Oklahoma Octopus – A group of teenagers has apparently filed another sighting of the elusive Oklahoma Octopus whose existence has not been proven but is feared nonetheless.
The Oklahoma Octopus sightings go back to native Americans talking of this Oklahoma Lake Monster.
Thought by some to be responsible for the high rate of deaths on these fresh water lakes, the Oklahoma Octopus has been spotted in Lake Thunderbird, Lake Oolagah, and Lake Tenkiller.
This Oklahoma Lake Monster is reported to have the overall look of an octopus with reddish-brown, leathery skin and is said to reach the size of a horse. Other descriptions say it looks like a shark with tentacles.
No physical evidence or pictures exist on this fresh water octopus that supposedly calls Oklahoma home, and scientists know of no fresh water species anywhere in the world, but cannot offer any alternative for what some have reported seeing in these lakes for centuries.
If you have seen this creature or know someone who has, leave your story in the comments section below.
That’s the latest chatter about the Oklahoma Octopus.
Tags: lake monsters, Lake Oolagah, Lake Tenkiller, Lake Thunderbird, Oklahoma Lake Monster, Oklahoma Octopus
January 14th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
i saw that story on the animal planet last night i was scared so u know a little creppy how many deaths were in the lake or lake.
January 14th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
holy crap i live in oklahoma and im never swimming in these lakes again…freakin jerks..How and Who put them there?
January 14th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Yeah i watched this last night as well, pretty awesome, that’s why i was lookin’ it up today at work, definitely intriguing.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
[...] 411 Chatter reports that the Oklahoma octopus, though never officially confirmed, has been spotted in several area lakes and is “thought by some to be responsible for the high rate of deaths on several fresh water lakes.” Another blog, WinWab, hosts clips of the original video. Perhaps some brave soul can use the Aqua Underwater Craft to settle the debate once and for all. [...]
January 14th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
haha i saw it on lost tapes last night, and totally believed it. like the tapes look so real. so were there really teens missing from the lake?
January 19th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I just read about it on AOL and my friend and I talked about it the other night. he says he saw it on Animal Planet and I wonder, why wouldnt anyone (as a group of about 5 or so) not try to investigate this?al they would need is spearfishing equiptment for protection and scuba gear and those lakes could be thoroughly searched. now my friend is worried about me scuba diving….ugh!
January 20th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I went on a trip to lake thunderbird recently and my dad went in the water to swim around for around 2 minutes he was headup swimming fine and all the sudden he got pulled down and then grabbed a red-brown thing and threw it in the air and while he had his chance he swam faster than life towards the raft and made it thankfully, We call ourself monster trip people
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm
i was attaked by it and my two friends were killed by it and i got away with a broken or fractured rib and a broken arm just so you know they grab your upper body squeeze and drag you under and if you see one even if its dead dont touch the suckers it will still stick to you i got out of its grip and swam to the surface and i saw him he is in lake GEORGE in new york and he was about 4 feet wide so dont tell me he is a hoax
January 28th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Everyone please give me information on these things!!!
February 5th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
i saw things and these things that i saw are freaky and i also saw a bat with wings and the womp you dont have to listen to me you just have to hear me i have pictures of these things
February 8th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
anyone who thinks an octopus can live in freshwater needs to have their head examined and if their was 5 kids and three of them died then they must have been drinking and three of them must have drowned i have a phd in zoology and i am 28 years old and know what i am talking about
February 17th, 2009 at 12:51 am
the mortality rate of swimmers in these lakes is not from some “monster” it is a bunch of drunk idiots who don’t know how to swim!
I have grown up going to each of these lakes and have NEVER heard of this so called Octopus! Not once in 30 years. I just heard this rumor today!
February 21st, 2009 at 10:51 am
An octopus can’t live in fresh water, whoever thinks they can needs to have a head examination.It would have to be bred with a weird kind of mutant fish that can go from salt water to fresh water.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
This is crazy! My husband and I are watching it on Lost Tapes right now. We have both lived in Oklahoma our entire lives and have NEVER heard of the “Oklahoma Octopus”. I’m not saying there aren’t things out there that we don’t know about but this is nuts! Gidgit is right the people, mostly college kids, that go to these lakes are almost all falling down drunk! I have swam in Oklahoma lakes every summer of my life and have never seen anything other than fish and turtles.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
i just saw the lost tapes.creepy! im glad lake mathis in texas has never had a sighting like that.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
joshua says:
“i saw things and these things that i saw are freaky and i also saw a bat with wings and the womp you dont have to listen to me you just have to hear me i have pictures of these things”
really, u saw a bat with wings?
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
does anyone know the teens names that encountered the creature if u know tht will really help me .
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:13 pm
i ment yahoo.com
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Lol. Since you saw it on tv, it must be real! (Sarcasm). I saw godzilla terrorise Tokyo in a movie, so I guess godzilla is living in a sewer. I saw this crap on animal planet just for laughs. The kids were drinking, in the beginning of the video the dude said “let’s break out the beer”. If the kids drowned it was caused by inebriation not a snake, oops I mean red octopuss. The video is a hoax the whole series is a compilation of mockumentaries. But hey we all have to believe in something huh!
