Body of burned man found in Georgia's Stone Mountain Park

The badly burned body of a young man was found Saturday in Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, authorities said.

The badly burned body of a young man was found Saturday in Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, authorities said.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is helping local authorities investigate the discovery, spokesperson Nelly Miles said. Stone Mountain Department of Public Safety spokesperson John Bankhead said an autopsy by the DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office was scheduled for Monday.

A hiker came across the body and reported it to authorities at about 8:18 a.m. Saturday, Bankhead said by phone. He described the location of the discovery as the side of the mountain opposite its walking trail and about 100 or more yards from a tower for its Summit Skyride, a Swiss cable car line to the top.

Bankhead said the location is not remote but is rarely hiked. "I hike here all the time and I didn't know that was there," he said.

The spokesperson told NBC affiliate WXIA of Atlanta: "It’s very odd, peculiar, no one that I’ve talked to that’s worked out here for years has seen anything like this at the park."