Weirdest thing you ever found in the woods.

[iowavf]

In High School me and my brother did a lot of coon hunting. Was in a small timber and noticed something hanging from a couple trees. Turned out to be a lost of weird looking dolls hanging from the branches with string tied around their necks. Wasn't any houses very close to this timber either.

 

[killingtime 41]

Found a size 44 underwear full of crap and the tops of both socks stained up from the aftermath. It was gross but hilarious at the same time. I thought to myself I've been there buddy.

 

[Bone_Chaser]

Found a size 44 underwear full of crap and the tops of both socks stained up from the aftermath. It was gross but hilarious at the same time. I thought to myself I've been there buddy.

You're braver than me if you examined thouroughly enough to know the size if they weren't yours!

 

[killingtime 41]

You're braver than me if you examined thouroughly enough to know the size if they weren't yours!

Oh no not examined but I could see the waist band said 44 BVD's. Not like I seen it from a distance I happened to walk up on it. And knew right then and there. I was having a better day than him.

 

[knightrider]

Found a size 44 underwear full of crap and the tops of both socks stained up from the aftermath. It was gross but hilarious at the same time. I thought to myself I've been there buddy.

Camp fire hotdogs will to that to man

 

[Tomcat54]

I found an old well way out in the middle of the woods where there has never been a house or anything. It was one of those old wells like you see in a scary movie built up with old old rock about 4ft out of the ground. I looked down in it and couldn't see bottom.

I found a old well similar to what you just said on public hunting land before. Very spooky feeling around it too!!

 

[BSK]

I found an old well way out in the middle of the woods where there has never been a house or anything. It was one of those old wells like you see in a scary movie built up with old old rock about 4ft out of the ground. I looked down in it and couldn't see bottom.

My place is adjacent to one of the Federal Refuges along KY Lake. When the lake was built, all the landowners were bought out and their home-places abandoned. I've checked out several of the old homesites. One even still had the chimney standing. However, the oddest one was a well or cistern I found above a home site on the edge of the river bottomlands. The house site is just a few feet above the level of the bottomlands, but about 100 feet above the old house - on the side of a very steep hill - I found an 18" wide brick circle. Looking into it, it appeared to be an old well or cistern.

I don't know anything about the old ways of building wells/cisterns, but why would you build one on the side of a very steep hill, 100 feet higher than the house? That has puzzled ever since I found it.

 

[Lt.Dan]

My place is adjacent to one of the Federal Refuges along KY Lake. When the lake was built, all the landowners were bought out and their home-places abandoned. I've checked out several of the old homesites. One even still had the chimney standing. However, the oddest one was a well or cistern I found above a home site on the edge of the river bottomlands. The house site is just a few feet above the level of the bottomlands, but about 100 feet above the old house - on the side of a very steep hill - I found an 18" wide brick circle. Looking into it, it appeared to be an old well or cistern.

I don't know anything about the old ways of building wells/cisterns, but why would you build one on the side of a very steep hill, 100 feet higher than the house? That has puzzled ever since I found it.

Possibly had a pipe going to the house. It would have nice gravity pressure coming down 100 feet. And even more if the pipe reduced a couple times.

 

[BSK]

Possibly had a pipe going to the house. It would have nice gravity pressure coming down 100 feet. And even more if the pipe reduced a couple times.

Hadn't thought of that. Interesting idea.

 

[WestTN2288]

My place is adjacent to one of the Federal Refuges along KY Lake. When the lake was built, all the landowners were bought out and their home-places abandoned. I've checked out several of the old homesites. One even still had the chimney standing. However, the oddest one was a well or cistern I found above a home site on the edge of the river bottomlands. The house site is just a few feet above the level of the bottomlands, but about 100 feet above the old house - on the side of a very steep hill - I found an 18" wide brick circle. Looking into it, it appeared to be an old well or cistern.

I don't know anything about the old ways of building wells/cisterns, but why would you build one on the side of a very steep hill, 100 feet higher than the house? That has puzzled ever since I found it.

It's easier to walk uphill with an empty bucket and downhill with a heavy one

 

[TNCharlie]

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I don't know anything about the old ways of building wells/cisterns, but why would you build one on the side of a very steep hill, 100 feet higher than the house? That has puzzled ever since I found it.

