Author Topic: Strangest thing you have found in the woods/wilderness/desert etc. (Read 15882 times)

azshooter · « **on:** October 20, 2006, 07:15:09 PM »

Last year, I was up on top of the Vermillion Cliffs in Northern Arizona area with my brother riding quads. Anyway we are at least 10-15 miles from pavement and way back on a 2 track road when we come up on a pickup truck with the windows down and a trailer attached. No body is around and we can see for several hundred yards aroud us. It just looks weird so my brother goes and look and the keys are in the ignition. There is a black goo on the ground all around the trailer and like dripping from the seams. Flys are buzzing around too. We look at each other and know that we are thinking the same thing. Are the drivers dead in the trailer? He gets brave and goes and opens the back of the trailer to look and I see his face pale and he quickly shuts the door. I ask him whats in it and he says its horrible. The trailer was full of like 20 dead deer. It had been sitting in the sun for who knows how many days. Now rest of the story. This is an area where the California Condors(Vultures with 9 food wingapans) have been re-introduced to the Grand Canyon area. When deer are killed on the road they picked them up put them in the trailer and would drop them off for the condors to eat. We still don't know where the drivers were but I don't think anyone would steal the vehicle.

azshooter · « **Reply #1 on:** October 21, 2006, 11:04:22 AM »

25 views and none of you can join in with your own stories?

handyman06 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 21, 2006, 01:48:17 PM »

Its useless to join in, there's no way I can top that. Coolest thing I found in the woods was a Stihl 032 chainsaw and that just pales in comparison to 20 decomposing deer in a trailer!

gp911 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 22, 2006, 05:42:30 AM »

I haven't found anything really strange, but I have found some stuff...

Random tools like a tack hammer, pliers, etc. far from any road. A stand of marijuana plants. A rotting dirt bike. Various car parts. Rusted, shot up farm implements (old plows and such). A memorial to someone (picture in a tree hollow with a couple personal effects and a soggy envelope with a letter in it). A shrine to the Virgin Mary (statue in a tree hollow with a few candles).

It's always funny to stumble across the remains of obvious juvenile delinquency in its more innocent forms, like a pack of cigarettes stashed in a tree, old Playboys and such stashed somewhere, etc. It's not so funny when they're more grown up and it's beercans, broken bottles, and other trash.

Now a Stihl chainsaw, that'd be cool!

20 rotting deer in a trailer? Not so much... I can just imagine the smell...

gp911

handyman06 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 22, 2006, 06:09:44 AM »

The chainsaw didn't run, but a nieghbor was able to use the bar and chain and a little rubber vibration dampener on the handle.

Ranger J · « **Reply #5 on:** October 22, 2006, 09:53:25 AM »

I have twice found the instrument package from weather balloons and the remains of the balloons themselves. One had been there for ‘some time’ but one looked to be a ‘fresh kill’. Not as cool as twenty dead deer.
RJ

azshooter · « **Reply #6 on:** October 22, 2006, 04:20:51 PM »

Quote from: Ranger J on October 22, 2006, 09:53:25 AM

I have twice found the instrument package from weather balloons and the remains of the balloons themselves. One had been there for ‘some time’ but one looked to be a ‘fresh kill’. Not as cool as twenty dead deer.
RJ

Thats pretty cool. ThatI did an internship at the NWS when I was in college and we would launch weather balloons 2 times a day. We tracked them up to over 80,000 feet before the balloons would burst and they fell. They have a small and simple paper parachute that slow their fall as they return to earth. They are powered by an acid battery that is like a small paper milk carton. We would add water and it generated enough power for the transponder on the trip. As many as we launched I always wondered where they ended up. I think at the time we used Hydrogen not Helium to fill the balloons.

Anyone else find anything interesting out in the woods? Finding MJ growing can be dangerous - it is often guarded by people who would be happy so shoot your rather than let their crop be discovered.

Ray Ford · « **Reply #7 on:** October 23, 2006, 03:25:34 PM »

I, too, have found the remains of a weather balloon. I had forgotten about it until I read the above posts. We were squirrel hunting in Okmulgee County in Oklahoma. I was somewhere between 12 and 16. I'm now 66, and the memory is vague. I do remember that the remains were mostly white.

You asked for reports from people about things that THEY had seen: "things you have found." But let me tell you about something that happened to a friend of mine. In full camo, he took a position at the base of a tree just before dawn and just off a game trail. He was Turkey hunting. A pack of Coyotes came trotting down the trail in single file. Several passed him by without noticing his presence. Then, one stopped, looked directly at him for a moment, then continued on down the trail.

What's strange about that? The one that paused and looked at him was apparently a Coyote in all respects except his ears. Not erect in manner of the wild dog, they hung down like the ears of a hound! He had to be a Coy Dog--a mixture of dog and Coyote. Did the fact that he was part dog make him more sensitive to the presence of a person? He was apparently the only member of the pack to notice a person sitting just off the trail. And did it make him less inclined to take flight when he sensed my friend's presence? He raised no alarm. I don't know.

