Class B First-hand BFRO #4966

Large footprints, area of matted grass and sounds of bipedal footsteps noted along shores of Aurora Lake

Summer 1976 Aurora, Portage County, Ohio 2 witnesses

Account

The witness and a companion hiked through a creek bed to a long-visited spot in the woods. They found a large area where tall weeds and trees had been matted down into a bed-like clearing with outer vegetation bent outward. While examining it they heard heavy bipedal footsteps and breaking twigs approaching through dense foliage but could not see the source. They retreated to the road while the unseen source followed at a distance, staying about 100 feet away.

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Facts & provenance

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Date
Summer 1976
Stated BFRO report #4966 · BFRO report, labelled fields: Year, Season
Place
Aurora, Portage County, Ohio
Stated BFRO report #4966 · BFRO report, labelled fields: State, County, Nearest Town, Location Details, Nearest Road
Map point
41.31, -81.38 (± 1096 m)
Stated BFRO map layer · BFRO published map layer · read with 85% confidence
BFRO map layer point for report 4966 with published boundary
Account type
First-hand
Stated BFRO report #4966 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Witnesses
2
Derived BFRO report #4966 · BFRO report, “Observed” section
Witness was
hiking in the woods
Stated BFRO report #4966 · BFRO report, “Other Witnesses” section
Source classification
Class B
Stated BFRO report #4966 · BFRO classification label

Evidence & investigation

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Structure

large matted-down area of weeds and trees forming a bed-like clearing with outer vegetation bent outward

Measurements: 8 feet wide by 14 feet long

BFRO report, “Observed” section

Source timeline

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  1. Published 1999-03-23 Retrieved 2026-09-25 Version 1 Hash bbba605ce511
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  2. BFRO map layer Reference
    Retrieved 2026-09-24 Version 1 Hash cfb8a3d423b7
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The report refers to

  • “March 1999 edition of THE MONTHLY BIGFOOT REPORT-number 79”
    Not in the Anomadex yet