Weird findings in the woods

[roverboy]

Bearman where is Lake Chilhowee? Nice pics.

[inspecting1]

I know a guy that was bow hunting and had a guy bass fish right by him. Kicker was his wife/girlfriend was getting some sun on the back of the boat in the buff.

[Guest BEARMAN]

Bearman where is Lake Chilhowee? Nice pics.

Just outside of Maryville, Tn.

Thank you, bout the pic's.

[Guest AmericanWorkMule]

That sounds like the beginning of a Chainsaw movie or something...

Back in '98, ....then all a sudden, upstairs, I hear something/somethings HEAVY, running across the floor. The dog took off first, then I did. I dont know WHAT the hell it was, and brother, I didnt care.

Years ago while out fishing, my brother and I happened upon a huge hollowed out tree, it had to be 4 feet in diameter. All of our talking and making noise poking around there .... caused SOMETHING to come alive inside that thing!

It sounded like a bear was fighting to get at us thumping around in there.

We started running away like hell hounds were on us, falling, tripping, panting, cussing and thinking we were gonna die!

After fighting our way through the longest twenty yards of my life, I glanced over my shoulder to see a big ol' turkey vulture come up out of that dumb tree.

I knew he was sitting up there snikering down at us

[Guest BEARMAN]

Found a Terrapin (Box turtle) shell in the wood's yesterday, while Turkey hunting...does that count?

[ShaunM]

Found a Terrapin (Box turtle) shell in the wood's yesterday, while Turkey hunting...does that count?

I have found about a million box turtle shells over the years it seems like.

[roverboy]

Yeah Bearman that counts. I found a old horseshoe the other day. Does that count? Thought it might give me some luck with the turkeys. It ain't so far.

[Guest BEARMAN]

Heck yeah, horseshoes count, and I've found a passel of em, too.

We once found an old loggers cabin way back in Big South Fork.

Actually went back and camped the whole weekend in it, while hog hunting.

Backpacked in on Friday night, built a fire in the fireplace, slept on the floor in a sleeping bag, hiked out on Sunday.

Got up to a snow fall on Saturday morning...man, what a cool weekend.

Last time I was up there, the "old house" was still there, waiting on future visitors.

[Erik88]

I'm not sure if this counts but when I was 9 we lived on the TN river in Loudon off Matlock Bend Rd. When the water went down you could walk out to a long narrow island that was about 75 yards from the shore.

I was out there walking around one day and came around a corner to find a goose nesting on her eggs. She was not happy to see me either, she made all sorts of horrible noises and chased me for about 30 feet. I was fast back then and she kept right up.

I was scared out of my mind!

[jeremy155rr]

close to the house I grew up in there is a trail that runs along waldens ridge. On one side is dutch valley road, on the other is briceville. About a mile of the trail is actually a gravel road that dead ends at a fire watch tower. A singletrack trail continues on behind the tower. This trail is literally on a ridgetop, and a few miles behind the firetower there is a bomb shelter (at least thats what i've been told it is) professionally made out of concrete. When I first discovered it I almost fell in it. There is a rectangular hole that is there intentionally, like a small skylight on the actual trail. If you go off the trail down the ridgeface a few feet you find the door. Its completely wrecked on the inside but there were a couple rooms a remnants of a bathroom (pieces of a sink and toilet busted up on the floor). I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I've got some pics somewhere i'll try and find to scan.

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dunigan/mtnbike/walden.html

[brooksjr]

Yeah Bearman that counts. I found a old horseshoe the other day. Does that count? Thought it might give me some luck with the turkeys. It ain't so far.

I found an old cow bell in the woods behide my house a couple months ago.

[memphismason]

I found an old cow bell in the woods behide my house a couple months ago.

Everyone needs more cowbell. lol

The place we use to hunt when I was going up in McNairy County was riddled with old stills. I remember first asking my dad what they were and him explaining them to me.

At the same place we use to hunt at "The Lard Can". Someone way before we started hunting there hauled in an old lard can to a ridge overlooking a very large hollow. This was some of the best hunting on this property. This hollow created a funnel between a pine thicket and the Power Lines. Killed many deer at that spot. I am not sure why the person brought in a lard card, unless he was very little and use to sit on it.

One night while we where in our camper, right on the side of the dirt road, about a half a dozen police cars came barreling down the road with lights and sirens blasting. As my dad stepped out of the camper to see what the commotion was, one car stopped and next thing I know he was on gunpoint and was being told to put his hands behind his head.

After a little conversation and verifying with the property owner that we had permission to be there, everything settled down. The deputy asked my dad if we had seen anyone come down the road, and my dad said yeah last night a blue Buick came in the afternoon, and then left a little after 10 that night. (See the road dead ended on someones property that we didn't have permission to hunt on about a mile from where we were camping.)

The deputy told us that was the vehicle they were looking for. He then went on down the road to where the other deputies went. On their way out that night he stopped at our camper and told us what happened. Two men had broke into a home, robbed it, kidnapped the man and his girlfriend that were there, drove them out to the woods, raped both of them, and murdered them execution style.

This road had quite a few properties that butted up to it. It was and old county dirt road.It was probably 2.5 to 3 miles long from the gravel road to the end.

The next day after we hunted the morning, I guess curiosity got the best of my Dad and we walked down the road to where the police tape was saw what was left of the scene. They still had evidence markers out there. We stayed a few more nights and left we headed back home. We never saw the police come back to collect their markers and stuff.

As I got older I asked my dad why we went ahead and stayed after hearing about what had happened, knowing that the two guys in the blue Buick had seen our truck and camper, and that they could have came back and killed us. His response was, "I was going to let that ruined our hunting."

