Though the supernatural N'ha-a-itk of the Okanagan Valley Indians are long gone, a decidedly less fearsome — and more biological — beast, whose exact form is a matter of debate, has replaced it.".

The creature manifests as a more deadly incarnation of the summoned monster Leviathan, and uses a water attack named Deluge.

Number 21, a henchman of the series' antagonist and a prominent secondary character, claims the creature is real, clarifying that it is a plesiosaur, and derides Champ and Nessie as hoaxes.