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:21 pm
This note is in response to post #11 above: Joshua, judging by your English proficiency (or lack thereof), I would be surprised if you have attended anything beyond 3rd grade, left alone a Ph.D. in zoology.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:55 pm
I saw it on lost tapes and accordingly 3 teenagers died as a result of drowing.. a long, in what appears to be tentacle is seen in one of the tapes surfacing on the lake in daylight…at the end of “The Lost Tapes” their bodies were never recovered…does anybody know about this event being in the news…I never heard in in the news except in ‘THE LOST TAPES’
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 am
holy crap! i live in oklahoma but i dont swim so i dont drown!
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:07 pm
time to hunt it!!!!!! I never tried calimary
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:09 pm
ever heard of trollin for fish. we’ll just have joshua ski behind the boat with a hook on his back
February 24th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I watched this article on animal planet on Sunday “Lost Tapes” and it had 5 teenagers swiming and one guy was filming and caught the octopus on tape but didnt mention it to this friends.. later that night 3 of them were killed and you can see this octopus on the live video camera.. very creepy!
February 26th, 2009 at 2:37 am
I love how it says there is no alternative explanation for what people have reported seeing in these lakes for centuries. The three “infested” lakes however, are manmade and are no older than 60 years.
February 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Hahaha, I live in Oklahoma, and here is some of the REAL scoop. The mentioned lakes were all MAN-MADE after 1940, so how could there wouldn’t be old Native American legends about these lakes…totally fake.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Those teens probably were drunk, 3 drowned and 2 just made up the whole story because they needed one to cover for the teens that died in the lake.It’s my opinion.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Sorry I thought it said 5 teens went to the lake, my bad.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
This is a response to Tony Davids who responded to Joshua a very nice comment, but get your facts straight and learn to read i said i got a PHD in zoology not in grammar or English second off jdteaz2pleaz that is not very mature trollin for fish even though it does sound fun i am going to have to pass on that and Dani this is what this story sounds like to me how the heck could an octopus live in a lake or for that matter even freshwater i think you people are all crazy and need your heads examined for believing this it is simply illogical and it is funny only kids saw this so called octopus and no one else has, anyone important that is so if you respond to this you will receive another long comment like this and it wont be as kind as this one has thank you for reading and have a nice day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 4th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I think this Joshua guy is right and if he has a PHD people should listen to him and not a couple of most likely drunk teens.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
This is a response to Dani.Yeah Josh saw a bat with wings haven’t you….I have.
March 18th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I a full-blood Creek. Me and my people have caught and ate these creatures. They taste best with creole seasoning and some original Lousiana hot sauce.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:15 am
hela got scared something almost pulled me down wen i was swimming but i got so scared thht i thiuuhgt i was going to be pulled down by the lake monster
April 5th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Very interesting. Mr PHD would you explain the sea creature fossils found in Lake Texhoma? How about the salt mines under the great lakes. The facts it seems is there are few facts. Science has no explanation for many things including creation. Doesn’t the missisippi drain into the salt water gulf of Mexico. What if the sea level was higher and the salt water went up the missisippi into the Ports of Oklahoma. Then the octopus decided he like Oklahoma and stuck around. He saw lots of fat people and knew there was much food. He came alone and had no kids that’s why he likes the young ones. This was told me by an old old Indian named “He sleeps with socks on”. His son had some clothing made from the skin. It was a hat commonly worn now by clowns and black people. It has 6 to 8 multi-color tentacles coming out with cotton puff balls on the end.
April 5th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
If there are SOOO many deaths, why doesn’t ANYONE do anything about it?!?!? Where I live they shocked the lake 10 or so years ago and all the fish surfaced. Why cant they do it to the lakes where the people were attacked and find the darn octopus? I am so curious to see how it got there and how big it was…..
April 6th, 2009 at 12:59 am
lol have any of you thought that maybe ANPLT made up the story to see how many people out there just might come out and say “hey this happened to me!” even though it didnt……………..
April 6th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Wow, lol people just asume its a real video.
They are actors.
April 6th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
This is a bunch of crap…..ppl in Oklahoma get a life!!!!!!!!!!
April 6th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
this is a load of crap there is no octopus in the lake they are ocean animals not lake animals … and how did it get there ? did it just crawl out the ocean and go to lake ten killer .. yea right !!!! thats got to be the dumbest thing ive eevveerr haerd!!!
April 6th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
yes its very real. i have the actual newspaper that shows photos of the poor 3 teens that died that day. Tyler Shuman, Ruthy Simple, and Bruce DelRoy….they were real people and now dead. And Shawn and Tracie’s medical records noted the blister-like wounds and scabs…..most likely caused by an octapus.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
hey yeah saw it on animal planet scarry shit i won’t swim in anything else but my pool but if anyone knows anything about this please e-mail me want to know as much about it as i can i hopefull can make a trip down 2 lake tenkiller i want 2 catch and kill this octopus!!!!
April 7th, 2009 at 12:34 am
I would not go swimming in ANY lake in Oklahoma. People dump things in there all the time, just because they don’t want them. Who’s to say nothings been dumped in our lakes? Tenkiller, I’ve heard is so polluted, who knows! How people can swim in that is beyond me. I am a lake girl, but I dislike the water! There HAVE been unexplained drownings with no bodies found in Oklahoma. Dunno what lakes, but…yeah def ppl are also drowning from drinking. I aint goin’ in Lake Tenkiller, not risking it! It culd be something else, not an octopus. We got weird things breeding nowdays.
