The Cryptolexicon

The Cryptolexicon is a hard bound journal that was handwritten by a mentally unstable former priest named Doolin Donnelly. In 1840 Doolin secluded himself on a small island in the middle of Rotten Lake in what is now Douro-Dummer Township. Then he disappeared, leaving behind only a ramshackle campsite and the journal. Contained within its pages are rambling descriptions of what the priest claimed to be ancient hieroglyphics of an unknown origin. Doolin does not name the exact location of these hieroglyphs in the Cryptolexicon. In the journal he claimed that the hieroglyphs themselves contained a dangerous eldrich power and were best left alone. Those that have taken the time to study the journal and the folklore surrounding Doolin have surmised that the supposed location may be in an isolated northern corner of Peterborough county into which Doolin apparently ventured after being excommunicated from the Church in 1839. Local folklore claims that  Doolin went insane after eating copious amounts of a toxic mushroom he found growing in the basement of the Cathedral of St. Peter-In-Chains. The Cryptolexicon is currently in the archival collection of the Peterborough Museum and Archives.