The Pacific Northwest

Home to the paranormal, supernatural and  w e i r d .

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In an effort to distance ourselves from other, more established groups as well as expand our coverage to the entire Pacific Northwest, Keep Tree City Weird will hereby be known as Pacifica Paranormal. We look forward to your continued support during the transferring process. 

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Ghost Adventures in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. 

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The Luna House Lady in Blue [Lewiston]

Once a thriving bordello, today this museum building still harbors an otherworldly presence, informally known as the Lady in Blue. She appears either as a blue ball of light, blue smoke, or a fully-formed person. Her spirit shows up so regularly that Gary invited a medium to investigate. After establishing contact, the medium learned that the Lady wasn’t a prostitute, as had been assumed, but a God-fearing woman who spent her life trying to shut the bordello down. To explore this building along with Lewiston's other renowned paranormal hotspots, we recommend taking a ghost tour from Idaho History Tours.  [source]

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The Lowe Files in Boise (Idaho State Penitentiary) in which John Owen disapproves of the term “gallows.” 

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Morris Hill Cemetery [Boise]

Boise's cemeteries are rife with ghost stories, and Morris Hill is no different. Built in 1882, some of Idaho's most brutally murdered and violently deceased residents are buried here, the victims of consumption, poison, rock slides, and more. Immense mausoleums dedicated to these individuals are a hotbed of apparition sightings, while the low hanging trees add an additional chill factor to this spooky graveyard. [source]

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Twin Falls Courthouse Haunts Officials [Twin Falls]

Built in 1911, the courthouse used to house prisoners on its top floor. When a new prison opened, all of the inmates were moved... but one presence still clearly haunts the building today. Multiple former inmates hanged themselves prior to the move, and with all the reports of eerie sensations, inexplicable chills, and strange apparitions, many believe it is one of these prisoners who still haunts the halls - perhaps seeking revenge for his untimely fate, or perhaps an undue sentence. [source]

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Idaho Farms Cyclops Sheep

In the 1950s, Idaho sheep ranchers had a problem. About a quarter of their lambs were being born dead or deformed—sometimes with a single eye centered in the middle of their forehead. 

Ranchers in the area had seen these deformities on occasion for the last 50 years, but in the 1950s, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) established a lab in the West, permitting access to researchers equipped to tackle the problem. 

Eventually, the team took the sheep themselves to the grazing area to watch what they ate. With the herders’ help, the researchers were able to locate the culprit plant, western false hellebore (corn lilly), and identify the teratogenic compound. They named the chemical cyclopamine for the cyclops-like deformity it caused in developing lambs. 

Once the problem was diagnosed, the ranchers could keep their pregnant sheep away from it, and the case of Idaho’s cyclopes was closed. 

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Behind-the-scenes Tour of the Old Idaho Penitentiary

We were lucky enough to take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Old Penitentiary this week. Here are our photos and experiences.

 The Women’s Ward was officially constructed in 1920. Previously, any female inmates were held on the second floor of “New Cell,” just below death row. While many female inmates were burglars, murderers or drug users, many others were imprisoned for such crimes as abortion and adultery. Seen above, our own Lyda Trueblood.

The Rose Garden is to the West of “New Cell,” and also where six inmates on death row were hung. The cells of death row had windows facing the rose garden, so anyone celling there had to watch as the gallows were constructed, and others before them were hung. 

Today, the cells are rusted and dusty, still decorated with possessions and artwork of some of the prisoners of the past. Our behind the scenes tour took us up to the third floor of five house, maximum security. Each cell has a two inch hole blindly facing a dark hallway, which we were able to walk through. The hallway is a catwalk where guards once patrolled and looked in on the prisoners. These days the catwalk is shaky and vertigo-inducing, but still functional. If you’re the kind of ghost-lover that always looks for the orbs in photos, you make look again to the second photo above that faces the dark walkway and is cut in half by a rainbow band that we can’t yet explain. 

We were also shown the “dungeon,” an off-the-record solitary confinement under the North Wing of the penitentiary. Few records exist of who was kept here or why, but it is said that some prisoners lived alone in the dungeon for up to eight days. 

Eventually, Siberia was constructed: a building in the far Northwest corner of the Penitentiary with ten, two-foot wide cells, with no lights or windows, that became the official Solitary Confinement rooms. 

