Flap: Clackamas County, Oregon, Sep–Nov 2012
6 reports · 5 separate documents
Bigfoot (5), Other / Unknown (1).
In the 10 years either side we have 6 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Sep 29, 2012 Witness reports that three people investigating noises heard a pebble strike one person's head and later heard large stones being thrown in the forest.
Other / Unknown · McKenzie Bridge, Oregon - Oct 5, 2012 Witness reports seeing a huge object crossing the river and later hearing screams and rocks being thrown.
Bigfoot · Clackamas County, Oregon - Oct 6, 2012 Witness reports the object screaming and throwing a rock while crossing the river again.
Bigfoot · Clackamas County, Oregon - Oct 20, 2012 Witness reports hearing a loud growling yelling noise near Pamelia Lake that did not sound like known animals and made them question their disbelief in bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Idanha, Oregon - Nov 11, 2012 Witness reports hearing noises while camping near Rhododendron, seeing a rock thrown from the woods, and then sighting a bigfoot that looked at them before…
Bigfoot · Rhododendron, Oregon - Nov 26, 2012 Witness reports seeing a large creature step into the road and clear it in four steps, then glimpsing its broad shoulders moving into the brush near a slough.
Bigfoot · Portland, Oregon
Sources: oregonbigfoot (6).
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.