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

[MossRoad]

Three years ago. Down the road checking/updating one of my Geocaches. Off in the nearby bushes - an abandoned car. I could not resist - opened the trunk. Large plastic bags - full of Marijuana. Came back home - called the police.

It was a stolen and abandoned car. I don't think they ever found out much about the MJ. In retrospect - I was probably very lucky that nobody was still in or around the car. LEO had to come and check on me - I guess, to ensure I wasn't the person who stole the car or who owned the MJ.

That could have been the starting scene for the movie No Country For Old Men. Gotta be careful out there.

 

[Jstpssng]

MJ is just ONE of the things I don't feel moved enough to keep up with. I'm pretty sure the stuff is still not legal in WA state. About six years ago - three REAL IDIOTS ( Larry, Moe & Curley types ) tried setting up a MJ growing operation right across the county road from my driveway. I visited once. That was enough. It didn't last long. They weren't making enough $$$ on MJ sales to pay the loan on the property. After about three months something went terribly wrong - their entire operation burned to the ground. No great loss.

I just look at it with the viewpoint of my safety... when it was illegal and all of the money was black market there was a certain amount of risk just working on your own or a client's property. I know one person who got his camp burned several times by growers, just for saying the wrong thing.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

MJ is just ONE of the things I don't feel moved enough to keep up with. I'm pretty sure the stuff is still not legal in WA state. About six years ago - three REAL IDIOTS ( Larry, Moe & Curley types ) tried setting up a MJ growing operation right across the county road from my driveway. I visited once. That was enough. It didn't last long. They weren't making enough $$$ on MJ sales to pay the loan on the property. After about three months something went terribly wrong - their entire operation burned to the ground. No great loss.

Pot has been legal in Wash. for years. I don't know about Western Australia. (WA)

 

[buckeyefarmer]

oil tank from around 1900 when there were oil wells all over these hills.

 

[Yogi05]

Thought I'd revive this thread in the hopes someone has found some creepy or strange stuff
since the last post almost 2 years ago.
Can we try and keep it to stuff YOU found as opposed to stuff people on the internet found, please.

 

[oosik]

My 80 acres is part of an original homestead. 160 acres - granted by the gov in 1892 for oil exploration.

Anyhow - cleaning up the area where the old homestead buildings were. Found two apple boxes full of old dry cell batteries. 2 1/2 inches in diameter - 6 inches tall.

Then it hit me. They never had electricity, phone or driveway access here. They drove onto this 80 acres thru a neighbors fields.

The only "entertainment" was a big 'ol radio. These drywall batteries must have been what powered their radio. Hard to tell - after more than 100 years - if these old batteries were the good ones or the spent ones.

I only met the old homestead couple two times. It was 1949 - so I was seven year old. I do remember though - exactly at 8PM the radio was turned on and they listened to some show for an hour. Only time the old radio was ever turned on.

 

[scootr]

Back in 2000 we bought our place from a deeply depressed woman who said she bought it with her husband but he left. (don't worry records show she made a 100k on the sale)
A few months into the place I found a wedding ring out in the dirt in front of the house... like somebody threw it back as they were leaving.

 

[oosik]

Thanks for for the heads up on MJ - Larry. BTW - WA = Washington state. At least in my case.

 

[lman]

Back in 2000 we bought our place from a deeply depressed woman who said she bought it with her husband but he left. (don't worry records show she made a 100k on the sale)
A few months into the place I found a wedding ring out in the dirt in front of the house... like somebody threw it back as they were leaving.

Fortunately you didn't find the shallow grave.

 

[Jstpssng]

My last job as a cruising contractor was in Western Maine where there are some old abandoned homesteads. I was hiking up a hill every morning, which had huge boulders with people's names and dates going back to the late 1800's.
At the end of the day I sometimes visited old graveyards... a rather morbid hobby of mine.
I always wanted to see if I could match any of the names on the hill with names on the graveyard but never did. With today's camera phones I probably would have made it work.

One morning we (dog and I) headed out through the woods and came across something odd. I thought "Why did somebody put fencing around that weed?"
"Oh, wait a minute!!!"
Come here pup, we're getting the puck out of here.
A couple of days later a major grow operation was busted. I'd heard the airplanes but didn't know what was going on.

This is the reason I am thankful that Pot has been decriminalized. Growers are on their own land now, rather than somebody else's property complete with boobie traps.