Cock Goblin Research & Safety Council
Volunteer archive and public bulletin office · Bethlehem, Pa.
The public archive contains released field notes, correspondence, transcripts, newsletters, municipal records, photographs, maps, and evidence logs. Witness-identifying material is withheld where required.
TO: MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR
RE: DRAINAGE SITE / NORTH STORAGE LOT
Personnel are advised that the east culvert remains closed pending wildlife assessment. Employees should not enter for tools, personal property, or “to prove a point.”
Official animal determination: RACCOON.
*Released to the Council archive under source restriction. Origin remains disputed.
Three impressions under bridge. Mud soft. Approx. 6.5 in. Central impression indistinct. Raccoon unlikely at size. Heard click from opposite bank at 22:18. Tom reports whistle. Traffic interference significant.
Recovered plaster cast fractured during transport.
EDITORIAL: STOP BAITING THEM.
For the third time this year, a correspondent has attempted to improve photographic odds by leaving deli meat near a suspected travel corridor. This is scientifically invalid and creates unnecessary exposure at an active site.
00:13:08 — WITNESS: It was by the fence.
00:13:11 — SPOONER: Standing?
00:13:12 — WITNESS: At first.
00:13:14 — [three faint whistles]
00:13:19 — WITNESS: That's it. That's the sound.
00:13:25 — SPOONER: We're leaving.
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY WATCH NOTICE
Residents along two unnamed creek corridors are asked to record repeated whistles, unusual overnight object displacement, and motion-light activation between 23:00 and 04:30. Do not coordinate accounts before submitting them.
Location: Carbon County, PA. Camera: 35 mm fixed-focus field unit. Exposure: unknown. Frame shows reflective points at approximately 41 m and a partial low silhouette near drainage wall. Negative retained; enlargement inconclusive.
Item A: coarse hair/fiber bundle recovered from crawlspace access. Received 06/08/22, 09:40. Packaging compromised 06/09/22 after water intrusion during vehicle transport. Laboratory comparison discontinued.
Hand-marked overlay comparing 214 archival reports against drainage channels, utility rights-of-way, rail corridors, and municipal stormwater access. Strongest visual concentration follows the Lehigh and Delaware corridor.
1,142 incident records • 76 audio tapes • 311 photographs • 24 plaster casts • 9 boxes of correspondence • 63 municipal-document copies • 18 hand-drawn site maps • 7 damaged field notebooks • 4 sealed evidence containers pending re-review.
Catalog-level trace holdings and current custody status are published separately in the Physical Evidence Catalog. Formal archive amendments are logged in Corrections & Errata.
Newsletters, volumes 1–37. Field summaries, correspondence excerpts, watch notices, disputed classifications, method changes, and a great many corrections to earlier issues.
Clipping files. Regional newspapers from five states, indexed by date, county, witness count, and, usefully, by whatever conventional explanation the paper offered at the time.
Field notebooks. The originals. Weather, sketches, the witness's own phrasing, equipment that failed, measurements taken badly, and a large amount that never reached the public summaries because somebody decided it was not interesting. Later readers have generally disagreed with that judgement.
For interpreted historical material derived from these holdings, see Paper TrailLegal & Regulatory, Newsletter Archive, Media History, Pre-1878 Accounts, Origin of the Name, and Institutional History. The interpretive pages do not supersede original archive records.
Accession list. Restricted material is listed by reference only.