Cool Or Creepy Things Found In The Bush Or On Your Property

[LHF2019]

I don't get it either but it happened a lot, even into the 70s. Maybe attitudes held over from the depression that there might be something on it that might come in handy someday.

Attitudes are different. When I worked on a harvesting crew out west was having a conversation with co-worker about dad having to get some parts from dealer and he asked me "why don't you just take off your old equipment". I just looked at him no idea what he meant. Come to find out on his farm they kept old equipment creating their own junkyard where we traded in when new piece was purchased. This conversation happened in '98

I'm sure as a kid it would be fun to have all that old stuff rusting away but now I am glad it isn't something I have to look at.

 

[Oaktree]

Attitudes are different. When I worked on a harvesting crew out west was having a conversation with co-worker about dad having to get some parts from dealer and he asked me "why don't you just take off your old equipment". I just looked at him no idea what he meant. Come to find out on his farm they kept old equipment creating their own junkyard where we traded in when new piece was purchased.

I suppose that would be a good idea if (1) the parts were interchangeable and (2) the part you need isn't broken on the old one too. When I was single I sometimes kept an old vehicle as a parts car if its replacement was a similar model, something that the family aesthetics officer would frown upon today.

I'm sure there are many of us here who keep a lot of old, broken stuff around "just in case", or as Moss noted "gonna fix it up someday".

 

[JethroB]

After I left home to seek my fortune I would come back here for visits & holidays. Things were a’ changing over time.

“Dad, what happened to the old farmhouse? Uh, there was a fire.”
”Dad, what happened to the big barn? Uh, there was another fire.”

Each time I would ask what happened to the treasures (junk) that were inside them? No reply. Finally years later I asked again, he just pointed out a couple of areas NOT be digging or drilling wells. I vowed never to bury junk out here again.

 

[herm0016]

a Mummy. one leg was not attached, but close by. not sure how it died, but it was a while ago. in an old shed on a property we moved to 6 months ago.

 

[Dftodd]

Carrying a camera is a sure-fire way to never see anything interesting.
Leaving it at home is a sure-fire way to see something unique which you will never see again.

Yup..... Prom night, was coming home. Passed a moose hanging out o the playground at the elementary school.

Didn't say squat about it since I didn't have a camera to prove it.

A few weeks later I was with dad and someone mentioned seeing that moose. So I pipe up, and said yup, had a decent rack and about this size

Dad asked why I didn't mention it when I saw it?

I pointed out that it was peom night and I was driving my stepmother car.

He said "oh yeah!!! We would have accused you of drinking!!!!"

 

[JethroB]

Yup..... Prom night, was coming home. Passed a moose hanging out o the playground at the elementary school.

Didn't say squat about it since I didn't have a camera to prove it.

A few weeks later I was with dad and someone mentioned seeing that moose. So I pipe up, and said yup, had a decent rack and about this size

Dad asked why I didn't mention it when I saw it?

I pointed out that it was peom night and I was driving my stepmother car.

He said "oh yeah!!! We would have accused you of drinking!!!!"

‘A decent rack’. Sure you were referring to the moose or your prom date?

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

 

[Dftodd]

‘A decent rack’. Sure you were referring to the moose or your prom date?

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

DD's

 

[Yogi05]

a Mummy. one leg was not attached, but close by. not sure how it died, but it was a while ago. in an old shed on a property we moved to 6 months ago.

Ok, that's a tad creepy looking.
(The mummy, not the prom date)
(the dog mummy, not the step mummy)
(ok, not the dog ---- oh never mind! Sorry if I insulted anyone )

Nature doing what it does though I guess.

 

[dmccarty]

Before we bought the land we now own, I was walking around the place, and out of the corner of my eye, saw what I thought was a body laying in the woods. Turned out to be a large balloon from a business in a nearby town that had a bunch of very large helium filled, heavy duty balloons, floating around the front of the business. The balloon "escaped" but what was odd, was that the prevailing winds are normally in the opposite direction to our place. The balloon just happened to get loose when the wind was blowing in our direction.

