What's the strangest thing you've run across in the woods while GeoCaching?

[+Douce Us 5]

I can't tell you how many times I've been in the woods in the middle nowhere and ran into a refrigerator or a stove or a rusted out old car, and wondered how & why did this end up here?

 

The other day I saw something about 6' off of the ground draped over a branch of a pine tree that caught my eye......it was a 5' long spine with parts of the ribs still attached. I'm assuming it was from a deer, but how and why would it be 6' off the ground in a tree???

 

Lets hear your stories.........

[+Geobuzzbee]

on a cache hunt in middle of a wooded area i came across a small cave in my hope of finding some thing new a entered the small hole,to my horror after a short crawl was a car seat out of a 1967 ford cortian how and y would some one take the time to drag it in to the woods let alone in to a small cave?? but good came out of it as there was a single bat for me to enjoy

maybe the dear was hung up and quartered???

[+Nicodemus3]

I think I stumbled upon a homeless person's home a few weeks ago: large piece of carpet draped over leaning tree like a makeshift tent, chair and many other personal items.

[+skraeling]

See my DNF for "Breathless" I found a perfectly good/ripe watermelon on a rocky butte in the middle of nowhere: Breathless (2nd picture).

[+JohnnyVegas]

What I stumbled on I can not post if the forums.

[+wimseyguy]

It's been at least 3-4 years since this 'find' and nothing has topped it since, so I mention it whenever this topic comes up.

The strangest object ever found out in the woods while looking for a cache was an extremely large, I mean really really big, as in big enough that we took a pic with a size 11 shoe next to it for reference, chocolate colored pleasure toy. But the really odd part was that it had been repaired at some point in its sordid history with traditional silver colored duct tape.

 

And we were only about 50' into the woods from a parking lot behind a busy neighborhood Italian restaurant.

 

I cannot post the pics here as this is supposed to be a family friendly forum.

[Charmed_1]

The strangest thing Ive seen so far at a brand new cache, were 30 porno mags! . You'd think if it was a new cache someone would've seen them first. Cleaned them up and disposed of them

[+Tequila]

What I stumbled on I can not post if the forums.

 

I had one of those two. 110 degrees outside. Bugs everywhere. And here are two naked fat people in the middle of nowhere. I almost quit caching over the sight of it.

[+LukeTrocity]

fire hydrant in the middle of the woods.... Seriously there's nothing around.

Edited October 23, 2010 by LukeTrocity

[+Coldgears]

fire hydrant in the middle of the woods.... Seriously there's nothing around.

Is that the cache? If not then I have definatly seen this before. In my area there is a small piece of woods about 500 feet long. In the middle of it they have a fire hydrant. There's no reason for it, there's no houses that could be burned down!

[+LukeTrocity]

fire hydrant in the middle of the woods.... Seriously there's nothing around.

Is that the cache? If not then I have definatly seen this before. In my area there is a small piece of woods about 500 feet long. In the middle of it they have a fire hydrant. There's no reason for it, there's no houses that could be burned down!

Its not the cache, its a working hydrant.

[7rxc]

You guys don't have bush fires?? I think lots of interface areas extend watermains way beyond the end of the finished road allowances, hydrants with them... I'd like to see a few more that way around here... makes it a bit easier to put water on a wildfire. Sure beats long runs with a bucket

 

Doug 7rxc

[+a-body]

Other than the gal who thought she was Linda Lovelace, the weirdest thing I have seen is a hammock strung between 2 trees. 30 feet in the air, no ladder.

[Mr.Yuck]

Oh, geez. Lingerie hanging from trees on a few occasions. I don't know what's up with that. Junk cars in the woods on a few occasions. Or Junk cars in an 1850's era Lock of the abandoned 3rd Welland Canal (since replaced by the 4th Welland Canal). I assume they put bricks on the gas pedal and watch whilst drinking Molson Golden.

 

Edited October 24, 2010 by Mr.Yuck

[+narcissa]

Rusted out cars in the woods are one of my favourite things.

