Weird Idaho

The town of McCall, Idaho is one of the primary tourist destinations in the state for skiing, boating, and outdoor recreation, seated on the edge of beautiful Payette Lake.  But few realize the lakeside resort holds a strange secret; Sharlie, the dragon of Payette Lake. McCall started it's time as a logging town, pulling trees from the abundant forests of the area to process in the sawmill, but it was during this time of it's history that Sharlie first made her appearance.  Loggers were working on the bank during the 1920s when they thought they saw a log surface and begin to float on the water, which was hardly unusual, until the log began to move with a life of it's own and resubmerged into the lake. The strange creature reappeared in 1944, when several distinct groups of people began making reports of a large animal, 30-35 feet in length, with a brontosaurus like head, pronounced jaw, camel humps along it's back and a hard, shiny, shell like skin risin

Once the largest water park in the North West, Wild Waters in Cour d'Alene was the summer destination for decades before quietly closing its gate in 2010.  The park has sat abandoned now for eight years, and for those who remember it in it's heyday it is an eerie ghost of its former self. This 2016 urban exploration video by Adam the woo shows what remains of Wild Waters.

The Asotin County Fair comes to the town of Lewiston every spring, bringing with it the Hells Canyon Rodeo and the start of the planting season.  But some residents still remember the spring of 1979, when a 12 year old girl named Christina White disappeared and the Snake River Killer began his reign of terror. On the day of the fair Christina visited a friends house complaining of a headache, and was offered a cool cloth and use of the telephone to call her mother for a ride.  The home belonged to Patricia Brennen, who asked Christina to wait for her ride out on the porch.  They had thought her already picked up and home when her mother arrived over an hour later to retrieve her, and she could not be located.  At the time, Patrica was dating a man named Lance Voss, who would soon enough become her husband, and a suspect in the case. For two years parents locked their doors and children were kept inside, but as the fear began to ease tragedy struck again.  In the summer

This footage was captured in 2015 in Boise, Idaho, supposedly showing a pterosaur flying over the treetops.  Pterosaur sightings have been occurring since the discovery of the creature, with one notable case being during the construction of the New York City subway tunnels, when workers claimed a pterosaur like creature fell from a hollow in the stone, struggled briefly for life, and then began to decay rapidly.  This account is similar to other reports of frogs who hibernate so long in the mud they become sealed in, and when the stone is removed from around them they begin to decay and die. Pterosaurs have more recently been sighted in several states, including Texas and California, though the bulk of reports come from Africa.

A string of shockingly similar UFO sightings have shocked Idaho this year, with numerous reports and videos of strange glowing orbs flying over Caldwell, Moscow, Tamarack, and Boise.  These orbs were seen moving autonomously and reacting to their environments.  Investigation into the sightings point to a culprit: Google's secretive and ominously named research and development team, X. The pictured balloon is part of a program called Project Loon, which is an experiment in which large self illuminating balloons capable of beaming wifi signals are flown over isolated areas.  Google received permission to test over the state of Idaho last year, which has a wealth of rural territory devoid of internet access.  These otherworldly vehicles look alarming when sighted in the night sky, but we can all rest assured knowing they are no more harmful than the common weather balloon, which is to say, not at all. If the program succeeds we may be able to look forward to skies

In this video a man describes an encounter he had with a bigfoot several years ago in the mountains outside Burley, Idaho.