YEAR: 2025

SEASON: Fall

DATE: 10/16/2025

STATE: Georgia

COUNTY: Charlton County

LOCATION DETAILS: Investigator MM notes:
30.838122, -82.009804

NEAREST TOWN: Folkston

NEAREST ROAD: Shady Lane & Okefenokee Drive

OBSERVED: Myself and another adult friend and 2 teenagers were invited to an event in Waycross Georgia on Saturday 10/18/2025. We made reservations to stay in Folkston Georgia starting on Thursday 10/16/2025 thru Sunday 10/19/2025 to get some railfanning (train spotting) in while we were up there. We got there around 2 pm and unloaded our vehicle and got the tripods out to film the trains going by (A area on map below).

There were 4 tripods in total. 2 of the tripods had LED light panels for videos at night. The other 2 tripods have cell phone holders on them so we can click a cell phone into the holder and get steady videos of the trains.

At around 8:00 pm we started the charcoal grill up and cooked some fillet minion steaks and hot dogs. The gentlemen that lives next door has 4 to 5 cats there that run around and play there (B area).

At around 9:00 PM my friend and I started hearing something in the brush on the northeast side of the cabin across the 4 railroad tracks from us (C area). We went down by the railroad tracks on our side to see if we could see anything (A area). The other gentleman had his flashlight and shined it right on the bushes (C area) where the noise was coming from and we noticed green eyes reflecting back and what looked to be a massive silhouette of something squatting down. I was going to start a video when I realized I didn’t have my cell phone on me. I would later find it on the foldup chair next to the campfire we had. The silhouette was moving left and right in a swaying motion, which was causing the noise in the brush (C area).

Then we noticed that crickets were no longer chirping anymore. An eerie quietness started. As we were standing there one of the worst smells I have ever smelled came across the tracks to our area (A area). All of us smelled it I then noticed the cats that were playing (B Area) took off not to been seen any more for that night. Within a minute a rock was thrown across the tracks towards us and landed next to us (A area). It came from the general direction of the silhouette swaying in the bushes (C area). We all looked at each other and he turned the flashlight back on and could still see the silhouette swaying behind the bushes (C area) next to the tree limb. Then another rock was thrown hard enough to spark when it hit the railroad track by us (A area). One teenager got so scared he said he wanted to go home now. He went back to the cabin and went inside. His dad went up to the cabin to talk to him.

Then myself and the other teenager heard a weird like chatter coming from where the silhouette was swaying in the bushes (C area) and about 40 to 50 feet south of the it (D area) and all of a sudden, a branch snapped 40 to 50 feet south of where the silhouette (C area) was at (D area). That’s when I realized that we were dealing with 2 of these things.

I yelled out "hey" and right after I did that another rock came across and hit the tracks again really sparking (A area) thrown from the bushes (C area). The other young man asks me if I did that and I said no. These rocks were probably being thrown 120 plus feet from (C area) where he was to where they landed with force.

I then grabbed one of the LED lights we have on tripods to help light up the trains, and I aimed it at the bushes (C area). When I did, that’s when I saw a huge silhouette stand up, with the reflecting eyeshine being 7 ft off the ground in an amber / greenish color. It had to be around 7 ½ feet tall. The shoulder width was about 10 to 12 inches wider than me if I had to guess. It was bipedal on 2 legs. It then disappeared behind the brush. I could not see it after that.

There was no further activity that night. We stayed 2 more nights and had no more activity. On Saturday night we found a dead deer that was hit by a train a day or two before (E area).

ALSO NOTICED: On October 18 in the evening time some friends of ours found a deceased deer (E area) that had been hit by a train.

OTHER WITNESSES: There were 2 adults and 2 teenagers. We were sitting around the camp fire.

TIME AND CONDITIONS: Night. Camp fire going and a porch light off cabin.

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:

The last photo was taken the next morning showing the view angle looking across the train tracks toward where they saw the glowing eyes and the very tall dark figure, and where the thrown rocks were coming from. It remained crouched and swaying most of the time that it was visible across the tracks. Refer to the witness story where these points were mentioned.

The group stayed two more nights at the cabin, doing the same trail spotting activities, but nothing else happened like the first night.
They were not able to go look around for footprints where they observed the figure across the tracks because it is pivate land on the other side of the tracks – CSX Railroad company land. No trespassing.

Coincidentally, deer herds following these converging railroad beds southward toward Florida would come to this choke point just north of the bridge over the funnel for Okefenokee Drive in Folkston.

About BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:

Matthew Moneymaker is originally from the Los Feliz District of Los Angeles, California.

- Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

- Juris Doctorate (Law degree) from University of Akron School of Law

- Founder of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization,1995.

- Writer and co-producer of the Discovery Channel documentary "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science", 2001.

- Co-producer of the TV Series "Mysterious Encounters" for the Outdoor Life Network (OLN Channel), 2002.

- Producer of the "2003 International Bigfoot Symposium" (Willow Creek Symposium) DVD set, 2004.

- Co-host of "Finding Bigfoot" on Animal Planet Channel, 2010 - 2017.

- Current Director of the BFRO

- Available for private bigfoot expeditions and conferences. To inquire please email ContactUS@BFRO.net