Cressie

Some quotes and links, courtesy of Gavin Joth:

http://www.publib.nf.ca/CAP/central/RobertsArm/attract/cressie.htm

"Doubters scoff and claim that bubbles of gasses from the decomposing pulpwood littering the lake bottom is the likely explanation. Others point out the huge, mysterious hole punched in the winter lake ice early in the eighties. RCMP divers, fearing a snowmobile mishap, uncovered nothing. No, not even dynamite!

Other RCMP divers, several years later, may have accidently discovered related "monsters" while investigating
an unfortunate drowning accident in another similar-sized lake in the area, South Pond. They returned to the
surface with descriptions of giant eels as thick as a man's thigh."
http://www.serve.com/shadows/serpent2.htm

"Evidence of an unknown inhabitant of the lake can be traced to ancient native legends in which references to the woodum haoot, (pond devil), or haoot tuwedyee (swimming demon). The lake and surrounding ponds are famous for their population abnormally large Anguilloidei or fresh water eel population, which some unfortunate RCMP rescue divers had the dubious pleasure of encountering on two such dives. The first of which in the early 80’s when they were called upon to investigate a large hole punched in the mid-winter ice originally thought to be a snowmobile accident, however the dive turned up nothing. Several years later other divers trying to recover a body from a downed plane encountered some over-friendly eels the size of a man’s thigh. The diver’s were attacked by the eels who apparently were tired of their usual surf dinners and decided
to try some turf. The divers returned to the surface shaken from their ordeal."

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