Georgia Hunter Details Years of Bigfoot Sightings and Charged Encounter

A deep dive into a Class A Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization report out of middle Georgia has surfaced on YouTube, and it's one of those files that sticks with you long after the video ends. The channel Treeline Files takes a meticulous look at report number 31888 from Butts County, near Jackson Lake, and what makes this case so compelling is the witness himself. He's a biology student, a bow hunter, and someone who clearly knew his way around the woods and the animals in them. When he says something didn't fit, it carries weight. The encounters span roughly four years at the same address, starting around November 2004. It began with howling. Not the occasional yip of coyotes or the call of owls, but deep, long howls that started around 11 at night and often involved more than one voice. The howls were seasonal, running from November through spring, and only in the cold months. Neighbors were hearing them too and actually came by to ask about it, which gives the account a second set of independent ears that you don't often get in these cases. The witness had a theory about why it started when it did, and it's an ecological one. Massive subdivisions were going in around his property, and he believed the habitat loss was pushing something out of the nearby Oconee National Forest, about 20,000 acres and roughly seven miles from his home, onto his land. As a hunter, he noticed something else during this period. There were no deer to be found on his property, and the ones he did see were extremely jumpy. He ruled out gunshots as the cause since it was archery season, though he didn't consider that the same bulldozers pushing the Sasquatch around might have been pushing the deer around too. Things escalated in November 2006. Around 4 in the morning, the witness stepped out to his carport for a cigarette. Everything went quiet. Then came a snarl, a large branch breaking close by, and huffing. Then a rock, estimated at 18 to 20 pounds, roughly the size of a bowling ball, came flying toward him. He ran inside and armed himself. The video does a great job breaking down that scene piece by piece. The quiet is real and common when a large predator moves through, or when a man steps out and lights a cigarette. The huffing is classic black bear behavior, and middle Georgia absolutely has black bears. But the rock? Nothing native to Georgia throws objects. The video also points out that the file doesn't specify how far the rock traveled, where it landed, or whether the witness actually picked it up and weighed it. A heavy object landing near you when a big branch breaks isn't always a separate event. It's a fair point, but it doesn't fully explain away a 20-pound stone arriving in the dark. A few days later, the file shifts from sounds to something visual. Around 10 at night, he let his 70-pound dog out. The dog walked about 15 yards from the house, began to growl, and the hair rose along its back. The witness had a 15-million-candlepower spotlight ready this time. Standing in the open less than 100 yards away was a figure he described as 8 to 10 feet tall. It turned its head as if trying to get the light out of its eyes, snarled the same snarl from before, and charged. Here's where it gets really interesting. The investigator's notes record that it started on two legs, switched to all fours, then went back up onto two. He and the dog both ran into the house. He never looked back and doesn't know how close it came before it stopped. The video breaks down that two-legs, four-legs, two-legs sequence carefully. A black bear caught in a light will stand on its hind legs to get a better look and smell, drop to all fours for a bluff charge with a huff and snarl, then pull up short and may stand again. If you were scripting a bear encounter for that yard, that's exactly what it would look like. But here's the problem with that explanation. A standing black bear in Georgia is 5 to 6 feet tall, not 8 to 10. Bears don't have hands hanging below their knees or shoulders like a football player in pads, and those details were in his description. Against that height is the reality of estimating size at night under a spotlight with nothing nearby for scale, in the two or three seconds before you run. He admitted he didn't see the end of the charge. Three weeks later, it happened again. Same time of night, the dog went out and growled. He put the light on it and it was there again, much closer. It huffed and charged, and this time he says it stayed on two feet the entire way. He believed it was the same individual. But the centerpiece of the file, the night that earned it the Class A designation, happened in October, around 2 a.m., with a full moon and clear skies. The witness was in a tent on a driveway that climbs through hardwoods toward the house near Jackson Lake. He was woken by loud grunting and the sound of trees snapping. He opened the tent window and looked out. There was a large dark figure in the moonlight holding something and hitting it. He wouldn't know what it was until sunrise, and by then most of it would be gone. The figure finished, carried what it had been hitting up the hill above the camp, and walked out onto some big rocks where it was visible against the sky. He watched it eat. A short time after it started eating, it noticed him. What makes this case stand out is the combination of factors. A credible, articulate witness with a biology background. Multiple encounters over four years. Visual sightings with spotlight illumination. A charged encounter, twice. Rock throwing. Howling heard by multiple households. And a deer kill witnessed up close on a full moon night. The investigator who followed up found him very articulate, credible, and knowledgeable. The video walks through all of this with a level of detail that's rare, and it's worth every minute for anyone who takes these reports seriously. Check it out on the Treeline Files channel and see what you think.