Historical Witness

Charles Kimble

Illinois1973
Location archiveIllinois
Profile overview

At a glance

Encounter period1973
RegionIllinois
Direct visualYes
Repeat / ongoingNo
Co-witness / corroborationYes – three coworkers
Primary sourceMurphysboro police case file
Exact locators0
Media / transcript records0
Encounter & observations

The encounter

Context

Carnival worker; outdoor experience: Not stated.

1973-06-25 · Murphysboro, Illinois

Big Muddy / Murphysboro 1973

Four carnival workers are named in an official police case file describing one underlying group event.

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What the witness reported

  • 7–8 ft light-brown-haired erect biped near ponies

Original source ↗

Sources & changes

Source chronology

1973

Reported encounter period

Illinois. 7–8 ft light-brown-haired erect biped near ponies

Open source/record →
1973 police report

Big Muddy Monster

Source supporting this witness profile: Murphysboro police case file

Open source/record ↗
Research assessment

Research assessment

Corroboration & evidence

Reported co-witness / corroboration

Yes – three coworkers. This is not coded as independent testimony unless the co-witness's own source is recovered.

Evidence mentioned in source matrix

Original police report survives. Evidence authenticity and testimony are evaluated separately.

Documentary strengths

  • Already qualified for the Observatory's public baseline witness corpus.
  • Recoverable source URL is preserved.
  • The source matrix codes a reported direct visual.

Limitations / controls

  • No exact source locator has yet been entered for this profile.
  • Current profile is primarily dependent on one entered source layer.
  • Reported co-witness information is not automatically independent corroboration.

What would improve the record

  • Recover an exact timestamp/page/paragraph locator.
  • Search for earlier or independent firsthand source layers.
  • Recover the co-witness's own statement where possible.
Source-linked testimony

Witness dossier

Only explicitly recorded relationships appear here. Links and recordings document attributed material; they do not independently corroborate an encounter.

Documentation at a glance

Linked media records
1
Named media providers
1
Associated case records
1

These are documented catalog links, not a confidence score or a count of independent corroborating accounts.

Associated cases

Testimony and related media

Source-backed account summaries

No source-verified narrative summaries are currently available for the linked media. Witness claims will not be reconstructed from titles or search snippets.

Media source audit

Charles Kimble · Otts Norris — Murphysboro source document
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗

Documented source chronology

No exact publication dates are established in the currently linked canonical media. The chronology remains unresolved rather than inferred.

Research limits

Chronology, verification and source interpretation remain governed by each canonical record. No additional claim is inferred from the relationship graph.