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bigasports
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I saw this posted on another site and thought it would be interesting to hear what my fellow TnDeer members have come across with their extensive time in the woods.
I was hunting in Va one time and come across a moonshine still. It was set up and ready to go. I didnt stay around long, not sure if anyone was close by and didnt want any trouble.
As a kid I can remember walking through the woods playing, and my friends and I ran across a few nudy mags. Boy at that time we thought it was the greatest find ever!
I have come across small camp sites near train tracks that I assume belonged to hobos.
Got a good find or story?
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#1943540 - 05/30/10 12:00 PM
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Mary jane patches.Bait piles
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#1943542 - 05/30/10 12:01 PM
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Meth labs abandoned and being worked, marijuana patches with and without early warning devices, moonshine stills, burnt crosses, dogs hung by the neck from trees. Found a camp that some jail escapees had just left a day or so before in the middle of the woods. Found an old Indian painting in a small cave that I didnt know was there but it had been previously documented. Just all kinds of stuff, theres reasons why I carry in the woods all the time.
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#1943590 - 05/30/10 01:11 PM
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2-F4 jets behind the Chaney cabin
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#1943606 - 05/30/10 01:39 PM
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Stripped truck and left behind meth labs. Pot plants in trays ready to be set out.
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#1943607 - 05/30/10 01:40 PM
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A Kentucky scratch off ticket here in Scott county, Took it across the line and collected two dollars off of it.
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#1943612 - 05/30/10 01:44 PM
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Chicken wire enclosures around pot plants. Parts of vehicles with no visible way to get them where they were. Piles of nothing but glass bottles.
A dead horse tied to a tree.
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#1943634 - 05/30/10 02:07 PM
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After the Tornadoes came through Morgan Co. several yrs back... I would find school work, shoes, shingles, and other items that were not there before the storms. Once found some birthday ballons that finally came down and was hanging in a tree a the top of the mountain...
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#1943646 - 05/30/10 03:00 PM
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i found a lantern that a tree had grown around in tellico.
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#1943696 - 05/30/10 04:27 PM
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Ziploc bag full of womans undergarments and some cigs. LOL
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#1943764 - 05/30/10 05:54 PM
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Not really a find but incident. When I was about 14 I was hunting my uncles farm about 2 miles down the road. My only transportation was my honda 4 trax 250. I road it across the big field to the mouth of the logging rd and hiked to my stand like I always did. It was mid october and on a friday as us school kids were out of school that day. Beautiful day. About 830 I heard my atv start up and drive around for about 2 minutes. Finally got down and fiund it about 200 yrds away in the middle of the field. Asked my uncle about it. He had no idea. He and his son had been moving cattle in another farm. Still a mystery to this day. I still hunt that farm and think about it each time I go in.
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#1943766 - 05/30/10 05:55 PM
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Could have been a sasquatch I suppose.
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#1943782 - 05/30/10 06:05 PM
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I have found pot patches, meth labs, burnt car n boats and a lot more that I didn't want to found close to...thats the reason i've carried for the last 30 years.....
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#1943794 - 05/30/10 06:34 PM
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I once found a set if post hole diggers leaning against a tree. They appeared to have been there for a long time. Funny thing was, there was not a fence anywhere near the area.
Another time, while squirrel hunting, I found a climbing tree stand about 15 feet up a tree. It had been there for quite a while as the wood was in very bad shape. Not sure why it was up the tree, as there were no tree steps or anyway to access the stand. I always wondered if someone fell out of it while hunting and crawled away.
One more thing; once found a full jar of moonshine sitting on a log in the middle of nowhere.
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#1943807 - 05/30/10 07:33 PM
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I found a bowling ball out in the middle of the woods. I still wonder how and why that got there.
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#1943829 - 05/30/10 07:59 PM
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A loc on,and a corn pile on Loc 5 on Old Hickory WMA,both illegal,called GM
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#1943900 - 05/30/10 09:23 PM
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I might have seen pot, but would have no idea what it looked like
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#1943935 - 05/30/10 09:56 PM
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In the early 70's we were camped out in Lewis County bow hunting. I decided to do some scouting on my Honda Trail 90 and took off down a old logging road. On my way back to camp, I decided to cut thru the open woods for a short cut. I was weaving in and out of the trees and brush, but I made my way back. That was a mistake, because it took me longer and I nearly wrecked a few times.
