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TESTED NOVEMBER 2026 · GUINNESS AND THE TRIBUNE AS TESTS; THE NAMED VENUES' OWN RECORDS
Tested negative, searches shown: the checklist's eleventh class is the world-record attempt in its modern folk form — a costumed gathering, a longest, largest or most-at-once, staged at a named local venue and aimed at the Guinness book. The tests the audit named were run in November 2026: the Guinness World Records record itself, searched for Granger, Indiana, and for the ground's two named venues; the South Bend Tribune's archive, searched for any record attempt staged in the CDP; and the event records of the two venues the class would naturally use — Knollwood Country Club, whose grounds and calendar the build carries whole, and the Juday Creek golf course. No attempt was found on any of the three shelves. The searches return the class's real instances elsewhere — a caterpillar-costume record at an Indianapolis mini-marathon, a dinosaur-costume gathering in Utah, a Ricky Bobby gathering at Talladega — which is itself the useful negative evidence: the record-attempt is a documented modern form, the databases that carry it are indexed and searchable, and this ground does not appear in them. Knollwood's own record is the record the build already holds — golf, tennis, swim and social events across a century, charity outings and club championships — and Juday Creek's likewise; neither carries a record attempt, costumed or otherwise, at any date reached. The verdict prints as the class's true-size negative: as of November 2026, no world-record attempt has been staged in the Granger CDP in any record reached. The settling door, if a claim ever surfaces, is the Guinness organisation's own application archive, which holds rejected and unpublicised attempts as the public database does not.
Searches run November 2026 as described in the text: Guinness World Records (Granger, Indiana; Knollwood; Juday Creek; costume gatherings); the South Bend Tribune archive (record attempt, Granger); the event records of Knollwood Country Club and Juday Creek as carried in the build and in the venues' own published calendars.