Case file · Cryptid
Igopogo of Lake Simcoe
Lake Simcoe, Ontario, has its own lake creature, nicknamed Igopogo or Kempenfelt Kelly; the earliest alleged sighting is credited to settler David Soules in 1823.
1823 CE · 44.42, -79.37 · status: legend
The account
A well-known later report in 1952 involved four witnesses including the chief of the Georgina Island First Nation. In 1983 a sonar trace was offered as evidence.
The sceptical view
Sources for the 1823 account are late folklore collections; the sonar trace was never published for study.