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Wierd things you have seen in the woods.
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[quote:MinuteByMinute:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzI5ODA1MDQyXzk2RTREMjMx] [quote:goldenmean81:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzI5ODAyMDQ0X0UyNTA0RkJE] My brother told me a weird woods story last night after I told him about this thread. He usually hunts deer on his own land, but this past year he decided to hunt on some wooded land that belongs to my parents. Its about 100 acres of thick forrest. The evening before he was planning on hunting, he took his portable stand and went to scout out a good place to set up his stand for the next morning. He ended up going really deep in to the woods and the sun was just starting to set when he came upon a nice little clearing that was full of acorns. He found a suitable tree and proceeded to set up his stand. He then climbed up in it and sat for a bit to rest before he started the long walk out of the woods back to his truck. As he was sitting he caught a movement off to his right side out of the corner of his eye. He slowly turned to look so as not to startle it with his movements because he assumed it was a deer. It was in fact another hunter. He said the man was "dressed like Daniel Boone" with a coon skin hat and he was carrying a riffle at his side. John, my brother was pissed because the guy was apparently hunting on my parents land where he had no business being. He set very quietly and watched the guy as he approached. He was going to confront him when he came closer but didn't want to scare him and get shot. So the guy came closer and he walkes behind a huge oak tree that was at the edge of the clearing directly across from where John sat. He was totally unaware that he was being watched. John sat and waited for the man to reappear on the other side of the tree. After waiting a minute or two he was like wth is this guy doing because he didn't reappear in a reasonable amount of time. So he climbed down to see what the guy was doing behind the tree. When he got to the tree and looked, there was no one there. The man had simply vanished when he went behind the tree because according to my brother he would have seen him go off in any direction, from his birds eye view up on his stand. Needless to say he was very shaken up and left out of there as fast as he could. The next day he went back to hunt and said he felt really ill at ease the whole time he was there. He was having no luck with the hunting so he decided to walk around a bit and scope out another place to set up. As he left the clearing he found a well travelled game path and followed that for few minutes, it led to a small stream which he crossed and on the other side the path continued ,after a bit he came to another clearing in which there were the remains of an old cabin, nothing much left but a few logs and a chimney. There is no way of knowing if the man he saw was connected in any way to the old cabin, but he said he felt strongly that this was the guys home many years ago. The land has been in my family for years but we don't know any thing about the history of it before we owned it. [/quote] Great Story!! [/quote]
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I got a special wilderness permit to go into an area in the mountains in CA where they hadn't allowed foot traffic in, in twenty years. There were no trails. It was myself and two other Marines and we did it in exchange for seeing if there was a rare kind of trout in the streams up there. I guess the forest service didn't have anyone who wanted to do it. I'm not sure I was set up with this by a friend. Anyway we hiked for two days with no trails using just a map and compass and on the second day we walked around this huge cliff to find a full on cabin with a lawn and solar power and washer and dryer the whole nine yards all built into the rock face of the cliff. You couldn't see it from above so it had gone unoticed for years. We talked to the guy that lived there and he said we were the first people he had seen hike in, in 14 years. He was a retired helicopter pilot and he had flown all the equipment in by helo. He was squatting on federal land and knew it but didn't seem worried. He said he hikes out every two weeks for supplies by a different route then we came in and he showed it to us. We used that route to get back as he had a trail beaten down so the walking was easier. All in all it was pretty cool. The trout the forest service was looking for were in the creeks so it is still closed to foot travel and we never told the forest service about the old helicopter pilot so I would bet he is still out there.
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