Strange things found in the woods

When I was 10 and exploring the woods around my neighborhood... an old couch, a bunch of used condoms, empty beer cans, and potato chip bags surrounding a smoldering fire.

I assumed it was the local teens. Turns out, it was my friend's dad and some of his buddies. They later got caught back there one time with a prostitute.

At 26, I moved into my own house a few neighborhoods away from where I grew up. I went exploring those woods close to dusk. Saw a tent set up and went to inspect. As I got closer I noticed a few teens running away, I guess they thought I was a cop.

There was a cooler filled with Natty Ice by the tent, a bag of weed, and a bowl. Being the good guy I am, I left them the weed and bowl and just grabbed a six pack out of the cooler. Haha.
 
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A bunch of bullet ridden cars in the riverbed by where I grew up. That and some hobos. Pretty much it.
 
bebop22k said:
you fucking guys growing up in the sticks. a life I can't ever imagine. hows about shit I've found here in the good ol' concrete jungle?

growing up in the 80s, this place was a real piece of work. I found a gun once, tons of random bullets & I used to collect, what I realize now, were crack viles. I had no idea, I just used to find shit loads of these empty viles with caps of all sorts of colors. at the end of the day when I would get back home my mom used to fucking yell at me & throw them away not ever telling me what they were. they served as perfect ammo for pea shooters is all & stung pretty bad. also I found a shit load of money multiple times, even a few purses & like a jackass I used to run & give it all to my older brother thinking I did good, when he just got a free pay day
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Hot Airline Stewardess' hangouts is the best thing I ever found in Kew Gardens Queens.
 
Came across three weirdos out in the middle of nowhere once.

I mean Nowhere. We were 40 miles from the nearest highway, and there were no other cars at the trailhead.

Dudes looked like they hadn't showered in years. One of them had a shotgun and he made me especially nervous. Didnt say anything to them though.
 
superking said:
There was a cooler filled with Natty Ice by the tent, a bag of weed, and a bowl. Being the good guy I am, I left them the weed and bowl and just grabbed a six pack out of the cooler. Haha.
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I call BS. Natty Ice doesn't come in anything less than a 24 pack!

No, but seriously, I grew up across the street from a creek that ran up into the mountains where they used to mine for mercury. As a kid, I stumbled upon all sorts of stuff. Old train trestles in the middle of nowhere, machinery from the 1800s used in the mining process, old mine entrances that had been closed yet people had broken in, a parolee at large pedophile's camp (my pops actually helped catch the guy with a neighbor one day), a dead and charred animal's remains even though there were no signs of fire anywhere around, a submerged car in a reservoir when a drought hit one summer and the water level dropped to record lows, etc...
 
norcal313 said:
I call BS. Natty Ice doesn't come in anything less than a 24 pack!
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The cooler was full, probably from a 30-pack, but I had only taken six for myself.

I'm a nice guy, but kids can't be doing that dirt in my neighborhood and not expect to get taxed.
 
nothing weird, it was actually kinda cool; "exploring" the woods with my dad and brother when we were kids we found some shark fangs and other fossils. We went back a couple of times to that same mountain and we always found more, my dad still has a huge one framed in his office, the thing is probably about 10 inches long.
Turns out many, many years ago that area used o be covered by the ocean, so that explained it.
 
blitzk said:
nothing weird, it was actually kinda cool; "exploring" the woods with my dad and brother when we were kids we found some shark fangs and other fossils. We went back a couple of times to that same mountain and we always found more, my dad still has a huge one framed in his office, the thing is probably about 10 inches long.
Turns out many, many years ago that area used o be covered by the ocean, so that explained it.
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If that was in CA I may have been there. My mom and dad used to be archaeologists before I was born. When I was a kid my dad would take us camping every summer all over CA and the surrounding states. We went to very similar places in SoCal and Nevada many times. Fossils all over the place out in the desert.
 
Blair witch project ruined my sunday Forest trips for a good 5 years
 
I was exploring the woods next to my home one day when I was around 12 or so and came upon a huge pit someone had dug and it was full of junk. Included were massive amounts of VHS tapes.

My mind ran wild on what could be on them. Porn? Snuff? I was in the middle of nowhere and someone would have to go out of there way to dump the stuff there. I gathered them up and hurried back home excited to find out was on them.

...soap operas. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
 
Zookeeper Gabe said:
Random porn in the middle of the woods. Found a pot growing op (small) but crudely booby trapped with some trip wires and logs. Got pissed destroyed traps and took the plants.

Random naked dude sunning on top of clearing in a chez. Found gigantic black dildo (would post pics but don't want da dubs) with animal chew marks.
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You didn't say what you did with the pot plant after taking it. Therefore it's safe to assume that you either:
1) rolled some blunts for the koala bears
2) blew second hand weed smoke at the alligators
3) planted it at the giraffe exhibit, that way there's no threat of the plants getting eaten.
 
norcal313 said:
If that was in CA I may have been there. My mom and dad used to be archaeologists before I was born. When I was a kid my dad would take us camping every summer all over CA and the surrounding states. We went to very similar places in SoCal and Nevada many times. Fossils all over the place out in the desert.
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Almost. That was near Ensenada, Baja California Mexico (50 miles south the Ca border). But yeah, that whole coast used to be covered by water. To this day you can still find fossils and shit.
 
I found a smashed up stolen car off a trail (does that count as woods?). I know it's not unusual but seemed strange to me.
 
Natty most certainly does come in 6-packs.

I found a fetus one time.
 
good thread. i once found an old rusted kabar stuck into a tree pretty far out in the woods behind my grandpas place. i tried pulling it out but it would not budge. i think it had been there so long that the tree actually kind of fused with it, i’d bet its still there to this day.
 
Not in the woods but we moved houses in 2004 from a normal house to a house on acreage. Our backyard is 5 acres and when we moved it was a messy field of weeds and grass so obvs my dad got people to clean it all up but one day while the workers were out cutting the grass they found a safe in the middle of the field.

The safe was one of those decent sized concrete ones and it was all locked up, we tried to open it up for like 2 years by just doing random shit to it with explosives and all that but we never got it open

It's still back in our yard and we've kinda forgot about it but sometimes I still wonder if there's anything in there lol, we should prolly try to get it opened proffesionaly but that's no fun

For all we know we've had a dead body, a million dollars or nothing in our backyard for 10 years lol
 
FwappyEnding said:
I've always wondered how that happens. How does no one (family, heirs, etc...) claim them and sell them, rebuild them, etc... after the owners die?
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A lot of the buildings around here were one of two operations:

Either they were farms... And not much grows in northern Westchester and Putnam other than rocks

or quarrying/ mining operations. Much of the stone used in the building of NYC was quarried from the hills surrounding the Hudson river.
 
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