Around 1997 I was going to scout on Choccolocco. I was up around rattlesnake mountain and came around a curve in the road and there were clothes strewn all over the road and a female laying on the side of the road. I slowed down and was about to stop but my gut told me something was fishy. The whole thing just didn’t look right so I kept going. When I came back by she was gone and all the clothes were too. Looking back I think it was a setup and there was probably someone waiting in the woods to ambush whoever stopped. This was also during the time the rainbow people were hanging out there.

Another time I was on Cahaba and my eye caught something in a tree. At first glance it looked like a body and my first thought was a hunter had a fatal fall from his stand. As I got closer it turned out to be a jacket that I guess had gotten blown up there during a storm.

That would be a good one for the local deputy to deal with.

4-5 yr ago while on an Aoudad hunt near Marfa, TX had climbed a rough mtn glassing, could see mtns in Mexico about 20 mi away. I'm getting a drink out of my pack and notice a white-robed person walking quickly down a dusty washed out rd about 1/2 mi away quartering toward me, he has a long walking stick and his robe is flowing as he walks briskly. I swear from that distance it looked like Jesus ; anyway all of a sudden he stops and in the bright sunlight I can see a glistening arc appear from him dropping to the ground. he had the urge and stopped to pee!! found out later from the ranch owner that there's a monastery about 6 mi away and the monks walk from there to a spring about 10 mi away to meditate and get a drink. also saw a hawk caught by a turtle a couple yrs ago-I guess the hawk was messing with the turtle and the turtle closed his shell pinning the hawk's foot in the shell!! he could fly , but only a few yards before crashing. I pried the shell open enough for the hawk to escape

not public land, BUT I was turkey hunting one morning, setting back against a tree. I heard something LOUD RUNNING TOWARDS ME WHEN A 20ISH year old WOMAN came into view running wide open thru saplings, briars, all of it. No trail or anything, thru the woods. Went out of sight sill running FAST. I quietly got up and left. WTH????

Extensive ruins of a stone structure in the middle of the woods, Choccolocco WMA.
Small cave in the side of a hill and approximately ~20 ft. long near the Pinhoti Trail - Choccolocco WMA.
Mature chestnut tree within eyesight of a mtb trail on Coldwater Mountain (Calhoun County).
Jaguarundi cat (on private land) -- got a good look at it and no, it definitely was not a house cat -- a neighbor saw it around that time as well.

Was just getting into Mulberry when I saw a glowing orb descend out of the sky
It landed somewhere In Mulberry
This was maybe 0430
Cloudless morning and this was not a meteor it was a round glowing orb
It descended too fast to be a helicopter
I never saw it go back up

Speaking of glowing orbs, wasn’t there a phenomenon in Centreville (Bibb County) called The Centreville Lights? Seems I remember it was a certain dirt road and if you went at a certain time 2-3 glowing orbs could be seen hovering in the road. And when approached they would disappear.

I had the same thing happen to me in the mid 90’s in the Talledega Nat’l Forest near Tuscaloosa. When I drove in to my spot no one was there. I came out of the woods to see hundreds of hippies mixed with skinheads everywhere. That was the only time I clicked my safety off all morning.

Wild coveys of quail

No way!

Not strange or weird but there's a historical marker in middle of oakmulgee mgt area that marks one of Alabama's oldest homestead's.its old church site that tells about family's living in area who attended the church.ive found old medicine bottle in the area along with old homestead area.
Near Shiloh church for y'all in the know on area.

Jumped up a many quail in conecuh ntl forest but that was 20 yrs sgo

Yeah you actually have to hunt and hunt hard to be productive on public land unless your a good hunter or have great luck.that expensive hunting club doesn't buy you a wall hanger out of a shooting house on public land.
Most guys raised hunting public land will out do everyone on private land

Listening to rap music while tracking deer with my dogs always comes to mind first.

In the last 5 years I’ve heard one covey on oakmulgee and seen 3 coveys on mulberry fork. But the ones I saw at mulberry fork were all within the same 500 yard stretch of road so it could have been same covey just multiple times.

3% - some of best turkey hunting i ever had was on hard hunted wma public turkey land - i would tag out there - i had only hunted private before and was instantly very successful when i got to wma (took few weeks to learn)

Maybe hunting w some of the best turkey hunters in the county helped me - i no it did

The private i got now is some of the toughest turkey huntin i ever had - mainly because they leave n spring

I wish i had the public land i use to hav - multiple birds to a tag out every year there and hunting public is not a prerequisite to being good hunter

Weirdest thing I found was on Ivory Mountain in Cleburne County. A bunch of piled up rock cairns scattered through the woods. There was an old iron chisel on top of one of them. I'm assuming they were graves of some sort.

Saw an Ostrich in the woods in Blanch once. Middle of nowhere.

Killed a turkey in Mullberry Fork WMA a couple of years ago AND saw a covey of quail!

Was it in season?