I figured that I should start to share some stories of Newfoundlands paranormal filled history. So, here's Cressie!

CRESSIE


Central Newfoundland's Crescent Lake harbors a quaint fishing town - known as Robert?s Arm - along its shore, and a big secret in its depths. Known to the locals as "Cressie", this animal has been reported as being eel-like in appearance and averaging between 5 and 15-feet in length.

The first reports of this mysterious lake dweller can be traced back to pre-colonial Native American legends, which warned of the Woodum Haoot (Pond Devil) or Haoot Tuwedyee (Swimming Demon), both of which purportedly dwelled in the lake. Since the early 1900's there have been numerous reports of encounters with this creature (or creatures) and not all of them have been pleasant.

One of the more recent accounts concerns the underwater search for the corpse of a downed pilot, who had crashed his plane into the depths of Crescent Lake in the mid-1980's. The scuba divers, who braved the black depths of the lake in the hopes of finding the pilot's corpse, found themselves surrounded by a vicious school of gigantic eels (described as being as thick as a man's thigh) who proceeded to attack the them with voracious intensity. The divers retreated to the surface posthaste, neither of the divers was severely wounded, but both were visibly shaken by the event.

Another bizarre phenomenon which has been associated with creatures in Crescent Lake, involves mysterious holes which have been known to appear in the ice sheet which covers the water during the brutal, Newfoundland winters. Often mistaken (due to their size) as the results of tragic snowmobile accidents, divers who have mounted exploratory expeditions beneath the ice in order to ascertain the cause of the holes, rarely find any man-made objects to account for the ice rifts. This has, of course, led some to speculate that these tremendous breaks in the ice are not caused by something falling in, but, rather, by something bursting out.

on the afternoon of July 9, 1991, a gigantic, eel-like entity was seen on the lake, and as recently as August 14, 2003, a woman named Vivian Short claimed to have seen a serpentine animal with a fish like head, which she believed could easily have been capable of devouring 4 or 5 swimmers. Whatever it is that lurks beneath the waves in Crescent Lake... it is large, it is and vicious, and it remains one of the most plausible North American lake cryptids.



As always, we welcome your questions, comments, and any additional information that you may have regarding any of the animals already represented on this site. We would also express our hearty gratitude to anyone who can provide us with details pertaining to any of the unique beasts which we may have neglected.


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Pretty compelling evidence. I think that the Memorial University of Newfoundland should send an expedition of sorts to search the lake. After all, they've devoted alot towards the study of Giant Squids.

there are such as the creatures reported in Kamloops Lake and Cressie from Crescent Lake. but no drawing is available.
thank Jeremy_Rumbolt for sharing info and facts.
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