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

[Yogi05]

Way back when the bald eagle's were making a comback number wise, during the winter, they would migrate down the upper Delaware River during the winter. I used to go out on "counts". They can and did take live Canadian Geese. They also feasted on deer that fell on the frozen river and could not get up. And of course they are known to be thieves.

They can have as many as those flying, cigar-dropping, buggers they can eat. Too many here for sure.

 

[Eaglesfate]

Not sure if this applies, but I was always told by my grand father when he was a kid his parents rented a place somewhere in MO near Kaskaskia IL, the hills where near the rental home (Believe it was called Wine Garden) there was a bunch a strange mounds. the land lady would go digging through these mounds for items she would sale.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
When I was growing up the property had (has) several piles of rock which we always thought were Indian mounds. One day a friend and I even started to dig one up but didn't get very far.
Of course they are just field stones from when the woods were farmland.

 

[jyoutz]

A few years ago, a friend and I had hunt tags for one of the state’s exotic game animals (Oryx). They are down south in the desert mostly on the white sands missile range, but they do stray off the military range and we were hunting on the adjacent BLM and State lands. One day around midday we stopped to eat lunch under a shade tree next to an old abandoned ranch house. After lunch, my hunting partner said he was going to check out the house, and I was also curious about the place. We went to the door and found it unlocked and went inside. Jose reached over and flicked the light switch and surprisingly the ceiling light came on. We looked around and saw the place was fully furnished but dust covered everything about 1/2” thick. On the kitchen table, we found an old newspaper from 1958. It was kind of creepy so we went back outside. I pulled out the BLM land status map and saw that we were standing exactly 11 miles due north of the Trinity atomic bomb detonation site. As we were leaving, we saw a sign on the old barn that stated “U.S. Government Property.” We figured that the ranch was bought out by the government after the prior owners were stricken by radiation sickness or some type of cancer. The Trinity bomb was detonated in 1945 and 1958 was 13 years later, so the ranch was probably inhabited for those 13 years following the bomb test. We never found out for sure what happened, but this same story did happen to many other ranch families in the area. Doctor Oppenheimer’s death came for many people for years after the Manhattan project was over.

 

[paulsharvey]

Did some walking around on the newish property, near the property line the other day. Found an old push mower dumped in the woods, some nearly completely decomposed rail road cross ties.

The old house, we used to find clay terpentine pots in the woods.

 

[Jstpssng]

Here's another... about 25 years ago, when the Air Force still ran low level maneuvers in the North Maine Woods I was running a cruise line when I started noticing wiring and other hardware hanging from the trees.WTF?!? Pretty soon I came across a portion of the fuselage of a bomb, lying on the ground. Being the nosy sort I started looking it over, then moved it to get a better look at the numbers on it. All of a sudden I heard
"Tick"
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"Tick"
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"Tick"
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"Tick"
"Tick"
"TickTickTickTickTick!!

I didn't even have time to kiss my butt goodbye. Of course it was just a dummy bomb, otherwise they would have been out looking for it. There must have been a nut inside which rolled down the fuselage, causing the sounds I heard.
In hindsight, picking it up probably wasn't my smartest move anyways.

 

[MotorSeven]

Wife is from Manitoba and we have a house there. Years ago we bought the house next door and I remodeled it to rent out. Underneath the floor in the kitchen was a toy metal plane, Piper cub. It is missing the tires, part of the landing gear & prop, must have had a hard landing or three.

It's a Hubley 433 made in the 50's or 60's.

 

[CK732]

I plowed my food plot and found Dora the exployer doll.

 

[MotorSeven]

 

[etpm]

I just remembered another thing I found. On our property lots of trash from previous owners has been buried over the years. I was putting a new road through and had to remove a huge old alder. Using my backhoe I had to dig about 5 feet to get to the bottom of the root ball. At the bottom of the hole was a huge truck tire and wheel. Real old, looked like from the 20s or the 30s. A narrow tire about 4 1/2 feet in diameter. The wheel looked like it was cast but I guess it must have been forged. Anyway, I got the alder root ball out and left the tire and wheel in place. Maybe some archeologist will find it 500 years from now.
Eric