Alberta Lake Monsters

A Catalog of Reports

Athabasca River

• Anon. "Alberta has Ogopogo all its own, declare trappers from north" Edmonton Journal Sept. 10, 1927: p. 18

  Battle River

• Anon. "Hundreds Seek Glimpse of Ogopogo at Rosalind" Edmonton Journal June 11, 1934: p. 1

  Bow River

  Bowness Lagoon, Calgary

• Anon. "`Ogopogo' Captured in Bowness Lagoon" Calgary Herald July 30, 1942: pp. 1-2

  Chip Lake?

  Clearwater River

• Anon. "Ogopogo Raises Ugly Head, Snatches Calf" Edmonton Journal Oct. 18, 1946

  Also see North Sasketchewan River

  Cold Lake

  - Kinosoo

  Cow Lake

  Cristina Lake

  Heart Lake

• Creswell, Dene. "Mysterious skull found at Heart Lake" Edmonton Journal Nov. 20, 1983: p. B10

  Lake McGregor

  Lake Minnewanka

• Berwick, Dennison. "Mile-long Minnewanka monster still elusive" Calgary Herald Aug. 8, 1981: p. E5

  Lesser Slave Lake?

  North Sasketchewan River

• Schierholtz, C. A. "Monstrous Ogopogo Scares Indians at Rocky Mountain House" Calgary Herald Apr. 29, 1939: p. 25

• Anon. "Rocky Mountain Terror" Calgary Herald July 27, 1942: p. 1

• Anon. "Monster `Breathes Fire,' Scares Boys In River at Rocky Mountain House" Edmonton Journal July 24, 1942: p. 1

• Anon. "Ogopogo's Return Reported By Airman" Calgary Herald Sept. 16, 1942: p. 1

• Anon. "He Saw Ogopogo, Says Rocky Visitor" Calgary Herald July 18, 1941: p. 17

• Anon. "Mountain Ogopogo Appears Again" Edmonton Journal Sept. 10, 1942: p. 1

• Anon. "River `Monster' Sends Swimmers Scramblng" Calgary Herald July 24, 1942: p. 1

• Anon. "Ogopogo thought on Loose Again; Dead Sheep Found on River Bank" Edmonton Journal Oct. 19, 1943

  Saddle Lake

• Van Krieken, Chris. "Mystery of the Saddle Lake monster haunts residents" Edmonton Journal Aug. 31, 1984: p. B5

• Cohen, Lori and Brian Wilford. "The Serpent of Saddle Lake" Alberta Report Sept. 17, 1984: pp. 1, 26, and 28

• Van Krieken, Chris. "Computer hunts for lake monsters" Edmonton Journal Oct. 14, 1984: p. B3

• Sheppard, Robert. "Halloween (Saddle Lake) `monster' search termed coincidence, not joke" Globe and Mail Oct 30, 1984: p. 9

• CP. "Seach for Lake monster delayed until spring" Globe and Mail Oct 31, 1984 pg 8.

• Van Krieken, Chris. "Monster search cancelled as Saddle Lake freezes up" Edmonton Journal Aug. 31, 1984: p. B5

• CP. "Province drops hunt for monster" Calgary Herald Apr. 18, 1984" p. E7

  South Saskatchewan River

• CP. "Newspaperman sees Agopogo [sic]" Calgary Herald June 9, 1949: p. 27

  Twin Lakes

  Waterton Lakes

  General Arcticles

• MacEan, Grant. "Marine monsters great boon for tourism" Calgary Herald Dec. 15, 1984: p. G12

• Blain, Joanne. "Local monsters" Calgary Herald Jan. 2, 1982: p. C2

• Benedict, W. Ritchie. "The Unknown Lake Monsters of Alberta" Strange Magazine No. 5: pp. 47-49, 52

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