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

This sign is miles from any vehicle traffic. Strange.

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I see your ludicrous sign and raise you another! :D

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No dumping...what? :eek: :barf: :D

Seriously though, if you follow the road that runs on the side of the cemetery it leads to an old junkyard. You just can't see it at all from the cemetery. ;)
 
This is not my story, but my good friend. He and his uncle were hunting elk in Utah. (thus they were not drinking at all, they never drink or do drugs). The friend saw a decent trophy elk, took a seated rest position and shot it. It was a good hit, and staggered the elk, which took off at a wobbly run downhill. They were a couple hours hike up above the snow like in their winter clothes and heavy snow boots etc. They followed the blood trail for a ways and figured with all the blood they would find it bled out in a few minutes. Just a short hike later they found a massive blood pool, at the end of the elk's tracks, where it looked like the elk had laid down and bled out. There was a set of large foot prints leading up to the elk tracks, and the bloody outline of where the elk had laid down. The foot prints were weird because they were Bare Foot tracks. Human with no shoes on. He said they were not monster big foot prints. They were just human sized about size 13 or 14 at the most. But they were not very deep leading up to the blood pool where the elk laid down. but they were deep leading away from the elk blood pool, and there were no elk tracks away. Just the deep, bare foot human tracks. If you know the size of an adult elk, it seems impossible that any one person could pick one up and just walk off with it. There were no drag marks either. The tracks lead into a dark grove of trees a little way away. The sun was setting. Still light, but going to be getting dark before they could hike out. They looked at each other, looked at the foot prints apparently carrying off a full grown bull elk, and decided to call it a day. They were both armed with rifles and pistols, but they just said they had a bad feeling about it, and took off.

Now this is a good story for the campfire!
 
Not really strange, but kind of amusing. Early one spring morning I was walking down a dirt road when I noticed a line of little holes in the damp soil. I followed them for about a quarter mile when I came to a stuck car and small wad of toilet tissue. Seems a lady pulled off the paved road to relieve herself, got the car stuck, and walked out, the little holes being caused by her high heal shoes. I'll bet there was a fair amount of cussing going on relative to that incident.
 
My dad loves adding things to the local landscape to encourage a WTF reaction. I won't give away all of the secrets, as there are a few guys who travel a long way every year for the elk and whitetail that he feeds. My fave however is an old school satellite dish, the really big ones. on a pillar, with the lines running into a conduit in the ground. miles from the nearest house, in the middle of a cow pasture.

I think he's also put up a few power boxes in random places along the forest access road, just for kicks and giggles.

And we occasionally find the remains of a homestead house or well, problem is, they are in places that were never homesteaded, and my great granddad broke the land there. weird.
 
^ i like doing that kind of stuff too....like going to flea markets and buying those 70's troll dolls and putting high up on tree branches over hiking trails....

Last year on a local trail i left little mounds of stones and grave Crosses everywhere.
 
went camping with my brother when we were younger, it was dark so we looked for a spot to set up. we found a nice level clearing with only a few rocks, so we set up camp. while i was seting up the tent my younger brother got the fire wood. then i heard him scream. pulled out the spot light and saw him about knee deep in a hole. turns out we were in an old slave graveyard and a casket had colapsed and the hole filled in with dead leaves. he wasnt standing in the casket just a hole, but he still freaked out and we had to hike home in the dark. he wont go out there any more.
 
I found a big glass jar with flat rocks stacked around it in the middle of nowhere national forest Colorado. Inside the jar was a notepad and golf pencil where people had been leaving their names and contact information for the past 25 years. No real trail leading to it; only a high point with an overlook in a very remote part of the Uncompaghre.

There was an old, wrecked schoolbus at the bottom of a ravine for many years next to the national forest access road. The only way it could have got there was over the edge, straight down about 150 feet. :eek:
 
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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My dad, who is not given to flights of fancy, swears he saw a centaur near Turkey Creek, in the Francis Marion Natl Forest. The strangest thing I ever saw was cougar/puma/panther/whatever you wanna call it tracks when there are not supposed to be any around here.
 
^ i like doing that kind of stuff too....like going to flea markets and buying those 70's troll dolls and putting high up on tree branches over hiking trails....
Last year on a local trail i left little mounds of stones and grave Crosses everywhere.

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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