Unlike Mount Shasta, which has accumulated an enormous body of modern paranormal literature, Medicine Lake has relatively few documented supernatural stories. What it does possess is older and arguably more significant: a living Indigenous tradition identifying the lake as a sacred place connected with the Creator, healing, and ceremony.
Bigfoot?
Matah Kagmi – 8 to 10 feet tall, musky scent and may be another name for Bigfoot. Metoh Kangmi is a Tibetan term, associated with Yeti. This seems to be named “Oolork” but again…not much else is found.
This was originally reported in 1968 by Tawani Wakawa here and here. But This person also is discredited here. Honestly, this went around in circles and I doubt any of it’s true. I could only find this one source for the existence of this cryptid. Nevertheless, something has been named in the area and reported, a little.
The 1894 Ghosts of the Lava Tubes
Read the Original Here
In 1894, the San Francisco Morning Call published an account by a man named Frank Bagges, who described spending a night in the Lava Beds near the site of the 1873 Modoc War. Local stories told of the area being haunted by the spirits of people connected with the Modoc War. During the night, Bagges reportedly heard shrill cries, war whoops, moaning, and sounds resembling a Modoc dance coming from the darkness around the lava formations. He eventually described seeing a strange yellowish haze containing a group of figures.
According to Bagges, the apparitions appeared to include several historical figures connected with the Canby assassination, including General Edward Canby, Dr. Thomas, Captain Jack, Sconchin, Boston Charley, Steamboat Frank, and Shacknasty Jim. Bagges also reported feeling a cold hand touch his face. His sleeping companion reportedly awoke at nearly the same time and described experiencing something similar.
Bagges attempted to find a natural explanation for the strange sounds, suggesting that air moving through the cracks and underground passages of the lava beds could account for some of the noises. But he could not explain the apparition he claimed to have witnessed.
Early recorded Modoc tradition describes two supernatural small people who appear during a dramatic encounter with a powerful mountain being
Jeremiah Curtin’s Myths of the Modocs (starte about page 219) recorded stories from Ko-a-lak-ak-a, a Modoc woman who had been taught the traditional religion and myths by her grandfather. He also collected stories from Sconchen, an older Modoc man and former chief.
It states, “here were two orphans, a boy and girl, in the village. They were little people; they didn’t grow any…“
The story is particularly interesting because these beings are not simply described as unusually short humans. Their small stature is associated with their supernatural status and their participation in a world where humans, animals, mountains, weather, and supernatural beings interact.
Mountains, forests, caves, lakes, and remote valleys frequently become settings for stories about beings that are neither completely human nor entirely divine. Such beings can function as guardians of boundaries, inhabitants of an earlier world, supernatural neighbors, or explanations for things that humans cannot easily understand.
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