Mummified dog?
Some of the lumberjacks described the animal as a mummified dog. But naturally, this was impossible. After all, they were in the United States, not Egypt. And why put a mummy of a dog in a log in Georgia? No, it couldn’t be. After all, a chestnut tree is just a dull coffin compared to the decorated sarcophagi we know from ancient Egypt.
In addition, the dog had not really been mummified. The beast had been petrified and seemed to have been preserved very well, but it was not an actual mummy. It looked like this beast had taken the command ‘stay’ too seriously. The poor beast had remained in the tree until his death. And long after that.