My buddy had a similar experience in the same general area probably. Swears he heard what sounded like children giggling and talking in a thicket in the middle of nowhere late in the afternoon. Scared the crap out of him he says to this day he doesn't know what it was. This was public land near bank head.

I was sitting in the dark before daylight at oakmulgee many years ago and all of a sudden the woods lit up like daylight. I could see 300 yards thru the woods then it instantly got dark again. Meteor maybe? Also hunting way back on the tnf I saw what appeared to be a shirtless man with no arms walking thru the woods in the middle of nowhere. Weird as hell. How did the guy survive with no arms, my buddy said it was the ghost of a civil war soldier?