Wierdest thing You've seen outside?

gunknifenut said:
I have to ask..are you joking..if not, that is cool...if you are, thats cool to:D
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No, not joking. I'm still a little surprised at myself for sharing that much. There is a little more to the story and it was a very long time ago, but I usually don't tell people. I'm sure most people would understand why.;)
 
Wasn't "outside" but it was outside. We were driving home from a local auction two summers ago and got caught in a torrential downpour. Had to put the emergency blinkers on and just creep along. Went through a bunch of big puddles from drainage ditches overflowing.

It had quit raining by the time we got home. On the side of my car, stuck to it, was the complete skeleton of a large frog. There was no skin or meat whatsoever. Just plain wierd. Not sure exactly how that happened.

Charlie
 
Here's one of the more interesting things I've seen... Not necessarily a strictly "outdoors" tale as much as a really odd happening on the farm, but I'm sure y'all will appreciate it.

Dad and I had gone to a farm to look at some heifers we were thinking about buying. Met up with the guy at his house and headed out to the pasture, which was right beside the farmstead. The farmer is a very nice older fella, and our families have been friends for a long time. We drove out into the pasture, talking as you could expect farmers to do, and in no particular hurry.

After looking at the heifers, Dad noticed something odd in the pasture across the road. There was a calf laying in an unnatural position away from the rest of the herd. Of course, we all headed over to see what was going on.

When we got there, we found that the calf was dead. What was odd, though, was that a side of beef (half the calf, basically) had been cut off it, probably with a cordless sawzall (They cut the whole side of ribs off with it). It had been shot in the head.

Evidently some folks had wanted a side of beef real bad. Never seen anything like it. You've got to be pretty desperate for veal to go out to a pasture and shoot a calf.
 
mymindisamob said:
No, not joking. I'm still a little surprised at myself for sharing that much. There is a little more to the story and it was a very long time ago, but I usually don't tell people. I'm sure most people would understand why.;)
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My rational side says that you didnt see what you think you saw...the adventurous kid in me hopes you did...:D
 
Current m-i-l in shorts. No, my weirdest sight was my first m-i-l hiking in the Smokies with my first bride and our two boys. Crazy E., as I referred to her. She always had her hair done and make-up piled on, like my current one there, a dress, stockings, and heels - hiked to several waterfalls with us. Even walking up to Klingman's Dome, she looked so out of place. The five of us in my Alfa Romeo Berlina - with the trunk packed (Including the requisite tool box and spares - it was an Alfa!) - were a load, that's for sure. Fun days.

Stainz
 
Ex # 2 and I used to volunteer at a wildlife rehab center. We were getting ready to knock off one evening near dusk which was the normal time the full time caretaker fed the healed and released raptors which were not yet fully up to hunting on their own. He usually put the meat on the banister of his house. He was not there yet so my ex went to the door to put up a note for him. An owl was apparently getting impatient and as she approached the door he swooped toward the banister. Not seeing any meat I suppose he decided a reminder was in order and dug his talons into my ex' head. I wish I had a video and knew where to find that bird so I could buy him a steak!
 
This isn't something I saw, but here goes. I was hiking alone in the Mokelumne Wilderness southwest of Lake Tahoe. It was in a very remote area that is visited by very few people. As I came up to a large deadfall with lots of branches and multiple trees involved, I was assaulted by a terrifically strong odor. It smelled similar to an old stinky wet dog, multiplied by a thousand; it was overpowering and I could taste it on the air. I carefully went by, looking for anything unusual, but didn't see anything. Later in the day I went back out past the same spot, and there was no trace of the smell.
 
I saw a dead tree ,glowing in the dark. Also I saw a wooden bridge eerily glowing in the dark. Some sort of fungus had set in.
 
Idaho Jarhead said:
This summer I had a bald eagle drop a halibut tail on my picnic table.
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Yeah, they're kinda inconsiderate that way. My family and I were camping by Lake Sammish this summer, and everywhere we went there were fish scraps on the ground where they'd been dropped. Fun to watch the eagles swoop down and snag them from the water, though.
 
Went to Lancaster, then down 896 to I95, and back home. Coming down 95, went through a bad rainstorm. Thing was, the clouds started moving above the traffic in a circular motion. I just gunned it and kept on going. It looked like something out of an apocalypse movie. No reports of tornadoes.

Coming home from my former job, I saw a large dog running around in a field, the moonlight was bright enough to see that it was a big one. I had a big golden retriever who liked to get out and meet his wimmenz, and I pulled over. I hollered for him to get over here, I would take him home. Whatever it was got up on its hind legs and began to make noise that I don't want to ever hear again. I got back in my truck and took off. My pup was at home, my little brother wrote a report on coyotes, one of the tidbits of information he found was that coyotes will get on their hind legs when they are distressed.

My sister and her ex boyfriend were having a picnic in his woods. Something started making a God awful scream and was thundering through the woods towards them. After they got out of there, he said it was bigfoot. I recorded a "clip" of bigfoot screeching that I heard on Coast to Coast, and my sister said it sounded like that after I played it for her. Who knows.

In high school, my science teacher took us to the abandoned homestead behind our high school. We decided to stick around and catch some snakes for extra credit. I was on the edge of the foundation, and caught a snake with a pipe. A snake crawling overhead broke the branch it was on, and fell on a guys shoulders. They had to carefully crawl into the hole, he practically pulled a Jackie Chan and ran up the foundation wall.

Scariest time for me was when I was poking around my fathers swamp, I was maybe ten at the oldest. My father was at the top of the woods, working on the tractor. I got stuck in the swamp, and didn't have the foresight to crawl across the muck that I had gotten stuck in. Hollering for about a half an hour, I was really scared. My father came down and got me, told me to hold onto a branch he held out to me, and helped me out onto stable land.
 
About the only thing that comes redily to mind (besides a mutiple UFO sighting decades ago) was a red-haired tarantula eating an entire desert rat! My buddy shot a rat with a pellet gun, we threw it in an MRE box with two taratulas (the other spider being a normal colored variety) and we would open the box every now and again. Before long, Big Red was carrying the rat around in it's fangs, and every time we would look, it was getting shorter. Took about a day to consume the entire rodent. Trippy.
 
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