A serpentine lake creature described across two centuries of accounts as twelve to fifteen meters of dark, multi-humped body moving against the chop. To the Syilx people it was n'ha-a-itk, the spirit of the lake, whose waters near Rattlesnake Island were not crossed without an offering — a protocol early settlers adopted with unusual speed, some reportedly keeping a chicken in the canoe just in case.
The 1926 mass sighting remains the flagship: some thirty cars' worth of beachgoers at Okanagan Mission watched something long and articulated surface offshore in calm water. Film exists from 1968 (the Folden footage) and several later captures; analysis has eliminated boat wakes in some frames and confirmed them in others.
The archive notes the same sober hypotheses offered for Loch Ness — sturgeon, otter chains, seiche waves — and the same stubborn residue of accounts that fit none of them.