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What weird stuff have you run into in the woods? Stuff I've found:
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May 22, 2016 21:45
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- 12 fresh cut roses stuck in the ground at the base of a tree. - A bunch of old coal mining stuff including houses, machinery, and ventilation shafts - a hole in a tree with Sqwerl Home written above it I know there's others but I can't remember right now, have to think on it.
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May 23, 2016 01:34
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A disused outhouse with 'Confederate Bank' scrawled across the side
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May 23, 2016 06:03
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finding old stone foundations is pretty cool a condom next to an orange peel maybe a whole 10 feet off a popular trail two pileated woodpeckers (the largest woodpeckers left on earth, two feet tall) one time a dank nug fell out of my pocket in a ziplock bag on another somewhat popular trail and a week later i forgot i dropped it and looked down and it was there
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May 23, 2016 07:09
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My memory was a bit off, here's a picture of the squirrel home I've found a poo poo ton of fossils too, all marine invertebrates from mostly the Carboniferous and Devonian, and some Cambrian.
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May 23, 2016 08:08
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toilet paper sticking out of the ground in the middle of the trail
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May 24, 2016 18:43
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Haven't found any yet, but there's still unexploded munitions in Dolly Sods from WWII artillery testing. Old houses and artifacts are pretty neat, just found a recessed stone foundation pool with steps in Salt Fork the other week, I think it was a spring house:  One interesting way to tell if you've found an old homestead site is to look for non native flowers, such as tulips or daffodils. Found forty pound drill bit heads and abandoned drills in Daniel Boone State Park.  Found an ancient USGS marker with corroded brass cap on an abandoned County road in Zaleski. Abandoned wrecked cars, including a rusted out bulldozer:   Weirdest thing was a really nice Gerber knife laying in the middle of a stream, the glint caught my eye and thankfully not my foot as I was crossing. Not so weird, but thought this was an interesting marker:  Also found some petroglyphs out in southeastern Ohio:  
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May 26, 2016 14:39
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Picnic Princess posted:- 12 fresh cut roses stuck in the ground at the base of a tree. i wonder if there's something to this beyond "in memoriam". i found a similar thing (just one rose) stuck at the base on a hike last week.
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May 27, 2016 21:20
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Sun Walker posted:i wonder if there's something to this beyond "in memoriam". i found a similar thing (just one rose) stuck at the base on a hike last week. That reminds me, one time I found a whole bouquet of flowers (tulips I think) scattered and floating in a creek off the side of a bridge in a metro park hiking trail, like someone had thrown them off the side in anger. Bet that was an awkward walk back
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May 27, 2016 22:56
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I like the hint about non native plants as evidence for an old homestead!
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May 28, 2016 02:41
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Three-Phase posted:I like the hint about non native plants as evidence for an old homestead! This reminds me, there's a park here in Calgary where there's a section cordoned off to try and reintroduce native species and to see how long it takes to reestablish native grasslands. On a field trip for a biogeography class we visited the site and someone had planted a sapling douglas fir right in the middle of it, which is not endemic to the area, but only grows 100km to the west in the mountains. My prof was pissed!
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May 28, 2016 06:02
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Rusty 38 revolver, unloaded.
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May 29, 2016 15:17
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Potato Salad posted:Rusty 38 revolver, unloaded. did you give it a vinegar bath and see if you can fix her up and start practicing shooting from the hip in your bak yard
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May 29, 2016 17:38
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Mostly woods porn around here op though I found some strange metal crap before.
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May 30, 2016 01:53
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A beetle. It also had a nice batch of grass growing out of the roof.
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May 30, 2016 09:04
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I found a memorial to some kid that went missing and was found OD'd on the trail. Not too strange in and of itself, but the notion of "oh hey, there was a body sitting here for a bit" is somewhat unusual at least to me.
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May 30, 2016 13:53
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several caribou ad moose skulls/antlers suspended in the air by old metal wire from age old industrial project - they unfortunately get tangled in it and then die and just rot away in place leaving their skulls hanging behind.
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May 30, 2016 17:24
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A disused but nearly intact telephone pole, many miles from any possible habitation. A little Hobbit/Gnome village, with a lot of tiny houses mostly made of natural materials. The remains of a campsite that was at least 20 years old if not more. It contained old coffee cans, parts of a grill, beer cans with old-style pull tabs, and the like.
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May 31, 2016 06:22
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A farm I hunted on has an old bed frame in the middle of nowhere - it covers the remains of the Chinese cook who was burnt alive there 100 years ago
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Jun 1, 2016 00:55
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bin full of porn
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Jun 1, 2016 03:35
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I feel that woods porn is common enough that it's difficult to call it "weird".
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Jun 1, 2016 08:52
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A steam engine! The story goes, it was being hauled overland to be the centrepiece of a remote sawmill. It is .. not an area conducive to hauling much of anything (mostly swamp and rock), and apparently when the cook threw in the towel, the crew all gave up and left, abandoning it. 
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Jun 1, 2016 14:37
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ricepaddydaddy posted:it covers the remains of the Chinese cook who was burnt alive there 100 years ago If there's more to that story I want to hear it.
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Jun 1, 2016 14:42
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Warbird posted:If there's more to that story I want to hear it. As far as i'm aware there really isn't. Probably a sleeping quarters fire or something. The farm is also far enough away from the closest town now, back in horse and cart days it would take ages to transport a body to a cemetery. And I guess early-20th century Australia didn't really care about him either.
