Roger Patterson interviewing Fred Beck — Ape Canyon
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Fred Beck
Historical witness profile documenting a reported encounter in Washington during 1924, with source provenance and connected research records.
Washington1924Provisional research profile
Location archiveWashington
Media & documentation
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I Fought the Apemen of Mt. St. Helens reproduction with Fred Beck image
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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
Summary
large hairy figures; night attack / rock throwing
Background & context
Miner; outdoor experience: High. The profile preserves what the entered sources document and does not infer missing biographical or encounter details.
Only public, encounter-relevant context is shown. Private contact details and precise residential information are not published.
Events
Encounter record
1924 · Washington
1924 reported encounter
large hairy figures; night attack / rock throwing
Witness-level record; dedicated case page not yet created
Dedicated case page not yet createdReported observations
LOC-0020
Source-linked observations — LOC-0020
- large tracks
- hair-covered subjects
- multiple subjects/group event
- physical cabin attack narrative
Media & source material
Watch, listen & read
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No dedicated media record is currently registered.
The source chronology remains available below. New audio, video, transcripts and documents will appear here when recovered.
Indexed source passages
Concise research summaries point to exact source locations when available; long third-party transcript passages are not reproduced.
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.
Provenance
Source history
A chronological record of where this testimony appears. Media above is presented for reading or playback; this timeline preserves source order and provenance.
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 ↗Consistency & changes over time
Stable / recurrent
- Broadly stable
Added later
None coded in the current record.
Changed / contradicted
None coded in the current record.
Unresolved
- Metaphysical accretion
- Compare 1924 press / 1966 / 1967
Controls
Corroboration & evidence
Yes – four miners. This is not coded as independent testimony unless the co-witness's own source is recovered.
Contemporary publicity; multi-witness account. Evidence authenticity and testimony are evaluated separately.
Research assessment
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.
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Connections
Related reporting & research
No witness-specific analytical publication is linked yet.
This does not mean the witness is absent from future cross-era or trait analysis.
Public record reference
Record identifier
- Witness ID
- WIT-PUB-0019
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