Strange things found in the forest

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I wish the stone pillar and patio could tell us how they got there.

Wiccan's maybe or someone piling up stones when returning to land that used to be in he family? That pillar and patio is odd.

Later,
Dan

wondered the same thing.

creepy


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[ch1ch2]

I found an old 1798 New Holland tractor. The tires had rotted off but the engine was still running. Well, it was the best I could do. Please forgive me.

 

[tractchores]

A relatively newer Volvo on an old woods rd miles from anywhere. Don't know why nobody called it in, we figured it was stolen and dumped. It sat there a good 10 years then someone set it on fire.

Smelled something horrible while fishing once. Followed my nose and found a horse that had died. It literally just fell over, we found the farm it escaped from and helped bury it.

Found a gully between two fields filled with bones and rotting animal parts. Not sure what it was, but they seemed to be mostly young cows, dozens of them. Really creepy and miles from the nearest farm.

Once found a spot in the woods near dark that was very familiar. I checked my compass and the trail was headed in the wrong direction. I was 100% sure I knew where I was, I even checked my spare compass. I ended up doing what my survival training said and followed the compass even though it felt wrong. A ways later I came out at what literally seemed like the same spot, except this time the trail went the right direction. Turns out there were two nearly identical spots in the woods!

 

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While taking daily walk a strong putrid odor attacked us.
Close examination discovered a moose carcass minus hind quarters decaying.
Poachers at work!
Wild life wardens wanted to know who shot it and that was all.
City at our persuasion dug a shallow grave and that ended the nasal affront.
Helped that a city backhoe was nearby with radio communications as otherwise the operator said 'not my assigned job'.

It was a female moose which was protected that season.

 

[PILOON]

Something similar happened here one fine winter night many years ago but it didn't involve a moose. A burglar was taking a short cut through a back yard and stepped out onto the covered swimming pool. The cover wrapped around him and he drowned.

Proving that crime does not pay!

On the other hand the owner is lucky that he was not charged with entrapment.

 

[DrRod]

There are two interesting things on our place that I'm sure future generations will find strange.

One is a long neat pile of rocks tucked into the steep bank of a mountain stream just before it hit the creek. An old-timer told me that an early settler had made a dugout in there and finished it off with rocks. His name was Frankenberry [no cereal jokes please] and the steam was known as Frankenberry Run. I would suspect this was before 1840 when my family got here but I suppose he might have cohabitated with them. In 1840, this would have been a very remote place. I have always wanted to excavate this to see if there are any artifacts in it.

The other is a series of terraces dug into the side of the mountain, about halfway up, and curving around toward a ravine. You can still see the wagon road up to it. This was my great great grandfather's peach orchard. Having hunted in there, it became apparent that the site gets the very first rays of sunshine each day through a dip in the opposing mountain. This meant that he could grow peaches in this part of Pennsylvania where its not commonly possible. I suspect that unless someone explained this, no one would guess why someone would go to so much trouble. And given the scope if it, it was a lot of work.

 

[Sprinklerman]

I was looking at a pile of dirt on the back corner of my property . About 6 ft high and 20 ft long . I kicked some dirt . And lucky me , I was the proud new owner of close to 200 tires , all bias ply , not a radial in the bunch . Our landfill takes them for free , but only 4 at a time . I am almost done .

 

[s219]

I occasionally find artifacts from when our land was logged many times over the last 100 years, before we owned it. Found some neat old fashioned whiskey bottles, as well as a vintage bottle of "Wolf's Head Brand" two-stroke oil. And then there are remnants of skidder trails that you don't know about until you stumble on them, and then it's obvious. One of these days I need to get a metal detector and poke around an area that seemed to be a logging camp.

When we were looking at this property, I came out to do a quick survey, and while walking down the middle of the lot, I darn near fell into what looked like an 8' deep 8' wide ditch. I traced the whole thing, and found it basically cut the rectangular property into two triangular shapes. Turns out it is an ephemeral stream that formed over thousands of years of erosion. Was not on any surveys because they only paid attention to the property lines, and the surveyor who did our site plan didn't believe me until he saw and measured it for himself. It's quite interesting. Always has a little trickle from what I assume is groundwater, but runs more after rainstorms.

 

[MossRoad]

There's an old railroad grade and bridge on one border of our property. It was a single track and bridge, but there was a siding on the south side of the bridge to allow trains to pass each other. I often find spikes, plates, and hooks along that trail. And lots of metal scraps, usually with my brush cutter. They seem to rise up out of the dirt every spring.

 

[Ed of all trades]

s219

When I was a kid and my dad and I would go hunting or be cutting firewood we would often find old pop and whiskey bottles. I said something to dad about them and this is what he said.
This whole area was logged back in the 30's and there was a lot of pine in here. The men cutting timber would get any old bottle they could find and fill it with coal oil and stuff a rag in the top. They used them to put a little coal oil on their cross cut saws and it would cut the pine tar so the saw would not drag so much. That may be why there are bottled in your woods. Ed

 

[MossRoad]

Or maybe the loggers liked to drink pop and whiskey.... :licking:

 

[Citydude]

My wife found a pile of Hamms beer cans on our forested place this summer. No evidence of coal oil but they were opened with a knife. Must have forgot the church key to open them that day.

 

[DrRod]

That is a strange find. I thought Hamms was only found in Chicago and Wisconsin.