You never know what might walk past your stand while hunting. What bowhunter Mike Dupree saw one November day in Georgia was not the deer he was hoping for, but his experience made for quite the hair-raising story.

According to Georgia Outdoor News, Dupree was hunting a corporate tract of land in Macon County where firearms are not allowed, located about 1,500 yards (about a mile) from the Flint River and a retention pond where alligators are seen regularly — including a 13-foot gator. 

Dupree showed his work buddies the video he took the next day.

“He said, ‘You’ll never guess what walked in on me,’” said Dupree’s coworker, Jack Benjamin. “We started guessing, and it to got to where we were saying elephant, giraffe … no one guessed alligator,” Benjamin said.

According to Realtree, Dupree said the alligator walked toward his treestand and laid down in a corn pile. Before dark, the gator got up and started heading toward Dupree’s truck, which made for a careful walk out of the woods that night.

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