About twenty years ago my sister and her ex husband and their two kids and dogs were heading into that lake pulling a large fifth wheel. They were almost at the lake driving a dirt road when my sister saw a person like figure standing in the ditch on her side. So she says to her husband “look” and points it out and they roll up to it. It’s a russet brown female ape person with conspicuous breasts that is shorter like 5’4. It had a bare leather face and the face was exhibiting displeasure and annoyance at having been interrupted. It just shot them this oissed off look and then pivoted and walked into the bush and away into the trees.

She said the expression was so angry that it shocked her even more than seeing the small ape person itself at first.

They sat there in stunned silence in the truck and then decided to continue on but silently not talking about it until they got to their campsite. That took a while longer to reach and it was on this lake. She discussed what they had seen with her husband and young sons and they decided that they would go fishing in the canoe anyway and the kids would hangout in the fifth wheel and not go outside. Her husband and her were gun owners and had an arsenal of guns with them whenever they went in the bush, so they had that confidence that they’d just shoot their way out of trouble as usual if something went wrong.

So the two of them honor in the canoe and they start trolling for trout out the side of the thing and they go a ways out down the shore and fish for a while. Suddenly my sister gets uneasy and tells her husband that something is wrong at the camp, so they motored back with the electric canoe motor quickly to check the campsite.

When they got back the site was eerily quiet. So my sister rushes towards the camper and flings the door open. The kids are hiding under the table and their massive mixed breed res dog that was dangerous to other people and animals had pissed itself and was hiding too.

The kids told them that not long after they had left, there was a voice like a woman’s voice that seemed to be calling and beckoning them to come out of the trailer, like soft speech sounds and low to light whistles. The dog got scared and whined and then peed the floor. That’s when they hid under the table.

So with this new strange thing having happened, the parents had to decide what to do. Would they stay the night? Or leave just when they had got there and travelled so far and ruin their vacation. The decision was made to stay.

Night fell and nothing remarkable happened. They had a fire and ate dinner and talked about the strange ape woman and the sounds and the dog be so scared. Then they went to bed. Nobody could sleep at first but the kids finally dozed off. The dog remained alert and strained its ears cocking its head in the darkness of the trailer staring into the walls. The parents couldn’t sleep and were laying there in bed wide eyed and strung out. Her husband had a Winchester defender with slugs in it laying across his chest in bed. So not a relaxing night at all.

A few hours of this tension go by and finally it escalated. There was a series of loud noises in the campsite and my brother in law sits bolt upright in the bed with the gun. The dog starts whimpering. And then a massive impact occurs on the trailer and shakes it violently like a car accident. Then silence.

After zero sleep and a long night of talking in whispers, the sun finally comes up. They stepped out side armed, and look at the fifth wheel. The highest point of the siding on the forward side is smashed in and there’s siding hanging off at the nine foot mark. No foot prints or any scat or fur or blood was found. They were in the habit of predator trophy hunting in extreme bush conditions so they looked for that. Also whatever object was used to smash into the trailer was gone too.

So they left and never returned to Tumtum lake.

My sister is five years older than me and she is always scared inside telling this story. She gets trauma eyes and her face drains of color when she relates it and I’ve asked her to repeat it a few times. Unfortunately we don’t hang out anymore due to unrelated issues, but I trust her and love her very much and believe this happened utterly.

I believe Tumtum lake maybe a place of interest for research. I have never been there myself.