There are weeks that arrive with noise and weeks that arrive with something quieter and, in my experience, more difficult to file. This was the second kind. The stories we covered between Friday and Friday were not, individually, without precedent. Taken together, they described something I have been trying to put into words since I sat down at this desk on Saturday morning with my coffee and the radio doing what the radio does. The word I keep arriving at is: watching. This was a week in which things watched us, and waited, and in at least one case made a considered judgement about what they found.
The Sheepsquatch emerged from the George Washington National Forest treeline on Friday and stood there for forty minutes. Six witnesses. No sound. It looked out at what was in front of it, and then it walked back into the trees. Malcolm Shaw’s reporting on this was precise and appropriately restrained. I will only add that I have covered a great many anomalous emergence events in my time at this network, and the ones that concern me most are not the ones that come toward us. They are the ones that come out, assess the situation, and return. The Sheepsquatch, the record shows, has seen enough to know whether things have improved. The record further shows that it went back.
Things waited in other registers this week as well. The Mothman was observed over the Point Pleasant Bridge. The inspection that has been scheduled, rescheduled, and administratively deferred continues to be scheduled. Rico Valez’s piece notes fourteen witnesses and an incident code field that remains blank, which is accurate. I would note additionally that the bridge is still there, the inspection is still pending, and the Mothman did not file a comment. This is consistent with prior coverage. The Mothman has never filed a comment. We continue to make the request.
In Harlan’s Creek — which I will remind viewers has appeared in our coverage with some frequency this quarter and which I am monitoring with the attention that warrants — two separate events occurred within what appears to be the same 48-hour window. A blood drive at VFW Post 441 broke its twenty-two year attendance record. A Category 3 Ambulatory Infected Variant attended the Saturday farmers market, showed a documented preference for stone fruit preserves, and has not yet been asked to leave by anyone with the authority to do so. The Market Standards Committee meets Thursday. We will be present.
Elsewhere: Bavarian property law has not yet determined whether a Wolpertinger constitutes a material disclosure condition. Four properties in the Chaco region have reduced their asking price. The Ya-Te-Veo is cited, in the listing language, as a change in local conditions, which is one way to describe it. And a review panel convened to examine Men In Black encounter reports declined, on the record, to confirm how many people were in the room. I covered that panel myself. The number of chairs was five.
Also this week: a woman in Tucson published a piece with this network asking for space and time regarding an entity currently occupying her husband’s chair. We granted her that space without qualification. We are continuing to monitor the situation. We will not be naming the entity at this stage. Gerald, to be clear, is a separate matter and is covered under separate protocols.
This is Hal Ridgeway. The week was noted. The filing continues. Authorities continue to urge caution.
