Odd things in the woods?

[puma4440]

I just finished reading about 250 posts on another forum about some odd and unusual things in the woods from Christmas ornaments hanging in trees to boats deep in the woods with no water around, so what are some things you've found?

[Mikey]

I found myself lost once..........................

[Graybeard]

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. 

[The Hermit]

I came across an old trappers hut in the woods on state land not too long ago. The roof was caved in, the "door" was a bear skin all weathered and torn. There was a bunch of rusted leg hold traps and in the corner was a long barreled shotgun severly rusted. I brough it home and put a rod down the barrel and its still loaded. Most of the stock is gone, but I've been dumping WD 40 down the bore. The action is rusted solid. I can't determine any markings on it.
When I get film again, I will take a picture of it. If only it could talk. Funny thing is, I've been through that area many times in the last 50 years and never came across it before.

   The Hermit

[Cowpox]

Like Hermit, we stumbled on an old trapper's line shack.  It was a trench about 6 feet wide and 8 feet long, dug into a hill side, with a log roof which had caved in.

Nothing as interesting as old traps or guns, only some old streching boards, some rusty bed springs on the back wall, and the remains of a one burner kerosene stove.

What we found interesting was the large garbage pile outside the door.

There was a very large pile of old liquor bottles, and a bunch of old bail cap type catsup bottles.

Nothing else ?   

This lead us to surmise he ate what he took from his traps, and the liquor was required to make him less fussy about the ingedients of his main course.

[Graybeard]

The old bottles if unbroken most likely had value. I wish that from the days of my youth I had collected all those old bottles I came across rather than breaking them. I suspect I by passed a small fortune in old glass from the days of my youth thru ignorance of the future value of such things. Ah to have known then what we know now.

[huntswithdogs]

GB and others,
Those old "trash" piles can be treasure piles, nowadays. There was a show on one of the cable channels resently about old bottles and some of them fetch some serious money!

HWD

[Specklebelly]

boats deep in the woods with no water around

You talking little jon boats or bigger boats?  That is pretty strange but kind of neat as well.

[Specklebelly]

Want to find some cool stuff, go through an old boy scout camp with a metal detector.  When I was in scouts as a boy we did that one campout and found a lot of old knives, coins and other neat stuff.

[a4beltfed2000]

Found a limestone wall foundation located in the public grounds, no other signs of a building ground is level with the rest of the dirt, however I noticed that there was a stack of flat limestone and after digging around we found the shape of the house, hoping to head back with the metal detector looking for stuff very  soon.....

[puma4440]

boats deep in the woods with no water around

You talking little jon boats or bigger boats?  That is pretty strange but kind of neat as well.

The one guy said it was a 16' bass tracker on a trailer, and chained to a tree, about a mile off of the beaten path...my guess is it was stolen, or someone going through the "big D".

[charles p]

When I was a young boy, whiskey stills were common findings - mostly abandoned and some had been chopped up by the law.

About twenty years ago I found several marked grave stones and about 50 additional graves.  I assume the unmarked graves were those of slaves.  A check of the county tax map showed that this small area was not titled to the landowner of the surrounding woodland.

[Cuts Crooked]

When I was a young boy, whiskey stills were common findings - mostly abandoned and some had been chopped up by the law.

About twenty years ago I found several marked grave stones and about 50 additional graves.  I assume the unmarked graves were those of slaves.  A check of the county tax map showed that this small area was not titled to the landowner of the surrounding woodland.

Found one of those a few miles from my home about thirty five years ago in southern Iowa. A later search of county records revealed it was a Negro cemetary and contained the graves of some black Civil War veterans also. There are a number of old coal mining town sites in the area and apparently a lot of blacks worked in the mining industry there in the later part of the 1800s.

[salvo]

Came across "The tree of death" last year while black powder hunting here in NV. Thought it kinda strange

[shortround]

Came across an active still back when I was a teenager. I got out of there pretty quick.

Once while scouting an area to turkey hunt, I came across a couple doing the nasty. I was as quiet as I could be so they never knew I was there.....

Truth is....

THEY were making so much noise, I could have driven by in a monster truck and they'd never noticed!

