Mussie

Mussie is Canada’s lesser-known aquatic cryptid, said to inhabit Muskrat Lake in Ontario. Descriptions paint it as a dark, elongated creature with humps breaking the surface, often seen gliding silently through morning fog. Sightings date back to indigenous Algonquin accounts and were later adopted by settlers, some of whom blamed the creature for disappearing fishing nets or livestock drawn too close to the shore. Modern reports are sporadic, usually involving campers or boaters startled by sudden disturbances on otherwise still water. Mussie lives mostly as a local curiosity, a small-town Nessie that ties lakeside identity to the enduring notion that deep water still holds secrets beyond human reach.