Howver, just for the record I’ve heard that the lost tapes are knowledged to have been doctored. part real part fake.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
well i been rearching this thing since yesturday and came up with somefacts, lake tenkiller does exist so thats not made up, Freshwater Octopus’s do exist they been found in lousiana and kentucky they are a different species called octopus filosus/hummelinki just for the guy who claimed to be a zoolagist well will return with more up dates as i come along
April 8th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
I say we steal a really big boat and trick the mythbusters into making a giant (automatic) indestructible fishing rod. Ok one of you is going to be the bait (not me i’ve got my life ahead of me!) and have a hook surgically attached to your back. Ok i was joking, but i do believe that their is something unusual living in Oklahoma’s lakes i don’t know if it is a giant octopus but i admit their is SOMETHING unusual in those lakes.
April 10th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Wow, I saw it on Lost Tapes too. I do believe that really happened because i believe that there are many species that humans have not yet discovered. I think that the camara teen that survived feels guilty about his friends death because he never told them about it
April 16th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
this is just to all of those, especially the brainiac with the “phd in zoology”…i would just like to bring up the fact that biologists and scientists of all types aren’t right 100 percent of the time. how close minded can people be? i mean seriously, people who say that there is no way for something like this to exist must know everything, and in this case, must know every species of aquatic animals there are. perhaps i could point your attention in the direction of the bull shark (an aquatic organism i may add) and continue by explaining the fact that these sharks have adapted from merely tropical saltwater habitats to cold freshwater habitats. if a species of shark can adapt to fit any environment (including rivers in the US), then why is it impossible for a species of octupus to do the same thing. and is it also not possible that its merely a rare undiscovered species? just because someone hasn’t seen or heard about something, doesn’t make something fictional. please give me the names of every person who has heard of and seen every animal. i’m not saying that this “lake monster” exists, i’m just stating the fact that it’s stupid to make assumptions about something you know nothing about. i am 17 years old and have been interested in zoology for so long and have decided to major in that, and marine biology, in the fall. i would just like to say that not all kids drink and that shouldn’t be the first thought that comes to the minds of the people investigating their deaths. i am appauld by people who believe they know everything…and just for the record, this is my opinion on the topic, so NO ONE can prove it false =]
April 27th, 2009 at 1:31 am
I feel some of these events are real. Starting with eye witnesses and tragic results. These creatures can become really big with food and space. As you seen on T.V. we have evidence of fresh water fishes that can weigh about 300 pounds. Snakes and other creatures always breaking a record every year. With their body structure, these creatures have the advantage underwater. We all know our body weight decreases underwater (average 7 year old can lift a 180 pound person underwater). An average person can only swim-pull about 25-20 pounds of force. These Creatures can pull 4 to 5 times that amount. Imagine swimming in a lake that is say 20 feet down. You have a force dragging you 4 to 5 times stronger than what you can repel. Theses numbers are not made up, but facts from observations of these creatures. If these creatures pull and never let go, and knowing some creatures are meat eaters, I’ll let you guys decide what will happen next.
April 27th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I am from Oklahoma and native american. Who knows what lays at the bottom of these lakes. The lake near me has catfish that are as big as cars. Mutations have and will still happen. Who knows what has and hadn’t mutated.
May 5th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
I live in Indonesia and I saw it on “Lost Tapes” last night. If it’s all a hoax, does it include the recording, too? Also, wat about those three teens whose pictures were splashed on TV, and pronounced dead. These are real people. If they’re not dead, someone somewhere must’ve known they’re no longer around.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I cant believe it when it said,”Oklahoma Octopus – A group of teenagers has apparently filed another sighting of the elusive Oklahoma Octopus whose existence has not been proven but is feared nonetheless.”
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May 17th, 2009 at 12:42 am
I’ve never liked swimming in lakes and ponds much, because not knowing what is around me is scary.
like others have said, no one ever truly knows what is out there. there are so many different species of animals and bugs in the world that have yet to be discovered, and many that will probably never be. to say that something is impossible is more of an opinion, not necessarily fact. something may seem improbable, but that doesn’t mean it is. that doesn’t it isn’t, either.
unless they thoroughly search or drain the lake, or concrete evidence is found that there actually is an octopus in a freshwater lake, nobody knows for sure whether they exist or not.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
i live in oklahoma, and go to lake tenkiller EVERY weekend, i have had no trouble, at all! i go swimming, i ride the waverunner, i do all of that.. && nothing has got me yet. so, you shouldn’t be scared, you should just be careful, and always swim with someone else. like a “buddy system” or something.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
JUST THIS WEEKEND MYSELF AND A BUNCH OF FAMILY WERE JUST DRIFTING ABOUT AT LAKE TENKILLER. WE SEEN SOMETHING FLOATING ABOUT TEN FEET FROM THE BOAT. WE THOUGHT IT WAS A LIFE JACKET THAT SOMEONE LOST BUT WHEN WE GOT CLOSE IT LOOKED LIKE SOME KIND OF DEAD FISH OR SOMETHING. MY SON AND I TRIED TO HOOK IT BUT WE COULD NOT PULL IT UP. THIS THING DEFENETLY RESEMBLED AND OCTAPUS. WE WENT BACK TO CAMP AND CALLED THE ARMY CORE OF ENGINEERS PARK RANGER. WE TOLD THEM WHAT WE SEEN AND WERE IT WAS. THEY ASKED IF WE GOT PICTURES AND WE SAID NO. THE RANGER SAID WE WOULD NOT WANT TO GET EVERYONE IN AN UPROAR OVER A FISH. HE SAID THE PARK COULD LOOSE ALOT OF MONEY IF EVERYONE WAS AFRAID TO GO IN THE WATER. SOUNDED LIKE A COVER UP IF YOU ASK ME!
