Flap: Bend, Oregon, Dec 2008 – Sep 2009
5 reports · 5 separate documents
Bigfoot (4), Other Humanoid (1).
In the 10 years either side we have 23 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Dec 18, 2008 Witness reports seeing a Sasquatch looking at them from up the river while filming a documentary with a friend.
Bigfoot · Bend, Oregon - Mar 17, 2009 Witness reports seeing a large black creature running down the street and then down a bank.
Bigfoot · Tumalo, Oregon - Jul 2009 Witness reports seeing a tall, hairy creature walking on two legs near Tumalo Creek in July 2009.
Bigfoot · Bend, Oregon - Aug 24, 2009 Witnesses report hearing noises and seeing strange tracks near their campsite, which they cast as 15-inch human-looking footprints.
Bigfoot · Bend, Oregon - Sep 2009 Witness reports his brother saw huge blue eyes of a tall creature on a trail near South Sister and ran away.
Other Humanoid · Bend, 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.