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Indian Maiden of Lake Waha

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Ten miles south of Lewiston, Idaho lays the beautiful shores of Lake Waha.  Now a poplar fishing spot, Lake Waha holds a special significance to the local Nex Perce tribe, who once used it as the setting of 'spirit quests' for their young men.  But this isolated lake holds a more ominous secret; the ghost of the Indian Maiden, who walks the lake's shores. According to legend a young woman went out to forage for food with her baby strapped to a cradleboard, as was customary.  She dug for roots along the shores of Lake Waha, and as the day became hot she stopped to rest and refresh herself and her child in the cool waters of the lake.  That was the last the woman was heard from. The next day her family searched the lake shore for her, but all they found was the cradleboard, now empty, and the woman's buckskin dress.  Afraid a creature in the lake had seized her, they kept away from the waters. Earlier, the lake had taken another victim.  Legend...