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Sep 14

Attack in the Swamp?

In February of 1829, a story broke in U.S. newspapers of a bizarre attack by a hairy giant that left several hunters dead and missing in the Okefenokee Swamp.

“The tale originated near the south end of Ware County, where the line that divides Georgia from Florida passes through the Okefenokee. In 1829, the first settlers were just pushing into the fringes of the swamp. Surrounded by the stunning beauty of the swamp, they quickly picked up on an Indian legend that held a mysterious race of people
lived on an island deep in the wilderness.

So far as is known, this legend first appeared in print in 1806 in Jedidiah Morse’s book, Geography Made Easy. In his section on Georgia, Morse repeated a legend that a
group of Indian hunters had gone into the swamp and become lost. When they were in a desperate condition, a party of the most beautiful women they had ever seen came to their rescue:

…[They] being lost in inextricable swamps and bogs and on the point of perishing, were unexpectedly relived by a company of beautiful women, whom they call daughters
of the sun, who kindly gave them such provisions as they had with them, consisting of fruit and corn cakes….

The tale as repeated by Morse continued with the women warning the hunters to flee as fast as possible to their own country, “because their husbands were fierce men
and cruel to strangers.” These men of the swamp were said by the Creek Indians to be of gigantic stature and both cruel and warlike.

The winter of 1828-1829 was extremely dry and two men living on the edges of the swamp decided to explore as deep into it as they could. Accompanied by a boy, they went
into the Okefenokee and over a course of two weeks continued to penetrate deeper and deeper into it.

As they explored the very heart of the swamp, they made a startling discovery of gigantic footprints:

…The length of the foot was eighteen, and the breadth nine inches. The monster, from every appearance, must have moved forward in an easy or hesitating gait, his stride, from heel to toe, being a trifle over six feet. (Milledgeville, Georgia, Statesman January 1829, republished by the Connecticut Sentinel February 9, 1829.)

The men, as newspapers of the time noted, “had seen enough.” Ending their expedition and retreating out of the swamp, they related to their friends and neighbors what they had seen.

The story excited the curiosity of a party of hunters who lived just across the Florida line. Nine in number, they went into the swamp to find the mysterious giant. They were guided by one of the members of the original party:

..Following, for some days, the direction of their guide, they came at length upon the track first discovered, some vestiges of which were still remaining; pursuing these traces
several days longer, they came to a halt on a little eminence, and determined to pitch their camp, and refresh themselves for the day.

The expedition was described in detail in newspaper reports published in February 1829. Those accounts indicated that as the hunters were discharging their guns to reload them with fresh powder for the night, a wild animal charged their camp:

…[T]he next minute he was full in their view, advancing upon them with a terrible look and ferocious mien. Our little band instinctively gathered close in a body and presented their rifles. The huge being, nothing daunted, bounded upon his victims, and in the same instant received the contents of seven rifles.

The fight, however, did not end there:

…[H]e did not fall alone, nor until he had glutted his wrath with the death of five of them, which he effected by wringing the head from the body. – Writhing and exhausted, at
length he fell, with his hapless prey beneath his grasp.

As the creature lay dying on the ground, writhing and sometimes roaring, the men who survived the attack gathered around it to make a closer inspection. The creature was
found to measure thirteen feet from head to toe, and “his breadth and volume of just proportions.”

Immediately fearful that the dying monster’s cries might attract others of ts kind, the hunters fled the swamp. The men who died in the battle with the creature were left lying
where they had fallen.

It is a remarkable story, but could it be true? The honest answer is that no one knows. The newspaper correspondent who reported it wrote that people living in Ware County on the margins of the Okefenokee Swamp clearly believed it.

Either way, the story of the 1829 attack was one of the earliest written accounts of the creature we know today as Bigfoot or Sasquatch. Sightings of some kind of a large
creature in the swamp and discoveries of large footprints continue to be reported from the area to this day.”

Taken at Latitude/Longitude:31.209973/-82.358639. 0.59 km South-West Waycross Georgia United States (Map link)

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16 Responses to “Attack in the Swamp?”

    • Michael L

      Duke, what happened to the latest Conspiracy Corner? Wasn’t it going to continue with the Antarctic base? Further, you should continue with another subject that might upset those with closed minds. It deals with the difference between aliens and fallen angles. The ruins on the dark side of the Moon that are thousands of years old, ancient technology and what the Bible stated:
      Revelation 12:7-12 (KJV)
      7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
      8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
      9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
      12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

    • Jeffrey H

      Duke: Tom from Crypto World (9-14-16) showed a 4 toe (ectrodactyly) casted young BF footprint. I believe it’s from Washington state. Talk about young BF walking in the footsteps of the older BF. It was interesting to watch.

  6. SantiamLady

    Quite a story! ????????
    I agree that the “daughters of the Sun” sounds like a Native American fable. Along the lines of ” How Jack Rabbit got his very long ears”. I mean, any Native American tribe ” getting lost” like that??? Native Americans don’t get lost in the wilderness….. ever. And, of course, what’s every mans’ fantasy? ….. Being “rescued” by a tribe of beautiful Amazons! ???
    But….the newspaper article from 1829? Fascinating! And seems a lot more credible than the lost Natives and their “most beautiful women”. The survivors described it as a “creature,” presumably completely covered in hair? But they also refer to it as “him”, suggesting human qualities?
    In any case, completely fascinating! ?? Thanks for posting it! ?

  9. Tony s

    If your in Athens you should check out the sandy creek swamp. Enter on the back side where the truckers keep their trucks. Lots of history in that small swamp. I’ll never go back out there alone again….

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