Later that evening, someone asked to borrow my pocket knife. When I reached into my pocket to get it, it wasn't there. I said oh well, I lost it on the wild bike ride in the woods somewhere.
Flash forward 3 years. We were camped out again for gun season. I decided to check out a ridge that was unfamiliar to me and look for sign. I found a good spot off the side of the ridge and I started to clear the leaves back with my boots.
I saw something in the dirt that didn't look quite right.
You guessed it, it was my lost pocket knife! It took awhile, but I cleaned it up and I still have it today.
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#1943953 - 05/30/10 10:03 PM
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i done the same thing with a pocket knife. i was squirrel hunting or either just walking a ridge one and lost it.
a few years later was walking around the same spot and just happened to find it.
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#1943959 - 05/30/10 10:04 PM
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i also walked up on 2 black panthers mating in the woods 1 time. i just kept walking and didnt bother them
this was in west tn
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#1944052 - 05/31/10 05:23 AM
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I as I have answered to this question several times, two dead bodies.
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#1944111 - 05/31/10 08:05 AM
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there is a folding metal chair cabled to a tree about 15 ft. high on the upper bald river. been there so long the tree has grown around the cable.
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#1944181 - 05/31/10 09:49 AM
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Meth labs, old stills.
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#1944208 - 05/31/10 10:54 AM
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It is weird how some odd things end up in the woods. Growing up in WV me and my buddies played in the woods all the time. We found a old rusted car in the side of the mountain half covered in dirt with trees and plants growing out of it. There was no roads or trails of any kind leading up to it. Never could figure out how it got there or why someone put it there. Another thing we used to run across in the mountains was big piles of rocks most piled about 3' high and usually in abouta 8' x 8' area. the rock piles were old because they had moss and stuff growing on them and looked undisturbed. Me and my friends concluded that they were Indian graves or something and never messed with them because we didn't want cursed. Most of the rocks in the piles were about the size of footballs some smaller some bigger.
Sounds like the blair witch.
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#1944237 - 05/31/10 11:52 AM
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It's a good thing you asked about weird stuff in the woods and not on the water or stik may have told you about his "find" yesterday.
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#1944258 - 05/31/10 12:30 PM
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I have a buddy that dives for the Davidson County rescue squad. He has told me about numerous odd things you find while diving.
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#1944644 - 05/31/10 07:41 PM
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This year during dear season, i was walking through a creek that runs down a holler. found a horse shoe in it. The owner told me they logged that patch back in the 30's. also found some rock walls that he said the ccc built to keep erosion down.
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#1944813 - 05/31/10 09:39 PM
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A couple of very old moonshine still sites. One in Chickasaw SF in west TN and one on the Houston/Humphreys line. A friend of mine found some silver coins. A 55 gallon barrel full of them to be exact. . How much was the coins worth and did he split it with ya?
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#1944873 - 05/31/10 10:43 PM
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found a boombox out in the middle of nowhere one time. pluged it up and it still played.
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#1944946 - 06/01/10 06:13 AM
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Meth labs....meth labs....and more meth labs...and a live trap out in the middle of nowhere.
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#1945038 - 06/01/10 08:01 AM
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I was hunting AEDC several years ago and walked up on a couple, they was hein and shein, once while hunting Prentice Cooper I had an old man come by my stand on a riding lawn mower, he had taken the mowing deck of it and put chains on the rear tires, I stopped him and ask what he was doing , he repled, I looked at some of them atv's and they wanted anywhere from $5000 to $8000 for them I bought this at a yard sale for $50, it mows my yard during the week and takes me hunting on the weekend.
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#1945259 - 06/01/10 11:24 AM
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Glass pipe with alot of little of tiny empty ziplock baggies, old meth lab (I think)
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#1945327 - 06/01/10 12:27 PM
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coolest was a pop up camper, washed away in a creek bottom, still had sleeping bags, boots, dog kennel, thermos with coffee in it, live catch trap, and to beat it all a 10 hp generator! It had all been underwater and had to have washed many miles down this creek in a flood.
