A North Georgia woman claims she spotted a lion in her neighborhood.
Hillary Hamilton of Murrayville told AccessNorthGeorgia.com that she saw the big cat near her house about 8:30 Wednesday morning as she was leaving for work.
"I looked over there and I thought 'what is that over there?'" she told the Web site.
Hamilton described it as "an animal the size of calf with a long tail on it, three to four feet long ... and it was definitely a lion."
"Hamilton said it was definitely not a coyote or fox. "No, no, no, no, no, no," she said, "we have those in the area and I know what they look like."
Hamilton said the animal "kept looking back at me and wagging its tail." She said the animal walked into the woods toward a creek and she lost sight of it.
Sheriff's office spokesman Jeff Strickland told AccessNorthGeorgia that deputies searched the area but found nothing. They also checked a game preserve about five miles from the scene but all the animals there were accounted for.
Murrayville is in Hall County, about 10 miles southeast of Dahlonega.
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