Txhoghunter83 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 12, 2007, 12:18:51 PM »

Haha, reading these made me think back on things I've seen or found...just this past weekend we pulled up in a pasture way back away from the road. Looking for a place to set up and call for coyotes I found a bunch of beer cans and a pair of panties under a big oak tree...

Hog hunting with the dogs we cover a lot of ground. Once we found several Mj plants. Another time we were going to a bay in a cedar thicket on some farmland, no roads anywhere close. In the middle of this thicket is a trailer with a '68 mustang(I think it was a 68, could be wrong) on it. The car was in excellent shape and hadnt been there long. Reported it to the local sheriff, not sure what ever came of it.

Lone Star · « **Reply #9 on:** February 15, 2007, 07:58:48 AM »

A decade ago a friend and I were small game hunting in SouthCentral Alaska. We hiked several miles off the road into an old mining claim with several cabins and an old wash plant (all abandonded in the 1960s) and we had seen no one else in the area while coming in. It was a hot day and we were headed to the nearby creek for a cool drink, passing through the center of the small camp. There in the middle of the old trail was a rotten wooden folding chair with two cold beers sitting on it! We looked around, called for several minutes but found no one in the vicinity, and no evidence of recent human activity either (no tracks, fresh trash, etc.). Well, it was a hot day, and those beers sure tasted great!

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Land_Owner · « **Reply #10 on:** February 15, 2007, 04:40:04 PM »

I had always wondered what happened to those two beers...

ken2222 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 15, 2007, 05:04:11 PM »

it was Fathers Day 05...my oldest son and I fish a secret area on a major river here in Michigan for smallies. We wade most of the time and drag my superlight canoe with our gear and drift where we can....theres a spot in the river where it forks which created three small fingerlike islands. We know from fishing the area so long that there is a deep hole on the far end of one island, we usually find a few Walleye there. My son had started up on the island while I tied the canoe. He yelled back for me to watch my step.."there's a bag of "parts" right here"....I acknowledged, he moved on....as I stepped over the nylon woven bag...I caught my toe on the bag and it opened....the contents seemed to be moving so I stopped, cut a branch from a sapling and investigated. The smell was absolutely disgusting and nothing I had ever smelled before! I poked around a bit to see what it was....couldn't find any fur...just big split type bones and greyish pudding....AND STENCH..... no hooves...no fur....I took a hand full of pics...my son came back to see what was keeping me....I suddenly realized what I was looking at! We loaded up and left the area, both unable to shake the smell. I'm gotta cut the rest short as it completely ruined the day...we spent the rest of Fathers Day in and out of jail and shuttling State Troopers, Detectives, Coroner, Fireman and ourselves to the sight. Of course ....they tried to tell us they weren't human but we could hear their small talk and I have pics....you can be the judge. I have had many a doctor tell me otherwise. I won't post 'em here, but I'll send 'em to your email.

It was a real bad day!

Ken

NONYA · « **Reply #12 on:** February 15, 2007, 05:09:23 PM »

lifealongthedge@yahoo.com

ken2222 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 15, 2007, 06:21:57 PM »

NONYA...you have mail!

Echo4Lima · « **Reply #14 on:** February 21, 2007, 10:58:48 AM »

Driving thru the woods at Frenchman Lake in CA, I saw a Ford pick up parked with the windows down and what at first I thought was a dog looking out the back window. As I got along side of it the woman the hair belonged to turned to look at me with a red, sweaty face and nervuos smile. It was then that I saw the smiling sweating face of the man underneath her. I smiled, waved and just continued my drive.

Graybeard · « **Reply #15 on:** February 21, 2007, 11:15:23 AM »

While I DON'T want this thread to take a turn for the gutter I will say I too have caught folks out in the deep woods infragate delicto on at least two occasions I can recall. One was my next door neighor and her boy friend. Yeah she had a husband also. I was alone and hunting that day.

The other time Mrs. GB and the kids were with me and we were riding around way back in the mountains of the CWMA here in Bama. We went thru a food plot and over a hill in it and there was a truck parked right at the far edge of it near the road that went on beyond. A guy jumped out of the bed of the pickup pulling on his undershorts as he did so and went into the cab. I assume to retrieve a gun stored there just in case it was needed. It wasn't. We waved as we went by and when we returned from going further on down the road they were gone.

It's not so easy to hide in the woods anymore I guess.

Bubber · « **Reply #16 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:42:21 PM »

I was about a year out of high school when I had a game warden catch me in what Mr. Graybeard so elquently described as a infragate delicto. Sparing the details, what was even more embarassing than getting caught was the same SOB ran across me in town about a week later with a different girl and felt the need to comment.

While I have never found anything truley bizzare, I have found a few neat or at least entertaining things. A couple lost hunters, one of which was in an over the top panic. He was running around in circles screaming and firing his rifle as fast as he coule work the bolt. I hid behind a big pine untill I was sure he was out of ammo.

