Idaho

Coeur D'Alene

Lake Coeur D'Alene

What Indians call "water mysteries" are said to inhabit this lake. Unexplainable noises and the figure of a fish-woman have been reported near
a large pointed rock here. A mysterious wind sometimes churns up the lake, and a huge horned creature is said to lift boats out of the water.
The horned creature, sometimes called the water buffalo, was said to have roamed the area near the mouth of the Coeur D'Alene River.

Senor Froggy

Senor Froggy is a mexican restaurant in the old town section of Coeur D'Alene near the lake. There are numerous people who have reported
the feeling of being watched and seeing shadowy figures. In the storage cellar inside the restaurant workers have felt a "cold presence." The
ghost is believed to be from one of the construction workers that built the building who died after falling into cement that was being poured.
They then left his working saw inside the wall where he died in his memory. The most common area to see a ghost is in the restrooms which
are across from the storage room. Many people have gone into the restroom and left running out the door without returning.

Genesee

Joyce Building

This single story brick building was built in 1890 and used for a variety of commercial purposes, including a museum that housed many rock
crystals and Indian artifacts. Sara Joyce purchased the property in 1974 and moved there with her daughter Heidi and her granddaughter
Solara. Almost immediately the family noticed weird happening and unexplainable sounds. One night the ghost of a tall, thin elderly man
bathed in an eerie blue light appeared in the doorway fo Sara's bedroom and asked, "Do you see me? Do you see me?" Not long afterward, the
phantom of a huge silver gray rat appeared in the kitchen. Sara's son Bill later discovered the mummified corpse of a large rat under the
floorboards when he remodeled the kitchen. In fact, whenever Bill visited to help renovate the building, he would be plagued by spirits interfering
with his work. Once a visiting ballet dancer from Australia was awakened by a female ghost with long black hair, who tried to get into a
sleeping bag with her.

Owyhee County

Owyhee Mountains

Some caves in the Owyhee Mountains are said to be inhabited by naked, cannibalistic dwarves. The two-foot-high creatures are exceedingly
strong, and one of them can carry a dead elk on his back. According to legends of the Shoshoni and bannock Indians, the dwarves can be
identified by their long tails, which they sometimes hide by wrapping them around their bodies. The dwarves have been accused of kidnapping
little children and eating them.

Bibliography: Hauck, Dennis. Haunted Places: Ghost abodes, sacred sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations. New York:
Penguin Book, 1994.