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MoMo / Marzolf Hill 1972
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MoMo / Marzolf Hill 1972
A 1972 family sighting that triggered the Missouri Monster media wave; earliest clipping wording is kept separate from later embellishment.
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Missouri Department of Conservation — MoMo transcript
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The current exact source is a modern state transcript reading the 1972 clipping. Later dead-dog, odor and other details require separate provenance rather than being backfilled into the newspaper account.
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