Iliamna Lake Monster — Alaska's government actually offered a reward and then went quiet

Lake Iliamna in Alaska is massive — one of the largest lakes in the US — and it has a creature tradition going back through Dena'ina Athabascan oral history. But here's what floors me: in the 1990s, the state of Alaska put out a $100,000 reward for proof of the creature. A major newspaper sponsored ……