[Mr.Yuck]

Other than the gal who thought she was Linda Lovelace, the weirdest thing I have seen is a hammock strung between 2 trees. 30 feet in the air, no ladder.

 

Well, there's a whole "Ever stumble on backwoods loving?" thread over in "The Hunt - The Unusual" forum. I did stumble on some once, but it was like 1979, and I was a teenager. They didn't notice me.

[+Scooter Rider]

Other geocachers

[+brodiebunch]

A shopping cart about twenty feet up in a tree (appeared to have had the tree grow up around it

 

A 3' x 3' safe with its door ripped off

 

Then we were camping at Mount Rainier as a kid (geocaching did not exist back then), a man walked by me in a three piece suit, boler hat, walking stick and gray spats. He said hello as he passed me on a trail. My mom asked me if I had seen him too.

[+brodiebunch]

A shopping cart about twenty feet up in a tree (appeared to have had the tree grow up around it

 

A 3' x 3' safe with its door ripped off

 

Then we were camping at Mount Rainier as a kid (geocaching did not exist back then), a man walked by me in a three piece suit, boler hat, walking stick and gray spats. He said hello as he passed me on a trail. My mom asked me if I had seen him too.

[+Alkhalikoi]

The weirdest thing I've ever found while geocaching was running into some other weird guy looking for a geocache. I think the feeling was mutual.

[sdarken]

The other day I saw something about 6' off of the ground draped over a branch of a pine tree that caught my eye......it was a 5' long spine with parts of the ribs still attached. I'm assuming it was from a deer, but how and why would it be 6' off the ground in a tree???

 

Sounds like this skeleton that I saw in a tree a few months ago while geocaching:

 

[aniyn]

[+michigansnorkelers]

The other day I saw something about 6' off of the ground draped over a branch of a pine tree that caught my eye......it was a 5' long spine with parts of the ribs still attached. I'm assuming it was from a deer, but how and why would it be 6' off the ground in a tree???

 

Sounds like this skeleton that I saw in a tree a few months ago while geocaching:

 

 

Reindeer? Poor Rudolph!

 

Maybe Bigfoot dragged it up there?

 

Perhaps a Mountain Lion? But Mountain Lions don't do this. Leopards do.

 

Or, ...

 

http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=2691

[+yorelken]

A group of about 20 old tvs in neat stacks of four of or five in a place in the woods where it would have taken some effort to put them there.

Edited October 24, 2010 by yorelken

[sabrefan7]

I think I stumbled upon a homeless person's home a few weeks ago: large piece of carpet draped over leaning tree like a makeshift tent, chair and many other personal items.

 

Same for me on this cache. GCNQRT

This cache IS an old car. GCK4VV

Plus the (un) usual assorted undergarments

Edited October 24, 2010 by sabrefan7

[sabrefan7]

lots of time outs today

Edited October 24, 2010 by sabrefan7

[+Count Fartula]

A naked man walked down the trail while I was out last summer.

[+theshows]

A dead animal (maybe a cat by the type of fur hanging out) in a back pack and a homeless man camped out on the trail. A couple places that seemed to be abandoned shelters.

[+tx_brewer]

cat traps and a story about an old crazy guy in the corner behind the fence, that traps them and eats them.. there was cat food tins out everywhere luring them to the area. Got the cache though

[+Corfman Clan]

I stumbled upon this on the way to Chaos Flash:

[+Corfman Clan]

I scurried by this (not my picture) on the way to Call of the Canyon:

[+Scubasonic]

When I was fairly new to caching I was in the woods looking for a cahe and came across a younger couple have sex on a blanket in the woods just off the main trail.

 

Scubasonic

[Mikferd]

We found someones play with yourself hidey hole, complete with mags, tube of lube and tissues.

Kind of disturbing to find in the woods.

We have also stumbled upon some pot plants that we left alone as well.

[+power69]

I scurried by this (not my picture) on the way to Call of the Canyon:

looks like skeleton of ammo box.

