Down the rabbit hole
Bigfoot · Montgomery County, Texas · 1983
2 documents · 1 independent account
2 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 2 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 1 copy reprints or cross-posts of the same text: not extra witnesses
Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.
Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.
Why these records are connected
- 1 copy: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
- Why these documents are one case. The case matcher joined them because:
- Two brothers have encounter while building house. & Repeated encounters in rural subdivision.: a person reviewed them and joined them
- 1 other account mentioned in these documents point at a different encounter, so they are listed but not counted here.
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 2 documents
- Earliest found Two brothers have encounter while building house. BFRO report · Aug 9, 1999
- Reprint Repeated encounters in rural subdivision. NAWAC report · undated
Other accounts these documents mention
These point at a different encounter (a BFRO "other stories" section, another report number), so they are not drawn as part of this story.
- Buffalo Press, Jan 1, 1995 (named in BFRO report; cited, not yet found)
How to read this
- Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
- One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
- Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
- Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.
About the numbers
- Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
- Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
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