Urban Exploration/Paranormal Research (Nome, Emmonak: homes, school, land)

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by r2thekore

Hmm I just googled Iliamna lake monster!! Woah.. never heard of this one... Care to expand on this at all? or has anyone else heard any myths stories or anything about it? what does it look like etc... That definitely seems like it needs to be investigated.

Haven't heard anyone bring that up for years...

[akck]

The old hotel in Skagway is supposed to be haunted. I believe the ghosts are from the gold rush era.

[warptman]

Urban myths and legends equals Blockus...yes indeed.

[akvarmit]

Originally Posted by warptman

Urban myths and legends equals Blockus...yes indeed.

Oh Puh-leese don't give HIM any ideas.........

[blueflames50]

Originally Posted by warptman

Urban myths and legends equals Blockus...yes indeed.

gwaaakkk....bend over Warpt *KICKS WARPT*

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by r2thekore

Hmm I just googled Iliamna lake monster!! Woah.. never heard of this one... Care to expand on this at all? or has anyone else heard any myths stories or anything about it? what does it look like etc... That definitely seems like it needs to be investigated.

There was a swimming thread on this forum a couple years ago where the topic of the Iliamna Lake monster surfaced, including video: http://www.city-data.com/forum/alask...-alaska.html#6

The Lake Iliamna monster once again has reared its legendary head. On July 27, several, reportedly sober, eyewitnesses say they saw a 10-foot, black "fish" leaping and splashing in the lake, about five miles northwest of Pedro Bay village.

Verna Kolyaha was fishing from a skiff with her mother and sister when they saw the creature. Kolyaha approached to within 100 feet of the creature, which she said was shaped like a whale, with a white strip along the fin on its back. "It made an almost complete circle around us," Kolyaha told the Bristol Bay Times.

Back at the village, Rainbow Bay resort owner Jerry Pippen and pilot Jerry Blandford were airborne within 30 minutes of the sighting, but saw nothing but a large ripple in the lake. The next day, however, Pippen reported seeing "a really huge seal. This seal was squirting water six to eight feet in the air." Pippen said the animal was cream colored, with lighter markings.

Sightings of a huge creature that lives in the depths of Alaska's largest lake are so persistent that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game keeps an open file labeled, "Lake Iliamna Monster."

In 1963, a department biologist was flying his small plane over the lake and for 10 minutes watched a creature that appeared to be about 25 to 30 feet long swimming below the surface. It never came up for air. The biologist estimated the beast's length by comparing it to the airplane's shadow on the water.

A number of times in recent years, sport fishermen near the villages of Iliamna and Pedro Bay have reported a big, peculiar, snake-like form moving along at the water's surface.

Explanations for the creatures that have been observed range from a lost whale that strayed in from the ocean to a huge sturgeon to a species of freshwater seal. The Native people say the creature is a monster that doesn't like people and upsets boats that stray too far from shore, but there's no scientific evidence to prove any theory."

Source: Alaska Magazine, January 1988, page 17

[blueflames50]

In todays news:

Why a Peninsula village was abandoned to spirits

Published: October 21st, 2009 11:24 AM
Last Modified: October 21st, 2009 01:09 PM
Link: Homer Tribune When Malania Helen Kehl of Nanwalek was a baby in nearby Port Chatham, her family fled the village along with, eventually, every other resident. Now 75 and Nanwalek's eldest resident, Kehl is among the last to tell the tale of the nantiinaq -- a creature long described in Native tradition, something like a Sasquatch -- that had been frightening villagers for years, along with a black-dressed female spirit. Once Kehl's family moved to Nanwalek, she says, the spirits left them in peace.

[warptman]

Alaska's Bigfoot aka "Hairy Man."

The Hairy Man

Alaska Hairy Man

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[warptman]

The Little People

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[bortstc37]

a guy on the other side of town knows where bigfoot lives.

we also have many believers in the little people.