By Erica Martinson Updated: September 28, 2016 Published: September 4, 2015
Prior to and throughout this week's presidential visit to Alaska, the state's rumor mill went into overdrive. Where would Obama go? What would he do? Who else might come to Alaska?
Here at Alaska Dispatch News, we heard quite a few -- some we followed up on, and a few were clearly the product of gossip and/or misinterpretation.
Below are some of our favorites. Did you hear an out-there rumor of your own? Leave it in the comments.
1. Russian President Vladimir Putin is coming.
2. Michelle Obama is already here -- she came last night. (Monday, Anchorage)
3. Michelle Obama is here -- shes just not getting out of the car. (Tuesday, Seward)
4. Obama is going to the Sealife Center. (Seward)
6. Obama is going to eat dinner at
Chinooks, and theres already a waitress picked out to serve him. (Seward)
7. The president will (somehow) cancel Shells drilling permits.
8. Obama rented out the entire Captain Cook Hotel. (Anchorage)
9. The police are tossing all the homeless people in jail to clean up downtown. (Anchorage)
10. The president will declare the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a national monument.
12. Obama will announce a $40 million grant for a Kivalina Road (one of the early rumors was that Obama would visit the Arctic community, but he ended up only doing a flyover on his way to Kotzebue).
13. The president will lock up the entire state's land mass and/or marine areas.
14. The president will announce sharing of federal revenues from oil and gas development on the outer continental shelf with the state and local communities.