Dear diary,
Jackpot!

There is a large house on one of the properties we hunt. It was mostly ag fields until the early 1990's when it was planted in pines. In what was once one of the fields there was a large house from the 1800's with the windows and doors long gone that is now surrounded by pines. On my way to a deer stand one early morning before you could really see, I was slipping by house and noticed something white move by one of the windows. I froze. Watched, listened...nothing. Started to take a step and saw something white move by the door. I froze, watched, listened....;nothing. Stood there watching intently and then saw it move in front of a window, this time I heard footsteps. I was about to set my own personal land speed record when it finally stepped into the open. A white GOAT...a ghost white GOAT. Not sure where it came from, but it had taken up residence in the old abandoned house. At first you couldn't hear it move because part of the floor had rotted away and in several of the rooms it was just dirt.

It lived in that house for about three years. Always got a little nervous when I went by that house.

I was in the timber business for 12 years and I found lots of things in the woods.

Awesome story.......

Here's the rock pile I mentioned....found WAY off the beaten path on public land. It was a bit taller than me. At first glance it looked like the remnants of an old wall or structure, but it wasn't just one "layer" thick, like you'd expect a wall to be, if that makes sense. And it appeared to have been there a while.

You think those are land survey markers?

Awesome story.......

Looks like the base of an old chimney

You think those are land survey markers?

There is a large house on one of the properties we hunt. It was mostly ag fields until the early 1990's when it was planted in pines. In what was once one of the fields there was a large house from the 1800's with the windows and doors long gone that is now surrounded by pines. On my way to a deer stand one early morning before you could really see, I was slipping by house and noticed something white move by one of the windows. I froze. Watched, listened...nothing. Started to take a step and saw something white move by the door. I froze, watched, listened....;nothing. Stood there watching intently and then saw it move in front of a window, this time I heard footsteps. I was about to set my own personal land speed record when it finally stepped into the open. A white GOAT...a ghost white GOAT. Not sure where it came from, but it had taken up residence in the old abandoned house. At first you couldn't hear it move because part of the floor had rotted away and in several of the rooms it was just dirt.

It lived in that house for about three years. Always got a little nervous when I went by that house.

It’s not near as strange as some of these stories, but while hunting a seemingly little known and not easy to access area on Wheeler last year I stumbled across a very strange abandoned site of some sort. There was what almost looked like a concrete cellar hole/foundation except it was way to small and appeared to have a bench cast in place at the bottom. There was what I can only guess was a well hole with a fairly substantial structure built around it and there were rotted out galvanized washtubs strewn all around, probably close to a dozen total. It’s all old enough that there’s no evidence of any wood structures, but new enough that concrete and metal wash tubs existed.

This is more than a mile walk from the closest road, but within sight of the water. Anyone ever stumbled across this themselves?

Here's the rock pile I mentioned....found WAY off the beaten path on public land. It was a bit taller than me. At first glance it looked like the remnants of an old wall or structure, but it wasn't just one "layer" thick, like you'd expect a wall to be, if that makes sense. And it appeared to have been there a while.

I got a good one from just this past weekend!

So my son and I are getting ready to leave Barbour Co midday Sunday. As we’re about to leave Hunter tells me he forgot something in the stand, so we take off to go get it. We turn on the dirt county road our land is on and make our way to the gate. We come around a curve and I see a car in the road and a big 350 lb black dudes ass. Soon as I come around the curve he starts fishing for his basketball shorts and pulling them up. He heads for his car and I see another person sprawled across the trunk in a pink ballerina outfit frizzy pink skirt and all. She had to roll off the trunk because she easily had 100 more lbs than the dude. She gets in her car and takes off and he slow rolls by with them big white teeth grinning at us. My son and I were dying laughing.

In the middle of the day on a county road. SMH

I've hunted Wheeler all over and have never seen this. Is in the vicinity of the I65 bridge?