Bigfoot Society - Massive 7-Foot Bigfoot Straddles a Barbed-Wire Fence in North Georgia

Episode Date: September 15, 2026

Mike thought he was watching a bear outside a remote cabin in the mountains of North Georgia.Then he noticed the hand.About ten years ago, Mike was staying alone near Elijay, Georgia, where his stepfather had been dealing with an animal getting into a deer feeder. One morning around 9:15, Mike finally saw something feeding outside.He watched from the cabin window as the encounter unfolded only 30 yards away.The longer Mike looked, the harder it became to explain what he was seeing. A hand. A face. An unusual brow. Massive shoulders. Dark brown hair. For a moment, he wondered if a hunter wearing a ghillie suit had wandered onto the property.Mike kept what happened that morning to himself for years.In this episode of Bigfoot Society, he finally walks Jeremiah through the experience in detail—the distances, the physical features he remembers, his attempts to identify what was outside the cabin, and the reason this encounter eventually returned to the surface nearly a decade later.This is Mike's firsthand account from the mountains near Elijay, Georgia.📖 Follow Jeremiah's cancer health updates here:https://www.caringbridge.org/site/569ef3d3-68be-11f1-8790-97fdfd2bbc64🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Supercast – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072

I start seeing this again. If I was a bear, this paw come up. Okay, what, what? And it's eaten. I think, what? That's not a hand. This is Bigfoot Society. Today's witness is Mike. And about 10 years ago, he was staying alone at a small cabin near L.A.J. In the mountains of North Georgia, his stepfather had been having trouble with what he thought was a bear getting into a deer feeder.

but one morning Mike finally saw it for himself and for years he told nobody so here's Mike so I'll just start by uh my mother and her husband I called him chief they moved from Florida up to LJ Georgia and they they moved to a I call it a gated community it's called Cusawati and it encompasses it's gated three gates and it encompasses two mountains, I believe. Anyway, so, okay, I'd go up there, I'd visit. Well, my stepfather, I had always called him chief, so he was so happy about buying this little cabin.

It was about an hour away. And what's funny about this, they had a very nice, like, I call it three stories, had a split level, you know, very nice, huge log cabin model kind of thing. Like,

okay, this is pretty rural to me, but, you know, so he told me, he said, hey, I'm having a problem with a bear up here.

And he, well, let me back up. He was so proud. He said he, he bought this for a, I'm going to dance. Okay, cool.

Great. So he said, hey, I'm having problems with this bear, you know, up there. So what he's doing? He's, he's still with food out of the feeder. They had a feeder. He didn't hunt, but they liked feeding the deer. So, that's okay. And he made a statement that went right over my head.

You see, he's a slick bear. He puts the lid back on it. And it just went right over my head. Okay, no problem. I said, okay, I'll come up. I have to write a position paper for my job. I said, you know, this would be a good opportunity. You know, I can just have some time.

This was almost 11 years ago. So I go up. He drops me off. It was about an hour away. I can probably find where it's at if I really look. not exactly sure the location, but, you know, give me some time I could probably look. So we go up, he drops me off. I spend the night.

I brought a pound of tannerite. Have you ever heard of tannerite? Absolutely, yes. Yeah, it's a binary explosion, very stable. It's federally regulated. They use it as marking targets. I was just going to scare the bear. No intention of shooting the bear.

That wasn't my intention. I was just going to scare it, you know. So I went there, spent the night. I got up, done my little morning ablusions, made some tea. And what it did is I put a, they had this big bay window. and it was you know the big huge and if you unlock it

you pull it you pull it you pull it to you or wait anyway so okay I brought my brought my R15 had a chair there I was just going to hey if I happen to see it

and I I unlocked the window there was binoculars right the next of the window okay so this cabin you come up and it's a flat piece of land.

Oh, I'm going to say about an acre. You had this cabin, one-bedroom cabin with a little kitchenery. So, okay, if I ever see it, I was going to shoot that Tannerite. And so let me give you some numbers. The cabin had a raised porch. It was off, slap above grade, you know what I mean, by, I believe, two feet. Okay. So out, and I'll give you numbers.

They had, it was, it was, let me get the straight, 30, 40, okay, it was 50 yards to the, to the fits line. They had the wooden, wooden poles, you know, in barbware. three strands, you know, you're typical, and that was four feet. The, he added, they had a deer feeder. So it was 30 yards to the, to the deer feeder. And it was 50 to the, to the, to the fence line. So, okay, I placed that Tanner right at, right at the fence line on the ground, about a foot before it and see the bear.