We were also introduced to Dennis, a cat that was found in a shed inside penitentiary walls as a kitten in 1952. The prisoners were allowed to keep him if their behavior called for it. He lived a happy and well-fed sixteen years before passing of natural causes.The prisoners built him a grave, which is still the only grave on the penitentiary property. 

Finally, we were taken to the indoor gallows, and the drop room. This room was constructed alongside the new death row, complete with a windowed viewing area. Raymond Snowden (”Idaho’s Jack the Ripper”) was the only man ever hung here, for when the floor dropped his neck was not snapped, and Snowden hung and kicked for over fifteen minutes before finally suffocating. Three other men have been put to death in Idaho since Snowden, always by lethal injection. 

We would like to thank the staff and volunteers of the Idaho Historical Society and Idaho State Penitentiary for letting us take a look behind closed doors. 

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Abandoned Rockets Uncovered at Bruneau Sand Dunes

MONDAY, September 4th, 2017: Crystal Townsend  was out riding her horse along the trails at Bruneau Sand Dunes in Mountain Home, Idaho when she came across something she didn’t recognize. “There were at least ten of them” she says.

The unidentified items are old JATO rockets, once used to assist jets during take off. While there is an air force base in Mountain Home, it is unknown if they came from there, if they were uncovered by the sand after being buried for years, or perhaps dropped by someone else. 

The rockets were picked up by rangers for public safety the next day.

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Rob Lowe and sons become paranormal investigators in new A&E Series: The Lowe Files. Tomorrow’s Episode takes place at the Idaho State Penitentiary! 

Local pizza joint (Idaho Pizza Co. on Overland) will be hosting a viewing party at 8PM local time, and we’ll be there. 

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August's book of the month is "The Idanha: Guests and Ghosts of an Historic Idaho Inn" by Dick D'Easum.

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Boise, Idaho

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I found a cabin. The newspaper on the floor was dated 1984.

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Girl in the Attic

fyoursecretidentity submitted:

Okay, so when I was 12, we lived in this house in Southeastern Idaho, and my room was in the back of the house and my closet had the door to the attic in it. Now, at this time, it was in the middle of my parents’ divorce, and they had just uprooted me from the life I had lived for the last 6 years, and at the time that was a huge deal. Half my life.

Anyway, I don’t know if this was brought on by emotional stress or what, but one night, I was lying awake in bed, unable to sleep and curled into a ball facing the room. I was wrapped in a big comforter, but the temperature int he room kept dropping, until I was sure I should have seen my breath.

I opened my eyes and looked around my room, and on the wall in between the closet door and the door to my room, I had this vanity, complete with a mirror, that had been built into the wall before we moved in. I stared at that for a while, watching the window directly across from it through it.

As I watched, I saw two hands reach up and start pushing the window open, but when I looked at the window, nothing was there. It wasn’t even open. I looked back at the mirror and the hands were gripping the bottom of the frame, and someone was pulling themselves up. My window was about 7 feet off the ground. They pulled themselves up and through the window, pushing my window blinds out of the way. When I looked back to the window, they only swayed slightly.

When I looked back at the mirror, the figure was standing up. It was a girl with long dark hair and light skin, her hair smooth and soft looking, as if she took good care of it. It hung in front of her face and down her back, swaying slightly as she moved. She took a step forward, and then another. Continuing across my room until she came to the mirror. she lifted her head, staring at the mirror and then turning until she was facing my reflection. She stared for a few seconds before moving out of my sight towards the closet. A few moments later and the closet slowly opened, and I heard her climb up into the attic, pushing the trapdoor out of the way.

Since then, every time I look in the mirror, I see a faint figure standing behind my right shoulder, watching everything I do. I hate looking at my reflection, because I’m so scared of it. We’ve moved out of that house, but it followed me and I just want it gone.

Fuckyeahnightmares Mod James: 9/10 It might be because I’m the alone one awake in my house right now and it’s midnight but this was spooky as hell.  Mirrors get me the most.  It sounds like the opposite of a vampire.  I’m sorry whatever that is follows you around.  Just think of it like the hitchhiking ghosts in the haunted mansion ride in Disneyland… if that’s comforting at all.  I’m rambling, anyway, thanks for sharing the scares!

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