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

[/pine]

i live on a mountain river so I am in the river valley...the mountain rises to about 2400' opposite the river....

While hunting (and scouting places to build stands) at about the 2200' mark I found almost all the parts to a cast iron wood stove...This is very steep land and I have no idea what the stove was doing there or how it got there...there is only a foot trail and there is no other signs of civilization nearby (i.e, foundations etc.c)...

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

I found this head while I was mowing my new property. The kids are not impressed.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I found a lead bullet...in a piece of wood I was cutting with my table saw.

 

[Jstpssng]

I remember seeing that in the wood my father was sawing out to make boxes for the greenhouse, back when we made them at night in the cellar. Luckily a bullet doesn't hurt the way that a nail, barbed wire, or maple syrup spile does.

I found a lead bullet...in a piece of wood I was cutting with my table saw.

 

[/pine]

It used to be common to see shaved slices of bullets, slugs etc. in the outside veneers on sheets of plywood...there may be three or four identical slices in a row down the length of a sheet...

 

[ponytug]

I was up a ladder replacing an old outdoor light fixture on the shop. When I got into it, it looked like it was a marine safety light, with three glancing angle bullet divots (dents) in the heavy duty bronze base, as if it had been sprayed with machine gun fire. All I can think of is that it was a WWII souvenir from the prior owner. No damage to the siding in the immediate area.

Wish I had the story to go with it...

 

[PJRAM]

After we moved into our current home we found an abandoned cabin in the woods on our property. We asked some neighbors about it and they said it was a picker's cabin that housed farm workers when our property was a working apple farm in the 1920's. We've been planning to renovate it and turn it into a usable building of some kind.

 

[BnRidge]

One interesting find we have here is a 65lb chunk of solid copper found as a "field stone" while out picking rocks. It's a glacial erratic most likely moved in from the superior region.

 

[etpm]

I just remembered a really creepy one. Way back when in the 1990s I was working at a place that was near where at least one victim of the Green River Killer was found. I used to go eat lunch at the edge of a wooded area that was quite close to where a body was found. One day I walking around and found a sleeping bag stashed back in the bushes. The sleeping bag looked at first like it had someone sleeping in it. Since at the time the killer was still active and I was near where another body was found I got a really creepy feeling. I gingerly poked the bag with my foot, hit something between hard and soft and said something like "Hey! Are you alright?". Getting no response I poked at the bag again in a different spot and my foot hit something soft. So I grabbed a stick, opened up the bag, and to my relief there were just clothes and a small piece of old luggage. Like an overnight case for a young woman. I figured the stuff belonged to a runaway or something.
I went back to my car to finish my lunch and a cop rolled up. He was curious about me being there and I told him I ate lunch there often, almost every day. We spoke a bit more and I told him I got quite a scare from a sleeping bag that looked like some runaway left back in the bushes. The cop got REALLY interested for the same reason I was creeped out. So I showed him the sleeping bag. He looked through it way more thoroughly than I did. But then I felt like I was invading some kid's privacy and he was looking for foul play evidence. In fact, he was looking for evidence so hard he checked out the inside of my car through the windows as well as he could, looked at my ID, called it in, and asked me to wait while he waited to see what came up. Even though e asked I didn't feel like I could refuse easily. That was creepy. Glad it wasn't on my property.
Eric

 

[JethroB]

I remember as a kid about 50 years ago my dad taking me into the woods (behind my current home) to show me a big red round-ish rock. Huge in a child’s eyes but maybe basketball sized? What is unusual is any rock bigger than a marble here is rare. Sandy loam soil. I’ve recently looked for it but to no avail, just more danged barbed wire and T posts from my brother‘s wannabe cattle baron days.