Georgia: Bigfoot & River Monsters

From Backwoods Bigfoot Stories by Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters

June 10, 2026 · 57 min

About this episode

Brian shares personal Bigfoot encounters from Georgia, featuring a guest's terrifying experience with a creature.

This week on Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip, the truck rolls into Georgia, and for Brian this stop is personal, because Georgia is home. Born and raised in the north Georgia mountains, Brian opens up about the afternoon when he was twelve years old that set the course of his entire life, when something heavy and bipedal paced him through a thicket of pine, charged out of the brush, and sent him running six hundred yards home so terrified he was sick in his own front yard. From there he hands the mic to Mr. Brown, a Summerville carpenter and part-time ginseng hunter who, in August of 1986, came face to face with an eight-foot creature near a fire tower at Jenkins Gap. It had a withered left arm, fingernails grown so long they'd knotted, and a limp like a drunk old man, and Mr. Brown reported it to the sheriff, the newspaper, and Atlanta TV stations because he was afraid it might cross paths with a child.Brian then opens the wider file on Georgia, a state most people overlook for Bigfoot but which ranks among the most active in the country, with well over a hundred credible reports on record. He walks through the 1829 Okefenokee Swamp attack, one of the earliest written Sasquatch…

People in this episode

Host: Brian

Guest: Mr. Brown

Topics covered

Bigfoot
cryptids
personal stories
Georgia
sightings
local folklore

Keywords

Bigfoot
Georgia
cryptids
sightings
Okefenokee Swamp
Mr. Brown
personal stories

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Georgia, Okefenokee Swamp