Author Topic: Odd things in the woods? (Read 12234 times)

guzzijohn · « **Reply #30 on:** January 27, 2011, 10:19:20 AM »

I do not know if I would call it odd but sure was nice at the time. I was pheasant hunting, the temps were in the mid 30s. I had been walking quite a ways and was getting kind of thirsty when I when I partly stepped on something. I looked down and lo and behold there was an unopened can of beer. It hit the spot!
GuzziJohn

hillbill · « **Reply #31 on:** January 28, 2011, 05:38:07 PM »

many years ago i found what looked like a foundation to a old cabin. me and my 8 yr old daughter made a seive out of hardware cloth and took a shovel and sifted around the foundation and found lots of old bits of china and blacksmith made nails, old glass and other stuff that looked to be from the early 1900's.

yooperamoungtrolls · « **Reply #32 on:** March 11, 2011, 09:06:02 AM »

I fish a river in northern MI that gets pretty heavy canoe traffic in the summer time. Many a time I have been quietly fishing a hole up along the tag alders when a canoe slipped around the bend adorned with a toppless female nature lover. Some times they just wave and say "Oh sorry, catch anything??" but on ocassion they are a bit embarrased. Thats when I wait for them to pass and scramble up the bank and over the oxbow and wait for them to come by again 10 mins later...

I have also came across canoers taking a moment to comune with nature(and eachother) back in the woods off the river.

Years back I had heard of an OLD cemetary that was once part of a minning town from the 1840-50's. It was not easy to get to. Down an old two track across the top of a HUGE beaver dam and up one hell of a steep rock trail. There, the stones were set out over uneven ground with no rhyme or reason, heaved up by spruce roots and over grown with moss. One stone belonged to a teen aged girl about 14 years old date of death in the 1850's. There at the stone a bouquete of fresh flowers and a pair of white leather high heeled shoes.

There was an old story about a USAF fighter jet that crashed on my uncles property back in the 1960's. He showed me exactly where it happend but said I would never find anything as the Air Force showed up just hours after the crash and spend 2 weeks collecting EVERY bit of wreckage. Recently I did go to the site with a metal detecor and found a few small scraps of fusalage and nuts and bolts. Pretty cool, just recently an anunt passed away and in her things I found several newspaper clippings about it. It was a Grumman F-9 Cougar and both the pilot and passenger ejceted landing(according to the article) 11 miles from the crash site.

Most recently, before the opening day of deer season here in Michigan me and some friends had set up our camp along the Big Manistee river. We were settled in having a few beers and sitting around the camp fire when a guy came "jogging" down the path along the river in a tee shirt, shorts and BARE FEET!! He stopped and talked for a bit, he seemed sane but said well gotta go and off he went. It was probably 38 degrees and beginng to rain.

Old Fart · « **Reply #33 on:** March 11, 2011, 09:24:02 AM »

I found a dead body once.

picturerock · « **Reply #34 on:** March 11, 2011, 01:20:24 PM »

Whatja do with it?

Specklebelly · « **Reply #35 on:** March 19, 2011, 04:24:00 PM »

Quote from: Old Fart on March 11, 2011, 09:24:02 AM

I found a dead body once.

Really? If so, you have to give us details as that has to have a heck of a story with it.

Zulu · « **Reply #36 on:** March 25, 2011, 12:20:18 PM »

My Brother found a skull with a bullet hole in it in the woods while he was shed hunting. He called the cops and led them out there. It turns out that two years before someone shot a drug dealer and dumped his body out in the woods. When police found the body it had no head. This head belonged to that body.
My Brother said it was fairly spooky as he walked up to it and realized what he was looking at.
Zulu

OldSchoolRanger · « **Reply #37 on:** April 07, 2011, 10:06:39 AM »

Quote from: Graybeard on September 28, 2009, 02:52:36 AM

I once found my next door neighbor (woman) in the back seat of a car with a man not her husband and nope they weren't just having a conversation.

$:-\$

!!!!!!!!

LOL!