A friend has a primitive cabin in the mountains of Utah. Now it is primitive only in the sense of no electricity. It's actually nice. Propane appliances, light, heat, fully plumbed. Running water is supplied by a pipe from a spring a little higher higher up the mountain than the cabin. You would never know that it's not on a commercial water line. I've also seen that done locally.

 

[BSK]

A friend has a primitive cabin in the mountains of Utah. Now it is primitive only in the sense of no electricity. It's actually nice. Propane appliances, light, heat, fully plumbed. Running water is supplied by a pipe from a spring a little higher higher up the mountain than the cabin. You would never know that it's not on a commercial water line. I've also seen that done locally.

I guess my question has been answered! That's been a 30-year mystery for me!

On a side note, finding these old home sites is really easy in late February and early March. There will be a square pattern of daffodils blooming around the old house site.

 

[Lt.Dan]

I guess my question has been answered! That's been a 30-year mystery for me!

On a side note, finding these old home sites is really easy in late February and early March. There will be a square pattern of daffodils blooming around the old house site.

It's a good time to do some metal detecting too. Sometimes so great finds are found on those sites.

 

[Iglow]

There have been some really fascinating studies done on how far powerful tornadoes and their parent supercell thunderstorms transport items. The research even broke down the items by weight and aerodynamic properties. Let's just say a strong tornado will carry refrigerator-sized items a LONG WAY! Miles. Paper, pictures, cancelled checks, will travel hundreds of miles.

After both of the recent Jackson TN tornadoes (90 miles from my place) I found all sorts of items in the woods I could track back to Jackson. After a big tornado between Centerville and Hohenwald, we found music CDs, LPs and a very nice Eddie Baur rain jacket in our yard in Pegram. My daughter still wears the jacket.

That reminded me, the 2005 Gallatin tornado, I was turkey hunting about 25/30 miles from there, in the woods I found the usual insulation/ vinyl/ wood chips but also one after another canceled checks from 1978 all from the same person. I wondered if they were still alive.
I've still got vinyl siding hanging in the trees in the woods around the house from the 2020 tornado.

 

[WTNBowHunter]

when i was a teenager i saw a truck pull off the side of the road and shoot a deer from the highway on a neighbors property. gun barrel out the window, boom, then they drove off.
the other thing that was strange to me, which has already been mentioned, was a buddy of mine found a bag full of adult toys. we were tracking a friends deer and out walks our buddy with this bag haha! strange stuff

 

[348Winchester]

Found a size 44 underwear full of crap and the tops of both socks stained up from the aftermath. It was gross but hilarious at the same time. I thought to myself I've been there buddy.

Ohhh have I been there too!

 

[BSK]

It's a good time to do some metal detecting too. Sometimes so great finds are found on those sites.

Always wanted to try that. At one site, I found an iron carriage wheel sticking out of the ground. Pulled it up and it's now sitting at the front steps of our cabin.

 

[Lt.Dan]

Always wanted to try that. At one site, I found an iron carriage wheel sticking out of the ground. Pulled it up and it's now sitting at the front steps of our cabin.

If you have property I have 2 metal detectors.

 

[tbadon]

I guess my question has been answered! That's been a 30-year mystery for me!

On a side note, finding these old home sites is really easy in late February and early March. There will be a square pattern of daffodils blooming around the old house site.

It is also best to have the cistern uphill from the homesite to prevent bacteria entering it from human, pet, and livestock feces. One of the most common causes of child deaths was due to unsafe drinking water.

 

[Iglow]

I was turkey hunting and it started raining, I knew an old house in the woods that was abandoned but I'd never been inside, it had paper plastered/glued to the walls to keep the wind out, tin roof and had fabric insulated wiring that ran outside the walls to bakelite switches, real old place. In a back room was a small table and a chair, on the table was a Nashville Banner newspaper laying face up that was covered in 40 years worth of dust. The headline read ;
"American B-52s pound Reds". The paper was dated March XX(can't remember), 1968.
I meant to go back and get the newspaper the next year but a tree fell on the house and pretty much flattened it.