My True Paranormal Experiences: The Bear Lake Monster · 2:02pm Sep 17th, 2018
My True Paranormal Experiences: The Bear Lake Monster
When I was young, I would visit my grandfather at his vacation home in Bear Lake, Idaho every summer. Like most of the people in the neighborhood, his house was built right next to the lake so you could literally spend the whole day at the lake below by simply walking down to it if you wanted to. I would play with the neighbors who lived next-door in a log cabin. Together we would all build sand castles, go swimming, ride around on boats and jet skis and roast marshmallows over the campfire at night. It was always great fun and one of the highlights of my childhood.
Bear Lake was very old and had ancient cave systems winding underneath its waves. I would often find fossils of prehistoric creatures washed up on the shore and I collected many throughout my childhood some of which I still have today. Because Bear Lake was a very old body of water there were rumors about a monster that lived underneath the water which everyone called the Bear Lake Monster. No one really took the stories seriously but when I was ten years old I had an encounter which made me think that the Bear Lake Monster just might be real.
One day when I went out swimming I started to notice that the waves were getting very large around me but there was no evidence of a storm. Confused, I looked down to see a massive dark object directly below my feet. I immediately panicked and attempted to swim to shore. I remember kicking the side of something huge as I swam away. When I finally managed to reach the shore line I looked back to see a giant body of something peek out from the waves for a few moments and then go back into the water again.
After that encounter I saw the creature swimming up briefly and submerging a few different times until one day I never saw it in front of my grandfather’s property again. But ever since I saw that creature I never liked to swim in deep water. Even to this day, I will never go swimming too far out into the ocean or any body of water. Because you never know what can be lurking just below the waves.
I really wonder how you've had such an eventful life Lyra
4939097 I am not sure. But it has been interesting indeed. :)
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No kidding. That's more excitement than I think I ever want
I've been to Bear Lake before too, but I couldn't recall there being a legend about it. Man, Lyra, you have the most bestest experiences ever. Next time you'll be talking about how you had a tea party with the abominable snowman on Mount Kilimanjaro. Or how you walked into your wardrobe and found a faun at a lamppost or something.
4939115 I kind of have a fascination with the supernatural/ paranormal realm as I have a tendency to see it a lot for one reason or another. :p
4939183 Was it the Bear Lake on the Idaho/ Utah border or was it a different one? There are a few different Bear Lakes in a few different States so I am just curious.
I haven't had tea with the abominable snowman or found a portal to an alternate world in a wardrobe. At least not yet. But I will keep you posted if I do. XD
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Ni kidding. You're a magnet for this kind of stuff. :O
4939749 Yeah I've always seemed to attract this sort of thing since I was very young. So I guess I am kind of used to it at this point. :P
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must be something special about you.
4939770 I think everyone can probably see this stuff if they believe they can. :)
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That’s an interesting concept
4939778 It's just my personal theory.
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Not unheard of before. :)
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4939880 Yay!
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