[+power69]

fire hydrant in the middle of the woods.... Seriously there's nothing around.

What if there was a forest fire?

[+power69]

I'd have to say a loaded 22 handgun in a ammocan in the mountains[took it for safetys sake]

who leaves a gun in a cache? think people THINK!

[+Harry Dolphin]

About a quarter mile in, on an old abandoned road.

 

[+Fusilli Jerry]

after all these years of hiking I've come to the conclusion that abandoning cars in the woods is a new jersey right of passage

 

also saw this deep in a swamp area. kind of spooky

 

Edited October 25, 2010 by Fusilli Jerry

[+Fusilli Jerry]

Sounds like this skeleton that I saw in a tree a few months ago while geocaching:

 

is it just me or does that look like a human hand on the left side of the picture?

[+Ampresearch]

for me its not so much the "strang stuff" i find butinstead its the fact that i find anything in some of the places i go.

 

for example yesterday i wentmosr then a mile out into the woods looking for a new location for my cache. i was in a VERY over grown area that was not easy to walk through (i got the cuts and scratches to prove it today) at last i came to a sopt that i loved and i thought was pleasing to to be. sure enough i see beer cans/cig butts/bags. i mean i know bums live in woods but they sure as hell dont live in this part of the woods.

 

the only thing i can think of is these areas have not always been over grown and thats when this stuff got there

[+schwcoop]

Sounds like this skeleton that I saw in a tree a few months ago while geocaching:

 

is it just me or does that look like a human hand on the left side of the picture?

 

And have you seen the two faces between the long bones????

Strange, utterly strange....

Insert creepy music here

 

Pierre

[+Too Tall John]

I've met several cachers on the trail who, I'm sure, would all agree the strangest thing they ran across in the woods while geocaching was me.

[+Braid Beard's gang]

The other day I saw something about 6' off of the ground draped over a branch of a pine tree that caught my eye......it was a 5' long spine with parts of the ribs still attached. I'm assuming it was from a deer, but how and why would it be 6' off the ground in a tree???

 

I bet you were caching in a dog park again. I have been to a few and it is common to see bones in the trees to keep them out of reach of the canines.

[+schwcoop]

Sounds like this skeleton that I saw in a tree a few months ago while geocaching:

 

is it just me or does that look like a human hand on the left side of the picture?

 

And have you seen the two faces between the long bones????

Strange, utterly strange....

Insert creepy music here

 

Pierre

Could it be.... Jimmy Hoffa

[+Waazdag]

Sounds like this skeleton that I saw in a tree a few months ago while geocaching:

 

is it just me or does that look like a human hand on the left side of the picture?

 

Actually that would be a foot... given the human like appearance possibly a bear?

[+Team Dromomania]

Witches circle, crack pipe a few miles into the wilderness where lots of bushwhacking was required, iphone - which I was able to return to the owner, 1920 penny in the middle of the woods, sex toys, kangaroo mouse, and much more. I always have fun on my hiking cache runs.

[+Sol seaker]

Sounds like this skeleton that I saw in a tree a few months ago while geocaching:

 

is it just me or does that look like a human hand on the left side of the picture?

 

That's what I was thinking too.

 

Does anyone know what a human skeleton looks like?

 

I can't think of what kind of animal would have that hand besides us.

[+Too Tall John]

Sounds like this skeleton that I saw in a tree a few months ago while geocaching:

is it just me or does that look like a human hand on the left side of the picture?

That's what I was thinking too.

 

Does anyone know what a human skeleton looks like?

 

I can't think of what kind of animal would have that hand besides us.

Someone already said it, but how about a bear?

[+Castle Mischief]

Does anyone know what a human skeleton looks like?

 

I can't think of what kind of animal would have that hand besides us.

 

Without something for scale, it's going to be hard to identify.

 

Could be opossum, raccoon, bear or any number of mammals.

[+Ecylram]

is it just me or does that look like a human hand on the left side of the picture?

A lot of animal paws can look like this when they are nothing but bone.