June 16th, 2009 at 1:06 am
yal are scared because of a stupid octopus? just dont go to lake thumderbird,oolsgah,tenkiller. duh even the stipidest person would know that.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:10 am
tell someone to go catch that thing in an underwater mobile n put the octy into the oklohoma zoo for exibition
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:39 pm
I have lived five miles away from Lake Tenkiller my entire life. Divers have seen giant catfish as one lady mentioned earlier. They have also found juvenile alligators on two different occasions in the lake. That alone is enough to keep me from swimming in the water regardless if there is an octopus in it or not.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:39 am
i just hope you guys know that lost tapes on animal planet is acted out . but i do think these creatures might exist.
July 11th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
i have seen an octopus in a lake too. i was coming out of my parents condo and saw this two foot long brown leathery tentacle shot out of the water and crash back down in our cove by a dock. this was in lake of the ozarks and i’ve seen it two or three times in the summer already!
July 18th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
The Oklahoma Octopus was based on a article a guy
wrote a few years back. I looked it up. When you read the
article it became pretty clear the story was a fabrication by
a man who knew almost nothing about the state’s history
or geography. There were several major problems with his
story.
1) He described the lakes as small lakes in the Ozarks.
Thunderbird is in the cross timbers in Norman, OK. Oolagah is in a band of northern prairie near the Ozarks.
He also in another article switched Tenkiller to Arcadia.
2) There are no naturally occurring lakes in the state,
save for a few oxbows and the playas out in the panhandle. All lakes were made from the late 30s to early
40s as part of the public works act. Its kinda hard to have
sightings of lake monsters going back hundreds of years
in 60 year old lakes.
3) There are native american stories about the octopus
going back thousands of years. Most of the tribes in Oklahoma were transplanted there in the 1830s. The
tribes that settled around in the areas were the lakes
would be made were all forced to move there from eastern forests. The original tribes in the area (Apache,
Caddo, Kiowa, and Witchita) have no such stories.
4) Most marine species cannot readily make the transition
from fresh water to salt water. I might be mistaken, but
I do not believe the octopi and squid have a gland to regulate salt. The salt differences would cause the osmotic pressure in the cells to get out of wack, causing
fresh water to seep in and try to balance. The octopus would puff up and pop. (Note: there are some species
like the bull shark and the horseshoe crab that can do this, but they have special adaptations.)
July 21st, 2009 at 1:31 pm
It’s FAKE all the kids or adults that think this so called octopus is real…Just to tell you it’s fake what do you guys still believe in the tooth fairy.
July 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
i just saw this today and i just got back from lake tenkiller yesterday i spent the hole day on the boat swimming. i dont usually like going to lakes cuz i get weird feelings about lakes and wats in them. wen i saw this is actually believed it but i know its not true but now i dont wanna swim in any lakes anymore. lol
August 13th, 2009 at 12:31 am
I have grown up in Norman Oklahoma. Right across from Clear Bay Lake Thunderbird! As we always called it Dirtybird! It is really really freaking dirty! So what I am saying is you could walk to the lake from where I grew up. If someone died at the lake, oh everyone would have been talking about it! I never heard of this until it was on TV. I know the catfish get to be way huge! I am telling you this never happened! It was made up!
August 13th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Oh and lake Thunderbird was man made sometime around 1960! I have never heard of there being any over wash into it?
September 1st, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Don’t be fooled by the show “Lost Tape”. Watch it again in slow motion and you can spot the glitches. Tot Discovery Channel suppose to show real stuff.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Joshua, no one likes a smart ass, and ur a douschebag
September 4th, 2009 at 10:18 am
hey guys, i think it so ekstrem but sometimes i will said with people who was victims with dangerous animal…
September 4th, 2009 at 10:19 am
abot the octopus and the thunder bird it like so mystery story
September 14th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
When my friends and I went on our annual lake trip, we saw something that poked its head out of the water and then went back under. We ignored it thinking it was nothing but then we saw it again. My best friend Nicole
felt something rub against her leg then something grabbed her and pulled her under. Luckily we were in shallow water so one of our friends, Lane, jumped in to save her but Lane jumped in the water even though he could not swim. So sadly I had to jump in a save both of them. All of us came up safley but scarred our lives forever…………
September 27th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
everyone just calm down, this is a fake story, if you just type on a google search ” lost tapes cast octopus” youll find the real names of the cast and they are trust me, still alive and good……its all just a show animal planet has made for our amusement……maybe the myths might, i repeat might be real…..but the stories are all completely fake……
September 28th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I seen that on animal planet… Poor guys…
September 29th, 2009 at 8:43 am
From varied descriptions, and local lore of
the lakes, I would surmise that it is most
likely real, but not an octopus.
I think very large catfish whiskers
could look like tentacles. This would also
explain how they were seen occasionally
above water, where octopi have no support.