The neatest thing I have ever found was over new years. I was hunting rabbits with my girlfriends dad and found a Brass cowbell. It says 1878 SAIGNELEGIER FONDEUR .

Lone Star · « **Reply #17 on:** February 22, 2007, 04:38:22 AM »

In case you never googled it:

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/74483

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Land_Owner · « **Reply #18 on:** February 24, 2007, 03:18:32 AM »

Hey Bubber...which girlfriend?

NONYA · « **Reply #19 on:** February 24, 2007, 12:33:37 PM »

Didnt happen to me but my Dad and Uncle found a really old guy trapped in a mine shaft while bird hunting when they were young,guy had been in there for 10 days and my dad said he looked like he was burned on 100% of his body because the was uranium in the rock and he was drinking water from the bottom of a shaft,his wooden ladder had broke on him and nobody knew where he was,they couldnt get him out so they called the sheriff and they retrieved him,he died 2 weeks later in the hospital.

Bubber · « **Reply #20 on:** February 24, 2007, 04:53:55 PM »

lol land owner. The only one in my life now.

kyelkhunter3006 · « **Reply #21 on:** February 27, 2007, 01:53:39 PM »

Wow, the best I can contribute is that I've found so many pot plants (mostly in Eastern KY

) while out in the woods that I could have paid cash for my house had I wanted to go that route.

GregP42 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 27, 2007, 05:06:31 PM »

Kyelkhunter,

I know what you mean about that, I still remember out squirrel hunting with a cousin in Letcher county when I was young, he came back through the woods and had made himself a gilly suit hat out of someones dope plants! Since they were on my uncles place we cut them all down and had a nice bond fire that night too!

Greg

DalesCarpentry · « **Reply #23 on:** March 01, 2007, 05:52:31 PM »

I am sure some of you run up on old grave yards sometimes. I foud one that looked like no one had been there in at least 100 years. The dates on some of the stones went back as far as late 1700's and most were not able to be read. The ground was sunken in where the geaves were because the wood coffins decayed and allowed the dirt to fill the space. It was on the creepy side.

Swamp Fox · « **Reply #24 on:** March 02, 2007, 07:28:03 AM »

Quote from: DALESCARPENTRY on March 01, 2007, 05:52:31 PM

I am sure some of you run up on old grave yards sometimes. I foud one that looked like no one had been there in at least 100 years. The dates on some of the stones went back as far as late 1700's and most were not able to be read. The ground was sunken in where the geaves were because the wood coffins decayed and allowed the dirt to fill the space. It was on the creepy side.

We had one of those on a hunting lease some years ago. The odd thing was that fesh flowers would appear on the grave of a baby that died at 6 months, back in about 1800.

Glanceblamm · « **Reply #25 on:** March 05, 2007, 05:21:11 PM »

Did not happen to me but rather to a good friend whom related it to me several years latter due to a newspaper artical on this subject at that time.
Anyway...
He was heading back from a great day of upland bird hunting and got caught out in the dark which was often the case of a teenage boy with no drivers license when he walked up on 30 or more of those figures in the black hooded robes with candles and all in a woods clearing.
He was not detected and quietly back tracked and detoured around them (read chills)

Thinking back on it, he said if he had been older he may have shot out a few kneecaps!
He comes from a small community of around 1,600 people. Kind of makes you wonder who was there. The Grocer? the banker? the police officer? the Mayor? the highschool principle? (read chills)

ken2222 · « **Reply #26 on:** March 05, 2007, 05:32:54 PM »

Boy did that bring back memories...

I was stationed( USN) in a small town in a well known vacation state on the extreme south east coast...get the picture?
With my wife and child...I saw a huge fire...it was extemely windy...I stopped...got my camera...and took pics of a "wooden structure" burning...robed folks everywhere...kinda "T" shaped....
We left in a hurry...
I had a van parked in front of my house...running for SEVERAL HOURS while I sat on the porch with my SxS 12 ga.....
Whew...no incident...always thought the SxS had something ta do with that!
Ken

kyelkhunter3006 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 06, 2007, 11:22:17 AM »

A SxS 12 ga can persuade a lot of people to suddenly reconsider their actions..........

weasel · « **Reply #28 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:29:26 AM »

I did find a couple of weather baloons and some bizarre part of maybe an airplane? Was elk hunting with my dad about 100 miles north of Area 51, I was looking this thing over, my dad says "Put it down! It's probably full of RADIATION!!" Wish I could go back and find it now and sell it on Ebay!

Last Sept. we were packing out after a goat hunt on a popular trail, I found a wallet with $2,371 on cash, credit dards, title to a horse trailer, pilots' license, etc. The owner had lost it 7 weeks prior, had been up looking for it 3 times. Nice guy, gave me $300! Why would anybody carry that kinda stuff on the mountain?

kyelkhunter3006 · « **Reply #29 on:** April 02, 2007, 09:34:51 AM »

The guy didn't smell like any illegal plants, did he? Pilots license, horse trailer, lots of cash....on a mountain, secluded area? Things that make you go hmmm.....