I'm going to shoot it. going to scare the bear, have a good day. I come in there and it was, I want to say nine, it was nine something. I think it was like 9.15. I walk in there in the kitchen. I see this bear, okay? It is just to the right of that feeder. And I'm seeing, you know, movement.

Now I'm looking at this bear straight on. Okay, what I'm thinking is a bear. I sit down. I have binoculars on the ledge to my right and may hour 15 to the right. So I can reach it. I'm looking at this bear. And now this is this right here is going to go real quick. This next.

I'm looking at it. And I remember thinking, my God, that's a big bear. Don't they just have black bears here? Okay. man, they're growing big up here. Okay. And I'm looking at this and I thought the bear I was looking at straight on.

So, and I start seeing this, again, if I was a bear, this paw come up. Okay, what? And it's eaten. I think, what? That's not a hand. At this point, the, quote, unquote, bear, kind of sits up just a little

and I see a face and so here's here's my training of thought this is what happened I see a face I'm thinking wait is this

is this a hunter and my first inclination was it being a hunter okay because the hair line was farther down on the forehead and I just immediately, and I started getting mad, just first, a second, I'm like, what, who, who, who, who's up here hunting?

So then I go into documentation mode, is what I call it, because I'm not going to confront this guy, but I'm going to call the authorities, and I need to give a description. I understand this is going very fast. I'm explaining that slowly. But, you know, so I'm looking at the brow. I'm thinking, and the reason why I thought was a hunter is because I thought he was wearing a gilly suit. You know, that, that, that, does that make sense? Yes, absolutely. Okay.

That's, that's what sent me down that road. So I look at the brow, the, the, the, uh, the forehead. Then I noticed the brow, was a little weird, nose. I'm just starting top down. Nose was flatter, wider. It was not, let me make it clear,

it was not like a gorilla, like it's punched in. But it was wide and flat. And the lips were just like non-expression. And I'm just, all this time, and this is happening within seconds,

understand this, this train of thought. I'm just getting more confused. more confused and I am at that moment I'm just I tell you

I'm the best what I can describe it is in my mind it's like I'm going through a filing cabinet I'm like is this no is this no is this no and it was weird I hope you're going to understand this

then at that point I was like is this a man or is it what is this a you know you ever look at somebody and go is that person young and looks old or is he old and looks young? You ever done that?

You ever understand. And the moment I you know, it lifts his head up to getting to that point. I mean, we're talking 30, 45 seconds. You know? I mean, it's pretty quick, I guess.

And then, and I'm just, I'm almost, I'm just almost like translating like I'm just totally confused and it stood up and let me tell you it was like somebody poured a cold bucket of water right in my face you know it's just like what

the mass and the mass of this thing it was just breathtaking height-wise, that corn feeder, automatic feeder, the top of it was, I believe, six foot. Okay, so I'm giving you reference numbers, you know, six foot. There was some corn on the ground. So this stands up. It's probably, I'd say, a head,

length above that, if not more. I and now, you know, witnesses and all, they tend to focus on something. I just was the mass of this thing. You know, it's, it never looked up at me. I quite, frankly, I don't think it ever, it didn't know, no, I was there.

I mean, that's just the impression I got. But it stood up and it kind of looked around. and turned around, walked to that barbara fence, and just shrouded it and headed on. And I can't tell you about feet. I did notice, one thing I guess I did notice is right there where you're top of your, underneath your arm hitting all, it was a little, the hair was sparser, like it, you know, like it just rubs,

you know, your arm. Does that make sense? That does make sense, yeah. I did know that. I can't tell you about the feet. I'm sorry, I can't tell you about proportions first. I was just the mass of this thing. I was, I was just, I was impressed.

And, yeah, I, I, um, yeah, I, um, I, um, I, um, um, yeah, I, um, man so that happened I for the rest of the day chief's going to go up there and he was going to pick me up that afternoon and I just sat there I didn't work I I just my mind was just circular it's just like

was it this when I I I mean I went from are you seeing things was it a guy it just kept circling, you know. Chief got got up there. I didn't say a word to him. I just

was, I compartmentalize this because I just had to. I just I'm not even believing myself at this point, to be honest with you. So we can stop right here and you can ask

me this or I can continue on the second part of this story. Yeah, I would absolutely would love to ask some questions. Remind me again, just so I make sure it's documented. Can you the most detail about the year, time of year, all that? It was September. What is 10 years ago? What is this 26? So it would be 2006. Okay. Or it would be 2, 26. It sounds about right. Okay, perfect.