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#1945737 - 06/01/10 06:24 PM
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I found some strange things during my surveying years as well as while hunting. At least three I can think of undocumented grave yards. After the tornado of 99 found a golf ball in the middle of nowhere monogrammed with the name of a man who was killed in the tornado. Found it about 7 miles from his house that was totally destroyed.
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#1945800 - 06/01/10 07:21 PM
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Mary jane patches years ago and a weather station once .....People having sex in some poison oak....whatever gets ya scatchin i guess................lmbo.
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#1945809 - 06/01/10 07:29 PM
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only found one pot patch. couple years ago in turkey season in Clay county i was half way out the end of a ridge and found a picture of the Biltmore mansion in North Carolina. nothin wrong with it just a little bent. found a old air pistol in a holster..had been out for quite a while.
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#1945867 - 06/01/10 08:14 PM
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I found a sheet of plywood stuck in the ground 3-4 days after a band of tornados hit back in the 70's. What was really odd was it wasn't there the day before I found it.
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#1946026 - 06/01/10 11:02 PM
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I know this has happened to most of us but: Why is it when you get in the middle of nowhere and you think you are the only person to have been in the area and you look down and find an old beer can? Pabst Blue Ribbon mostly
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#1946040 - 06/02/10 12:01 AM
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A couple of very old moonshine still sites. One in Chickasaw SF in west TN and one on the Houston/Humphreys line. A friend of mine found some silver coins. A 55 gallon barrel full of them to be exact. . How much was the coins worth and did he split it with ya?
They and the property belonged to a man that owned a bank in west Tn in the 70s. He'd gleaned them from the bank over several years. They were in a very run down shed on the property my friend was hunting on. At the time the banker/car dealer was under federal indictment for some shadey business practices. They were eventually discovered by and confiscated by the feds.
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#1946050 - 06/02/10 01:49 AM
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Got up in a treestand one time and realized that the 3' high mound of dirt going through the woods was actually a 30 yard "dirt" snake. I could even see that it had it's mouth open. I then remembered some other funny dirt piles close by. When I got up above them one was a fish, one was a bird, and the other was a turtle or some other four legged animal. They are only ablut 100 yards apart and all of their heads point to the same spot. Just can't bring myself to dig there.
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#1946910 - 06/02/10 03:17 PM
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Meth labs abandoned and being worked, marijuana patches with and without early warning devices, moonshine stills, burnt crosses, dogs hung by the neck from trees. Found a camp that some jail escapees had just left a day or so before in the middle of the woods. Found an old Indian painting in a small cave that I didnt know was there but it had been previously documented. Just all kinds of stuff, theres reasons why I carry in the woods all the time.
Dang dude!!
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#1946921 - 06/02/10 03:25 PM
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A couple of very old moonshine still sites. One in Chickasaw SF in west TN and one on the Houston/Humphreys line. A friend of mine found some silver coins. A 55 gallon barrel full of them to be exact.
How much was that barrel worth??
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#1947351 - 06/02/10 09:27 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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you get in the middle of nowhere and you think you are the only person to have been in the area and you look down and find an old beer can? Pabst Blue Ribbon mostly I am totally with you there whistlinwingman. I can't tell you how may times I have had that exact thought and then see the beer can! and 
...the end of a ridge and found a picture of the Biltmore mansion in North Carolina. That would be weird right there!
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#1947355 - 06/02/10 09:29 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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Well, I hunted until about 1000 one morning and then decided that it was time to head on back to the truck. It was bow season. My buddy had permission to hunt this particular piece of property as well.
It was a warmer October day. I had to cross two ridges to get back to my truck. As I came up the hillside and over the first ridge, I caught a glimpse of white. It was about 50 yds in front of me.
I start thinkin that this is ole Smokey Ghost and I just walked up on him, so I quickly bring my binoculars up and I look through them to figure out what angle I am viewing him from.
I quickly realize that this is not ole Smokey Ghost at all. It is my buddy and he is standing there butt naked and scratching all over his body frantically. So I do what any good buddy would do. I act like I never saw anything, dive behind a tree and I whip out my cell phone and call him.
