Hi there. Thanks for taking my call. I've lived in Kelowna my whole life, right on the shore of Okanagan Lake, and I'm calling about something I saw back in the summer of '89. My husband always said I should tell somebody about this, so here I am. So anyway, this happened in July, middle of the afternoon. Beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky. I was out on our dock with my sister visiting from Vancouver. We were just sitting there having iced tea, watching the lake. The water was absolutely calm that day, like glass.
My sister was telling me about some problem she was having with her landlord, I remember that clearly. I was only half listening, you know, just enjoying the sunshine. And then I noticed something out on the water, maybe 200 yards from our dock. At first I thought it was a log or something floating. But then it moved. Not like drifting, I mean it moved on its own, cutting through the water. I said to my sister, 'What the hell is that?' She stopped mid-sentence and looked where I was pointing. It was dark, almost black, and it was long. Real long. I'd say maybe 20, 25 feet of it was visible above the water. And here's the thing, it had these humps. Three of them, spaced out along its back. They rose up out of the water one after another, like it was undulating as it swam.
My sister grabbed my arm so hard she left a bruise. We both just stood there watching this thing move across the lake. It wasn't fast, but it was steady, purposeful. The humps would rise and fall, rise and fall. You could see the water disturbed around it, ripples spreading out. I tried to see a head or a tail, something that would tell me what it was. But I couldn't make out either end clearly. It was just this long dark shape with those three humps breaking the surface. distinct humps are consistently described - Connor' The whole thing was maybe 30 or 40 feet long total, I'd guess, based on how much we could see. We watched it for, I don't know, maybe three minutes? Could've been longer. Time gets weird when you're seeing something like that. It was heading south, parallel to the shore, and it just kept that same steady pace the whole time.
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