Flap: Galice, Oregon, Jul 2005 – Jan 2006
5 reports · 5 separate documents
Bigfoot (5).
In the 10 years either side we have 21 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Jul 2, 2005 Witness reports that she and her husband smelled a rotting odor and heard a gurgling noise while in the woods near Galice, concluding it was a bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Galice, Oregon - Jul 2005 Witness reports seeing a tall shadow running across the road and finding large footprints near a cabin in July 2005.
Bigfoot · Azalea, Oregon - Aug 2005 Witness reports seeing a huge thing eating blackberries and staring at them from the east while in a hot tub before it walked off.
Bigfoot · Oakland, Oregon - Oct 2005 Witness reports seeing a large, bipedal creature with human-like features running up a hill on an old logging road near Canyonville.
Bigfoot · Canyonville, Oregon - Jan 2, 2006 Witness reports an 8-foot tall reddish-brown creature ran across the road and vanished into the woods, leaving footprints that were photographed and cast.
Bigfoot · Glendale, Oregon
Sources: oregonbigfoot (5).
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.