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- PENTICTON, British Columbia
(Reuters) - Wanted: Scientific evidence of one elusive mythical lake monster.
Will pay C$2 million ($1.3 million). No capture necessary.
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- After years of unconfirmed sightings, Ogopogo -- Western
Canada's equivalent of the Loch Ness monster -- now has a reward on its
head thanks to local businessmen, who have taken out an insurance policy
just in case it is found.
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- "There have been so many sightings you have to believe
there's something out there," John Singleton, manager of Penticton's
chamber of commerce, which hopes the C$2-million reward will also boost
tourism, said on Monday.
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- Stories of a large serpent-like creature living in Okanagan
Lake, a 97-mile (155-km) long, 1,800-foot (720-meter) deep waterway in
southern British Columbia, date back to the region's Indians who called
it N'Ha-a-itk -- "The Lake Demon."
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- Japanese researchers tried several years ago to search
the lake with special radar, but found nothing before their project ran
out of money.
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- The reward's winner will have to meet specific scientific
criteria to prove what they have found is Ogopogo and not just an unusually
large sturgeon or other fish that lives in the lake, Singleton said.
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- He said his office has been deluged with phone calls
since the reward plan was first reported, including some from people who
are worried Ogopogo will be hurt or killed.
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- "You don't have to capture it. We're not going to
put him in a zoo," Singleton said.
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