Momo, the Missouri Monster

What Is Actually True

• Missouri Life ties the sightings to July 1972, with an earlier incident in the summer of 1971, and says storytellers confuse the two.
• A conservation agent led a three-hour search of 100 acres on Marzolf Hill and said he found nothing that looked like a monster.
• Missouri Life quotes the Department of Conservation as saying there is “absolutely no scientific evidence.” We did not read a Department page.
• The author concludes there is overwhelming evidence it was a hoax, though he thinks a witness likely saw something.
• We name no witnesses.

A magazine, not an institution, is our only source; spellings vary (Momo and Mo Mo).