OldSchoolRanger · « **Reply #38 on:** April 10, 2011, 07:57:17 PM »

A completely all white deer, that wasn't an albino or piebald deer. When I first saw it, I thought I was seeing things, it must have seen me. One minute it was there then it was gone, it didn't help that there was snow on the ground.

loneviking · « **Reply #39 on:** April 26, 2011, 12:19:03 AM »

I remember years ago, up by the Rae Lakes basin area in the Sierras, backpacking along and encountered something a bit strange. Came around a corner and there coming toward our way was a guy with a broad brimmed , floppy hat; a backpack; well worn boots and nothing between the boots and the hat! Yep, said he often got hot after a long day and peeled off everything that he considered unneccessary. For just a second there, I thought I might have found Bigfoot!

zeke08 · « **Reply #40 on:** April 26, 2011, 07:17:18 PM »

Loneviking that guy must hike the AT here in TN cause for years people would talk about the naked hiker hat, boots, and pack, finally met him up close to the NC border said he just felt free and all natural! lol whatever dude!

blind ear · « **Reply #41 on:** April 27, 2011, 11:01:02 AM »

My favorite thing to run across is a Slavonian grave yard. That is what my dad called a garbage pile or dimp site. Glass ware from way back in them. On the flat on the inside of a river curve you can sometimes find pieces of indian pottery also. ear

petemi · « **Reply #42 on:** April 29, 2011, 04:03:47 AM »

I was quail hunting between Old NAS Cecil Field and Jacksonville Florida in the early sixties and found an active still and the guys running it. I had a jug of moonshine on my porch every week or so after that. I'd guess it was one of my better hunts.

Pete

no guns here · « **Reply #43 on:** April 29, 2011, 04:21:25 AM »

Once while hunting in Alabama, I was way up in a tree, probably 30 feet due to terrain. It was public land and loe and behold here comes a couple "hunting", yes they were man and woman and no they weren't hunting. Didn't have the heart to disturb them... she was rather athletic...

My dad and I were quail hunting in OK in the early 80's. We came upon a guys stash of his toys. There was a bass boat and two or three muscle cars. Everything was chained to trees and under tarps. Not a building around. Just a dirt road and the vehicles. My guess was someone was hiding his pre-divorce stash.

NGH

blind ear · « **Reply #44 on:** April 29, 2011, 05:49:03 AM »

Quote from: no guns here on April 29, 2011, 04:21:25 AM

Once while hunting in Alabama, I was way up in a tree, probably 30 feet due to terrain. It was public land and loe and behold here comes a couple "hunting", yes they were man and woman and no they weren't hunting. Didn't have the heart to disturb them... she was rather athletic...

My dad and I were quail hunting in OK in the early 80's. We came upon a guys stash of his toys. There was a bass boat and two or three muscle cars. Everything was chained to trees and under tarps. Not a building around. Just a dirt road and the vehicles. My guess was someone was hiding his pre-divorce stash.

NGH

Or perhaps a bankruptcy. ear

no guns here · « **Reply #45 on:** April 29, 2011, 06:02:15 AM »

Yep... coulda been a bankruptcy. Wasn't outdoors but I remember one time a few really nice shotguns showed up in my dad's closet for a while. Seems a guy was getting ready for a divorce and had to stash some stuff.

NGH

critter44 · « **Reply #46 on:** July 24, 2012, 03:12:06 AM »

Graveyard, 'crashed' weather balloon, couples 'engaged'-on 3 different occasions.

Grumulkin · « **Reply #47 on:** July 25, 2012, 03:16:37 PM »

Quote from: Graybeard on February 05, 2010, 12:18:13 PM

Yup as a boy I had many a slingshot battle using chinaberrys. The blue berries from privet hedge made good ammo for bbgun battles as well. I expect either would have done some real damage to the eye had we ever got hit there but luckily no one did. Yeah we did some less than brilliant things in the days of our youth.

We had a huge old chinaberry tree in our back yard and with the birds spreading them along with us shooting them from slingshots lots more popped up around the area.

I haven't heard the mention of chinaberries in a LONG time.

