Like the Thunderbird, the Wildman, and the Little Person, the Water Serpent is one of the most ubiquitous monster legends in Canada. For centuries, from the Pacific to the Atlantic to the Arctic, Natives and white men alike have described their frightening encounters with huge aquatic serpents in coastal waters, rivers, lakes, and swamps. In this video, we will revisit stories of Canadian water serpents that have previously been published on this channel, beginning with tales set on Canada’s West Coast and working our way east across the country.
0:00:00 – Introduction
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
0:00:36 – Forgotten Sea Monsters Off Vancouver Island
0:13:01 – Classic Sea Serpent Sightings Off Canada’s West Coast
0:26:23 – The Two-Headed Serpent
THE INTERIOR PLATEAU
0:43:08 – The Ogopogo
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
1:08:58 – The Monster of Lake Minnewanka
1:13:16 – The Monster of Kootenay Lake
1:21:14 – Slogopogo
THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES
1:25:24 – The River Serpent of Medicine Hat
1:30:21 – The Legend of Seven Persons Creek
1:33:59 – The Monster of Turtle Lake
LAKE SUPERIOR
1:36:14 – The Matchi Manitou
1:40:57 – The Guardian of Michipicoten Island
THE CANADIAN SHIELD
1:48:43 – The Mug-Wump
2:05:14 – Are There Alligators in the Ottawa River?
THE LAWRENTIAN VALLEY
2:16:25 – Champ
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
2:19:31 – The Monster of O’Keefes Lake
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Many Native stories are ancient, more than most understand, and if you look at many of the Pleistocene animals now identified, many of these creatures seem to be remembered in these stories…
Only crocodiles can live in saltwater. Alligators can't for very long because they have no salt glands. No reptiles can survive upper North winters, and it would not happen in a generation if possible. I took care of exotics for years. A saltwater crocodile isn't a creature you want to meet anywhere.
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I live in Penticton (very south of Okanagan Lake). The legend of Ogopogo is that natives here (Indians or First Nations) would cross from a small city called Peachland to Rattlesnake Island and would sacrifice a small animal (basically throw overboard a tied up animal) to prevent being attacked by the Ogopogo (which is what is exactly being told on this video). Now something more modern is the building of the new Kelowna bridge where workers that dived below for construction saw some "really big" fish underwater. The Ogopogo is alleged to be a massive sturgeon. Some side facts, a native brother of mine told me Rattlesnake Island has a cave you can enter with a small boat only if the water is low enough on the lake and/or depending on the moon. For those reading DO NOT ATTEMPT because the water can rise really quickly and you can be trapped there. Inside the cave is said to have pictographs/cave drawings.
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2 and a half hours just went like that. Thanks Hammerson!
Near where I live in SE alaska they actually found a fossil of the guunacedit(i know i did not spell that right) but it proved it was truly a real creature. Although it was a dosile creature with a long snout to eat crustaceans out of rock crevices!
YES!!!
Umm?….@30:41, top right, just before picture fades out…Im not too sure that's just a tree. Noticed, then the WT? and went back over it a few times. Very "interesting" looking Tree
This is my jam, water cryptids are my obsession and I'm Canadian. Thanks Mr. Peters.
your ai guy is awfull so painfull when your used to your great voice
You should do a video on the ancient copper mines of the great lakes, there's sufficient evidence to prove most of the copper used in the Bronze age came from. Those surface mines. The Bronze age ended around 2100 bc, but up til then the Phoenicians and fellow sailors frequently went to Britain for tin and up the Mississippi to those ancient mines there is archeological artifacts to show that many middle eastern cultures made their way up the Mississippi, some are texts written on stone or copper plates, others such as Roman swords and coins. There is some evidence that a cave filled with Egyptian artifacts was found somewhere along the Mississippi and the description that was left by those who lived there said they were the Ptlolomeic family of Pharoahs fleeing the Roman conquest of Egypt
Stuart Lake BC hides horrors underneath it's waves 😮
My Navajo elders always said their are creatures in the water, mountains, canyons and other places where we should not go. Stay away from the water, even if it's a stream and caves. There's where people disappeared.
Again, like always. Enjoy these great stories from Canada. 👍
This is my first impression of your work and WOW! I loved this so much!❤ thank you
Exquisite video, thank you sir
Written by Jules who?
These stories are great fuel for the imagination. Thanks for your hard work, and thank you for being here to share these stories with us, Hammer. You're doing a good job.
Oh good a whole episode of everybodies least favorite cryptids. How will we escape from the horror of ogo pogo!! Oh yeah we are Land locked
Not scary.