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Jun 3, 2016 06:23
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Picnic Princess posted:I feel that woods porn is common enough that it's difficult to call it "weird". same, it seems very common Kangra posted:A little Hobbit/Gnome village, with a lot of tiny houses mostly made of natural materials. i leave these a lot of places that i set up camp. These two are from last year, built a couple days apart:  retirned to find the first one gone so i built a new one:  usually leave a few little bits of food too like cashews or peanuts thrown in the four cardinal directions from where i'm sitting, always leave something for the little people, especially if your spending a lot of time at their site and inconveniencing them and like others have said i've found lots of foundations and some intact but obviously no longer used houses and cabins, always a strange feeling, wish i still had pictures of those to share 
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Jun 4, 2016 15:56
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Luvcow posted:
This is just completely  I'm going to start doing the same thing
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Jun 5, 2016 01:10
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Luvcow posted:same, it seems very common Is this like a Scandinavian tradition? It is pretty cute.
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Jun 6, 2016 02:52
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As much as I dedicate my practices to Leave No Trace, I am in love with those tiny camps and want to do it too.
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Jun 6, 2016 09:04
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Warbird posted:If there's more to that story I want to hear it. His punishment for giving up hauling the steam engine
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Jun 7, 2016 09:36
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I was reading some stories of some guy who was supposedly a search and rescue officer and he kept mentioning finding staircases miles away from trails. I've been off the beaten path a lot and have yet to see anything as close as weird as that, but the more I thought about it the more I came to realize it was probably a bunch of bullshit. I can't say I've found any really weird stuff outside of the ordinary mining ruins, but I did bury some silly air force award I got in some hard to get remote spot 10000 feet up in Idaho. I should go back years from now and retrieve it with someone without telling them what we're doing and I'll blow their mind.
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Jun 12, 2016 15:45
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Whole website about weird stuff in the desert: http://www.otherhand.org/ Notably, a long dead family of German tourists: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/
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Jun 14, 2016 05:05
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I found a pomelo tree! Smelled amazing and tasted good too. Probably the site of an old household but I guess it could have been wild or feral or something
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Jun 16, 2016 00:47
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I was off trail hiking with a friend around 2002. We were on some very remote old logging trails in Oregon. We're both very seasoned hikers, and he is a certified forest ranger. The trail (if you could call it that) lead us way out intot the wilderness. At the time we had to be at least 15 miles from the nearest road in a very rough area. We had just crested a hill when we saw this tree stump covered in shoes. They were all tied together by the laces then wrapped around this old tree stump that stood maybe three feet tall. The most interesting thing about the shoes were that they got newer the higher up the stump they went. The first pair at the bottom looked to be from the 1920 then as you went up the got progressively more modern. At the top was what looked like a fairly new pair of basketball shoes. No idea what it was about but it was bizarre in a cool way. Seemed like a strange outsider art project, or maybe some crazy elaborate prank. It was a pretty neat find. It'd be interesting to go back now and see if its still there all these years later..
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Jun 21, 2016 05:48
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A few years ago while I was in the pasayten wilderness in North Central washington I found a rusted out hatchet head near an old shelter at devils park on the way through to jackita ridge. I roughly honed the edge and left it behind. Part of me wanted to bring it home and refinish it. 
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Jun 21, 2016 06:08
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stone hatchet heads, perfectly shaped presumably indian in north california fields
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Jul 10, 2016 12:42
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One time me and my brother discovered an unmarked graveyard from the 1700s wondering around the woods near our apartments in Rhode Island. I wish we had a camera at the time, but this was around 1994~ and we were just kids.
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Jul 12, 2016 15:37
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A Kpro posted:I was reading some stories of some guy who was supposedly a search and rescue officer and he kept mentioning finding staircases miles away from trails. I've been off the beaten path a lot and have yet to see anything as close as weird as that, but the more I thought about it the more I came to realize it was probably a bunch of bullshit. Those stories are some of the most upvoted posts on the subreddit r/nosleep which is where people post 'scary stories' and everyone in the subreddit has to act as if they're real. Interesting stories but definitely bullshit. https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/
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Jul 13, 2016 11:08
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Aphex- posted:Those stories are some of the most upvoted posts on the subreddit r/nosleep which is where people post 'scary stories' and everyone in the subreddit has to act as if they're real. Interesting stories but definitely bullshit. No idea about the wilderness staircase stories, because I refuse to read anything in nosleep. Not because its scary, but because its a massive waste of time. Anyway I've actually found a staircase in the middle of the woods. Well not really, it was a pit with a rusty metal ladder that went down about 30 feet at the bottom was a concrete structure with a steel door and a pad lock It was way out in the middle of nowhere on my uncles property. He owns a massive amount of undeveloped land in the northwest. Me, and my friends wanted to break in, but we decided to go back and tell my uncle about it. Turns out it was a lovely homemade bomb shelter his brother in law had built back in the mid 60s, He said he totally forgot about it till we brought it up. Later me and my uncle went out on a 6 wheeler, and covered the open pit with a piece of steel, so some poor hunter wouldn't fall in on accident.
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Jul 15, 2016 06:55
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Found what could only be described as a bomb (war? nuclear?) shelter bunker built into a forested hill. Concrete construction. Proximity to Offutt AFB which makes sense on many levels. Interior was undoored and I couldn't see deep into it.
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Jul 18, 2016 04:20
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I found this today, off trail just a bit: I have no idea what it was but I thought it was really weird. I wanted to eat it too.
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Jul 18, 2016 05:50
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