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

[Oaktree]

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Cool bench!!

 

[Yogi05]

Don't worry, it will morph again into a discussion about bears, or airplanes, or...

I'm waiting to hear somebody say they've found the "White Lady", the French biplane which tried to fly across the Atlantic a few weeks before Lindberg's successful flight. A lot of people believe that it's out in the Maine woods someplace.

They watched too many action movies, where the hero has to back up at 100 mph to evade getting captured.

Hard to believe someone hasn't stumbled on it.
I can't go anywhere in the "deep" bush without finding beer cans or coffee cups.
Pretty sure Ontario is a tad bigger than Maine.
416 000 sq miles vs. 33 000 sq miles.

 

[Jstpssng]

Pretty sure Ontario is a tad bigger than Maine.

Is Ontario's motto "Gross understatements" or is that just yours? There's a good chance that plane went down in the ocean. However, the night it would have made landfall several people stated they heard a plane overhead... and aviators weren't common in 1927.

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Over the years people have looked for it including Clive Cussler's "NUMA" which is a group he formed and funded to search for historical wrecks. So far nobody has found it. All that would be left is the engine, the wooden frame is long rotted away or burned in the crash.

 

[JethroB]

Don't worry, it will morph again into a discussion about bears, or airplanes, or...

I'm waiting to hear somebody say they've found the "White Lady", the French biplane which tried to fly across the Atlantic a few weeks before Lindberg's successful flight. A lot of people believe that it's out in the Maine woods someplace.

They watched too many action movies, where the hero has to back up at 100 mph to evade getting captured.

To keep up with the drift…. Lost nuclear bomb near Savannah, Ga. 1958. It has never been found.

The Tybee Island mid-air collision was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States. During a practice exercise, an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the bomb. To protect the aircrew from a possible detonation in the event of a crash, the bomb was jettisoned. Following several unsuccessful searches, the bomb was presumed lost somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island. - Wikipedia

 

[Yogi05]

I was puttering around the yard and heard a flitter in the bush.
A partridge wandered out and decided to follow me around.
(cool thing)
He showed up 3 or 4 different days and one day followed me up to the front porch
and then attacked the back of my legs with his wings and claws. He got a surprise for his
efforts and didn't see him for a month or so.
Then a repeat show when he came back.
When we were getting along he'd stay just a couple feet from me no matter what I was doing.

Also had a family of fox living in the back yard. Hung out on my front lawn for a couple weeks.
Didn't catch many mice in the house for a week or two.
Nice, healthy looking critters. I'd like to have one as a pet.

Then there was a molting moose checking out my car. I suppose the plan was to lick some
salt off my car until I rudely interrupted.

And this dainty little girl hung around for a couple days too.

All cool stuff found on my property.

 

[MossRoad]

Man, that was a long time ago. I think it was a 327. It was rough when I got it around 75 and I didn't have it long.

There was a 327ci 325hp option that year. It would have been a potent option.

Heck, I had a 70 Nova with a 230L 6, same engine available in that El Camino. It would do 112mph.

 

[Yogi05]

Is Ontario's motto "Gross understatements" or is that just yours? There's a good chance that plane went down in the ocean. However, the night it would have made landfall several people stated they heard a plane overhead... and aviators weren't common in 1927.

That would be my understatement. I was guessing (but pretty sure) until I looked it up

Over the years people have looked for it including Clive Cussler's "NUMA" which is a group he formed and funded to search for historical wrecks. So far nobody has found it. All that would be left is the engine, the wooden frame is long rotted away or burned in the crash.

Hunh, I thought NUMA was a fictional thing in Cussler's books. Learn something every day.

It's possible as well it drove itself into the dirt enough to be hidden?
As much crap as I have seen littering the woods, and the feeling that somebody eventually stumbles onto everything, I 'spose it's entirely possible for things to disappear in the uglier places where no one ever goes.

 

[Jstpssng]

Then there was a molting moose checking out my car. I suppose the plan was to lick some
salt off my car until I rudely interrupted.

Boy, the ticks are up your way also. They sure didn't do him any favors.

Hunh, I thought NUMA was a fictional thing in Cussler's books. Learn something every day.

It was both. First it was the organization which any of his readers are familiar with, then he formed a real group to find and map lost wrecks. The Sea Hunters (The Sea Hunters #1) If you like history I highly recommend these books. They make for interesting reading.

I believe they are the group which first found the "Hunley", a submarine which was used by the Confederates during the US Civil War.
It sunk a ship then disappeared for over a century.

 

[Yogi05]

I don't know if it was ticks or just winter hair coming off in clumps.
Here's a closer pic showing the thick winter hair. Also, no ticks that time of year obviously and that would mean the ticks got at it in the fall.
I dunno.
That pic is from about 10 feet.

Here's what I believe (for a number of reasons) the same moose with mom about 3 weeks later.
200 yds up the road. The hair on the shoulders seems to have filled in a bit??
And bow I've turned this into a moosey thread

I'll watch for the books. I've read a few Cussler books but I don't have the time for novels that I used to.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Since it's "Cool & creepy things found on your property"...would a gorilla classify?
In 1952 my birth year, a train derailed off of Lawyers Road, Lynchburg Virginia carrying Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey circus animals and 35 gorillas escaped into the woods literally 2 miles from our farm!!!!!
Gorillas terrorized area residents for the next 30 years.
My brother was 3 years old at the time and Dad took him downtown to watch the train arrive, then later to the circus.
Unfortunately (or fortunately)...the story was and isn't true.
The circus in later years set up in a neighbors pasture across from ours and as a kid every year I'd help them set up chairs, etc. for tickets to see the show.
The next day I'd walk over watching the elephants pull up tent stakes, that afternoon walk around finding dropped coins, etc., left behind.
I just now took a picture of a folding chair I found there and kept.
Bottom line is not all internet research and/or stories are true!