When I was a kid, we made "rifles" out of a broomstick, rubber band and a clothes pin. You would put the rubber band around the chinaberry and put the chinaberry in the clothes pin and then when the clothes pin was released, away the chinaberry would go. My friend Bobby and I led an attack on his little brother David; David had a buzz cut and I can still remember the chinaberry bouncing off his bald little head. The very best though was one Christmas Eve while opening presents. A mouse came out from behind a book case. I had my chinaberry gun and hit it right in the head; an instant knock out; my parents were impressed.

streak · « **Reply #48 on:** July 25, 2012, 04:15:46 PM »

One time I was just starting into the woods in E.Texas just as the sun was coming up and I was heading out to a deer crossing to setup for the morning. As I was slipping through the woods, I spotted what look like a human sitting on a stump! Kind of strange as the stump was right out in a small clearing in the woods. Well it was right in my chosen path, so I eased on up and sure enough it was a human with a gun. They were in camo and I was too, so I carefully slipped through the trees to where I could see who it was. As I was on their backside they couldn`t see me, but I closed to within 20-25 yards of them.

To let them know I was there I coughed and "she" turned around and I waved at
a young good looking blonde!! Wow! I asked her had she seen anything and she said no, so I wished her good luck and went on to my favorite spot to hunt.
Well later on I found out who this blonde was! As luck would have it, she was the daughter Of the local sheriff!!! I was sure glad I kept to my "Southern Gentleman" manners!

JonnyReb · « **Reply #49 on:** August 22, 2012, 02:23:10 PM »

. Was clearing land behind my house with a front end loader and was surprised to not have damaged this black powder side by side barrel. There was a good bit of pioneer settlement and growth in my part of charlotte N.C., and the area where I live, although now sparsly settled, was once a gold mining settlement and farmland after that. I'm sure the shotgun was in one piece(or two) when it first hit the ground and was lost, but nothing was found but the barrel itself. It seemed in terrible shape, but I blasted it and soaked it in oil, it seems to have cured out just how you see it. The silver solder is still there, the brass bead, the percussion nipples are gone, by the dents in the end of the barrels, i'm figuring it misfired on someone after the civil war period and they beat it up and chucked it in the woods, in favor of the new cartridge guns. Who knows though, how it got there. If anyone knows anything pertaining to its design or apprx build date, feel free to post. Jeff

hillbill · « **Reply #50 on:** August 22, 2012, 02:47:36 PM »

anybody ever saw a politician in the woods? now that would be weird!?

??

Zulu · « **Reply #51 on:** August 23, 2012, 11:21:53 AM »

Quote from: hillbill on August 22, 2012, 02:47:36 PM

anybody ever saw a politician in the woods? now that would be weird!? ??

Our president can't see the forest for the trees. Does that count?

Zulu

streak · « **Reply #52 on:** August 23, 2012, 11:37:50 AM »

Quote from: Zulu on August 23, 2012, 11:21:53 AM

Quote from: hillbill on August 22, 2012, 02:47:36 PM
anybody ever saw a politician in the woods? now that would be weird!? ??

Our president can't see the forest for the trees. Does that count?
Zulu

YEP!!

Ranger99 · « **Reply #53 on:** August 26, 2012, 06:07:24 PM »

good while back, was big time lost, flashlight finally
gave out, compass was no-workee.

walked by dead reckoning for about 30-45 minutes,
and tripped over something and fell flat on my face
in the dark.

dang if it wasn't a flashlight some poor soul had
lost, and here another poor soul who needed one
found it.

what are the odds?

? $:-\$

Scibaer · « **Reply #54 on:** November 14, 2012, 12:34:48 PM »

you tripped and fell, from a flashlight ?

just how big was it

Ranger99 · « **Reply #55 on:** November 14, 2012, 01:16:29 PM »

in the pitch dark, i stepped on it
and it rolled like stepping on marbles
on a tile floor and i fell down.
still amazed to find a working flashlight
in the middle of nowhere when i needed
one so bad. and what are the odds that
i would step on it in the middle of a
10,000 acre piece of nowhere?

Victor3 · « **Reply #56 on:** November 14, 2012, 11:25:04 PM »

About a year ago my Son and I came across a WWI movie set in the Los Padres National Forest, 20+ miles from the nearest town. Trenches, bunkers, barbed wire "no man's land" and all kinds of neat stuff...

Lots of blanks laying around...

Primitive alarm system; can with rifle shells inside hung on wire...

Hundreds of these...

45-70.gov · « **Reply #57 on:** November 15, 2012, 07:33:29 AM »

me and a lady friend were walking out of the woods and came upon another couple

they were engaged in the same activity we had just completed

both wemen turned red while me and the other guy just grinned ear to ear

i suggested they do it in the creek down the trail......no one botherd us there