The Watch That Was Somewhere While Its Owner Slept

The Watch That Was Somewhere While Its Owner Slept

A perfectly running Seiko watch was found face down in the center of a gravel turnaround at 4:42 AM with an 18-inch circular impression around it and no footprints - and its owner was sedated seven miles away and never left her room. How did a watch go from a locked, sealed belongings bag in Room 318 to the middle of Fenwick Road with no trace of passage?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of documented events from admission to discovery, laying out the timestamps, work orders, and signed logs that make the incident inexplicable. Can the records themselves point to what happened between the 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM nurse checks?

Person: Pamela Carlson
Date: May 7, 2009
Location: Fenwick Road turnaround; Stillwater Lake Memorial Room 318
Event: Watch found in gravel; owner sedated in hospital
Case: Work order 7714 logged by Doug Pratt

- Watch found at 4:42 AM on May 7, 2009, in the dead center of a gravel turnaround with an 18-inch circular impression around it.
- Owner Pamela Carlson was sedated in Room 318 and had been unconscious since 10:15 PM the previous night.
- Charge nurse Susan Merritt logged Carlson’s belongings into a sealed hospital bag at 9:47 PM; the zipper remained intact and everything except the watch was present.
- Facilities worker Doug Pratt logged a drawer maintenance check at 11:58 PM under work order 7714, a work order he filed earlier the same day.
- The watch was seven miles from the hospital when found; the sheriff received a call at 4:48 AM, 66 minutes after the grader operator photographed the watch.

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