This would also fit with the relatively shark like
description, and dark coloration.
Just a guess though.
October 10th, 2009 at 1:05 am
I believe that when people say they seen something then yes they seen something. To call someone a liar because we have never seen it doesn’t mean it don’t exsist. Check Bigfoot sightings. It’s the only U.S. monkey. And they have fossils from when it exsisted, why say it’s extint just because they are not seen? And the lockNess monster is a plesiasaurus (lol however it’s spelt). They knew they exsisted just like the alligator exsisted way back then, although it was HUGE. They can hide in deep underwater caves. There still is alot of land never touched by humans. And nothing is impossible just look at Australia’s crazy mixed animals. The platapuss, a mammal with a beak and lays eggs, if I didn’t know it was pictured and studied I would definatly say it’s not real! And the little deer with gills! You can never know until someone else tells you it’s real? Why not an eye wittness then?
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:08 am
(1)Lost Tapes is all fake, people. If you pay attention to the show, it even says these are situations that MIGHT be possible IF people were attacked by cryptids, or something along those lines. (2)Anyone with a PhD of ANY KIND should at least have grammatical, punctuation, and writing skills befitting a person who’s actually graduated high school, and attended college, let alone who’s earned a damned doctorate. Even undergrads and masters level grad students have to do a hell of a lot of papers for extremely picky professors. (3)Bats generally do have wings, there, Einstein. (4)I’ve had relatives who lived and/or vacationed in the Tenkiller area going back for decades and never once did I hear any lake monster stories from any of them. (5)If, in fact, the three Oklahoma lakes in question are manmade, and have only existed since the 40s or so; it’s pretty difficult to imagine cryptids of any sort existing in that water. I’m positive beyond the shadow of a doubt that there are many cryptids, perhaps even outright monsters (aside from terrorists, child molestors, rapists, murderers, drug dealers, gangbangers, “rap” and “hip hop” scumbags, most of Hollywood, Osamabama & Co., and liberal commucrats); however, any sizeable lifeform, excluding water moccasins, etc. coming from the surrounding land, able to pose a threat to humans would pretty well have had to be intentionally introduced into a manmade, freshwater lake. (6)Turn off the TV, XBox, Playstation, FaceySpace, IPod, cellphone, etc., get some actual exercise for a change, and hey, READ A DAMN BOOK.
October 26th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I live in oklahoma and my friends were the ones who went missing we were swimming and all of the sudden a my friend got sucked under water the rest of the day we were searching for him but we never found him. D:
November 16th, 2009 at 5:21 am
I live next to lake thunderbird and go swimming there with my friends and I have never heard of the oklahoma octopus.. (until i watched it on animal planet) =(
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:54 am
People are madd dumb!! I feel that if there is an animal living in these particular lakes than someone would do someting about it. For instance the park rangers would put a sign up saying “No Swimming”, giving people the impression that they should refrain from entering the water! All i’m saying is that we need to be practicle, not theatricle.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Wtf i’ve lived in Oklahoma all my life and have NEVER heard about this wtf and I live right next to lake thunderbird :I
November 25th, 2009 at 12:52 am
I have lived in Oklahoma all my life,Never have i heard anything about any of this non-sense.This would have made local news stations,and it never has.Lost tapes is just for entertainment,its not real.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:50 am
lmao u people are rediculous have u even done your research? there is no story on this and NO footage available online. The one from lost tapes is not real and it tells you its a re-enactment!!! dipshits
November 25th, 2009 at 2:13 am
You people are dumbasses. It’s a FICTIONAL story. This is from the show’s page on the Animal Planet website: “This first-person, immersive series blurs the line between fact and fiction as it explores deadly encounters with the mysterious creatures that science refuses to recognize. ” That is in ADDITION to the fact that during the show, they repeatedly put up on the screen “this story is inspired by rumors of the existence of hidden creatures.” DUH. Those teenagers dont exist, and there is no “Oklahoma Octopus” at all. I live an hour away from Lake Tenkiller and have for 30 years and nobody I know has ever heard of such a thing. I see some references to it on the web but that doesnt make it any more valid than Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. I wouldnt be suprised if this page had been setup by someone associated with the show.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:23 am
To start, I am a marine and freshwater biology major at a state university in New England. I have spent a lot of time studying all sorts of aquatic life, including cephalopods. The credibility of this story must be examined closely. The lakes in question were formed by the damning of rivers in the mid 1900′s which exludes the possibility that it used to be a flood plain for the ocean. Another problematic area is the concept that this octopus could be as large as a horse. Humboldt squid, which are found in the Sea of Cortez and along the West coast reach six feet in length, with a much larger environment. An organism will only reach a size that is sustainable and suited to the habitat. While an octopus may be able to consume large amounts, they do not hunt large prey. They are most likely to eat large numbers of small fish, not small numbers of large prey.
The fact that catfish inhabit these lakes could be the explanation for the reported sightings and even a possible cause of drownings. In the Mekong River in Thailand, the catfish can reach lengths up to 9 feet and can weigh up to 650 lbs. These fish have also been reported to grab onto human limbs and drag the individual underwater, even though they are not carnivorous.