He picks up and says "DUDE, I AM COVERED IN SEED TICKS!!!!!". I immediately stepped out from the tree and start crying laughing. It is probably my weirdest find in the woods by far!
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#1948280 - 06/03/10 03:25 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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An old rusted Delorean, half burnt, full of hundreds of bullet holes....very weird.
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#1948403 - 06/03/10 05:15 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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Elk hunting in the mountains of Colorado, on huge wilderness area public land at about 9,500 ft. elevation, we run across a true "free range" hereford cow and about 150 lb. calf!
Outfitter guide said that was the first true free ranger (no brand anywhere and tens of miles from any private land) he had seen in his life.
By CO law, he said we could have both/either if we could catch 'em.
Yeah, and if frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their @zz either. 
We actually wanted to try to catch the calf and hope the cow would follow until we got the several miles back to the trail head. The guide wanted the calf and I wanted free range beef!
But we didn't have a decent (strong enough) rope with us to catch the calf. I blamed the guide and gave him heyul! 
What kinda guide doesn't carry a good rope with him while horseback in the Rockies anyway?
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#1948753 - 06/03/10 10:13 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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2-F4 jets behind the Chaney cabin Sorry about that!! I'll getm out of your way jus a soon as possible!
military came in and roped off the area, hauled out the bodies and most of the wreckage, we still find stuff everytime the water goes down
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#1948777 - 06/03/10 11:18 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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An old rusted Delorean, half burnt, full of hundreds of bullet holes....very weird.
Ummm...I thought Deloreans were made of stainless steel.
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#1948780 - 06/03/10 11:21 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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A couple of very old moonshine still sites. One in Chickasaw SF in west TN and one on the Houston/Humphreys line. A friend of mine found some silver coins. A 55 gallon barrel full of them to be exact. How much was that barrel worth??
Your guess would be as good as mine.
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#1950303 - 06/05/10 06:22 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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I was at LBL a couple years ago scouting for a rifle hunt. I was as far in the middle of the area as you could get. When I seen something white on the side of a tree. As I got closer I noticed it was a business card stuck under the bark of the tree. When I got home I e-mailed the fella, it was his work e-mail. He said he was scouting earlier in the year and decided to leave his card and see if anyone found it. He said he never dreamed someone would find it so quick and so far back in that area.
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#1950344 - 06/05/10 07:58 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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Years ago while hunting muleys in Ca. I sat to rest and eat a snack, and a rabbit that had to weigh AT LEAST 15LB came in pretty close (maybe 12-15yds) and just kinda look'd around. This thing had to be close to 3ft. tall. I kinda made some little squeaks to see what it would do. It just looked at me for a bit then slowly moved off. Naturally, nobody at camp would believe me at the time, but a couple yrs. later another fella in our group spotted one. Don't know to this day what kind of rabbit it was. Neither of us had cameras with us at the time. (way before digitals)
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#1950349 - 06/05/10 08:04 PM
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Dead or dying bodies..Worst one was burning,all that was not black was the bulging eyeballs..
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#1950399 - 06/05/10 09:01 PM
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found my cousins registration to his bronco and found a baby doll with half the face gone in the middle of the woods that was kind of creepy
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#1950727 - 06/06/10 12:11 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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Dead or dying bodies..Worst one was burning,all that was not black was the bulging eyeballs..
Were you deer hunting or in a war?
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#1951187 - 06/06/10 06:52 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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Dead or dying bodies..Worst one was burning,all that was not black was the bulging eyeballs.. Were you deer hunting or in a war? No,Not in a war for these, war would be to graphic to talk about here.,These were during hunting, fishing, LEO incidents .Some I wish I never had to experiance..
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#1951210 - 06/06/10 07:19 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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Dead or dying bodies..Worst one was burning,all that was not black was the bulging eyeballs.. Were you deer hunting or in a war? No,Not in a war for these, war would be to graphic to talk about here.,These were during hunting, fishing, LEO incidents .Some I wish I never had to experiance..
Thats still pretty graphic....so was it hunting or fishing...or was it during an leo incident?...
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#1951436 - 06/06/10 09:49 PM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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Sounds like he is saying all of the above. Prob different instances at different times.
