BFRO #58900: DOT work crew encounters growls, knocks, footprints, visual glimpse under bridge for Hwy 96 near Flint RIver

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📝 Description

In September of 2010 I was supervising a work detail of 6 males near the [Crawford County and] Peach county and Taylor County Ga lines. Our assignment was to clear tree and bushes from the right away of the bridge located on Ga Hwy 96 near River Road intersection.Time was about 9am. Area was wooded with lots of trees and bushes with large thorns on them. Weather was partly cloudy and light winds. Upon entering the area several of the workers along with myself noticed a strange odor, which I dismissed as probably a dead animal.They began to remove the overgrowth by using bush axes, which when leveling trees makes a loud thud against the trees. At that very moment I had the feeling that we were being watched. The fact that I nor the other workers had no weapons made me a little nervous, so I begin to be very visually alert.In the distance of about 50 to 60 feet behind us I noticed [the sound of] movement. My first thought was since the wind was blowing it was just tree limbs blowing against one another. But the movement became persistent, and there were what sounded like muffled grunts, so I asked one of the workers to come take a look and tell me what he saw, His reply was that looks like someone is peeping from behind a tree. We observed this for about 20 seconds after his reply and then the movement stopped just as it had started. One of the workers saw a rabbit cornered it and killed it. He then skinned the rabbit with his bush axe. I asked him why did he do that. He replied that he wanted to cook the rabbit for food. I told him we didn't have time to cook the rabbit because It was now lunch time. So he hung the skinned rabbit from a tree with a small piece of rope. The worker was about 6ft 2in tall so the rabbit was at least 6ft high from the ground. We went to top of the bridge to our bus and ate our lunch. Upon returning to the area we noticed that the rabbit was gone. We talked amongst ourselves about what happened to the rabbit. Work resumed. I noticed the sound of running water. I moved to find the water. To my amazement there was a shallow creek. As I got really close to creek I noticed what appeared to be footprints in the muddy bank area. But the bare footprints had appeared to trample the large thorns, I thought to myself this has to one of the workers playing a joke. So i called them all to come and see the creek, They all came and were astonished at the creek. I didn't show them the footprints at first. I asked them all to take off their boots and hold their feet close to the footprints I had found. Nobody foot sized matched those prints. I jokingly said I guess Bigfoot made them. W all laughed and went back to work. Almost immediately upon the sound of the first bush axes hitting a tree we heard the sound of large limbs breaking in the front of us. We all ran up the bank and toward the bus. We high tailed it out there. I went to report this to the contractor we was working for. He stated he had heard strange noises coming from that area before. So he granted us another assignment. Years after this incident I started to watch Finding Bigfoot and I noticed some similarities to my experience. I have returned to that area several times since but never went underneath the bridge again.

🔍 Circumstances

6 and my self. We were clearing right of way underneath the bridge.

🌤️ Weather Conditions

9am and 3pm

ℹ️ Additional Details

9am and 3pm

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