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...

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.

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

Massacre Rock outside Pocatello, Idaho is the home of many myths and legends, not the least of which are the water babies, who lurk below the surface of the river, waiting for the unwary traveler. Before this patch of land was a stop on the Oregon Trail it was native land, and the legend goes that one year the native tribe was facing a horrible famine, and there was not enough food to go around.  Starving and unable to nurse, new mothers were told to go drown their babies in the river so they would not starve to death.  This terrible attempt at kindness backfired, as the babies, still starving in death and furious at their fate, lingered at the river.  It is said that if you sit in stillness at the banks of the river you will hear the faint sound of babies crying and bawling for food.  Those who go to investigate those sounds find themselves on the menu, as the babies pull them under the water and feast on their remains.

The Giant Palouse Earthworm has long been a mystery of North Idaho.  Reports from the 1890's claimed the presence of an enormous worm under the prarie grasses, three feet long and shock white, with the ability to spit mucus in self defense and shrouded with the strange smell of lillies.  Isolated to the Palouse (a prairie region in north Idaho) the worm was claimed to be abundant in the 1890s, but no specimens were ever presented. A summer research project at the University of Idaho changed all that. In 2010 their quest for the white worm was rewarded when two of these strange white worms were pulled from the hills outside Moscow.  They are being studied at the University, but so far the real article doesn't quite live up to the legend, being somewhat ordinary, if a little large. Their presence presents a dilemma for local farmers, who fear the worm achieving protective status and making them unable to till their fields.  It's presence is denoted by deep ...

In the beautiful Owyhee Mountains of southern Idaho are rumored to live the Nirumbees, a terrifying race of tiny people who inhabit the mountain caves and eat human flesh.  First reported by the Crow and Shoshone tribes, the Nirumbee are eighteen inches tall with long pointed tails they curl around themselves for protection.  They are reported to be extremely strong and to shoot poison tipped arrows so fine they cannot be seen.  The Nrumbee possess many fairy like traits, and are thought to kidnap and eat children, replacing the missing child with one of their own, who will slowly drain the mother of life as it nurses.  They are thought to eat the hearts of wild stallions.  Generally assumed to be an native american legend, Nirumbees have nontheless been sighted within this century, and have been implicated in animal mutilations.

In March, 2017 a Tensed woman driving south on Highway 95 struck a deer near Potlach, Idaho.  When Benewah County Sheriff responded to the scene the woman had a strange story to tell. She claimed that as she was driving she caught sight of a Sasquatch chasing deer along the side of the road, and had to take a second look in the rearview mirror to confirm it.  As her eyes were off the road the deer ran in front of her car.  The woman was fortunately unhurt, and the sheriff reports no sign of Bigfoot.  The blogger's personal theory is that of a deerhunter wearing a ghillie suit.  What do you think?