Flap: Haverfordwest, Cymru / Wales, Feb–Jul 2015
4 reports · 3 separate documents
Shadow Person (3), Bigfoot (1).
In the 10 years either side we have 6 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Feb 5, 2015 A driver saw a shadowy human-shaped figure with long limbs run from the hedge across the road in front of her car before vanishing.
Shadow Person · Haverfordwest, Cymru / Wales - Feb 9, 2015 Two ladies saw a tall shadowy figure on the side of the road that darted across the road at astonishing speed just after 6 a.m.
Shadow Person · Steynton, Cymru / Wales - May 23, 2015 Mr. [name] and his family saw a blurry, very tall figure with swinging arms walk from the middle of the road and disappear into a hedge gap.
Shadow Person · Haverfordwest, Cymru / Wales · rabbit hole - Jul 2015 The blogger and a colleague saw a tall, lanky dark figure with long arms and legs run across the road into a hedge at about 2 am.
Bigfoot · Johnston, Cymru / Wales · rabbit hole
Sources: ukwildman (4).
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.