Post the strangest things you have seen in the woods!!
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I don't have any pictures of them right now, but on this one trail near my house there are a few fireplaces with chimneys built out of brick and mortar. There was no indication that they were from an old house and too well built to be built by the average hiker (too many bricks and bags of mortar to lug up the trail). They also had not appeared to be used in many years.
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Dead body.
Found a jump victim at the base of a cliff when I was bushwhacking here in NC. Authorities confirmed later that it was not only the person they had been looking for, a former NOLS instructor, camper, etc, but it was a clear suicide.
I'll tell you all about it if we are by a fire some time.
Found a jump victim at the base of a cliff when I was bushwhacking here in NC. Authorities confirmed later that it was not only the person they had been looking for, a former NOLS instructor, camper, etc, but it was a clear suicide.
I'll tell you all about it if we are by a fire some time.
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Good grief Joe, way to kill a thread. No one's going to be able to top that!
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I don't have many pics handy, but for the last couple of years, at least once a month a buddy and I have been going out driving on the multitude of dirt road in this area, and we've stumbled across a lot of things. Old saddles, a wrapped and weatherproofed V-8, a camper shell, abandoned and burnt out travel-trailers and a ton of other stuff. It gets kind of spooky, sometimes. You get way out in the desert, nobody around, in real The-Hills-Have-Eyes territory, and start finding weird stuff? Enough to make a guy want to carry a knife or two
(that's my excuse, anyway).
(that's my excuse, anyway).
When I was about eleven or twelve, my friend and I were heading out to the woods for the day and in an open area just before the edge, we found a severed cow's head sitting upright on the ground. No blood, not other parts, nothing. At the time, we thought it was pretty funny. Years later I read about so-called "cattle mutilations" and it creeped me right out.
driving up an old logging road, turned the corner and both of us were gasping for air. The stench of rotting meat was overwhelming. We drove another few feet and i said "wth the roads moving! " It was millions of maggots feeding on an poached Elk (the hide/head/legs/ and the scraps). We shut off the truck and you could hear them as they did their job. The skull had around 40 .22 sized holes in it. nice way to go....
A friend and I were camping in the desert on the edge of a dry lake just north of the big military base near 29 Palms. There are other military bases to the north in both CA and NV. We were sitting around in the evening without a fire because it was a warm summer night. First thing we see in the sky is something moving many times faster than any normal jet that suddenly comes to a dead stop. After about ten seconds it then takes off at a 90 degree angle from where it stopped, again moving way faster than any jet or satellite I've ever seen. Eventually disappears.
We speculated about a possible test of a very fast pulse jet or the like. When it appeared to stop, it could have been just climbing vertically away from us.
Later, we saw several lights over the nearby foothills, moving at helicopter speed and behaving like you would expect choppers to behave. But not a single sound---AT ALL. We assumed the military must have been testing some new prototype stealth helos or the like.
And before you ask, my friend saw exactly what I saw and he doesn't drink at all!
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We speculated about a possible test of a very fast pulse jet or the like. When it appeared to stop, it could have been just climbing vertically away from us.
Later, we saw several lights over the nearby foothills, moving at helicopter speed and behaving like you would expect choppers to behave. But not a single sound---AT ALL. We assumed the military must have been testing some new prototype stealth helos or the like.
And before you ask, my friend saw exactly what I saw and he doesn't drink at all!
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This has to take some beating, spotted it well off the trail last week !
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Once while sitting in a grove of trees while hunting, I saw two red squirrels frisking about. They started humping (it didn't last long 
) on a branch right over my head. One was on top of the branch and one was hanging belly up underneath it. It was not only funny, it was pretty impressive. I was tempted to spook them just to see them go flying in all directions, but I decided to let them be. After all, if it were me I wouldn't want a moment of amour trespassed upon. 
) on a branch right over my head. One was on top of the branch and one was hanging belly up underneath it. It was not only funny, it was pretty impressive. I was tempted to spook them just to see them go flying in all directions, but I decided to let them be. After all, if it were me I wouldn't want a moment of amour trespassed upon. 
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Once when I was hiking some trails in the park in the dead of winter, I stumbled across this freshly killed rabbit. Like it had literally just happened.
I snapped a few photos and kept on walking. When I returned the body was pretty much a big mess. Whatever had made the kill was apparently hiding out of sight until I went by, then returned to finish its meal after I was gone. Never heard a thing, nor could I see any prints on account of the crusted snow surface. A coyote or bobcat are the best I can think of, as both prowl my neck of the woods.
Not strange, per se, but a rare experience and one that was odd for me given the fact that the critter was still lurking about.
I snapped a few photos and kept on walking. When I returned the body was pretty much a big mess. Whatever had made the kill was apparently hiding out of sight until I went by, then returned to finish its meal after I was gone. Never heard a thing, nor could I see any prints on account of the crusted snow surface. A coyote or bobcat are the best I can think of, as both prowl my neck of the woods.
Not strange, per se, but a rare experience and one that was odd for me given the fact that the critter was still lurking about.
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Once when I was hiking some trails in the park in the dead of winter, I stumbled across this freshly killed rabbit. Like it had literally just happened.
I snapped a few photos and kept on walking. When I returned the body was pretty much a big mess. Whatever had made the kill was apparently hiding out of sight until I went by, then returned to finish its meal after I was gone. Never heard a thing, nor could I see any prints on account of the crusted snow surface. A coyote or bobcat are the best I can think of, as both prowl my neck of the woods.
Not strange, per se, but a rare experience and one that was odd for me given the fact that the critter was still lurking about.
Might the lack of tracks suggest an avian predator?
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The lack of tracks was because the snow was old and crusted like ice. Where I found the rabbit was under low thick canopy coverage, and in an area where a bird of sufficient size to do the damage that it did wouldn't have been able to properly attack.
As I previously stated, on my return the corpse was pretty heavily gnawed upon. A lot of the spine was exposed, though the head was left intact, and the snow immediately around/under it was punched through. The snow just wasn't conducive to footprints. We don't have many predatory birds in our area either. Mostly carrion (crows, ravens, and turkey vultures)
Good question, though.
As I previously stated, on my return the corpse was pretty heavily gnawed upon. A lot of the spine was exposed, though the head was left intact, and the snow immediately around/under it was punched through. The snow just wasn't conducive to footprints. We don't have many predatory birds in our area either. Mostly carrion (crows, ravens, and turkey vultures)
Good question, though.
A few years ago while hiking the "Long Path" near Mt. Pisgah in the Catskills I walked up on a strange buzzing noise, as I got closer to the source I thought a squadron of P38's were flying overhead. I cautiously walked up to the largest swarm of honey bees I have ever seen. The top of an old Pine was covered with what must have been millions of honey bees with swarms on every branch. I have been involved in a few bee trees in the past, but nothing near the scale of this one. I don't think even Old Pooh Bear would have braved this tree.
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I was hunting in Tennessee with a friend of mine and we found a small airplane in steep hollow back up in the mountains. It have crashed and yes there was a guy inside. It had been there so long the guy was partially decomposed.
When we hiked back down and drove to town (the days before cell phones) I called the local police. We had to stay an extra day and show the local deputy the crash location. He told us we would contacted later but other than a written statement we had no further news on who the guy was or what happened.
When we hiked back down and drove to town (the days before cell phones) I called the local police. We had to stay an extra day and show the local deputy the crash location. He told us we would contacted later but other than a written statement we had no further news on who the guy was or what happened.