 

[aczlan]

I just got rid of my 93. We now have a 2003. Both K1500s. Hands down, the 2003 is a better vehicle. More powerful, smoother, more comfortable, quieter, easier to drive.

Tow capacity of the 93 was 6500#.
Tow capacity of the 03 is 8600#.
Tow mode on the transmission.
On the fly pushbutton transfer case.
Auto 4WD mode.
Between 185-210 HP on the 93 with 5.7 TBI.
285HP on the 03 with 5.3 Vortec.

It's just a better truck.

Are you sure it's rated for 8,600# and not 7100#?
Everything I found said that the 1500s were all rated for 7100# or less (our 2005 1500 is rated for 7100#).

Aaron Z

 

[JasperFrank]

Found a porcelain, french made, doll's head, in the middle my woods. Completely intact. It had moving eyes. I cleaned it up and put new springs in the eyes and then regrettably, thinking about it now, I sold it for only 400 dollars on eBay. I guess it was rare? There were no houses in this area, aside from a cabin that must have used an older road then we use. We can't find traces of it this road or how it worked maybe it was not a road, but a horse path? In the early 1900's, still this cabin shows up on old maps. I've never found the site of this cabin, as to where it should be on the old maps and none of the neighbors have also, though we know where it should have been. Its long gone with no trace. Porcelain is very resiliant. So this discovery was extremely interesting. Wish I knew the story to it..

 

[Yogi05]

I looked but couldn't find a picture of a porcelain doll like you describe that has been handed down for 3 or 4 generations in my family.
My sister has it. Eyes close as you tilt it back and has most realistic looking front teeth I have ever seen.
No idea where it originated or how old it is but I guess early 1900s based on the hand-me-down timeline.

Sound familiar?

 

[Yogi05]

Since it's "Cool & creepy things found on your property"...would a gorilla classify?
In 1952 my birth year, a train derailed off of Lawyers Road, Lynchburg Virginia carrying Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey circus animals and 35 gorillas escaped into the woods literally 2 miles from our farm!!!!!
Gorillas terrorized area residents for the next 30 years.
My brother was 3 years old at the time and Dad took him downtown to watch the train arrive, then later to the circus.
Unfortunately (or fortunately)...the story was and isn't true.
The circus in later years set up in a neighbors pasture across from ours and as a kid every year I'd help them set up chairs, etc. for tickets to see the show.
The next day I'd walk over watching the elephants pull up tent stakes, that afternoon walk around finding dropped coins, etc., left behind.
I just now took a picture of a folding chair I found there and kept.
Bottom line is not all internet research and/or stories are true!

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I'd say that qualifies..
Neat old chairs. Did you find them years later or took one when the circus was packing up?
Maybe a RB Circus museum or something might be interested? If there is such a thing.

 

[JasperFrank]

Yes, it was the teeth that was interesting. All the teeth were well defined. I Found a proof in the skull, that traced it to some french manufacturer. But I don't remember much about it otherwise. This was twenty years ago.

 

[MossRoad]

Are you sure it's rated for 8,600# and not 7100#?
Everything I found said that the 1500s were all rated for 7100# or less (our 2005 1500 is rated for 7100#).

Aaron Z

I don't know how I came up with that. It's 7100# with the 3.73 and 8100# with the 4.10.

 

[MossRoad]

I don't know how I came up with that. It's 7100# with the 3.73 and 8100# with the 4.10.

Here's the page from our manual.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I'd say that qualifies..
Neat old chairs. Did you find them years later or took one when the circus was packing up?
Maybe a RB Circus museum or something might be interested? If there is such a thing.

I helped circus day before they opened. They usually ran circus for a few days, maybe a week then moved on. The day they moved I watched them pack up then leave. That afternoon I'd go back looking for stuff left behind which is when I found the chair. I tell people top is chewed up since it was the lion tamers chair .
I found a guy's checkbook, called him, he came to house and insisted on giving me $20! I almost passed out...$20 was a lot of money for a kid back then.

 

[scaredychicken]

A plane went down on my property about 15 years ago, when the engine completely dislodged from the aircraft. It spiralled down, crashing into the dense vegetation and rough terrain. I will never forget watching that event happen.
My neighbour was a bit tipsy at the time, and he had failed to properly secure the engine into the compartment of his expensive remote control model aircraft.
The airplane was recovered.
Sadly, even with the offer of a $10 finders' fee, the Search Party, consisting primarily of my 3 spry and financially motivated children (ages 9,8,6 years) was unsuccessful in their efforts to locate and recover the plane's engine. They were rewarded with ice cream for their efforts though. Fifteen years later this engine mystery remains unsolved.
I have regularly searched the circumference of the crash site with a bladed brush cutter, a brush hog, and with my trusty hound. I'm certain that the unrecovered engine sits in a rubble of ground cover, probably 10 - 12 inches deep.
The Finder's Fee is no longer applicable as my neighbour has since passed. (true story - when he died about 10 yrs ago, his son's fulfilled his last wish, and shot his cremated remains out of a potato cannon, into the local fishing hole that had been his favourite place in the world. That lake has been completely re-stocked in recent years, so I can once again eat the fish that we catch)
With my luck, I will discover that engine along the horse trail, this summer.

 

[Hay Dude]

So this thread is about escaped circus gorillas that never existed, rare porcelain french dolls with moving eyes and Moss’s Suburban’s tow rating?

Mmm hmm….sounds like a typical TBN thread to me!