Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
Payette Lake at McCall is glacier-cut, cold and over three hundred feet deep, and people have been reporting something long moving in it since the 1920s, when loggers said they saw a log that swam. The name came from a 1954 contest run by a local paper to give the creature something better than what it had been called. Idaho has kept it good-humoured ever since; there is a winter carnival and the name is on half the town. The lake is spectacular whether or not anything is down there.
Payette Lake, McCall (Valley County, Idaho). Source: Sighting reports since the 1920s; the name comes from a 1954 contest. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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