Massive 7-Foot Bigfoot Straddles a Barbed-Wire Fence in North Georgia
September 15, 2026
AI Summary
5 min readIn September of 2016, a man named Mike was staying alone at his stepfather's cabin in the mountains of North Georgia, near a gated community called Kusawadi. He had come up to write a position paper and, while there, planned to scare off a bear that had been raiding the deer feeder. He brought a pound of tannerite, a binary explosive, to shoot at the fence line if he saw the bear. Around 9:15 in the morning, he saw movement near the feeder, thirty yards from the cabin. He assumed it was a bear. But what he saw next dismantled that assumption in seconds.
The Sighting: What Mike Saw and How He Processed It
Mike was looking straight on at the creature. He first saw a paw come up to eat corn from the feeder, and his immediate thought was, "That's not a hand." Then the creature sat up slightly, and Mike saw a face. His first instinct was that it was a hunter wearing a ghillie suit, because the hairline came farther down the forehead than a human's. He got angry for a split second, then shifted into what he calls "documentation mode" — mentally cataloging details to report to authorities.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:00) **Encounter Setup: The Cabin in North Georgia** - Mike describes the location near El Jay, Georgia, the cabin layout, and his reason for being there alone to write a paper.
- 2 (08:02) **Initial Sighting: Mistaking the Creature for a Bear** - Mike sees a large, dark shape near the feeder and assumes it is a bear, preparing to scare it away.
- 3 (09:08) **The Critical Detail: The Paw and the Face** - Mike realizes the creature is not a bear when he sees a hand-like paw and a distinctly non-animal face.
- 4 (09:55) **Documentation Mode: The Face and Brow** - Mike switches to a clinical, descriptive mindset, cataloging the creature's facial features as he would for law enforcement.
- 5 (12:21) **The Reveal: Standing to Full Height** - The creature stands up, revealing its immense size, towering a head above a six-foot feeder.
- 6 (16:19) **Physical Details and Aftermath** - Mike recalls sparse hair under the arm and describes the rest of the day spent in a state of cognitive dissonance.
- 7 (17:46) **Host Q&A: Clarifying the Encounter** - The host asks for specific details to document the sighting, including the year, color, height, and emotional state of the creature.
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Show Notes
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.
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