New Southern Dad: Georgia sasquatch sightings and walking at night

In the early morning hours of Aug. 25 2024, a motorist traveling along old Highway 96 in Peach County saw something he just couldn’t believe. 

C.B., a 51-year-old of Butler, was headed toward an auto parts store in Fort Valley when a bipedal creature, with long outstretched arms darted across the rural stretch of the two-lane road. The Georgia native had spent his whole life in the woods – he worked in the great outdoors, clearing land for a living – had never seen anything like it. 

Standing at 6 feet tall and tipping the scales at 200 lbs., C.B. knows big when he sees it, and whatever cut across in front of him was big … and fast. 

“There is no way a human could have the speed this thing had,” C.B. reported. “When I got to where it was I slowed to almost a stop, but it was out of sight. I immediately called my wife to tell her what I saw … After that I drove back by there four times looking for it, but I saw nothing.” 

This incident is now a recognized sasquatch encounter, recognized by The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization at least. It had to be a bigfoot, the group concluded, because it wasn’t the first sighting in Middle Georgia. The creature must have a thing for peaches because in 2010, a work detail clearing brush near the same highway in nearby Crawford County, discovered large footprints, and heard noises of a large animal trampling through the thick scrub and reported feelings of being watched while they performed their duties. 

Bigfoot researchers have compiled over 100 reported sasquatch sightings in this state. Most of them are in the North Georgia mountains. Mythical creatures do tend to stick to higher elevations, and they like to aggravate mountain folk. However, he, or even she, I suppose, has been spotted as far south as Toomsboro. The hills of Wilkinson County can fool anyone I guess. 

There have been no confirmed bigfoot sightings in my neck of the woods, though I’m not too far removed from the Wilco line. That’s all well and good because I’ve taken up the habit of taking nighttime walks. 

I don’t think humans are supposed to exist with as much light as we have grown accustomed to. Inside and out, we like to live fully illuminated, and while it is said that bad things happen in the dark, it’s hard to do anything good or nefarious if you can’t see your hand in front of your face. 

While total darkness is hard to achieve since even the stars provide enough visibility to go for a walk, there is something mystical about shutting off all artificial light and going outside. If you live near the woods, or behind the cover of anything that can shield nocturnal light sources, you might even experience true darkness. 

All the area sasquatch sightings seem to be during the day, so I don’t have anything to worry about.