Before jumping to conclusions which are improbable and unsubstantiated, people should search for the more plausible cause.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:57 am
i cannot see why a show like animal planet would put such a thing on,unless there was something there…about people saying they were being sucked under water..very large cat fish can do that,when they open their mouth to take in food ,they also create a large suction …so it is possible for a person to be sucked in,if they are that big..in india,they have man eater cat fish with large teeth,possibly the catfish are huge enough to ingest a full grown person???…well hopefully…if this is real…it will continue to get funded so more research and a possible solution can be found….from the pictures…it looks like a real nice place to live ,if you like waterfront living…i would be real interested in finding out whats going on..good luck..!..and carry a big knife when you swim..like tarzan..at least u might be able to get a piece of it..!
November 25th, 2009 at 4:40 am
hey great postings..i saw the same episode on animal planet too..also saw man eater cat fish in india,on monster quest…what i am getting at is ; possibly something is wrong there and for some reason the problem is getting worse instead of better…for a show like animal planet to get involved,seems like some people there at least are trying to make something public…great idea…get to the solution…it’s watch dog people like you and others that we need going after the rich controlling families and the crooked diplomats too..america might then start to be a better palce to live…the way this country is run…there certainly could be a cover up,or a lack of interest,it’s easy to blame drunks…!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:40 am
i wach it last night to crepy
November 25th, 2009 at 10:33 am
omg i saw that last night on lost tapes and had to look it up to see if that realy happen wow now i know where not to swim that was scary
i wonder what happen to the 2 who lived
November 25th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Saltwater animals can adapt to fresh water i saw lost tapes and it is crazy i am not swimming in the lakes anymore
November 25th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I have lived 20 min from Lake Thunderbird for 23 yrs and won’t swim there because of all the drowning there. For years I have thought the drownings were because the lake was builted on old indian burial grounds. The rumur is that the indians said 1 person would drowned for every indian that was disturbed there. I don’t know what the reason is but I do know the lake is strange. And strange things have been happening there for years……..
Oh yeah and for you spell check people. I NEVER SAID I HAD A PHD OR COULD SPELL. THANKS
November 28th, 2009 at 12:30 am
omfg i saw this the other day and i was totally sacred. i really don’t what to believe to tell yall the truth and i like to make a comment on the person who said that freshwater octopus lives in louisiana well you are wrong cuz i lived in louisiana for all my life so i would have heard of it
December 4th, 2009 at 4:42 am
I was born and raised in the state of Oklahoma and when in High School it was required of to take Oklahoma history and during the course I learned that most of the lakes that are there are manmade. So when Jim said that they were created in the 30s it wasn’t fabrication.
With that said I remember as a kid stories that other kids would saw about the lakes there and our personal favorite one to go to was Lake Oologah. Never once did I hear of anything about an Octopus but people would tell stories of a “monster” in the lake. Who knows really, most of this could just be a good story to scare people. –But I do however remember sitting in a raft in the lake and feel something kick the underside of the raft. It of course scared me and I remembered the stories that were told to me I hurried back as fast as I could to the shore and from that point I never got in a lake again [it was that and the fact most lakes are just gross to me]. Maybe it was my mind playing tricks on me, who can really say I just know what my experience was . . .
Anyways, that was my two cents worth on the show Lost Tapes: Oklahoma Octopus. And when I was watching it today it looked fake to me and it seemed extremely scripted.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I just finished watching the show in discovery channel. is it true about those a group of friends consisting 5 of them who just graduated a year ago from high school? After watching the show it made me wonder, how could the officers not bother to look for the remaining 3 people of the group in the area? Why can’t anyone try to consider putting an underwater camera at the lake to see if there is a possibility of anything, that “octopus”, to be existing by the lake? it may be expensive or costly, but to put the legend/myth/stories to end, and for people not to have delusions about the fact that there really is a monster in the lake.
It’s just a suggestion. but still it really is something to think about.
let us not be encouraged by the recent drownings to be the cause of a monster. Analyze. Observe. Investigate. That is the only way to settle this, and for everyone to be at peace. 
December 11th, 2009 at 10:42 am
At first I was searching for The Mothman in Lost Tapes but I came over The Oklahoma Octopus.
I have watched the whole episode of it in Lost Tapes.
I’m actually here because, like most of us, I’m researching if the characters there were true. I know the whole STORY was only INSPIRED by the probability of the existence of this creature. Anyhow, so far I’ve read 2 comments of different people claiming that the people in the video were real (unfortunately, their words were EXACTLY alike).
Even though, we cannot be sure of the cause of the drowning of these teenagers (if true) or any other person that might have drowned there.
Let’s not make any comments about them being drunk and stuff. That could be possible. Anything is! I just think it’s wrong to make presumptions about them: heck, you didn’t know them! Plus, there is no evidence that could back up that claim.
Still, we cannot rule out those possibilities. Just as the possibility of an Octopus in fresh water should be ruled out. I mean, bullsharks have adapted, so why can’t they?
It really doesn’t matter if you’re a graduate in ZOOLOGY to tell everyone it’s all a big hoax! It’s possible! Our present knowledge of nature is very limited!
So there. The whole VIDEO and STORY (characters, I’m not so sure) was just INSPIRED/BASED on POSSIBILITIES that could’ve happened. They’re scripted, made up (i think based on some facts?). But the OKLOHOMA OCTOPUS? It is POSSIBLE. Nature is very unexpected. Heck life is!! (who ever knew in the past there will be laptops or computers?)
