Just the latest variation in an age old tactic of throwing mud and seeing if it sticks.

Either there was a “crowd”. Or there wasn’t. In the absence of any evidence that there was a crowd, the onus is on whoever’s suggesting that there might have been a crowd, to back it up. The onus is on Stranger to prove that there may have been a crowd, not on the rest of us to prove that there wasn’t. They have yet to do that.

Simply conjuring up new variables to obfuscate / deflect … just serves to distract from the issue (regardless of the motive).

it’s why I astutely refuse to suggest that this was the result of alien mind control going awry. :P