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Have you ever seen some strange stuff out there? I'd love to hear about it.

I've seen some weird and fascinating things out there.

Tons of stolen cars.

Pot fields.

Poaching dump sites. The biggest having over two hundred deer and elk carcasses. Funny thing about that one is I had to fight with the lady on the poaching hotline to take the info down. The wildlife officers were much more interested once they saw the spot. Never heard what happened.

Tons of garbage, some toxic.

Apparently porn and construction items are the two most popular items to dump.

I've found old oil lamps, 70 year old beer cans.

We once came across a logging dump pit. The area had been logged off 80 years before, and we found there garbage pit. Lots of spoons old jars and cans, different tossed aside items.

I've seen old mining troughs.

I'm sure as the thread progresses I'll remember some other things.

One of the coolest I ever found took me a bit to figure out. We were bush whacking our way towards a river, when we came to the last rise before the long flood plains of the river we saw the outline. The whole area along the sides of the river is filled with 29 yo Alders, that have regrown since the St Helens eruption sent a massive mud flow(lahar) down the river.

What we saw looking down that hill was weird, it was a huge outline of a rectangle with these trees growing all over it. The fact that there was something unnatural about the area was just two lines that formed the corner of the rectangle. Even as we approached and saw it's massive size we still couldn't figure out what it was. It was only when we were standing right next to it that we saw the twisted metal on top. It was the mangled remnants of a guard rail. What we were looking at was a two lane bridge 150 ft in length! Complete with guard rail, frame and asphalt. :eek:

The Lahar had ripped it away and carried it close to a mile down stream before it came to rest 400ft plus from where the natural flow of the river is. Now nature has completely covered it. Few would hike down there, if they did it would be hard to spot. But it remains as a small sign of the destruction the eruption did. This area is a little over 12 miles from the mountain.

Edit: I found some pics taken a little over 3 years ago of that bridge.

Looking down on it.


Standing next to it.






My brother and son(right) on top of it. Just 3 years, wow! They grow up fast.:(
 
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#3,441 ·
..Epic thread..

..Lots and lots of time in my life spent in many, many different woods / National forests, and flung from Canada to El Salvador, Mt Rainier, to Belgrade (ME), and all up-down the Amazing ones here in Cali, and like others, have seen the usual complement of 'historical' items, (vintage car-carcasses, 1950s Coke bottles, old Polaroid cameras, jewelry / watches, etc, etc..) but..

..Only item I can say I've found that was - truly - 'out of place' / wierd, was.. a Marble.. Had this strange dual 'greenish-pink' hue to it, something I'd never seen, even in 'dichroic glass'...

...Turns out it was Uranium-doped glass... :confused: How and Why such an item would be out in the middle of absolutely Nowhere (..in NC..), and nowhere Near any trails / camps, etc, like 10 miles up / off a River, in deep, deep woods.. as the saying goes, 'God only knows'.... :cool:

..and the 'Coolest' thing I can say I've ever found.. Was a *massive* chunk of Mica, (found exploring in CO..) about 48 lbs! Looked like a gigantic chunk of Silver, it was So amazing.. Sons and I 'donated it' to a local Science Museum (..in my Boys names.. :cool: and even the curators said they'd never seen anything like it, it was really Somethin else..

...Really Great thread.. :thumb:

jd
 
#3,444 ·
For the person that thought he found an ICBM in the woods, here are the specs for the Midgetman which is the smallest ICBM:

Specifications
Length : 14 m (46 ft)
Diameter : 1.17 m (3 ft 10 in)
Weight : 13,600 kg (30,000 lb)
Range : 11,000 km (6,800 mi)
Propulsion : Three-stage solid-fuel rocket
Warhead : W87-1 thermonuclear weapon (475 kt (1,990 TJ)) in Mark 21 Re-entry Vehicle
 
#3,445 ·
Found $60 in cash on the side of the road along the woodline in my subdivision. Lightly traveled road but enough foot and car traffic to be quickly discovered. Couldn't have been there long or someone would have found it. Laying right on the pavement at the edge of the road.

