Flap: Dee, Oregon, Oct 1973 – Jan 1974
3 reports · 3 separate documents
Bigfoot (3).
In the 10 years either side we have 16 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Oct 1973 Witness reports finding large tracks and scat while hunting with family near Dee, Oregon, attributing them to a bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Dee, Oregon - Jan 1974 Deputy Sheriff [name] reports seeing a 7-foot Bigfoot on the road at 4 am in January 1974.
Bigfoot · Rowena, Oregon - Jan 1974 Witness reports seeing a tall creature walking in the forest while his wife used the restroom near Grant Lake.
Bigfoot · Grant Lake, Washington
Sources: oregonbigfoot (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.