I found "Strange Stories of Alaska and the Yukon" by Ed Ferrell for a couple of bucks at a thrift store and it was a great bargain! It is a slim, and easy to read book clocking in at just over 150 pages, but the stories are fun, and you have to read them slowly and pay attention to take them in.
The book is pretty much a collection of strange and hard to believe stories collected from old papers, many going back into the late 1880s, but there are some mentions of more modern times. A sonar image of a lake monster from the 60s comes up.
Cryptids, mysterious characters, ghosts, lost mines (this is Alaska) are in the volume. I particularly enjoyed the stories of locals reporting encounters with mammoths!
I also enjoyed a strange story about a very detailed mirage city. Of course, there are some stories of miners who are never heard from again. There is a story of a captured young sasquatch. And a verifiable story involves a frozen mammoth that is discovered!
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