Wierd things you have seen in the woods.

damn, I'm gonna have to go through these and read them all.. but I can only just remember one thing for me that stands out.

I was searching for dope in the woods, a kid, 15-16.

I came across something very weird, I'd like to say it was the "predator", but something rushed by me, and then in between some trees,... this spooked THE SHIT out of me.
it was not human, nor a large animal.
never forget it

I ducked low for about 4-5 minutes, an eternity. and then I RAN.

Back in the early 70's I was driving on highway that was also a logging road in Washington state.
I pulled over to go pee and walked into the tall trees just off the road. I catch a glimpse of bright light thru' the forest and walk maybe 100' to see what is so bright.
The forest simply ended and I walked out to see miles of stubbled hills and valleys.
Miles and miles of cut timber. There are no trees or forest to be seen except the narrow strip of thick trees alongside the miles of road.

I was stunned. They'd cut all the trees uniformly like a man's 3 day stubble of beard on his face.
I got this sensation of being witness to something sinister but more than anything, the confusion made me feel kind of numb.

Here's the wierdest part. I get back on the road and within a few minutes I am run off the road by logging truck going at least 75+mph. I watched in my rear view mirror that the semi truck wasn't going to slow down - in fact, the semi was bearing down - and so I floored it. My car was a 71 VW Super Bug and I was going as fast as I could but that giant semi kept getting closer and closer in my rear view mirror.
Finally I veer right.. onto the shoulder and almost lose control while the thing blows by me like a freight train with 2 open container loads full of logs.

He would have slammed into me if I hadn't pulled over.

My heart is racing so I turn off the engine even tho' my car is facing sideways and I'm in a bad place to park.

Then, I get another impression. This time that the forest area I was passing thru' was being raped and killed. And that tourists, locals and anyone driving that road was being faked-out.. lied to... it was all a facade.. and I had discovered the ugly secret.

I'll try to find the time to write a few more stories this weekend. I'm out of the really weird stories but I have had some very interesting animal encounters while exploring the northern woods of MI ;-)

Have a great weekend

Michael.

Sorry it will be a bit I have a grant proposal to do that fell on my desk, it has a April 20th dead line so I need to get it together ASAP.

think your refuring to a porcupine there a pest eating all the bark off the trees

A flying squirrel. Squirrels, that fucking fly?!? Think about it.

Yes there are flying squirrels, they're a lot smaller than regular gray squirrels and they really do fly. I've been seeing them here in N.E.IL & S.E. WI
for about 12 years, had one land next to my head while bowhunting in a treestand last fall.

Excellent answer...from a place with lots of snow, lol!

My husband & I had two as pets. Cats brought them into house when they were babies so we saved them. We tried to acclimate them back to the wilds as teenagers but they wouldn't leave & would just hang out at doors & windows until they could get back in.

We had a front room with high beams that they liked to hang out on and would glide down to us from the beams. They have large webs in their armpits that allow them to glide.

Best pets ever. Not as aggressive as other squirrels. They were very affectionate.

My back yard is partly wooded and I see all kinds of animals around here, particularly birds, since I put out seeds and other things for them to eat.
Yeserday was a bit weird, when I was sitting here at the computer and I heard a loud thump from the patio door, it sounded almost hard enough to break the glass.
I saw a hawk on the patio, and when I moved out of my chair, he flew away.
Then I went to the patio door and saw a dove laying under the side of the grill, his eye blinking spasmodically and blood spurting from his head.
Well now I know what happened, the hawk snatched the dove from the grape arbor, lost its grip and it smashed into the patio door, and if you know anything about hawks is that they hit their prey at 50-60 MPH, that's why it was so loud of an impact.
So, I left the dove there for about 5 Min.,and went back stealthily to see if he came back for his prey, and the dumbass hawk was standing at the patio door staring into the house looking for the dove, but the dead dove was laying about 36 inches behind him.
Apparently the hawk thought the dove went into the house, where he was looking until I spooked him.
I eventually took the dead dove out into the yard where a crow ate him.

i live on the west coast of vancouver island and i have
seen my fair share of wierd things,

1.) during the summers here i pack up and live
in the bush by one of our beaches. one day i met
a group of boys looking for a place to camp for free
so i led them to my tent/driftwood living room summer house.
one night they had gone to bed and a random guy comes out
of nowhere and says hes with these guys, I think nothing
of it and offer him a few beers. In the morning he
was gone and had also stolen the boys' visas, passports ect.
The guys had no idea about this other one.. keep in mind
this was about a 25 min hike off any sort of path and he
showed up at about 3 am.

2.) while mushroom picking i found an old military bunker
in an old growth forest, it came up on a 30 degree angle from
under trees that had been there for a long time, with just
a concrete face exposed with a door that was held open from
years of dead foliage buildup. i did not go in, it had a bad vibe.

there is soo much more..

They just have a web of skin like bat wings down their sides, and they jump from tree to tree, with their "wings" out and coast on the air, sort of like a hang glider - but they don't flap them like a bird. Here's a vid:

RePinning my favorite thread as my good-bye to GLP - coming soon...

Not too strange, but here you go, living in FL I was wandering at a lake edge in a swamp, I happened upon a gator trail and found a partially eaten fish that looked rather odd. It appeared to be a rather large semi-prehistoric looking fish from South America, not one you normally could catch fishing in the lake. The gator apparently left it there partially eaten and maggots covered the underside. I didn't stay around to see if I could happen upon a gator.

Where are you going :(

I tryed to open one of the sealed caves today in full Pazyryk fasion. They did a realy good job sealing that baby up.

I took dumb-ass(horse) with me just in case there were giants.

He alerted me that there was a boulder above my head and in the red clay and red and purple rocks the seemed to be lots of sulfur.

lots of sparks and that smell and dumb-ass realy was in to smelling the hammer.

No. I didn't make it in and when I go back I will get that boulder to fall first.

And how about a couple nude photos first.

I saw the Slenderman once....

and two ghosts (on separate occasions) O.O

I also feed birds and my cats love to sit by the patio door watching the birds, one day a Coopers Hawk must have thought the cats were outside and the hawk slammed into the patio door with great velocity.

The cats scrambled then returned to watch the dazed hawk stand by the door trying to regain its composure and senses while I looked up local wildlife rehabilitation centers on the Internet.

The hawk then perched on the squirrel feeder watching the cats for a while then flew off however it must have been hurt. The hawk left a perfect impression on the patio glass door so it hit with great force and I was surprised that the glass was not shattered as he hit the glass with one loud thud.

Why are you leaving?

I used to live in the Midwest in the 70's. My friends and I would always go down to the river just to hang out and there were woods nearby. Now that I think of it I don't know what entranced us about the place.

One time I walked down there by myself. I heard something rustling in the leaves and looked over and saw a 20 python moving! Of course pythons don't live in the Midwest. I'm thinking a couple of my friends put together something that resembled a snake and pulled it along the ground while I was there. I never did see the head or tail of it.

One night I was watching tv and could hear talking in my driveway I went outside and four kids all dressed in white from head to toe were out the front of my house it was about 12 at night they ran away I jumped into my car to chase them but by the time I looked up again they were gone it was very strange.

SOOOO thrilled you did not say anything! And he was all alone? wow. that's intense.

we were walking deep in the woods in my hometown at the time MD. came upon a cave covered by a large boulder, came back later in the evening around dusk and the boulder had moved to allow whatever passage in or out,this boulder was huge with no possible road or passage to get any heavy machinery to the area to lift the 10' oval boulder that weighed several tonnes...wtf? my friend and I jogged the next couple miles to our car taking turns looking behind us...