Historical Witness

Fred Beck

Washington1924
Location archiveWashington
Profile overview

At a glance

Encounter period1924
RegionWashington
Direct visualYes
Repeat / ongoingNo
Co-witness / corroborationYes – four miners
Primary sourceHistorical account / later re-examination
Exact locators1
Media / transcript records0
Encounter & observations

The encounter

Context

Miner; outdoor experience: High.

1924 · Washington

1924 reported encounter

large hairy figures; night attack / rock throwing

What the witness reported

LOC-0020

Source-linked observations — LOC-0020

  • large tracks
  • hair-covered subjects
  • multiple subjects/group event
  • physical cabin attack narrative

Original source ↗ Open locator →

Sources & changes

Key source passages

LOC-0020

I Fought the Apemen of Mt. St. Helens — Fred Beck memoir

Beck's memoir describes prior large tracks, a group of miners, and a nighttime attack by what he calls hairy apes; the opening physical narrative is separable from the later metaphysical interpretation developed in the memoir.

Exact locator → Original source ↗

Source chronology

1924

Reported encounter period

Washington. large hairy figures; night attack / rock throwing

1924 press / 1967 memoir

Ape Canyon miners

Source supporting this witness profile: Historical account / later re-examination

Open source/record ↗

Changes over time

Unresolved

  • Metaphysical accretion
  • Compare 1924 press / 1966 / 1967
Research assessment

Research assessment

Corroboration & evidence

Reported co-witness / corroboration

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

Evidence mentioned in source matrix

Contemporary publicity; multi-witness account. 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.
  • The source matrix codes a reported direct visual.

Limitations / controls

  • Current profile is primarily dependent on one entered source layer.
  • Reported co-witness information is not automatically independent corroboration.

What would improve the record

  • Search for earlier or independent firsthand source layers.
  • Recover the co-witness's own statement where possible.
  • A dedicated case record may be added if the event details can be resolved from public sources.
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
0

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

Associated cases

No public case relationship is explicitly established in the current canonical graph.

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

I Fought the Apemen of Mt. St. Helens reproduction with Fred Beck image
Rights: Rights status unresolved; Transcript: Transcript status unresolved; Original publisher/source ↗
Roger Patterson interviewing Fred Beck — Ape Canyon
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.