Thank you. Did it have any clothes on it at all that you could see? No, sir. Okay. It didn't, no. It was hair, not fur. It was thick hair, though. The head, and I can't tell you if it was, what do you say, conical, I can't tell you that.

It was, it was, had a full head of hair. and but like I said it came down further down than the average person that's where I thought it was a hunter in a guillie suit at first okay when you said it was a head length above would you would it be possible like for let's say if people aren't aware of what that phrase would mean what would you estimate the height of it to be I just would have to six foot plus maybe a foot and a half okay so like seven and a half to eight yeah sounds like okay okay yeah something yeah okay um what was the color of the hair that you could see not not quite similar um it was a little darker it was kind of a dark brown okay um yeah you mentioned you're able to definitely see parts of the face were there any emotions at all that could be seen uh besides how like the nose looked stuff like that yeah emotions from that preacher yeah yeah the though it was a very he was just very straight-faced um yeah no nothing i've got nothing no emotion okay that's not what i'm what i'm Was there anything that made you think what you were looking at was either a male or a female? No.

I, again, I didn't look for Gentile. I wasn't focused on that when that thing stood up. I, to the best of my ability, I did not see breath. So take that for whatever it's worth. Absolutely. You've mentioned the size of it, it was pretty, it was pretty, massive a few times. Did the size of it remind you of any sports figure that you've seen on TV or any, let's say, like, an action movie person, anything like that?

I couldn't see definition, you know, not necessarily like a body, bodybuilder. But it was, I mean, the hair was fairly thick enough to where I didn't see tone that I can remember. I'm working off a 10-year-old memory here. Did you tell Chief what happened when he picked you up? Brother, I told nobody. You told no one. Wow. No one.

And that leaves that will eventually. Okay. I'll eventually get to the second part of stories. Why, you know, yeah. Understood. No. Okay. I compartmentalize that.

I was, it just, it was so shocking. And just I, man, a gambit of emotions. Absolutely. I'd be damned if I was going to tell anybody. And I want to make this clear too. It's, okay, it's one thing that this happened, but the cherry on top of that cake is where it happened.

You know, I, I don't know, as a typical 10-year-old, old, you know, I read about Bigfoot, but also read about your foes and ghost and lock, you know, I mean, typical 10 year old, you know, but I just, you know, but I went into adulthood. Just my opinion of this subject was, yeah, be kind of cool that, you know, that does exist. But if they do, that's up there in Pacific Northwest. Right.

I, that, this might sound trivial. But that is just as shocking to me that it was there. Sure. I just had no clue. I asked a psychologist once, and this was just more in, at a lunch, we're hanging an hour in, and I just said, hey, how can you tell if you have, if you're, might be paranoid sketchfranic or a schizophrenic? He said, he said, if you're wondering, if you're a schizophrenic, you're not a schizophrenic. Right.

Exactly. And I said, oh, okay. Gotcha. Wow. That's wild. In the days after you had this experience, did you notice anything out of the ordinary in dreams or stuff happening around where your home was? Anything out of the ordinary like that? No. Okay. No. I just, I've lived careers. I've lived the entire career where you have to compartmentalize stuff. So at that point, I was pretty good about a. compartmentalized now I would probably say that the next couple of days of course you know that that that that was it would surface a little bit and I would just just just talk man just complete

cognitive distance that just I don't want nothing okay wow fascinating um let's let's let's move on to to the uh the the second part I know that it is it's a little hard for you It's hard for you to talk and I want to make sure that you're able to share what you need to. Yeah. Okay. So fast forward to a year and a half ago. I went to, in Florida, I've been all over Florida with the exception of southwest Florida. As far as Everglades.

I had never been in Everglades. So I decided to take a long weekend, and I wanted to go all around Florida and visit friends. But I took a couple of days to go to the Everglades. And, man, I'll tell you this about Everglades. I already had my brain wrapped around how vast it was. The Everglades is breathtakingly huge. So I go to this campground. and this campground is man it's seven, eight, ten miles from Everglades City,

kind of out on Alligator Alley. I pull in there, okay? And there's a big foot statue in front of this. And it says Skunkake Museum. And I was like, what? And I had to pull my phone out and check the reservation. The campground is behind this place. so okay good campground

go visit them great people you know Shealy something Dave Shealy's place Absolutely it's a great place Okay okay Listen Anybody go visit them

Wonderful people Great people Bring bug spray So anyway I'm okay Spunkate All right So I'm like what

And there's a big foot I'm sitting in the park lot I get out And I'm thinking What there's Bigfoot down here. And I'll tell you something a guy comes out.

