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Ginseng Hunters 1986 Bigfoot Encounter in Georgia…Forty-four-year-old David Brown had hunted ginseng, a medicinal herb which grows wild in the vast hinterlands of the north Georgia mountains, for years without incident. But at 9:30 a.m. on August 24, 1986, he was in a hollow at Jenkins Gap, just below the crest of Taylor’s Ridge in Chattooga County, when he saw someone walking toward him from the far side of the hollow. He thought a friend had spotted his parked pickup truck and come in search of him. He shouted for the man to join him, but then “it got deathly quiet.” Brown continued his search. He had entered a second hollow when he sensed movement behind him.”It came up behind me some 60 or 70 feet without me ever hearing it,” Brown reported, and when he turned a strange creature stood only twenty feet away. He described it as seven and a half feet tall and weighing 350 to 400 pounds, with large eyes, a pointed head, flat nose, and arms which hung down to its knees. It stood upright, but was definitely not a bear.”

I stood and stared at him three or four or five minutes and it was nothing like any bear I’ve ever seen,” David swore. The creature was content to stare back, panting heavily as if winded.

“I was frozen to the ground,” Brown continued, “I couldn’t move. I was afraid it would attack me.” He thought remaining motionless might prevent aggression from the bigfoot, but he was ready to “go up that mountain like a rocket,” if it moved closer to him.Brown took this singular opportunity to study the form before him. The face was “monkey-like” he thought, with a flat mouth and thick lips but no teeth. That convinced him that it was old, but “I think it could still eat me,” he added. Its left arm, which ended at a paw containing long fingernails which curved “like corkscrews in a knot,” appeared useless, and “something seemed wrong” with its left leg. This bigfoot had seen better days. The right paw had short nails and appeared functional. The animal was covered with locks of thick, long black hair, and Brown was unable to determine its sex.
Apparently finished with its own scrutiny of Brown, the bigfoot grunted, turned, and started down the ridge. Brown likewise turned, but he sprinted uphill.
“I’ve got bruises as big as half-dollars all over my legs where I slid on the rocks,” Brown admitted. “I went up that mountain in three or four minutes and when the deputy and I went back down there it took us 15 minutes. I guess I did go back up the mountain ‘like a rocket.’ I thought I was going to have a heart attack. When I got to the truck, I’ll bet I tried every key I had before I got it cranked.”Brown said that he vomited after the ordeal, not from the creature’s smell, which was revolting, but “because that’s how scared I was.”
He immediately reported the incident to the Chattanooga County Sheriff’s Office, but there was no evidence of the creature to be found.
.”I’d give anything if there had been somebody with me or if there would be any way to get a picture of it,” Brown lamented. He acknowledged that his account was “unbelievable. If somebody had come up to me and said they’d seen that, I’d have said, ‘You’re crazy!’ but I know what I saw!”
Brown swore that on future expeditions he would not be alone and would pack a rifle and camera, just in case. He reported that his seventy-year-old father had long suspected that something strange lived on the mountain, and his mother once saw something there that she could not identify.

Source: Bigfoot Seekers