Pediatrician's incident log: 'patient described creature exactly'

An eight year old patient described, unprompted, a creature she said she had seen behind the schoolyard fence. The doctor wrote in the margin: matches three other accounts this week.

Type: DOCUMENT
Date of Record: 1996-02-11
Source: Released under regional public records request, 2011

Abstract

Single page from a pediatrician's daily intake log noting an eight year old patient who described, unprompted, a small bipedal figure with red eyes observed near her schoolyard fence. Notation in the margin reads matches three other accounts this week. The associated patient file is not included in the release.

Artifact Inventory

Document: Single page from intake log
Patient age: 8
Margin note: matches 3 other accounts this week
Patient file: Not included in release

The release

The page was released in 2011 in response to a regional public records request seeking pediatric mental health intake records from January and February 1996. The page is the only one of approximately one hundred eighty pages in the release that contains any reference to the events. The associated patient file was not included in the release and has not been made available since.

What the entry says

The intake note, in the pediatrician's handwriting, records that the patient described, without prompting, a small bipedal figure with red eyes that she had seen near her schoolyard fence on her walk home from school. The patient stated that the figure did not move when she stopped to look at it and that she had not told her parents because she did not want them to think she was lying.

The margin note, in the same handwriting, reads: "matches 3 other accounts this week." There is no further annotation.

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