Alaska is the coldest and northernmost part of the United States and is made up mostly of endless tundra, mountains, and forests. There have always been few people here, and most of the territory has not been touched by humans at all.
Of the animals here, brown bears, wolves, seals, moose are familiar, but where are several other species of very strange animals hiding here, including the local analogue of the Bigfoot and its own lake monster.
There was also a two-legged wolf, similar in descriptions to the Dog-Man from other American states. In October 1998, a certain Melissa H. was driving late at night on her way to work from Palmer to Wasilla. The road twisted around the frozen wasteland, where not a single car could be seen in a day.
Suddenly something high and dark loomed ahead on the road and the woman at first took this creature for an elk, but then she made out. that it stands upright on two legs or feet. She also saw that this creature is too skinny for a bear; in the fall, bears gain fat and become very fat.
Another strange inhabitant of the Alaskan forests is the local Yeti, which is here called Arulatag or Nantina or Uraiuli ("shaggy"). It is most commonly seen in the southwestern part of the state near Lake Illiamna.
Outwardly, this creature differs little from the Yeti in other countries. It grows from 2 meters to 3 meters and sometimes even taller, covered with shaggy dark wool and outwardly very similar to a large monkey with very long arms, which hang down below the knees when standing. His eyes are red and glow brightly in the dark.
Arulatag swims very well, can steal livestock and especially dogs. Sometimes he runs into tourist campsites and steals food or steals fish from fishermen. When people found unusual huge footprints, they were almost always near the lake shore. Sometimes they tried to photograph him, but nothing came of it except for vague and half-blurred pictures.
And in the area of the Kodiak Island, something big swims and does not look like the usual aquatic inhabitants. One of the first sightings of this creature in the twentieth century was in April 1969, when the ship "Mylark", specializing in shrimp fishing, launched sonar into the waters of a lake to scan the bottom. At a depth of 300 feet (92 meters), they saw something large, similar in shape to … a dinosaur.
The creature had a well-defined body with a long neck and was stunned by the sight of the ship's crew. Then they swam this place and lost the creature on the sonar. According to the ship's skipper Chet Peterson, the beast was 200 feet (60 meters) long. Later, the story of this creature appeared on the front page of the Kodiak Daily Mirror newspaper.
Another sighting of the water monster was in the summer of 1971, when the crew of another fishing vessel saw a strange animal 30 feet (9 meters) long and with the head of a horse in the water. One of the fishermen shot him with a gun, but the creature was not wounded, but due to the noise it soon sank under the water.
Some of the fishermen managed to take a picture of this creature, but you can hardly see anything on it. In the water, you can only see something elongated and seems to be with thorns.
Within a few days after this observation, the monster was again seen in the same place and several times. It always floated near the coast and they also tried to photograph it.
A more recent observation occurred in 2002. A fishing boat sailed off the western shore of Kodiak Lake together under the name Uganik Bay. When the fishermen began to draw their nets, a strange creature stuck its head out of the water near the boat. Despite the fact that it was early morning, the fisherman Tollyf Monsen managed to make out a little of this animal:
The same Monsen next summer saw something strange again. Or rather, something strange crashed into his boat on a very quiet and sunny day. He is sure that this is not a whale, whales do not swim here, but according to him it was as big as a log.
An even stranger sea creature, similar to a giant platypus, was seen off the coast near Mount Point. The story of this was published in 1999 in the book Extraordinary Animals Revisited by cryptozoologist Karl Schuker.
Could a local fisherman be identified at the sight of a seal or other pinniped? Doubtful. But what then did he see here?
It is curious that there really was an ancient extinct ancestor of the platypus species Obdurodon tharalkooschild, however, it was small in size, no more than a meter. And he lived only in Australia.