Edited April 6, 2010 by memphismason

[ShaunM]

I hope I never find a crime seen while hunting or camping.

[ttocswob]

Found a Terrapin (Box turtle) shell in the wood's yesterday, while Turkey hunting...does that count?

Well, since it leads to another good story...

My uncle was out in the woods some years ago, and found a large pile of broken terrapin shells at the base of a rather high bluff. Curious, he sat there a while...a few minutes later he heard something rustling the leaves above the bluff. He saw a fox, carrying a live terrapin...and dropped it over the bluff.

Apparently the fox had been cracking box turtles and snacking on their innards for some time.

Of course this is one of my uncle's tales...

[strickj]

Never found anything, myself.

My dad, however, has found oodles and oodles of cool crap whilst clearing virgin land (heavy equipment operator).

He's found everything from antique pump vacuums and old collectible bottles to high dollar marbles(like these. have several of the cane swirles).

[Guest SUNTZU]

I was backpacking in the GSMNP when I found a completely mauled backpack with all kinds of gear strewn all over the trail. Never found anyone. Left a note at the ranger's station when I left.

[Guest walkingdeadman]

Found an old bumper car from the 60's. Pretty neat. We still have it our shop.

[Tango down]

My dad and his friend used to hunt civil war relics with metal detectors. They were hunting back in the late 70's between Germantown and Collierville when they came upon an old Yankee camp site near the railroad. We assume they were guarding the railroad back in the day. The best find they dug up was an extremely rare CSA buckle. A few years back I went back to that spot with my dads friend to do some detecting. A subdivision was being built on the land but I still was able to dig up a miniball. Now the houses are complete and the wood are gone...good memories though everytime we pass by it.

[Guest bornunderpunches]

I found a case knife once while i was out fishing on Little River. It was in pretty good shape too. I traded it toward an SKS.

[Guest AmericanWorkMule]

I wonder if it was this same guy that left his in the woods after evading the cops?

Found an old bumper car from the 60's. Pretty neat. We still have it our shop.

[roverboy]

Is that really a bumper car in that pic? Man, thats something you don't see. I found a old truck door once. Some poor guy must've had it open and tore it off on a tree. I don't know what or how he drove back in there. This was a good ways back in some thick woods. Must've been not so thick at one time.

[Ghooge2008]

Never find anything of value except ladder stands and climbers...the property is well posted and the gates and wire have had to be mended numerous times over the years...but with 500 acres I guess thats what to be expected in Wayne County.

always suprised me why people actually leave things costing 100+ dollars in the woods on someone elses property. even found free tri-pod feeders!

[Rightwinger]

Yep, I have to admit there are some sorry "locals" down in Wayne Co that like to ignore property rights and posted signs. We had a confrontation with an individual on our lease last fall. This lease adjoins property owned by my brother.

He was parked up on the property with a "lady friend" (this is 5 AM Sunday morning by the way), not his wife, and when the first guy showed up, he was pretty brave and mouthy. As trucks number 2 and 3 showed up and we all got out to speak with him he got real "respectful". Funny thing was we knew who he was as we had already had the Sheriff's department come speak to him about why some of his trash ended up on the property! He forgot when illegally dumping your trash, you should remove your prescription pill bottles!!

Needless to say he departed the area with stern warnings not to return without permission.

We have had the ladder of a tree stand stolen, they couldn't get the whole thing as I had it locked to the tree.

Fence posts with concrete foundations ripped out and taken.

More trash including an old couch dumped.

And we just keep playing by the rules, contact LEO, and come back to find out what's been violated next.

I only wish I could stay down there a full week or two during hunting season as we know they are coming in on 4 wheelers on a pipeline during the week (does no one work anymore)? I would like to say what surprises I might leave but this is the web and I don't want "no trouble"

[Guest BEARMAN]

I also found a pair of locals trespassing too, about this time last year, while trying to turkey hunt.

It was a father & son duo, they were pilfering my Morel mushrooms; they had a grocery bag and a baseball cap just full of them.

I confronted them, then they got mouthy too.

Proceeded to escort them out and called the sheriff to come out and have a talk with them.

I had the sheriff let em go with a warning...let em keep the mushrooms too, as I had plenty in the fridge.

Hope they learned their lesson...but, probably not. FWIW.

[Guest archerdr1]

I lived in a small town outside of Ozark Alabama (Ewell) when I was in the 5th grade. My brother and some friends used to take our bb guns out into the peanut and wheat field behind our house. We wandered into some woods and found an Army jeep that looked as though it fell out of a chopper (this place is not far from Ft Rucker) Scattered around the jeep was a bunch of ammo cans and metal boxes. Being the curious kids we were, we pried the lids off of everything and found the ammo cans were full of .50 cal rounds. We looked in the boxes and found the old mortar tubes (the ones you drop the big round in and it shoots off) and some mortars. We looked around and found this really funny looking thing. It looked like a football with a tail and fins. We didn't know what that was so we started messing around with it and noticed the nose of it would come off. We twisted it and poured out the powder that was inside it into a bag. We realized that we found a live bomb, we threw the detonator against some trees a ways off from us and it made a really impressive BOOM. We decided to take it all back to the house (made several trips and hid it behind the shed so my dad wouldn't see it). We got my dad's tools and took apart every bullet, mortar, and anything else that had gunpowder in it. Poured it all into bags, found some cannon fuse in there too. Stuck the fuse into the mortar tube, filled it up with gunpowder, lit the fuse and sent a flare up into the air about 40 yards high!!! My dad never knew it, and we never realized that we could have blown ourselves up so easily. Ahhh, the innocent ignorance of little kids! Fun memories!