Loch Ness Monster
Across
- 9. As an agent, you have to know the ways your own thinking can _ you.
- 10. A witness who has something to gain from the outcome is this.
- 11. The neighbor saw lights in the sky. Her statement is this type of evidence.
- 13. A second student who saw nothing to gain confirmed the bullying report. Her account did this to the first student's story.
- 14. The weakest type of evidence.
- 16. A farmer says, “A pink flying saucer landed in my field.” This is a _.
- 18. Testimony, signs, and objects that an investigator examines.
- 19. The apple in the farmer's field seemed important at first, but agents realized it wasn’t _.
- 20. _ piece of evidence is never enough to prove the truth.
- 22. This piece of evidence was eliminated from the pink flying saucer case once investigators learned where it came from
Down
- 1. Before closing a case, a good investigator always looks for a(n) _ explanation — another reason the evidence could point somewhere else
- 2. These explained the unusual bite marks on the apple.
- 3. Before investigators knew about the braces, "aliens bit the apple" was this _.
- 4. If different sources agree, the claim is more _.
- 5. A reporter prints a story believing it is true, but it is wrong.
- 6. The metallic debris had no confirmed source. That uncertainty is this kind of warning sign.
- 7. The security camera footage of a student taking a backpack is this type of evidence.
- 8. A good BSSI agent practices this — questioning whether something is true before accepting it.
- 12. Being a doctor or a professor doesn’t make you a _ witness.
- 13. If each piece of evidence points to the same person, the evidence is _.
- 15. As an agent, you must be willing to _ your conclusion when the evidence demands it.
- 17. Corroborating evidence must come from _ sources.
- 19. Never confuse a good story with proof.
- 21. This gets people to believe something false and spreads misinformation.