Spooky Animal Skulls

[Lt.Dan]

This wasnt a geocaching trip, but on another occasion, i was playing paintball in the woods with my friends. I crawled underneath a hemlock tree, and glanced overhead, and to my frightful horror, there was a giant skull hanging in the tree. I then looked around and there were 2 or 3 more, hanging in similar trees, arounf a 30 to 40 foot area.

 

They looked to be a pig or bear skull, or maybe a very large dog. It was a massive head, about large watermelon sized with very large powerful jaws and pretty massive teeth and canines. They had wire wrapped thru the jaw and nostrils and were hanging, tied to limbs, about 5 feet off the ground. The skin and what was left of the hair were shrivelled up and tight to the bone.

 

Now Im thinking it was probabaly done by some guy who had the (bear?) skulls and wanted to hang them up and let the elements and maggots eat away the flesh, to leave him with a clean bone skull. I have done this with smaller animal skulls, but I know a guy with a mess of Carrion beetles, who can clean a skull in about 3 days. Then you boil and bleach it, and its museum quality.

 

Anyway, this was quite a wierd discovery, and really freaky too. Anyone else come across eerie Voodoo - Blair Witch type things

[+SeaTrout]

Someone found this

Near one of my caches.

Care to guess what it was ?

Seatrout

[+SnowLeopard]

(Sorry, meant to post this story in the Creepy forum, not the Spooky forum )

Edited April 27, 2004 by SnowLeopard

[+tirediron]

Someone found this

Near one of my caches.

Care to guess what it was ?

Seatrout

Hard to say without a reference for size, but it sure looks like a turtle of some sort to me.

[+Stem]

I did a cache last summer on state game lands. It was near the dump spot for dead deer. It was a hole probably 20' by 30'. There were thousands of bones in there. There weren't too many newly departed in there, mostly just piles of bones, and of course 1 mattress. I couldn't help but picture Antlers Soprano and his boys pulling up and sending a friend on a long "vacation".

[+SeaTrout]

I'ts about 24" tall.

 

Just kidding It is a large sea turtle skull.

Seatrout

[+Desert_Warrior]

I'ts about 24" tall.

 

Just kidding It is a large sea turtle skull.

Seatrout

Skulls and bones all over the desert here. I usually drag them home and put them in the garden. Got a real buffalo skull in there.

[+Team Tigger International]

One cache we went after had us encounter a dead deer smack in the middle of the trail in. Didn't look like it'd been dead for long and we had no idea why it was dead (no obvious damage or blood). We found another trail to follow and found most of the boring bones of another deer sticking outta the ground (no skull).

 

Another cache we found had a small skull hanging in a hollow log with the co-ords hanging from it. Scared the heck outta me as i round the log and saw it. LOL

 

Wulf

Edited April 27, 2004 by Team Tigger International

[91B10]

I found this. It is about 10-12" long. I took it to a few marine biology professors, an anatomy professor, emailed the picture to several "bone dealers" and there is no definitive answer as to what it came from.

 

[Shiraz-mataz]

I was making a quick run into the woods to drop off a TB in "Just Plane Crazy" when I came to a sudden stop. Right next to the trail was a large garbage bag - a swarm of flies buzzing around. The head of a full grown dog glared at me through a hole in the bag, his slightly decaying flesh revealing teeth which seemed to silently growl. Someone had probably dispatched a neighbor's dog and decided to toss the body along the trail instead of burying it. Over the past couple months others have posted about the dog's condition. Last I heard it was nearly all bones.

[+PezCachers]

We did one over the weekend called " The Boneyard" GCHAQQ

Guess where the cache was hidden. Got there right at sunset too. Perfect!

Pezcachers

[SCP-173]

I've always collected skulls and bones when I'm out hiking. Sadly I've never found anything larger then a deer. I've got quite the collection, though, and if I can ever bring myself to part with them I might hide a bone themed cache!

 

 

Oops! She's not a skull!

Edited May 6, 2004 by Vargseld

[+joefrog]

I was hiking in a "nature park" area near me. We took a trail we hadn't taken in ages and went to one of the old mine ruins. (birmingham is heavy in iron ore, and was a steel-making capital) We hiked down to the mine opening, and found a suitcase-like box. Like a fool, I opened it... and found a dead cat! Had a collar, a favorite toy, etc. Guess someone thought they were "burying" the box by throwing it down. They didn't realize that the opening could be walked down to, I don't know!

 

Yeeeech...

 

[+Beta Test]

Never found one, but some guy at my high school wears one around his neck that he found. Wether not it was while caching I am not sure, but I'm leaning towards no.

[+SixDogTeam]

For some reason the skulls seem to last the longest. Maybe because there's not much meat on them. The ribs and limbs seem to get gnawed on and consumed...

[+protocoldroid]

usually only see deer skulls, and some smaller animals (foxes, racoons, i dunno what), but... my girlfriend swears she sees at least one animal skull every time we're out geocaching.

 

it'd take it as a bad omen, but... she also said she's them every time we've gone fishing this spring...

 

...so it's really a bad omen for fishing, cause i'm having a good season of caching, and a really crumby one for fishing

[+Anne Bonney]

This was a couple of weeks ago, but I found a section of spine from some critter. Didn't look to be domestic. There was about 7 or 8 vertebrae still aligned, some dried "meat" on 'em. Couldn't've been too fresh, my terriers paid it no mind.

 

Of course, I brought it home and added it to my collection that I got in my pre-caching days--deer parts mostly.

 

If I find enough different parts maybe I'll create a whole new animal--geocachius mutitudinous et obscura

[+Bjorn74]

Just today, I saw what looked like a calf face with the rest of the remains picked at. Upon closer inspection it was a fish that had been beached when the water level dropped from the flooding we've had this year. The thing must have been 4 feet long when it was alive! Now it's dismantled and flat.

Edited May 14, 2004 by Bjorn74

[+klaus23]

I, unknownst to me, stood on a badger skull while writing a log.

The skull, half buried, then gave way with a horrible splintering sound.

I thought for a second that I'd broken my leg.

[habercacher]

I`ve found several skulls while caching.Why just the other day, I was out of town visiting my folks.On the way home,I decided to stop at this town park for a quickie cache.I was the only soul around,& couldn`t find the dang cache.GPSr was goin` haywire again.It zeroed out at this large canine skull.Here I am all alone,in a town i`ve never been to,its getting late,lots of tree cover,& my minds goin`...this is kind of a Bliar Witch thing goin` on:) I thought, I`m sure as hell not going to dig around in that skull cavity for a freakin` smiley face! I turned around only to have a branch whack me in the face! I just about soiled my shorts!! As I`m picking briars out my flesh,I spot the real cache.Swap swag & got the heck outta there!Now it seems silly ,but at the time well I guess ya`ll had to be there.

[Micqn]

I also always found it interesting to find animal bones strewn across an area near a cache site. To me it always made the experience a little different. Next to my Games People Play cache there are animal bone around. In one instance I found a couple of really nasty dead birds (log). Personally I would rather find cool bones than stinking nasty dead animals.

 

*Edited for grammatical errors*

Edited May 20, 2004 by Micqn