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#1951563 - 06/07/10 06:00 AM
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an old outhouse with a sears and roebuck catalog still inside......some pages torn out, for sure....must have been an old home place, but we could find no sign of a house.
true story.
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#1951585 - 06/07/10 06:49 AM
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Dead or dying bodies..Worst one was burning,all that was not black was the bulging eyeballs.. Were you deer hunting or in a war? No,Not in a war for these, war would be to graphic to talk about here.,These were during hunting, fishing, LEO incidents .Some I wish I never had to experiance.. Thats still pretty graphic....so was it hunting or fishing...or was it during an leo incident?...  Sounds like he is saying all of the above. Prob different instances at different times.
Dang,...if its a routine deal, I sure don't ever want to find myself on icemanns lease by mistake!!... 
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#1951586 - 06/07/10 06:51 AM
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Sounds like he is saying all of the above. Prob different instances at different times. You are correct,differant times and situations. One for instance, back when dad was still alive,we were hunting deep woods of his brothers land, saw/heard a small plane going down.By the time we got to where it crashed, all 3 were black burning logs,not a pleasant sight..When you live outdoors all your life as virtualy I have ,You see a lot of stuff.Some of it not pleasant..The worst was back 20 years ago, on my cousins place, we hunted every day back then, on his land ,he came up missing one week,we looked for 3 months on his land and everywhere else.. Went back and retraced our steps,and found him 20 feet from our treestand,shot several times in the back with a 12 ga ,with buckshot..it was gruesome even for me..No one was every convicted..
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#1951836 - 06/07/10 10:48 AM
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was entering the woods one morning in april on a turkey hunt and the urge hit me to take a crap, it was just beginning to get daylight. I did my business and as i was getting everything back on a dude not 5 feet away asked me how i was doing. I cant help but wonder why he didnt stop me before hand.
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#1951853 - 06/07/10 11:02 AM
Re: Weird findings in the woods
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well the weirdest thing i ever found in the woods was a pair of womens panties hangin on a limb about 4 to 5 miles from any road around. and then i got to looking around and found about 8 to 900 mary janes plants from about 100 yards from the panties. and it didn't even have atv trails or anything comeing in where they was.but thats the last time i went back there. and i guess they marked the trail how to get back in there or something with the panties. but no one will ever know how they got there exsept the ones that panted them.
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#1951864 - 06/07/10 11:12 AM
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well the weirdest thing i ever found in the woods was a pair of womens panties hangin on a limb about 4 to 5 miles from any road around. and then i got to looking around and found about 8 to 900 mary janes plants from about 100 yards from the panties. and it didn't even have atv trails or anything comeing in where they was.but thats the last time i went back there. and i guess they marked the trail how to get back in there or something with the panties. but no one will ever know how they got there exsept the ones that panted them.
Uh,Hmm If I sent you a address would send the panties back to me?
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#1951866 - 06/07/10 11:13 AM
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was entering the woods one morning in april on a turkey hunt and the urge hit me to take a crap, it was just beginning to get daylight. I did my business and as i was getting everything back on a dude not 5 feet away asked me how i was doing. I cant help but wonder why he didnt stop me before hand.
That's strange right there.
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#1952006 - 06/07/10 01:32 PM
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well the weirdest thing i ever found in the woods was a pair of womens panties hangin on a limb about 4 to 5 miles from any road around. and then i got to looking around and found about 8 to 900 mary janes plants from about 100 yards from the panties. and it didn't even have atv trails or anything comeing in where they was.but thats the last time i went back there. and i guess they marked the trail how to get back in there or something with the panties. but no one will ever know how they got there exsept the ones that panted them. Uh,Hmm If I sent you a address would send the panties back to me?
well i don't know if i'll go back there anymore afther finding that there
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#1952095 - 06/07/10 02:21 PM
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they ain't my size i didn't even go around them lol
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#1952136 - 06/07/10 02:29 PM
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I have walked up on a couple different scenes at boat ramps where some ol fella was laying the Eckeridge to an ol gal, seemed they liked the waterside pretty well!
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#1952593 - 06/07/10 09:01 PM
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yea tell me about it it never fails to find some of them on the lake bank and every place else too
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