During the summer of 1986 four residents of Walker County,Georgia, Robin Avans, Kevin Pettigrew, Todd Rope, and Tommy Brooks, were coon hunting near Centre, in northeastern Alabama. There they spotted a huge creature in the middle of an extensive soybean field.

“He was real tall,” Avans said, about ten feet in height, slender, and appeared to be wearing yellow-brown “overalls.” This apparition was only covered with fur from its feet to its knees. The animal was upright and walking in long, stiff-legged strides. “It could walk in 15 minutes what it would take a man to walk in an hour.” When it entered the woods, the four hunters declined to pursue it.

Avans reported that earlier in the summer a friend of his had “got a real good look” at a similar creature, clad in what he described as a “kind of monkey suit,” near Pigeon Mountain, west of Lafayette in Walker County.

From my book Weird Georgia.
Jim Miles

Back in the 1970s, there was in Southern California sightings of a Bigfoot in Burbank. An intrepid reporter and photographer both working for the Long Beach Press-Telegram went looking for him. What they found was a nearly naked, mysterious ‘homeless’ man who stood at least seven feet tall. Published photographs of the man (taken from behind to protect the man’s identity) showed a very robust individual whose skin coloration reminded me of an Australian Aborigine.

Maybe instead of looking for Bigfoot in the wild, we should try soup kitchens instead?

As for “It is an area of research ripe for future investigations by youthful hominologists and cryptozoologists willing to journey north to continue the quest.” I would do that in a heartbeat if I had the gas money.

Any volunteers to go exploring that charmingly sounding area? One at a time folks