Historical Witness

Elizabeth Ford

Arkansas1971
Location archiveArkansas
Profile overview

At a glance

Encounter period1971
RegionArkansas
Direct visualYes
Repeat / ongoingRepeat activity around house reported
Co-witness / corroborationYes – family / companions
Primary sourceEncyclopedia of Arkansas / contemporary press
Exact locators0
Media / transcript records0
Encounter & observations

The encounter

Context

Rural resident; outdoor experience: Moderate.

1971-05-02 · Fouke, Arkansas

Fouke 1971

Household and companion reports that became the Fouke Monster case, with contemporary press and law-enforcement response.

Open case →

What the witness reported

  • hairy arm at window
  • red eyes reported

Original source ↗

Sources & changes

Source chronology

1971 press

Fouke Monster household

Source supporting this witness profile: Encyclopedia of Arkansas / contemporary press

Open source/record ↗

Changes over time

Unresolved

  • Physical evidence disputed
  • Recover original clipping scans
  • Exact source locator has not yet been recovered for this profile.
Research assessment

Research assessment

Corroboration & evidence

Reported co-witness / corroboration

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

Evidence mentioned in source matrix

Sheriff search; tracks/scratches reported. 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

Elizabeth Ford · Fouke 1971 — Encyclopediaofarkansas 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.