Flap: Chesterfield, England, Jun–Sep 2016
6 reports · 5 separate documents
Bigfoot (4), Other Humanoid (1), Other / Unknown (1).
In the 10 years either side we have 24 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Jun 16, 2016 A witness reports hearing three quick taps from the wood line at 2 am which replied to her tapping, while her cats fled into the house in fear.
Bigfoot · Chesterfield, England - Jul 2016 Witness [name] reports seeing a dark, black-furred, human-sized figure crouching and moving fluently through long grass near Astbury golf course in Cheshire…
Bigfoot · Astbury, England - Jul 16, 2016 Witness reports her husband and a friend saw a tall, hairy, human-shaped creature stalking them at a golf course before it ran away.
Bigfoot · Worsley, England - Aug 30, 2016 The blogger and her daughter felt watched and saw objects thrown from the opposite side of a canal into the water while walking home.
Other Humanoid · Chesterfield, England - Sep 2016 A witness and their daughter encountered strange stick structures and heard sticks snapping as something approached them in the woods.
Other / Unknown · Staffordshire, England - Sep 2016 Witness [name] reports hearing loud thumping footsteps and seeing branches snapped near his camp for about a month before fleeing to Rossendale.
Bigfoot · Rossendale, England
Sources: ukwildman (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.