Historical Witness

Doris Harrison

Missouri1972
Location archiveMissouri
Profile overview

At a glance

Encounter period1972
RegionMissouri
Direct visualYes
Repeat / ongoingNo
Co-witness / corroborationYes – younger brothers
Primary sourceMissouri Department of Conservation
Exact locators1
Media / transcript records1
Encounter & observations

The encounter

Context

Teen rural resident; outdoor experience: Moderate.

1972-07 · Louisiana, Missouri

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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What the witness reported

LOC-0004

Source-linked observations — LOC-0004

  • ~50 ft viewing distance
  • ~7 ft
  • black
  • shaggy

Original source ↗ Open locator →

Media

Watch, listen & read

1 source record0 playable here0 transcripts located
Audio interview2024 transcript preserving 1972 clipping

MoMo 1972 — Doris Harrison Newspaper Account

Missouri Department of Conservation

A state-agency transcript preserves the wording of a 1972 local newspaper clipping about Doris Harrison and her younger brother.

Transcriptofficial transcript
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Sources & changes

Key source passages

LOC-0004

Missouri Department of Conservation, NatureBoost Episode 57 transcript

Contemporary clipping as read in the transcript says Harrison saw, about 50 feet from the house, a black object about 7 feet tall; it was described as tall, black and shaggy.

Exact locator → Original source ↗

Source chronology

1972-07

Local newspaper text preserved in Missouri Dept. of Conservation transcript

MoMo / Louisiana, Missouri yard sighting

Open source/record ↗

Changes over time

Stable / recurrent

  • Stable early basic account
  • Multiple source layers are present; source-by-source comparison should remain chronological.

Unresolved

  • Broader MoMo hoax context
  • Recover original clipping facsimile
Research assessment

Research assessment

Corroboration & evidence

Reported co-witness / corroboration

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

Evidence mentioned in source matrix

Immediate media attention; state historical treatment. Evidence authenticity and testimony are evaluated separately.

Documentary strengths

  • Already qualified for the Observatory's public baseline witness corpus.
  • Recoverable source URL is preserved.
  • 1 exact source locator record(s) currently recovered.
  • Multiple source layers are available for chronology comparison.
  • The source matrix codes a reported direct visual.

Limitations / controls

  • Reported co-witness information is not automatically independent corroboration.

What would improve the record

  • 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
2
Named media providers
2
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

Doris Harrison · MoMo / Marzolf Hill 1972 — Mdc source document
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗
Doris Harrison — Missourilife 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.