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Offline puma4440

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Found a body
« on: August 14, 2009, 02:26:57 PM »
The more I read these stories, the more I want to share.

     I've always been in the woods since the day I could walk, so naturally I knew our woods like the back of my hand, and have never seen or heard anything weird until...I was 16, it was the opening day of small game in PA, and you better believe I was getting my share of the squirrels ;D. I knew a spot about 3/4 of a mile back that was old growth cherry covered in thick vines that held some fat fox squirrels. I found a log to prop myself on while I waited with my trusty H&R 20 gauge. I didn't wait too long before a bushy tail was running the vines, so I shoulderd my shotgun, and gave a little lead when something caught my eye, it was a patch of flannel I could see through the thick vines. I lowered my shotgun, walked around a tangle of vines, and seen what I thought was a prank hanging in a tree, but as I got closer, the smell of decomp told me it wasn't a prank. I ran that 3/4 mile back to the house, and called the state police, they came, and asked where the road was, and if I can ride along to show them. I told them the only wheeled vehicle that can get close was my old sears & robuck garden tractor with a cart, so in we went, me driving, and 2 state troopers riding in the cart. After a pile of photos, and a ton of statements, I hauled them all back out of the woods. To this day, I get an odd feeling when I pass that spot.
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Re: Found a body
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2009, 02:31:53 PM »
  Kinda scarey for a teenager huh !..Had the guy hung himself, died of illness or murdered ?
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Re: Found a body
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2009, 02:34:21 PM »
That's a heck of a find, Puma. Did they ever find out what had happened there? Suicide? Murder? Accident?

Quote from: puma4440 on August 14, 2009, 02:26:57 PM
I told them the only wheeled vehicle that can get close was my old sears & robuck garden tractor with a cart, so in we went, me driving, and 2 state troopers riding in the cart.

LMAO  ;D
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Re: Found a body
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2009, 02:36:42 PM »
Yeah, don't leave us "hangin", how bout the rest of the story?  ???

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Re: Found a body
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2009, 02:42:12 PM »
my  dad was  the county  medical examiner
i  went with  him  on a few  calls  when  i was  a boy

once  one  of  my class mates  was  hunting
he  found  a body
my  dad  was  called  out  and  my  classmate  was  still  there
this  guy  was  in  a small mountain  stream
they  thought  he  sliped  crossing
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Re: Found a body
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2009, 03:59:20 PM »
Sorry, didn't mean to run off like that.

And now here's the rest of the story...

Like I said, that is my family's land, we don't post or anything, it's a small community, everyone knows everyone,ect,ect.  They estimated he was there for 1 1/2-2 weeks, so he was rough looking, no I.D. About a month and a half later, was deer season, and we converted an old dynamite shack on the corner of an old strip mine into a nice hunting shelter. Opening day my dad and I get there, and everything inside was re-arranged from what we had it setup as, so my guess is he was a drifter who hung(no pun intended) out there, maybe depressed, and walked into the woods for the last time. As far as I know, he was never identified. Thats been about 12 years ago now.

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