The following table presents number of the people who recalled “facts, events, supernatural details” as well as the level of coherence and familiarity added to the reproduced versions of the story. Please note that the numbers are given in relation to being correct or close-to-correct recalls except for coherence and familiarity:
It seems that facts or factual details of the story remembered most in the first run of the recall test. These include the number of the people in the boats (e.g., 5), number of the men hunting seals (2). Events on the first and second trial seem to be much more factual (e.g., seal-hunting, asked if they wanted to join them in waging war, the second young men went with the warriors), while events on the third sessions seems to refer to more familiar things (e.g., one heard a noise farther away in the bushes, he saw some blood on the coat). This implies that in relation to the increasing number of reporting more familiar stuff (e.g., black cloud, black ghost), the events were transformed into what seemed to be reasonable or more familiar on the basis of prior knowledge. This trend can also bee seen in the increasing number of people reporting more familiar things across the sessions. Interestingly though, supernatural details like being a ghost, something black coming out of one of men`s mouth were remembered correctly by most people as a phenomenon (e.g., a black cloud left his body through his mouth, he was dead, black ghost came out of his mouth). Closely related, fighting and dead were the most commonly remembered themes on all three sessions (e.g., they fight with some others, he died later that night). Finally, be it original information or created by the participants themselves, what is remembered seems to be highly coherent. To put it in another way, the recalled versions of the original story seem to consist of a logical stepwise flow of the events even though this included changing order of events sometimes (e.g., 1) they were in a boat; 2) they heard a noise; 3) they went to find out what it was).