Weird Idaho

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 aga...

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...

August 9th, 1928 was a hot, miserable day in the small valley town of Lewiston, Idaho. The snake river lolled lazily through town as the Sells-Floto Circus arrived for their summer tour.  The elephant's werethirsty in the heat but the elephant handlers had not provided them any water, and were beginning to have difficulty controlling the animals.  One elephant named Mary went mad from the thirst and broke away from her trainers, running down the man street of the town in search of water. Mary, desperate from thirst, became confused by the plate glass windows of the shops and smashed them with her trunk, mistaking them for water.  Finally she caught scent of the water flowing from the local carwash and trampled through the streets to get to it. Mary was not the first Sells-Floto elephant to trample, and these abused animals had caused deaths and horrible injuries in other towns.  The mayor of Lewiston at the time was Dr. Braddock, an accomplished ma...