John Kirk

A cryptozoologist and writer, John Kirk turns up in this archive weighing the evidence of lake monsters. He belonged to the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club. In 2005 he joined Benjamin Radford and Joe Nickell at Okanagan Lake for the National Geographic Channel series Is It Real?, revisiting Art Folden's 1968 Ogopogo film. Their survey placed the object much closer to shore. On the 1962 Manipogo photograph from Lake Manitoba, he argued that anything smaller than the largest reported sizes could be a sturgeon. His 2006 Cryptomundo article detailed the 1978 Kawaji family sighting of Issie at Lake Ikeda.

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Richard Vincent and John Konefell's Manipogo Photograph, Lake Manitoba (1962)

August 1962 · Lake Manitoba, near Meadow Portage and the mouth of the Waterhen River, Manitoba

Canada

Cryptid · Creature · 23 sources · 2 photos

25Thinly documented

Cryptozoologist and author of In the Domain of Lake Monsters

Art Folden's Ogopogo film, Okanagan Lake (1968)

c. 1968 · Highway 97 beside Okanagan Lake, south of Peachland, British Columbia

Canada

Cryptid · Creature · 26 sources · 1 photos

25Thinly documented

British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, member of the 2005 team

Issie, the Lake Ikeda Monster: The Kawaji Family Sighting

September 3, 1978 · Lake Ikeda, Ikeda-Isaki district, Ibusuki City, Kagoshima Prefecture

Japan

Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources

30Partially documented

Cryptozoology writer whose 2006 Cryptomundo article detailed the case