Couldn't believe my luck! Looked around for 5 minutes to see if there might be more...
 
#3,446 ·
ABOUT 20 years ago I was on a moose hunt in Northern Ontario.
Typical type hunt. Only about 50 miles from "civilization, but in that bush it is like being on the other side of the world.

Fly in, self guided. The outfitter had been using the camp for a few years.

I used my topo maps to find a low area off the lake we were using for a base camp. I canoed the length of the lake then cut a trail into a low area where it showed moose had been wallowing.

Nothing showed that day, the weather was actually too nice.
Next morning was rainy and I tried again. Around noon I went partially around the mountain following the terrain to what might be another spot. So, I am about 300yds or so off the lake and there with a small pine tree sticking out of it are the remains of a mens old Schwinn bicycle. It looked pretty beat up and had been there for a while. I note it on the map and continue my hunt.

Day 4 the hunt is over with and the outfitter flies in to pick us up. I mention what a weird place to find a bicycle, his head comes around and asks "What bicycle?" So I explain where I found it and he tells me in 3 years of people hunting out of that camp no one has ever mentioned seeing a bike. He had no explanation for it.

We landed and were unloading gear and he perked up and said he had an idea. Where I found the bike was on the flight path to 2 different First Nation settlements and the bike could have been tied to a plane that lost it years ago, otherwise he had no clue.
 
#3,449 ·
Not really weird but I have stumbled across the winch and boom of a tow truck about a mile back in the woods, A couple hundred yards from it is the hood of a 50's-ish vehicle with a two cylinder engine under it. I assume it is old logging equipment that was left there.


In roughly the same area I went out , nothing was there and when I went back the next weekend there was a cabin out there about 16x16, wood sides, wood floor on pallets, tin roof, house windows. I went back a few weeks later and it was gone. Someone put a lot of effort into getting it in there and getting it back out. There were no obvious vehicle or atv tracks so it appeared as if they carried it in and back out.
 
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Was walking in a park one time through the woods and realized i was walking on tile (the 1 foot square flooring kind) stumbled into the remains of a slab on grade house.
Another house. Another area. Walking through woods and found a toilet still mounted to the cast iron drain pipe. About 8 foot in the air, with no other sign of a house anywhere.
A large bush decorated with about 30 pairs of panties.
Also ran across a shoreline that had been thrust up in elevation by some long past earthquake. Long line of rocks and boulders all following the same elevation.
Found a large old cedar that had all the telltale signs of being notched out and planked by precontact/early contact indians.
Not in woods, but on shoreline. Totem pole driftwood. Long log with gravel banked up behind it. Exposed wood was row of faces looking out.
Also not woods, but a ravine in the desert in eastern washington. Hiking ravine and saw wooden barrel wedged up in the rocks on a cliff face about 15 foot up. From old homestead flash flood.
 
#3,451 ·
A friend and I once found a family cemetery in the woods while deer hunting. Not even in a clearing--just completely overgrown by trees and brush.

Dates on the headstones were early 1900s. Every headstone had the same last name. Most were young children, one a teenager, and the inscriptions mostly mentioned sickness. It was pretty somber and kind of ruined our day...not that "our day" is important in the face of a family's loss like that.

I'm guessing we stumbled on the remains of an old homestead.
 
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WTF?!?

So, wandering around today, I stumble on this. The hillside is covered with yuccas (which are not native to the area). All of the rest of them are normal except for this one. The top seems to be tied with a piece of cordage stripped from a yucca leaf. Thought this was odd for the middle of nowhere.
 

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#3,454 ·
So, wandering around today, I stumble on this. The hillside is covered with yuccas (which are not native to the area). All of the rest of them are normal except for this one. The top seems to be tied with a piece of cordage stripped from a yucca leaf. Thought this was odd for the middle of nowhere.


