According to Chelan County Emergency Management, a group of six hikers were climbing the peak when around 1pm the lead hiker triggered what would be the first of multiple avalanches.
Going back to the 1960s, there have been six different eyewitness accounts of what was described as a "floating, blob-like creature" in the woods of Kinderhook, New York.
The 'Lady in the Lake' is a legend in New York's Adirondack Mountains around Lake Placid that is based on the true story of a woman disappearing in the lake in 1933.
Several large mausoleums were broken into and the remains of some people may have been taken from a cemetery in the Binghamton, New York suburb of Johnson City.