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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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.

 

[DFB]

Not intending to change the subject but after reading the moose I have a moose/highway dept. story to share.

Several years back a moose fell thru the cover and got trapped in an in ground swimming pool in some city residents backyard and couldn't get back out on it own. So the powers that be decided to tranquilize it then brought in a front end loader and put a strap around the moose to hoist it up and out...but they killed it instead by some kind of internal damage caused the harness and the lift...end of story!

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Not intending to change the subject but after reading the moose I have a moose/highway dept. story to share.

Several years back a moose fell thru the cover and got trapped in an in ground swimming pool in some city residents backyard and couldn't get back out on it own. So the powers that be decided to tranquilize it then brought in a front end loader and put a strap around the moose to hoist it up and out...but they killed it instead by some kind of internal damage caused the harness and the lift...end of story!

There's a really good joke in there somewhere!

 

[Mace Canute]

Not intending to change the subject but after reading the moose I have a moose/highway dept. story to share.

Several years back a moose fell thru the cover and got trapped in an in ground swimming pool in some city residents backyard and couldn't get back out on it own. So the powers that be decided to tranquilize it then brought in a front end loader and put a strap around the moose to hoist it up and out...but they killed it instead by some kind of internal damage caused the harness and the lift...end of story!

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.

 

[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.

 

[dmccarty]

While taking daily walk a strong putrid odor attacked us.
Close examination discovered a moose carcass minus hind quarters decaying.
Poachers at work!...

That reminded me of something else I found in the woods....

Back to the park I have mentioned several times. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Using the orientering map, I noticed that there were some old trails that were no longer used but the paths were still visible, so i figured out a course around the park using marked and unmarked trails. One of the older trails walked up to a major road that bordered the park and then went down a power line back into the park.

As I started walking down the power line from the road, I smelled death and shortly found 3-4 dead deer. Best I could tell they had been shot from the roadway which looked down the power line. What I could not figure out is how 3-4 deer got shot that close together. I would not expect the deer to return to where their were dead deer and I don't see how any could have shot 3-4 deer at one time. This power line was very narrow and was for power being brought into the park for the ranger's houses. This was just a very small power line, not a big transmission line so the power line width was minimal. Once a shot was fired the deer could jump once or twice and be in the woods. I just don't see how that many deer got shot in that one spot. :confused3:

I called in what I found to the WRC but they only thing they could do was patrol through the area and get lucky to catch the person(s) who were killing those deer. What was worse, was that the deer were just killed for killing sake.

Later,
Dan