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

[jjeff]

Join the club! We have jackets! Yes, I have done the same. Popsicle city. Not that different to jumping into the ocean in Northern California. People don't do well in either location when they fall out of boats or capsize.

Did you know that the song lyrics had what is believed to be the probable cause of the sinking years before anyone knew?

All the best,

Peter

The song lists several possible causes.

 

[jjeff]

If anyone ever gets the chance to stop by the shipwreck museum at Whitefish Point, it's worth the trip. Then take a walk down to the beach and stick your feet in the water. Your ankles will go numb in about 5 seconds to the point of pain. Everyone's wearing jackets and hats. Then some guy in a speedo walks past and goes for his daily swim. Yikes!

The bays do get warmer towards the end of summer especially if there's limited upwelling.

 

[MossRoad]

Look up "mud crawfish" and see if that's what you found. They are more common than most people know.

 

[sixdogs]

Look up "mud crawfish" and see if that's what you found. They are more common than most people know.

Thank you. That's what they were. I've never seen any sign of them around here but a search shows they are a Midwest thing and likely in Ohio.

 

[bigtiller]

We called them crawdads. We would seine for them in still water beside a creek.
We never ate them, we used them for bait to catch catfish on trout lines or diddy poles.

 

[drssg]

We live on the flat black dirt farmground far from any water. At best we have man-made "ditches" to catch field tile runoff. Anyway, back in maybe 2002 we had a terrible storm that came off the Plains and battered us with very high winds and pounding rains and hail. It was a heck of a night and we were all shaken even though we're pretty tough.

Anyway, in the calm and sun of the next day with puddles and water everywhere we noticed there were a number of dried crayfish-looking things that had blown up against they house. They looked like little New England lobsters but were fresh water.

We asked around thinking this was some flat ground phenomenon and no one knew what we were talking about. People gave me that funny look. Maybe they were kidding me but those little lobster/crayfish/whatever were there and likely carried in on a "not in Kansas anymore, Toto" kind of thing. Still don't know what they were or where they came from.

I live in southern Ohio, and we have tons of crayfish that dig holes and live in the ground. They create annoying dirt mounds around the holes that are maybe 8" tall. When I'm mowing, I always try to run over the mounds with a front tire so I don't dull my blades by mowing dirt.

Your situation sounds different, since you don't normally see them.

 

[MossRoad]

Wife and I were walking in a field in Prophetstown State Park near Lafayette, IN, on fresh-mown trails through prairie grass and about every 5-10' there was a rather large crawdad standing their waving their claws at us as we approached. We saw hundreds of them that day. I've never seen crawdads on land before, only in water. I knew they made mud tunnels near water, but I'd never seen just crawdads standing around in damp grass. It was odd, to say the least.

I've been watching a few youtube videos of people using a piece of bacon on a string with a weight to catch crawdads out of the mud tunnels. Pretty interesting.

 

[Wagtail]

We call "biggish crayfish", yabbies. They're a freshwater cray and are common in farm dams.

On particularly damp or rainy nights, a yabbie can walk several kilometres to get into a new dam.

 

[Rockbadchild]

We (me and my buddy) found this old gold mine on his trap line up north in Canada its 40 miles from the nearest HWY in a straight line, its 65 miles down the bush road. Afterwards I research it and I actually found the geotechnical report, it was in operation in the late 1930's discover in 1924 there is a shaft that goes down to 626 feet, they left lots of equipment behind there is this old steam engine, this really cool fordson tractor on track that I would love to bring back home and the truro foundry and machine co engine dated to 1898.

 

[Jstpssng]

We (me and my buddy) found this old gold mine on his trap line up north in Canada its 40 miles from the nearest HWY in a straight line, its 65 miles down the bush road. Afterwards I research it and I actually found the geotechnical report, it was in operation in the late 1930's discover in 1924 there is a shaft that goes down to 626 feet, they left lots of equipment behind there is this old steam engine, this really cool fordson tractor on track that I would love to bring back home and the truro foundry and machine co engine dated to 1898.

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You win! I doubt that anybody can top that.

 

[Hay Dude]

Amazing how much mining machinery just left to rot. Encountered a lot of it on backpacking trips in the Appalachians. I guess they brought it up in pieces and assembled. Mining operations probably went bust so quickly they didnt have time or money to disassemble and haul back.
We encountered one mine where all the machinery was abandoned, but there were railroad tracks right up to the mine where it could have been loaded and back hauled.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Amazing how much mining machinery just left to rot. Encountered a lot of it on backpacking trips in the Appalachians. I guess they brought it up in pieces and assembled. Mining operations probably went bust so quickly they didnt have time or money to disassemble and haul back.
We encountered one mine where all the machinery was abandoned, but there were railroad tracks right up to the mine where it could have been loaded and back hauled.

indeed ...well back then they didn't have the environmental laws we have today and when it cost more to get a piece of equipment out then what it is worth it stay there and or you also have prices crash causing lots of abandoned time capsule... today we have mining closing & decommissioning laws so at the start of an operation they need to have the money for decommissioning up front freeze in a account and they get it once the decommissioning is completed so these things doesn't happen as much ... On the other hand there is mining claims and that's a other story they are not regulated as much.

 

[Oaktree]

While we were remodeling our old house that was built in 1930, we tore out the old paperboard used for the walls. Our kids placed some treasures and comments in a metal tin before the drywall went up. In the new house, the grand kids did the same thing. We will always wonder who finds them and when. Jon

I don't think it was an intentional time capsule, but a few years ago when I was remodeling my kitchen I found a bunch of old mail behind the counter cabinets. I'm guessing it fell behind it. A bunch of old letters, and some flyers for a long-gone movie theatre in a neighboring town. All dated to the early 1950s.
The letters were kind of hard to read...they were written in a really "flowery" cursive script, I guess that was the way writing was taught in those days.
Wife saved them somewhere...gotta find a way to re-seal them behind something for future generations to find. I did sign and date the back of the cabinets when I re-installed them.

Previous house, when tearing out a wall found a piece of paper with a name and a date (1890s). Maybe signature of the builder? Put it back in the wall when I re-did it.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We called them crawdads. We would seine for them in still water beside a creek.
We never ate them, we used them for bait to catch catfish on trout lines or diddy poles.

Same here. I have heard them called Mudbugs before too.

 

[MossRoad]

It was crawdads or crayfish when I was a kid. First time I heard them called crawfish was Justin Wilson, the Cajun cook.

 

[m7040]

We have a cemetery on our farm with several graves dating back to 1840's. Does not appear to be related to the owners at the time. May have been servants or slaves not sure. Our kids when growing up were always spooked about going into that area and claimed that they could hear them at night.

 

[tshep]

I found this in the woods beside the rental house. (1979)
Very heavy. Found some references to M-R as a hardware store in the 40s?
I suspect it may be lead, stock. but marked as though a business card? Maybe 7 inches long.
Text is:

McKeel-Richardson
Carolina
Washington, N. C.

Any thoughts?

 

[MossRoad]

How big is it?

 

[MossRoad]

The hardware store (if it's any relation or not) is on the national list of historic places.

https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/BF0069.pdf

Maybe it's a doorstop or paper weight. Some sort of promotional item?

 

[Rockbadchild]

a kind of signature stamp ??