Okay. And he has, he's in this it's not a tank top of the sleeves are cut off. You know when in shirts or whatever. And he has this big big foot. Big black tattoo. I mean, this thing's

like all over his shoulder and his arm. I I started asking about these. Yeah. I said, have you ever seen one? He said, oh, yeah. Yeah, I've seen plenty of them.

All up the eastern coast. And I'm like, okay, I go in, check in, you know. So in Everglary City, I get up one morning. I get up early. I snap open pretty early. I got to Everglay City because I just wanted some breakfast. In the center of their town, the roundout, They have another Bigfoot statue right there.

And I'm like, now this is shocking. Florida? Florida? Okay. So I'm just, I said that to say this. It really, for about 12 months, it really, it started surfacing that event. I had packed it away pretty good. but doing that, seeing that down there,

it just started bringing those surface. So that's when I reached out to the other gentleman. And it was nice to talk to him, get off my chest. But I listened to a few of your episodes in a couple other of these. And I said, you know, let me just, let me tell a story. That is fascinating. was it how so it was just coming to your back to your mind for for 12 months or was it

where things happening started surfacing yes it's just it's just nothing happened and I will say this I had always enjoyed hunting I'm more of a bird hunter but you know I've hunted deer I just really never went back in the woods after that encounter but I don't it wasn't really consciously I'm never going back in the woods again I guess it just worked out with work and everything. I just never went hunting again. I don't, I don't know. It wasn't a conscious thing, maybe subconscious. I don't know. I just want to put that out there. I don't know. But those 12, after doing that, it just kept, it just kept surfacing. And it became, it didn't occupy my, my thoughts 24-7. It just would, every now, in and it started to become an itch that I had to scratch I just wanted to tell somebody.

That is that is a really first of thank you for sharing that there's if you start to look into northern Georgia it is just an absolute hotbed of people experiencing things similar to this and I don't know is that something where you started looking up the area and finding other accounts no I I I I honestly haven't done a lot of looking into it, to be honest with you. Again, I just, Georgia? I, I, I, I, I, I, what? And I'll say this, that Kusawati reservation, whatever, resort, they have rapids run through it and all that. And people can come in there and rent a day, whatever.

And he said they didn't see him up there. And that was, that was a little shocking because, I mean, all I know is my mother, my mother stepped at his place. And it was, I mean, they're worth that few hundred yards of each other on these mountains, you know. Oh, so you're saying, Bekera from the museum, David Bekara said he's also gotten reports from there. Wow, really. Correct. And he told me that. He said, I've had reports in there.

And, uh, okay. All right. I'll take your word for that one. But there, there's plenty of woods forest up there, you know. I don't know. They come in at night to raid some garbage cans. Okay. There's deer all over the place.

I mean, all over Kusawadi Resort. Yeah. So there you go. Yeah. Yeah. But your, your mother in chief have never had a siting on the property, it sounds like? No.

Okay. No. I guarantee you. I guarantee you knowing them that, oh, if that happened, I'd get the call first. Because I guarantee you, guarantee her like, do something about this and not that I could go about it, you know. But yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I want to make sure that you were able to share everything that you had been wanting to share regarding the encounter that you had in northern Georgia.

Yeah. I believe so his health went down pretty quick after that so they really I don't think spent a whole lot of time after that if my memory is correct

got you but first off I think what you experience is absolutely legitimate based on other things that I've heard from the area I will seriously be praying for you Mike

I don't know how much you know about my experience. I'm going through cancer right now. I'm about halfway through. I've only heard a few. Oh, man. Okay. Kema? Yeah, so I'm going through that.

But I've got to give Mike a call. More importantly than any of this, how is your relationship with Jesus Christ? Yeah, it's pretty solid. Okay. It's solid. Okay, perfect. And you can go ahead and I don't care when you put this out. You put out today.

I don't care. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I just, this thing was, it was so shocking. And again, I know repeating like a break of record,

this happened in Georgia. This was every bit of shocking as, you know, the experience itself. Because I, Georgia? I just figured, okay, yeah, cool. That'd be cool.

Yeah, they probably exist in Pacific Northwest. And, you know? Well, I'll tell you something. If you really want to get a shock, so the podcast has, the website for is bigfoot society podcast.com. And I put a map together where everyone I've talked to pretty much is on the Google map, more or less. It's over a thousand.

So what that means is that just look up Georgia on that map and you look up, man, northern Georgia, northwest Georgia, even west of Atlanta and it's going to blow your mind how many different sightings are on, like, you'll look at Georgia completely different. It's crazy.