P.S. to mr. zoologist, not to be rude, but you being a graduate of zoology, i think your first reaction should be have been that it may be possible. Come on, you should have known that. That’s science.
Limitless.
Oh, and LESS than 1% of 300MILLION species of animals (including microscopic) have already been discovered.
Ciao
December 15th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
first off let begin with saying I am an all American swimmer with a new jet ski! i have swam in those lakes and even deep dived in two of them but NOW no one could pay me to ever again!! btw new jet ski for sale!
December 15th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
just to clear some things up salmon, black molly’s, jelly fish, and some species of sharks can live in fresh and salt water.
one of the first things taught in zoology, and any true scientist would know , is science and/or scientific research is based on findings that many believe could not have happened at the time that they are discovered. to be a true scientist/zoologist you must to have an open mind to the findings of others and not disregard them because they do not necessarily agree with your own! science is trail and error. without the documented proof of other trials, any finding will never be a theory never go beyond the first lab in question. it will forever be just an educated guess. to disregard theories because you do not believe in them is to show lack of knowledge and true ignorance.
December 16th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Sewage goes into Lake Thunderbird, it’s also Norman’s drinking water. Maybe something got flushed down the toilet and ended up in the lake!!
AHhhhh!
ewwWw!!
Where I live there’s a small creek with Gar fish and it’ll often totally dry up but when it refills the Gar reappear?! Must have dormant eggs that hatch buried in the dirt.
December 16th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Also Tenkiller has crystal clear water but Thunderbird has dirt red water with barely no visibility. They can never find anything in it because it’s so dirty. They often find old cars in it & DB’s. EW. If you wear white it’ll permanently be stained brownish-red!
December 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
&^%$ you guys it all real
January 8th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
it was my uncle who died in oklahoma in Lake thunderbird his body never resurfaced and he never drank agenst his religion just went out in a boat it tiped and he was never hurd from or seen again and he was a great swimmer
January 11th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
I have lived in Oklahoma all my life and live about 25 minutes from Lake Tenkiller. My family has always told stories about “lake monters” that will pull you under the water if you’re swimming in the deeper areas of the lake. Of course calling it a monster was only to farther frighten our younger family members. The catfish do get very big and are carnivorous. These are the monsters we talk about. My uncle Bill was swimming one night towards maybe about the middle of the lake and felt something huge brush past him that he said felt like a catfish. I honestly believe that the “Oklahoma Octopus” is really a catfish. Its whisker could be the “tenticles” and if it were a catfish, that would explain people saying that it looked like a shark.
Don’t write me off as a closed minded skeptic, I believe anything is possible, but this story just seems very made up, especially since none of us Oklahomans have ever heard of it.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:07 am
I believe that it can be possible for the Oklahoma Octopus to exist. Regardless of what people may say scientists have been finding new types of species that they thought couldnt exist. Look at the mega mouth shark who people mistaken for a lake monster, that was proven to be a new kind of shark that no one new existed. People who think that this creature living in fresh water is very close minded to a possibility of a new species of Octopus. I myself investigate the Paranormal and Unexplained and I can very much say I have seen things and witnessed things that cannot be explained. So the question is “Can the Oklahoma Octopus exist?” My answer would be yes it is a possibility.
January 28th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Well people thought stingrays were salt water only until fresh water ones were discovered in the amazon river.
January 28th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Bull sharks have been found in fresh water as far upstream as lake michigan in the past. If sharks can survive in fresh water why is it impossible for an octopus?
February 9th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
My sister and I were Atacked by it I jumped to protect her
It just broke my left leg and left arm my sister broke all of her ribs this happened may 1st 2009
February 10th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
I have live by tenkiller lake for 30yrs and have been scuba diving the lake since 1996, have made hundreds of dives from shollow water down to 160 ft have never seen a giant catfish teh size of a car or on octopus, but the water is not that clear until you start getting deeper than 60ft, then the water is pitch black you must use lights to anything. So it is possible that they could be there.
There are thousands of people that dive the lake everyyear and none I know of have ever seen an octopus
February 15th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Ooly the Oologah lake monsters coulds SO eat that thing.
February 16th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Fredrickson Ya, seriously.
March 12th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Well I llve in Okalhoma and let me tell this tv series is the most fake ass shit. I mean come on the actors or who ever they are and the so calles lost tapes ARE YOU FOR REAL animal plant.
March 13th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
After Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi river running thru Memphis, Tn had a manatee trapped along side Harbour Town, It was reported alligators and other sea life
traveled this direction after the Hurricane. Don’t ever say
it is impossible that sea life can adapt to fresh water, it happened the manateee lived until it was trapped under a barge line here in Memphis. During the summer our banks were filled with alligators sunbathing.
March 13th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
A giant monster living in the lake possible? If your crazy maybe. The fact that people believe an animal can grow to huge proportions by eating alot of food is a fallacy.
Here is a major fact, oxgyen avaiable to animals plays a role in the over health and size of animals. During prehistoric times, oxygen levels were around 30-35% which one was reason dinosaurs and other animals including the modern day crockidile were super big due to the rich oxygen in the atomosphere causing them to grow porportionally. today the oxygen levels are around 12-21% depending on pollution and city size.
If you want to fiddle around with the idea of a giant lake monster to make your life that much more intersting then go ahead. But seriously, I doubt a man-made lake would carry such a creature. The sea although is different and is more possible to harvest a creature, due to having much different oxygen levels.
