Flap: Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Nov 1934
4 reports · 3 separate documents
Water Monster (3), Other Aquatic (1).
In the 10 years either side we have no other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Nov 1934 Scientists in Prince Rupert report restoring a 30-foot sea monster with skin like sandpaper and a horse-like head.
Water Monster · Prince Rupert, British Columbia - Nov 23, 1934 Witnesses claim a 35-foot carcass with flippers and rough skin washed ashore on Henry Island, confirming their sightings of sea serpents in the local sound.
Water Monster · Prince Rupert, British Columbia - Nov 26, 1934 H. Sundstrum found a sea monster washed up on the beach near Henry Island that had attracted great flocks of gulls.
Other Aquatic · Henry Island, British Columbia - Nov 29, 1934 Robert Rogers reports seeing a sea creature described as having a body like a boa constrictor and a head like a horse near Prince Rupert.
Water Monster · Prince Rupert, British Columbia
Sources: Newspaper (4).
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.