Yeah. So let me say this. And I'll give you an example. Most people do, they cannot reprimise around how big our forest is, even Americans, much less, you know, other people. You know, and people even, you know,

I understand, you know, we're all due respect to hunters. They say, oh, I've been in the woods on my life, okay. But let's break that part down. You go to a hunting stand at a certain location. It's a routine, you know, with all due respect for woodsmen. So, man, I just lost. maturing thought oh if you don't think that you could be undetected there's a story out of i believe maine vermont i think it's main there was a guy that went into the woods for like 20 years he would

come into town and steal from these cabins but all he would take is necessity yes main Maine. Okay. You know, that guy right there, and they looked for him for 20 years, I believe. You know, he'd come out of that when they finally caught him not even speaking well. You know, after not talking to another person, you know? And I believe like one or two people happened to just run across him, didn't know he was. But other than that, 20 years, man. But I said that to say this, you know. Absolutely. It's possible. Uh-huh. You know, if these things don't want to be found, they're not going to be found.

Uh-huh. Absolutely, man. It's just, it, it blows my mind every time, you know, I realize how, you know, we talked about the Pacific Northwest. And if you, listeners, if listeners get it out there and you fly over it and you realize, man, there's like acres and acres of stuff that probably humans have never even been. And it's just like, yeah, of course something could hide out there. It's crazy. Agreed. Crazy stuff, man.

But it's all due respect to people who live in the city, you know, they tend to dismiss this. They just don't even, they just don't know. Oh, yeah. And as the cities, they're actually, they're experiencing this out in Georgia, too, based on some conversations I've had. As Atlanta grows further east and more and more bigger. things get put in, they're starting to experience a lot more bigfoot activity in those towns that are springing up

on the outskirts of Atlanta. It's wild stuff, but it you know, as we go further into nature, there's going to be there's going to be some stuff that happens. So it's wild stuff. I'll take the word for it. I don't have my finger on the bolts of this space. Mm-hmm. You know? Oh yeah. But yeah. I tell you, on the news the other day I can't remember where it was

might have been up near you there was a lion and cub on the loose oh yeah it's uh it's Indiana allegedly okay yeah I'd love to hear that 9-1-1 call you know what to me oh I know it like because of him trying to convince dispatcher he wasn't drunk or high

So I said that to say this, I'm going to tell you, I wish I was saw a lion in the cub. That, I mean, that would have been a hundred times better and believable what I saw, if that even makes sense to you. Exactly. And it's a great example of how something can remain hidden and hard to find. They're actually experiencing a similar thing on far western Alaska. And what's happening is these hunters are, they're saying, we're seeing tiger tracks over here. And they're so elusive. Because if you look at the map, Russia is so close to Alaska in parts. Is that what they think is happening is the tigers are coming from Russia to Alaska.

And then these hunters are like, I'm telling you, I'm seeing something out here. And they're kind of getting laughed at. But, I mean, it's just. Really? creatures even big creatures can hide out there it's another good example of what you were talking about yeah yeah i just call it like i see it you know i'm i've been a very level-headed sober um pragmatic individual um regards to paranormal stuff look that's never been my cup of tea i've never followed that but i've said this in the past i i come shorter dismissing that

You know, there's things that we don't know about, okay, and I just try not to poo-poo all over, you know, other people's, whatever. And now more than ever. I get it. I get it for sure. It's the more you look into it, the more things you notice and, yeah, it can get pretty wild. But, Mike, I want to say thank you for reaching out to me earlier this morning. And I appreciate you trusting me with what you experienced. That means a lot that you were able to come forward and to trust this podcast to document it.

And I don't take that for granted. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. I just want to make this clear. The owner of that Big Fit Museum, which I've drove. passed a couple of times and looked at it and went and I just remember yeah you know like okay that's there um I want to thank that owner what's his name again his name is David Baccarrier he's a great guy yeah I want to thank him personally he took his time he took time out of his own whatever

oh yeah and uh I'm sure it's a great place you know and I also you know that place down in south for to, you know, good people, go camp there, whatever. Thank you. I really appreciate you, let me put this out there. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you again, Mike, for coming on. Thanks again to Mike for coming on this show. You're in my prayers and I will see you again, brother. If you've had a Bigfoot encounter of your own, I would love to hear from you. You can send me an email with your encounter at Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. I've come out with a free report about the top 10 Bigfoot hotspots, you can go over to bit.ly forward slash BFS report. I'm Jeremiah Byron. Thanks for listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'll see you in the woods.