Flap: Gold Coast, Queensland, Jul 2019 – Feb 2020
4 reports · 3 separate documents
Bigfoot (3), Other Humanoid (1).
In the 10 years either side we have 10 other reports within 37 miles of here.
The reports, in order
- Jul 11, 2019 Witness reports hearing crashing trees and growling from the front gully and a metal bowl hitting the house.
Bigfoot · Gold Coast, Queensland - Jul 14, 2019 Witness's daughter saw 'it' in the gully at the front of the house.
Bigfoot · Gold Coast, Queensland - Nov 6, 2019 Witness reports rocks being thrown into a pond and a deep grunt call coming from the bush while exploring Currumbin Valley.
Other Humanoid · Gold Coast, Queensland - Feb 2020 Witness and brother report hearing primate-like whoops and seeing a large tree downed on the road near the lookout.
Bigfoot · Border Ranges National Park, New South Wales
Sources: yowie (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.