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Ifish needs a thread titled "weird people you have met in the woods" haha. Some strange individuals up here. Kind of funny listening to people talk about the south.

When I was 16, I lost my wallet in the woods in Grove hill. Looked all over the place for it with no joy. The next year, they burned the brush in that area and I happened to look down and found my wallet. Leather must have been wet during the burn and it survived. Money was falling apart but, the bank does trade ins. Not really weird but, it was cool.

Last year I accidently stumbled on a nice buck. Nothing strange to most of you I guess but for me, that's weird.

A friend found a black leather shoulder bag floating down the river when he went after a crippled duck. Had checks and credit card receipts from the night before at a local restaurant. I know a guy that is good friends with the owner so I called him to let him know we found it.

Someone had broken into his home, stole the cash and tossed the bag off the bridge.

That would be exceptionally weird for me too. I'd be stunned to see such out in the wild.

Found a man hung in a tree with a noose around his neck, and a sign pinned to him. Upon closer inspection the sign said "Dog Killer", and the man was hat, shirt, pants and boots all sewn together and stuffed with hay. Someone spent a lot of time on it. It was meant for me because the family that hunted the land for free (for 20 years) before we leased it was killing an adjoining club's dogs and telling the other club they witnessed us doing it.

I've killed two dogs in my life and both times was to stop them from suffering. Needless to say I never went to the place without packing heat!

Wow! I'd have had to cut down the straw man and dropped it back on their front lawn with a match to it... or something to that effect.

I found a pecker pump out in the woods on the mountain side overlooking Guntersville lake.Needless to say I left it were I found it.lol no way I was picking that up.

My brother found a dead guy in the river once. My brother was a locomotive engineer that took a coal train into Miller Steam plant. One day, as he was about to go into the plant he saw a fellow fishing on the river bank. He actually knew who the guy was and recognized him from a distance due to the car and seeing the guy was a double amputee. Both of his legs had been removed below the knees years before. The next day my brother was taking a train into the plant again and saw the guys car in the exact same spot but didn't see the guy. My bro thought it to be a little strange so he stopped the train and walked out on the front of it to get a better look. He looked down at the river and saw the guy floating.

" its not mine, I swear!!!!!!

I told y'all that ifish thread was awesome I didn't get anything done for about two days reading it

Hell I'll take it..I need all the help I can get.

I saw a squirrel carry an opened beer can up a hollow tree and tried to put it into his den. There must have been some left in it b/c each attempt he got worse in his efforts. After about ten minutes he stopped and laid on his stomach too drunk to move. After about two hours he got enough of his senses back to crawl notice I didn't say hop to a small overhang and creep under it. I got down a short time later and inspected the can which had been bent in the middle and at the crease there was a small opening where he was carrying it spilling its contents into his mouth. There was a little left in the can so I left the rest for last call in case he got enough nerve to try it again!

@ Maxwell

Teacher one, I believe I know exactly where that car is you mentioned .... were you guys close to a bluff near the Sipsey river?

Lost a knife one time when we were kids. One of those daggers that had a sheath that clip inside your boot so you felt tough as a young boy. Years later my buddy was Hunting with a friend and found it in the woods. I thought that was neat.

Oh yea I have came up on a couple of old moonshing stills. Again, not to strange but neat.

Middle of no where in the rockies west of Colorado Springs. Was sitting on a stump "rabbit or squirrel" hunting (i wasn't old enough to deer hunt). I looked down and half way buried in that old sawed stump was a .22 bullet. I dug it out and still have it at the house somewhere. I remember thinking how bad a headache i'd have gotten if i were sitting there when that bullet came down. We found a stolen jeep that someone just walked away from on that trip too. It had been there for quite a while. My dad's buddy reported it when we got home, but I don't think they ever heard any more about it.

We were in a bottom that bordered a creek in that area, but we were never able to find that place again. This was before the days of GPS and we were youg enough to travel 10-15 miles on each hunt if the need arose. I would love to see that old car again just to know where we were that morning. It would have been neat to have had that sucker restored. It would have been worth alot.

found a car steering wheel still attached to the steering column out in the middle of woods once. no where near a road. still haven't figured that one out...