Post the strangest things you have seen in the woods!!

James_Terrio said:
WHY? Guys like you do that, then guys like me gotta pack out your junk. :thumbdn: If you're on your own private land, never mind, do whatever you like. Otherwise, please show some courtesy.

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So you're one of them, eh? Me too. When I see an old wrapper, bottle or some other crap that isn't supposed to be there I pick it up and pack it out. I hate that crap.

I used to hike a lot as a 11 - 12 yr old at a nearby Army base (Ft. Sam Houston) and all the area around it. It was untouched by people in many areas since you had to go in through certain gates to get access to the back areas.

One day we were hiking along an we came to a huge field of large, squarish pieces of marble. Hundreds of them, scattered around.

On inspection, we found them to be broken gravestones, like the ones used by the Army at the adjoining cemetery. We had no idea what we had found. We thought they had plowed over an old cemetery and just covered the graves.... no.... maybe they dug up the bodies and were destroying the evidence.... maybe there was a terrible disease and we were the only ones to find evidence....

We knew something terrible was going on, and we were afraid to tell anyone. We didn't tell a soul.

A couple of weeks later we went out there and there was nothing but fresh dirt and rock, and all the gravestones were gone! Hundreds... vanished!

It was more than we could take. I was young and scared and I was thinking an American deathcamp of some sort. We told my folks, and they were skeptical, but decided to make a phone call or two. We explained we had seen names, dates, ranks, all that stuff on the broken blocks of marble.

It seems that the base digs up the bodies in some areas for expansion or to correct some civil engineering flaw. They break the tombstones on occasion, so that was source number one for the broken blocks. Source two was that they were doing the marble carving in house, and from time to time, one just broke. In the heap it went. Apparently, they "said" they were disposing of the broken stones by using them as landfill in the lower, flood prone areas of the base.

We weren't satisfied, but didn't know what else to do. We theorized that we could be in danger as well as we had been brushed aside pretty easily.

To protect ourselves with real evidence this happened, we went back out, dug up several pieces (25 - 30# pieces!!) and packed them out by hand and then on our bikes to our respective houses. We had evidence of conspiracy and cover up! We were ready to break things wide open if called to testify to what we found.

Sigh....

Those pieces are still at my parents house, 40+ years later. They put them face down under the fence in the areas where my old dog used to try to dig out. My Dad still laughs his ass off at that.

Robert
 
I remember reading about some folks in Scotland who took tons of garden gnomes and started arranging them in the bottom of a particularly deep loch where only experienced divers could get to. Well, somehow word got 'round about the little private joke and lots of folks decided they either wanted to get a peek at the gnome garden or else add a few of their own. A lot of these idiots ended up needlessly endangering themselves, and so the local police sent some divers down to remove the massive arrangement of diminutive statuary, only to find that rival divers had replaced them in the middle of the night and added some friends. :D :D :D
 
My dad told me a story about one of his camping trips in the 70's as a teenager. They were in a new england state (he told me but cant think of it now, Id have to ask) he said the were deep in some woods and came across a clearing. In i was 3 grave stones, the only epitaph that could be read said " Emily, buried for the witchery within her". He swears to this day its true.
 
mikeymoto said:
Not much left of this old pipeline but the iron bands:

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:D:D:D Recon that's wrought iron? :D:D:D
 
When I was a kid in the late 1940s, we lived on a farm in western Arkansas. Our 120 acres was bordered on three sides by the Quachita National Forest. When not farming, logging, etc., I roamed the forest for miles around to trap, hunt, fish, and mark wild bee trees for later harvest. Anyway, it wasn't too uncommon to see a deer or black bear staggering around drunk. From what? From the water that fermented in old hardwood stumps. A lot of those big stumps would fill with rain water. Then all sorts of leaves and other plant matter would blow or drop in. The top layers would keep the water from evaporating and the 'mash' would ferment into some sort of 'wild wine.' You could smell such a stump from quite a ways away and it was similar to the smells from homebrewing beer or wine. Also, there were lots of blackberry patches and areas thick with muscadine grapes where I've also seen animals drunk from eating those fruits late in the season when they were fermenting. It was a laugh to see a buck deer or bear staggering around like a town wino, groaning, bumping into trees and occasionally falling down. I never saw any animals killed or injured from their 'sprees' but I'll bet some had hangovers the next day.
 
I liked the stop sign in the middle of "nowhere." We have a few signs like that over here in Hawaii too.
 

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once i went camping at a friends land up in old forge (adirondaks) and we went hiking back in the woods and we ran into an almost perfect condition schwinn stingray bicycle from i beleive the 1960's. i still have that bike.
 
James_Terrio said:
WHY? Guys like you do that, then guys like me gotta pack out your junk. :thumbdn: If you're on your own private land, never mind, do whatever you like. Otherwise, please show some courtesy.

Rant off.
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oh geez! Humans have been doing this for THOUSANDS of years. The Inuit leave stone Inukshucks, the First Nations leave totems, the gold miners left carvings, gold pans, picks, cabins, sluices, on and on and on. Besides, i move around the troll or gnome or stick figurines on a monthly basis. They are a hit on the local trails amongst the locals, because people dont know how they got there, and they find it quite amusing, and go out hiking just to find said objects with their friends.
 
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My uncle has found odd stuff at the bottom of lakes, the best was a perfect campfire ring, stones and logs looking for all the world like a fire that had been left to die out. and before you ask, no, its not a flood lake, or man made, that part of the bottom is wet all year round.
 
mikeymoto said:
Not much left of this old pipeline but the iron bands:

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Nor much left of this power house except the huge pelton wheel and its base. This is off in the woods next to a creek and made electricity and compressed air for two nearby mines over 100 years ago. Hard to tell why this is here unless you know the history of the place, and really gives the feeling that no place (here in WA at least) is undisturbed by a human touch:

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we got tons of those old banded pipes here in BC, in Lynn Canyon area and other areas where cedar was harvested for shingles..... Interesting how your terrain and ours is identical, you must be not that far from us
 
I don't know if its the strangest thing, but its kind of interesting. I found this old chimney on the shores of Alaska's inside passage. Pretty interesting.

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Another strange thing I found was in Southeast Idaho. While deer hunting I stumbled upon a whole grove of trees that had scars from the Basque sheepherders carving words and drawings into the bark. Pretty strange.
 
Here's another good one. Sorry for 3 consecutive posts. I'll quit after this one.

I found this carved into a sandstone face on the Oregon coast:

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yoz's friend said:
once i went camping at a friends land up in old forge (adirondaks) and we went hiking back in the woods and we ran into an almost perfect condition schwinn stingray bicycle from i beleive the 1960's. i still have that bike.
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Damn! That was you? I had to hoof it back several miles once my ride "disappered".
 
The chimneys are from old houses that have burned down or flat out just rotted into dirt. They were pier and beam, so the base of the chimney was built up solid in the ground and the floor built around it. I know of several here in central TX area, and there's no sign at all there was ever a house except for the chimney. One of them I know for a fact was a pre civil war structure, when they still had a fort to protect the local citizens from indians. Those masons sure knew what they were doing.
 
Found this in the middle of nowhere while digging for leeks last monday, might be a cool place to go with a metal detector. I shamelessly brought it home.


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