The Lake Pend Oreille Paddler (Idaho)

[Mighty_Emperor]

Just chasing this up as the abstarct in the Anomalist is intriguing:

Deep Secrets:
Is the Navy Telling Idaho Residents a Whopper of a Fish Story?
By Patrick Huyghe

Lake Pend Oreille in northern Idaho, the world's 26th largest freshwater lake, is twice as deep as Scotland's fabled Loch Ness. As it turns out, it's almost as deep in monster lore, too, with its own reports of what is now known as the Pend Oreille "Paddler." Throw in WWII Nazis, rumors of nuclear subs and secret missile firings, and the Paddler's tale takes on some tortuous twists and turns. Patrick Huyghe tries to straighten it out...8

http://www.anomalist.com/print/cont5.html

Big Depth
In fact, when we say our lake is deep, we mean it is deeper than the famous Loch Ness. The U.S. Navy didn't choose to test submarines at Lake Pend Oreille for nothing. It is even rumored that the Navy once lost a submarine in the deep, dark waters. At 1,158 feet deep, it's the fifth deepest lake in the nation. The Navy still continues to perform tests in Lake Pend Oreille from its research station at Bayview. And like Loch Ness, our lake is also reputedly the home of a large water monster, affectionately called Pend Oreille Paddler. Actually, the various sightings could be giant sturgeon, which historically reached lengths of 12 feet and longer, but doubts linger.

http://www.sandpointonline.com/rec/lakeguide/history.html

Paddler's Pad.

Trailer Boats; 4/1/2001; Scott, Randy


Site of a mysterious monster and top-secret sub testing, Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille is also a boater's paradise

For a half century, reports have persisted that a large, prehistoric monster resides in the deep, dark waters of Lake Pend Oreille (pronounced pond uh-ray), Idaho. Locals call it the Pend Oreille Paddler. Believers say the monster is serpentine in appearance.

Nonbelievers say it is nothing more than a sturgeon, a rather-ugly, but large, bottom-feeding fish.

One thing is certain: If Paddler does exist, the deep waters of Pend Oreille would make a good home for it. Approximately 1200 feet deep, it is twice the depth of Scotland's fabled Loch Ness. Pend Oreille is also the fifth deepest lake in the U.S.

Another monster theory has it that...

You need to register with them to get the rest (its free but you need to give the your credit card details and I always suspicious about things like that).

highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:76814451&refid=ency_botnm
Link is dead; connection is suspicious. No archived version found.

Sooooooooooooo what is going on there then?

Emps

 

[Paul_Exeter]

Found on Reddit:

"I once saw the Pend Oreille Paddler. He's a Nessie-like creature that plies the waters of Lake Pend Oreille in the United States' Pacific Northwest: Northern Idaho, to be exact."

Read on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ycue3l

(you might need to scroll down)

 

[SimonBurchell]

Just chasing this up as the abstarct in the Anomalist is intriguing:



http://www.anomalist.com/print/cont5.html



http://www.sandpointonline.com/rec/lakeguide/history.html



You need to register with them to get the rest (its free but you need to give the your credit card details and I always suspicious about things like that).

http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:76814451&refid=ency_botnm

Sooooooooooooo what is going on there then?

Emps

I have all the print issues of The Anomalist... I'll have to see if I can dig it out.

 

[Ogdred Weary]

Found on Reddit:

"I once saw the Pend Oreille Paddler. He's a Nessie-like creature that plies the waters of Lake Pend Oreille in the United States' Pacific Northwest: Northern Idaho, to be exact."

Read on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ycue3l

(you might need to scroll down)

You do, I don't know how to link to a specific post so here's a copy and paste with an interesting reply:

I once saw the Pend Oreille Paddler. He's a Nessie-like creature that plies the waters of Lake Pend Oreille in the United States' Pacific Northwest: Northern Idaho, to be exact.
It's pronounced "Pond Oray", by the way.
Lake Pend Oreille is tremendous, and gorgeous, with thick forest that grows right down to the waters edge. It's also very, very deep (1,150 ft./350.52m). It has a lot of huge logs floating in it, too, which can be a hazard to watercraft.
My first husband was part of the crew on a racing yacht, and I tagged along early one cold, foggy morning.
As we were sailing along, a few of us saw, off to the left side of the boat (we were heading due south), what looked like an absolutely massive tree trunk in the water.
Only this trunk was moving all on its own, in the opposite direction to our sailboat. It was leaving a wide wake in the water, and as we watched, three bumps appeared above the surface. They were the blue-green color of dark water (think lake water in the shade) and they were covered in small scales. We could see an actual space between the humps and the water. We kept watching in utter silence as it passed us by, until it suddenly just disappeared below the surface.
I'm still convinced, thirty years or so later (this was in the 80s), that I saw The Paddler. For one thing, logs don't just motate on their own. Second, they don't have visible humps like this object did. And third, they can be submerged, but they don't have the wherewithal to submerge that quickly, and that completely. Also, this thing was whisper-quiet. It was a pretty calm morning, too, with no choppy water, so it could not have been mistaken for rough waves.
I feel so special and blessed to have seen it that morning, and I would have loved to have filmed it!
Edited for punctuation.
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Dazrin
·4 days ago

Lake Pend Oreille also happens to be one of the Navy's submarine testing facilities. The really deep lake with very little flow in it is very good for what they need to do (the main water source and river leaving the lake are at the north end but it's a long north/south lake).
https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Who-We-Are/Bayview-Idaho/
https://www.spokesman.com/galleries/2019/apr/09/history-of-the-navy-test-facility-in-bayview-idaho/