Flap: Bear Lake, Utah, Sep 1907
3 reports · 3 separate documents
Water Monster (3).
In the 10 years either side we have 1 other report within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Sep 1907 Quill Nebeker reports that a monster attacked his pigs and barn but was calmed by music played on a graphophone before floating away in tears.
Water Monster · Cache County, Utah - Sep 18, 1907 Hon. Aquilla Nebeker confirms the appearance of a monster in Bear Lake and describes his own experience with it, noting its size and temperament.
Water Monster · Bear Lake, Utah - Sep 24, 1907 John Nebeker claims his right hand was injured by the Bear Lake monster.
Water Monster · Bear Lake, Utah
Sources: Newspaper (3).
How we find flaps
- Plain rules, no model: reports within 37 miles and about four months of each other are grouped, and a group counts only when it is at least 5 times what that place usually sees over the 10 years either side.
- A flap needs at least 3 reports from at least 3 separate documents: one article listing six sightings is one telling.
- Copies are not confirmations: a story reprinted in thirty papers counts once.
- Investigator logs (BFRO, NAWAC, the Loch Ness Register) are left out, because a busy field season looks just like a flap.
- Only reports placed to a town or county and dated to the month are used. A flap is a burst of reports, not proof of a creature: panics, hoaxes and newspaper fashions make flaps too.