CLYO, Ga. — A Clyo man was arrested June 14 after deputies say he attempted to set his neighbor’s house on fire, fled the scene without clothes, and was later found sitting near the blaze in the buff covered in mud.

Dan Hamilton called 911 just after 11 p.m. to report that his son, Keith Hamilton, 33, was allegedly trying to ignite Gabriel Jones’ house at 228 Carroll Ave., according to a report by Deputy Terry Dillon Nesmith.

As deputies were being dispatched, the fire was confirmed active. Nesmith arrived to find a small fire smoldering in the backyard, with the home’s siding melted but no longer aflame.

Then things got weirder.

While searching the area, Nesmith entered the backyard to douse the remaining flames — only to find Keith Hamilton, completely nude and reportedly sitting "almost atop the fire," according to the deputy’s report. Nesmith ordered him away from the blaze at Taser-point. Hamilton complied.

A gas can, half full, was found near the fire. The entire back porch and part of the yard were saturated with what smelled unmistakably like gasoline. The lattice under the porch had been torn away, and Hamilton, muddy and sweating, told the deputy he had dug under the house “looking for something to put on the fire.”

Effingham County firefighters extinguished the remaining flames.

Hamilton was arrested and taken to the Effingham County Jail, where he was charged with first-degree arson, criminal trespass, pedestrian under the influence and public indecency — and, one assumes, issued some clothes.