Flap: Clackamas County, Oregon, Feb–Mar 2001
3 reports · 3 separate documents
Bigfoot (3).
In the 10 years either side we have 10 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Feb 21, 2001 Witness reports seeing a red-haired, agile creature running across a road near Ripplebrook Ranger Station.
Bigfoot · Clackamas County, Oregon - Mar 2, 2001 [name] reports hearing movement and smelling a skunk-like odor near his camp on Fish Creek, followed by finding large footprints the next morning.
Bigfoot · Fish Creek, Oregon - Mar 3, 2001 [name] reports seeing a trail in the snow coming straight down a mountain slope towards Frog Lake, which he speculates could be from Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Frog Lake, Oregon
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.