There is a church near us and we find balloons from parties from time to time. Usually it is just one of the mylar balloons that sometimes the get hung up in trees, and sometimes we will see them flying away to land somewhere else. The other evening, I took the dog outside, he froze on the porch, focused on something, his hair went up and he start barking. There was a cluster of balloons sitting right next to the path to the side of the porch. I called it Balloon Man. Balloon Man scared the scat out of the dog, and now, weeks later, he cautiously exits the door to the porch, carefully sniffs and looks around before going out the door. What a woose.

Another find was the remains of a still. There is a wet area on our place, that was likely a decent stream before a road was built on the place and cut off water flow, and down in that low area, was a bit of a spring. Next to the spring was a built up place for a still and they moon shiners had etched out a itty, bitty channel for run off. There was the top of an old kerosene can and the top of an old clay jug. If you watch Andy Griffith, and see an episode with The Darlings, the jug they show is what the jug looks like. After we closed on the land, I went and got the top of the clay jug.

Next to the still site, in the stream bed, was an old horse shoe. Figured the shoe was from a horse, or more likely a mule, that was carrying stuff to and from the still. Just left the shoe where it was for someone else to find one day.....

One day was about 10 years later when the kids found the shoe and brought it back to the house. I need to take that shoe and put it back where they found it. The shoe is in pretty bad shape though. Not sure what to do with it.

Later,
Dan

 

[/pine]

i live on a mountain river so I am in the river valley...the mountain rises to about 2400' opposite the river....

While hunting (and scouting places to build stands) at about the 2200' mark I found almost all the parts to a cast iron wood stove...This is very steep land and I have no idea what the stove was doing there or how it got there...there is only a foot trail and there is no other signs of civilization nearby (i.e, foundations etc.c)...

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

I found this head while I was mowing my new property. The kids are not impressed.

 

[PJRAM]

After we moved into our current home we found an abandoned cabin in the woods on our property. We asked some neighbors about it and they said it was a picker's cabin that housed farm workers when our property was a working apple farm in the 1920's. We've been planning to renovate it and turn it into a usable building of some kind.

 

[BnRidge]

One interesting find we have here is a 65lb chunk of solid copper found as a "field stone" while out picking rocks. It's a glacial erratic most likely moved in from the superior region.

 

[etpm]

I just remembered a really creepy one. Way back when in the 1990s I was working at a place that was near where at least one victim of the Green River Killer was found. I used to go eat lunch at the edge of a wooded area that was quite close to where a body was found. One day I walking around and found a sleeping bag stashed back in the bushes. The sleeping bag looked at first like it had someone sleeping in it. Since at the time the killer was still active and I was near where another body was found I got a really creepy feeling. I gingerly poked the bag with my foot, hit something between hard and soft and said something like "Hey! Are you alright?". Getting no response I poked at the bag again in a different spot and my foot hit something soft. So I grabbed a stick, opened up the bag, and to my relief there were just clothes and a small piece of old luggage. Like an overnight case for a young woman. I figured the stuff belonged to a runaway or something.
I went back to my car to finish my lunch and a cop rolled up. He was curious about me being there and I told him I ate lunch there often, almost every day. We spoke a bit more and I told him I got quite a scare from a sleeping bag that looked like some runaway left back in the bushes. The cop got REALLY interested for the same reason I was creeped out. So I showed him the sleeping bag. He looked through it way more thoroughly than I did. But then I felt like I was invading some kid's privacy and he was looking for foul play evidence. In fact, he was looking for evidence so hard he checked out the inside of my car through the windows as well as he could, looked at my ID, called it in, and asked me to wait while he waited to see what came up. Even though e asked I didn't feel like I could refuse easily. That was creepy. Glad it wasn't on my property.
Eric

 

[JethroB]

I remember as a kid about 50 years ago my dad taking me into the woods (behind my current home) to show me a big red round-ish rock. Huge in a child’s eyes but maybe basketball sized? What is unusual is any rock bigger than a marble here is rare. Sandy loam soil. I’ve recently looked for it but to no avail, just more danged barbed wire and T posts from my brother‘s wannabe cattle baron days.