Weird, cool stuff you found in the woods.

I don't recall. This was more than ten years ago. They were most likely with the 3rd MAW since this is SoCal. You might be able to look up the number on the back.

 

That thing is just begging for someone to explore it. Although somewhere in there, there's a big pond judging by the stream headed into it.

 

There's a weird little graveyard near where I grew up. One of the stones says, "Stranger pause as you pass by, as you are now so once was I. As I am now you soon shall be, prepare for death and follow me.". Always creeped me right the hell out as a kid.

 

Thanks @ETAV8R .

 

From a friend of mine. I've known this guy since we were three years old (almost 40 years now), and he is not one to fabricate a story.

He killed a bear one time back when we were teenagers. He's a pretty strong guy, but it was a big bear and it was close to dark on a cool evening, so he decided to dress it out and bring help to get it the next morning (this was in a time and place without coyotes when you could do such things).

He came back the next morning with his dad and brother. The bear wasn't where he left it, but he found a drag trail where someone had moved it. They followed it and found the bear's skeleton a fair distance away, resting on top of a log, picked completely clean of all its meat, and displayed almost like a trophy. He said it looked like maggots had picked at it, it was so clean. They looked it over and couldn't find a knife mark on it anywhere. He said he has no idea who or what could have moved that bear and cleaned it so thoroughly without any butchering marks on it anywhere. He hopes it was some off the grid bunch of mountain people, because it let him sleep at night and still hunt those woods.

He told me the story when it happened, and again on a camping trip a few years ago, and it still shakes him up.

 

I'll go with the Sasquatch theory. It was eaten on the log like a dinner table. Mountain folk would've scavenged it where it laid.

 

That's where I'd put my money too. There's some weird shit out in the woods.

 

saw a baby elk carcass kinda displayed like a wall mount rug, Not much for tracks as birds scavenged it but even at that the ground was soft enough for me to leave a print. Of course i left my phone at home

 

I have a female fox living in the woods behind my house somewhere. I heard her calling tonight since the weather is nice and I have all my windows open. I grabbed the turkey call and g22 with the big Streamlight and sat in my garage with the inside lights off. Started sipping some homemade 140proof rum and called her for maybe 10 minutes until she quit calling back. I gave a few squeaks here and there and wasn’t just maybe 5 more minutes I heard the leaves crunching slowly up to the edge of the woods. Flashed the streamlight but couldn’t see her in the underbrush. I gave up and came back inside.

 

Thats it. She was just barking maybe 1/2 second at a time and then moving. Bark and move. I could tell she had covered maybe 150 yards towards me before she went silent. Last bark was maybe 40-60 yards away. Pretty dang cool. I need to find my colored varmint spotlight for next time.

 

We had a den in the small wooded area behind our house last year. They’ve moved on since.
The first time I heard one it freaked me out.

 

Went on a short hike with the wife and kids this afternoon. Along the trail I noticed a bottle top sticking out of the hillside just above head height (redwood forest) and looked like it still had liquor in it. Grabbed it and turned out to be a bottle from 1941 (based on markings) with the top still screwed tight. I was pumped on the find, my wife thought I was an idiot till I told her it was prohibition era bottle. Want to go back and see if anything else was around it.

 

So did it still have liquor in it?

 

Unfortunately no. Would have been sweet if it had 80 year old whiskey in it.

 

That's what I'm saying, still a awsome find!!

 

Neat find.
Prohibition ended in 1933.

 

What was so strange was that this was just a 100 yards away from a very well kempt campground.

 

found this along a little trout stream in Sproul State Forest in northern Pennsylvania, was bummed that it was broke but still neat to find an old clay pipe in the middle of nowhere

 

https://www.antiquebottles-glass.com/learn/federal-law-forbids-sale-or-reuse-of-this-bottle/