[The Hermit]

When I first bought my land, I pulled down into the woods with a 68 chevy pickup and parked. I wandered around for couple hours and heard a vehicle stop up on the road, doors open and close. I walked out to the road and saw a delivery type truck empty. Then I walked back to my truck, heard some talking and walked over. To my surprise there was a young man and woman getting "together" on a blanket. I backed away and waited. Soon they left and never knew I was there.

   The Hermit

[Story]

Came across "The tree of death" last year while black powder hunting here in NV. Thought it kinda strange

That'd be even spookier if the sign was in Spanish : Arbol del Muerte

[dbuz]

I saw a stack of flat rocks in the Talladege National Forest about 3' tall, 6' wide, and 12' long. It was way, way, way out in the woods. I also found a steel spoke wheel a few miles away. I never could figure out what the stack of rocks was for. There was no sign of a house around.

[salvo]

dbuz, sounds like you found an elusive Bigfoot grave!

[45-70.gov]

i  found  2 boats... different  times

marijuana   crops  twice

an once of cocain

arrows...modern  never  found  a rock  arrow head

a  cop  with a girl  from my high school   [patty  ****]

ever  hear  about  the biltmore  house  in ashevill  NC
i  found an old  dump they used  a centry ago  i guess
there  is now a sub-division there  now.......its lost

[bearmgc]

Last Fall season fly fishing, I was way out along side a mountain, trying to get to a deep pool on the creek. I dropped down into the forest bottom, and there was a like new truck topper, black, just there within the low lying scrub. I checked it out and went fishing. Coming back I met a guy, who was fixing to get into the topper, lowcrawling. Found out he was using it for a deer blind.

[kynardsj]

Found some old and forgotten graveyards. I've noticed that here in Alabama if you come up on a China Berry tree there is always and old house place right close by. I guess folks planted them for shade. I know that when I was a kid and the little cheap slingshots were a dime those china berrys made some good ammo.

[Graybeard]

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.

[BoomLover]

And that reminded me of the time I got cured of slingshot fights! Had a good one going with my brother one time, and I knew he was hiding right around the corner of the house. I drew back and waited, and as soon as he jumped out, I let fly with a BB. Didn't mean to, but got him right between the eyes! Man, I was feeling so bad for him, it was the last time for that stuff! BTW, we are on good terms with each other, in spite of several incidences like that in our youth! BoomLover

[a4beltfed2000]

Back in the 90's I came across something similar to the tree of death, but it was actually animals hanging in the trees that, were sacraficed? in what appeared to be a satanic ritual. They were hung up side down and disembowled, blood and organs tossed around. Found several like this, in the area known to be used by occult members.I and a buddy encounted one briefly, I was hunting in the woods and while checking for a blood trail, a dark haired guy with a beard, "appeared"( never heard him coming). I stood up with my shotgun in hand, when I turned and hollered for my buddy, I looked back and he was no longer there (can't say he vanished but didn't hear him run away either. Still gives me the creeps.....

[a4beltfed2000]

OH yeah and one night, while out counting deer with a spotlight, we found a occupied car out on a sideroad, I must say the spotlight sure reflected heavily on the bright white backside skin of that guy. Never seen anyone jump over a seat that quick......

[1911crazy]

dbuz, sounds like you found an elusive Bigfoot grave!

I found stacks / piled rocks on a hill side that faced in the direction the sun comes up (east).  The whole hill side was covered with them.  This is were the indians lived a few 100's years ago.  We figured they were graves of some sort.  I was sent there my the local forest ranger to finish a job someone started(logger).  Then i started seeing things before i knew the rock piles were there.  The ranger informed me.  I stayed cutting and finished the job.

On another job we were cutting an access road to quality lumber timber(board feet) and as we cut the dozer kept up with us.  It dozed up old carriage / buckboard axles and wheel outer rings out of the dirt.  There were no houses in this area too

At another place there was a rock foundation that was a blacksmith's shop were Jefferson had his horse shoed there.  If you ran your hands in the dirt floor you found all the old leather stuff for horses still preserved.

There's lots of old stuff in the woods for sure and how it got there i have no clue.  I always heard tales about the stick men too but never seen them.

[Zulu]

Counting deer with a spotlight??

[45-70.gov]

Counting deer with a spotlight??

where  did  the  deer get the flashlight??

[rusty shackelford]

wanted to bump this up hunting season is over  somebody had to see or find something.