Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 19th, 2010 Manipogo is the
name given to the Lake Monster reported to live in Lake
Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada. Sightings of this cryptid have been
known from at least 1908. Other incidents include, in: 1948:
Reported that some sort of creature rose six feet out of the
lake and gave a “prehistoric type of dinosaur cry.” 1957:
Visitors saw a “giant serpent like creature in the lake.” (The
creature was dubbed Manipogo in 1957, the name echoing British
Columbia’s Ogopogo.) Sketch by Louis Bretecher, who saw the
creature in the 1950s when he was about 18. 1962: Two fishermen
saw a large creature like a serpent or giant snake 70 yards away
from their boat. A claimed “photo” was taken this year, also
(see above and below). According to an August 18th Winnipeg Free
Press column by Neil Babaluk, the Manitoba government decided to
name the Toutes Aides area park, the Manipogo Provincial Park,
after the Lake Monster. Babaluk writes, about his recent trip to
the park: Not surprisingly,