March 13th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
One more note, those who cite the bull shark and fresh water sting ray were able to evolve into their fresh water habitats. These creatures evolved over many years possible hundreds of years. Lake Tenkiller was made in 1940s. The man-make lake of Tenkiller has no direct connection to any salt water bodies make it impossible for a salt water fish to swim up and make home in the lake. Also if this was true, we would see many more of these creatures around coastal towns and lakes, not so far inland. No such reports have been made.
March 14th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
I’ve watched this on Lost Tapes 2 times now and everytime I watch it I get even more freaked out. I’m glad I live in Ohio, but then again I hope these fresh water octopus things do not live in the Ohio River! Wow scary!
March 14th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
anyone who thinks its imposile for a salt water animal to evolve to fresh water is nuts, dagree or not, anything is possible over time, look at how anything evovles, there are also fresh water dolphins also known as river dolphins, which r almost extinct due to evil fishermen. but look um up they r real and out there. and so is that octopus.
March 23rd, 2010 at 12:04 am
Wow.How did it even get there?
March 27th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Hahaha Mr. Zoology was owned by a fourteen year old! You go Filipina!
March 29th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I grew up on Lake Hudson and have been to Oologah and Tenkiller several times and have many friends who scuba dive Tenkiller. There are no major man made lakes. They were built in the 50s and IMHO I find it hard to believe something could have “evolved” in such a short time span.
March 29th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
*no major man made lakes in Oklahoma*
April 8th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
ive lived 5 miles from lake oologah and its a very dirty, shallow lake. been fishing and boating there my entire life. would not be suprised if this was true. alot of strange things happen there. i will do some local research and post my findings
May 15th, 2010 at 12:10 am
No octopus. 85 pound catfish, yes. Gar with teeth that point backwards like a shark, yes. Fence poles and fence, barbed wire, yes. Holes in the mud, yes. Most people drowned trying to swim farter than they have ever previously swam. The water is cool and induces cramps. Water mocasins, yes.
May 17th, 2010 at 7:00 am
I encountered the Oklahoma Octopus in 1986 at Lake Thunderbird. I saw him in shallow water near East Alameda Drive. He does exist!
May 18th, 2010 at 4:32 am
this is a load of crap i have lived all over Oklahoma and never heard any of these stories. i have heard about giant catfish yes but no octopus. i see a couple of people say they knew the kids who were killed and have the paper with the headline in it. i say this if u actually have that newspaper post it on the web and let us see it. i have searched the web and have not found the headline on any website and i would like to see it. i am not saying that i hate Lost Tapes i actually like the program but try and make it more believable. Animal Planet would have to of known that people would look this stuff up ad find it to be not true. Just to tell ya, we Oklahomans are not as stupid as most people think.
May 27th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Its not real guys that “lost tapes” thing you have seen in discovery channel. It us just a fake story but the I think the creature is true because we dont know what creatures might have not been discovered yet. And there are animals that may have evolve
May 28th, 2010 at 9:48 am
I seriously want to hunt this creatures down if they exist.I really want to be 100% sure these things are real especially “Cave Demons”.
May 31st, 2010 at 11:51 am
hahaha. Me i want to hunt the loch ness monster and the megaconda..
June 25th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
ok if you people were so smart then why werent they dunk and if they drowned guess what there bodys would of surfaced so shutup ive actuly seen it o and if you really dident think it was real then why are you looking it up
June 25th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
try swimming at night not in the morning if you want evidence of that octupus
June 25th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
try going to every lake
June 25th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
above
June 30th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
I have a house at Grand Lake, OK. I havent been pulled under off of my SeaDoo yet. hmmm…you would think atleast someone would have a picture if it were real.
July 4th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
there was a monster i lat week i really love the lake but one because is the killer and my step bro said a killer lives a land and he’s name jades he likes to kill kids and people so one they i am scard to sleep
July 4th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
and help me please he is coming to get me and my family
July 6th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
You people do realize that oklahoma has only man-made lakes. these are dammed up rivers for those un-informed.
July 27th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
You guys are f**king retarded.
There is NO man-eating octopus in Oklahoma.
It was a bunch of drunk f**kfaces who were pissed off their asses going FOR A SWIM. The inevitable HAPPENED.
Who actually believes this shit?
IT’S FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. People MAKE SHIT UP to make other people believe the SHIT that they have made up, because it makes them feel IMPORTANT.
Why don’t you all just PLAY ALONG and pretend there is a MAN-EATING OCTOPUS in the lakes.
Jesus Christ.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:19 am
Ok… Facts: all lakes in Oklahoma are man made, but in order to make a lake you need other water sources v(i.e. a riverb) so there is a possibility that animals that live in these lakes have evolved since the beginning of time. Fact: Not all animal species v(especially aquatic speciesb) have been discovered so there is a possibility6 that there is some unknown aquatic species live in these lakes. Fact: Lost Tapes is a tv show with no viable proof that any of this actually occured. Fact: there is no possible way to prove that something doesnt excist v(only its much more likely to have a more pprobable answerb) … Therefore you cannot say for certain there is no such thing as a freshwater octopus even in oklahoma. And with the siz_e of some of the other animals in the lakes it could be possible they r big enough to eat humans .