I saw a 40 foot long giant eel-like creature corkscrewing it's way up the Ottawa River about 10 years ago. It was about 2 1/2 feet in diameter and had slick, dark brown leathery skin. Its head and tail were submerged so sadly I didn't get a look at its face. I nearly got video of it on my old ipod shuffle but it was moving too quickly up river. Funny what you see when you spend enough time in certain places..
Funny to hear you say “THE CREATOR”. Never thought of you as believer in creation (not that I am) but it stood out as odd to me. Total respect if that’s so. Awesome channel bro!
There's big critters exactly like this in the coastal Klamath/Trinity River watersheds of Northern California.
Good luck finding it, but there is a book in French called Monstres des lacs du Quebec that covers many intersting stories from Quebec. The one I'm talking about is from 1982 by M Meurger, can't comment on the more recent one with a similar name from a different author. I remember renting it from the local library about 20 years ago, doubt it's ever been properly translated.
Ive been long lining on and off for 30 yrs off Vancouver Island . One season when i first started .A strange creature was hooked ,it looked like a dugong .It was around 7ft long. White and had folds in its skin texture. Sadly when we yarded it up the hook ripped out.
I worked on the MacKenzie river bridge near hay river . The local first nation's saw us wake boarding behind the work jet boat on a day off. They said they never enter the water because a big creature lurked in the river.
Im on Vamcouver island… I saw something in Cameron lake that was either a salamander 8'+ long or a sturgeon…. it was doing figure 8s in the calm water making a very turbulent section ….it then went under.. only to appear fairly far away and do the same thing… there was 4 of us that saw it… nobody to this day know what it was…
Lived in Osoyoos in 2004 and had always enjoyed the mysteries and tales. Great memories, thanks!
Always, always, always a true pleasure to listen to your wonderful content, Mr. Peter’s. Thank you ❤️🔥
I wanna watch this but can't commit 2.5 hours on a single YouTube video
Absolutely love these, thanks for doing so much great research!! Love the lore lol so proud to be Canadian & aboriginal 🥳
Bundles of warts?? 🤮 yuck. Bundles of warts sounds like a GWAR album.
What a interesting compilation, cheers for the upload ❤️
43:17 Okanagan Lake.
NOTICE THAT THESE "SERPENT DEITES" ALWAYS DEMAND HUMAN SACRIFICE. ALWAYS. THUS, IT REVEALS THEIR TRUE IDENTITY, WHICH IS REFERRED TO IN GENESIS CHAPTER 3 AND THE 1ST BOOK OF ENOCH. THEY ARE A CLASS OR "TRIBE" OF FALLEN ELOHIM (ANGELS) KNOWN TO THE ANCIENT HEBREWS AS THE "SERAPHIM" AND WHOM THE SUMERIANS FOOLISHLY WORSHIPPED AS THE "ANUNAKI". THE PROPHET ENOCH CALLED THESE VICIOUS VIPER FACED, 4 WINGED REBEL ANGELIC BEINGS THE "WATCHERS". THESE COSMIC CELESTIAL LITTLE "G" gODS WERE AND STILL ARE IN DIRECT REBELLION AGAINST THE MOST HIGH "GOD OF ALL gODS" THE MIGHTY AND MAJESTIC CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS AND ALL THE EARTH, WHOM THE THE ANCIENT HEBREWS CORRECTLY WORSHIPPED BY THE NAME "YAHWEH". HE IS ALSO REFERRED TO AS "EL-ELYION", AND THESE FALLEN SERPENT gODS ARE SCARED TO DEATH OF HIM AND HIS AWE INSPIRING MAJESTY AND UNLIMITED POWER. HE IS THE "TRIUNE GOD" WHO HAS REVEALED HIMSELF "THRICE" AND EVEN BECAME "MANIFEST" IN HUMAN FORN IN THE PERSON OF HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, THE GREAT ONE, WHO WAS ALSO FEARED BY THE HEIRACHY OF THE FALLEN SERAPHIM AND THEIR LEADER, AZAZEL, AS THE "ANGEL OF THE LORD". THE MIGHTY GOD AND CREATOR OF ALL, IN THE MANIFESTATION OF HIS GLORIOUS SON, "YESHUA" HUMBLED HIMSELF A LITTLE LIWER THAN THESE FALLEN SERPENT gODS AND TOOK ON HUMAN FORM TO UTTERLY DESTROY THIS PATHEON OF FALLEN REBELS BY HIS DEATH AND RESURRECTION. JESUS CHRIST IS LORD AND KING 👑 OF THE UNIVERSE. HE IS RISEN. ONLY ONE HAS RISEN FROM DEATH, AND IT IS NOT A PHAROAH OF EGYPT OR THE SERPENT gOD ENKI/AZAZEL OR THE ANUNAKI. ONLY THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 👑 ………….❤
they arent native, i figured you would know as much.