Did you check to see if there was a shrunken head inside?[emoji3166]
 
#3,469 ·
You can't beat this...
I.. think that's something you 'beat, Inside', not it, itself.. :D: Lol at whenever they 'realized what it was'.. Bet they went thru a Gallon of 'hand sanitizer' each.. :D:

This is frost I found in the woods...
Incredible. :cool: Have seen some pretty wild 'ice sculptures' formed by wind blowing wave-break spray at a lake / ocean-edge, but.. That looks like something straight out of 'Avatar' (save-for, yeah, it's not glowing-blue.. ;)

..I vote it should be named 'Gandalf Frost'.. :thumb:

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jd
 
#3,458 ·
I found a tank.... :D:

OK, so it's only part of a small turret from a 1930's era British tank. (I don't know the type & believe me, I've done the research.)

This was found on what was used as an army training area during WW2.

Before anybody asks, yes I did check underneath & the rest of the tank isn't there!

This is in North Yorkshire, England.

Soil Grass Vehicle Plant

Grass Tree Soil Plant community Plant

Soil Bunker
 
#3,459 ·
The year, 1966. The place the Cascade mountains 90 odd miles SE of Wenatchee Wa.

The ole man was hunting and we found a P-38 crashed with the guns loaded and a skeleton in the pilots seat. :eek:

The ole man A WWII Vet took the guns, ID plate and dog tags. Marked the trail back to the car. Then drove 100 miles to the state patrol.
They all went up there for a weeks. Never did find it again. Still might be up there. The rains came in and washed everything clean.
 
#3,460 ·
This happened about 1980... Down right scary to us.

A group of about eight people visiting Pagan, Burma (now Myanmar).

One afternoon we were exploring and started walking north in the Irrawaddy river bed. One guy was ranging ahead of the group close to the bank when he called us over to look at something he had found.

It was a ten foot long snake skin, a King Cobra. I went close to look and touched it. It was soft, not brittle. That meant that it was fresh and the cobra could still be close by. When I mentioned that everyone quickly vacated the area. I was probably leading the bunch.
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I grew up in the Missouri Ozarks. I was hunting with another guy way out in the hills (now Mark Twain National Forrest) and came on what we called a root cellar, a place where people stored the jars of things they had canned. It was mostly buried but for the top. All you could see of the top was railroad rails with the bottom embedded in concrete. They were not standard size rail like you see today, they were smaller. There were signs of a house there but not much left. The cellar had a lot of water in it and the steps were mostly rotted away. No sign of a road and this was rough terrain. Always wondered how they got that much concrete and rails back in there.
 
#3,468 ·
20some years ago I was hiking on the AT in VA very early on a cold winter morning. I came across a crop of curious little white things sprouting up beside the trail.
On close inspection I found that they were tiny little ice spirals sprouting up out of the ground. Perfectly shaped and about an inch tall. So fragile they would melt at a single touch.
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life.

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#3,478 ·
20some years ago I was hiking on the AT in VA very early on a cold winter morning. I came across a crop of curious little white things sprouting up beside the trail.
On close inspection I found that they were tiny little ice spirals sprouting up out of the ground. Perfectly shaped and about an inch tall. So fragile they would melt at a single touch.
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life.

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Amazing picture! I was so intrigued that I hopped on the Google to see what else I could find. I thought you would be interested in this article: Hair Ice - Ice Segregation on dead wood
 
#3,472 ·
Last night I was walking out of the woods after hunting. It was about 2 hours after sunset so fully dark(except for the moon) I saw a meteor shooting across about 1/4 of the sky then break up into 5 to 8 pieces with several of the pieces leaving a tail as well then it went out. I have seen meteors before but never that bright and breaking apart. Also they usually are a blue or green or yellow. I don't think I have ever seen an orange one before.

It isn't so much a "strange" thing found in the woods, but a cool thing seen in the woods.
 
#3,479 ·
When we were hunting as kids(Middle 60’s I guess), we found a drop tank off an AF jet...They used to cut those things loose over ‘unpopulated’ areas...even empty it had cratered when it hit...pretty awesome find for a couple of 10-12 yr old squirrel hunters
 
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