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Wierd things you have seen in the woods.
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[quote:Albanian-1:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzI4Nzc5MzkwXzYwRDVBOUMw] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1501510:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzI4Nzc5Mjg5XzFEMDRBMTI=] Growing up in the country, my neighbors and I would spend innumerable hours walking in the woods that were close around. One particular time while walking in the woods with two of my neighbors, we came to a clearing about 20-30 yards long with a creek running beside it. We decided to take a break and take in a bit of the scenery since it was in the fall and the leaves were changing colors and falling off of the trees before we ventured on. While we were standing there talking, this old man just seemingly appears from out of nowhere and starts talking to us. My buddies and I were just kind of looking wide-eyed at each other wondering where in the hell this old man had came from. The ground was completely covered with fallen leaves and it was physically impossible for him to walk up to us without us hearing or seeing him. The old man was very friendly but I couldn't help getting the feeling that something just wasn't right about him. I can remember at the time looking at his clothes and thinking to myself that I've never even seen clothes like this before. He was wearing a dirty light blue denim shirt, old dirty denim jeans and an old train engineer's hat. I didn't realize it until many years later since I was probably only 15 at the time and this was the age before the internet but the old man's clothes looked to be from the approxiamately late 1800's. We talked to him for probably 15 minutes or so but the only things I can remember him saying to us was that he was a ditch digger and that he had helped dig the ditch that was now the creek. He stated that they had dug this ditch for over 70 miles through all kinds of terrain and that it eventually ran into the Ohio River. He said that it was grueling, excruciating, back-breaking work and that for every mile of the creek that they had dug, they had buried a man who had succumbed to the heat or just simply dropped dead from exhaustion. He also said the ghosts of those dead men walk continuously along this creek. He then pointed to an area beside the creek which was about 20 feet away from us and said, "That's where they buried me." Naturally, we all looked to where he was pointing and when we turned back around the old man was completely gone. Vanished. Right into thin air. Not a trace around anywhere. [/quote] :uhoh: that is scary as hell... id have a heart attack... explain what he looked like? his movements and general emotions? [/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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