Case file · Cryptid
Mussie of Muskrat Lake
Muskrat Lake near Cobden, in the Ottawa Valley, has had stories of a large unknown animal since about 1916; the creature is nicknamed Mussie.
1916 CE · 45.62, -76.88 · status: legend
The account
Local lore claims Algonquin people told Samuel de Champlain of a creature in the lake in the early 1600s, but no source for that has been found.
The sceptical view
The Champlain story is unsourced; the 1916 date comes from local anecdote.