re: Strangest thing you have ever seen outdoors?

When we were kids we use to travel all around in the surrounding fields, creeks, and woods shooting birds and poaching ponds. One field was farmed in sweet potatoes and was prob 150 acres big. We always skirted the wood line on this one particular land owners property cause he wasn't that friendly and didn't like us on his place. Headed back one afternoon from a day of exploring we saw 5 people dressed in all white (KKK type all white robes) walking and crest a hill and disappear. This was probably 1/4 mile from any paved road and no vehicles in sight. We were 13-10 years old at the time and didn't know what or who these people were but it freaked us out.

Was later told by a black kid at school who discovered what road I lived on and didn't live to far from me that his people had told him never to ride his bike down our road cause they have klan meeting down there.

I've seen a condom tree and needles scattered everywhere.

Cause he didn't know who u kids were!!!!!

Shithole city, but I've got a weird stories from up there. I'll post it later

Back in early October, three years ago, wife and I with some old West Virginia friends were down at the pond one night, sitting around the campfire, just talking and pickin a little music. Wife grabbed my arm and pointed up in the Northern sky. We all watched this orange "ball" come over Clinch Mountain traveling North to East, silently, no flashing lights. This "ball" suddenly reversed course, then just as suddenly zoomed straight up from its current location, then resume its original course before reversing again and then zoomed straight down. Wife had her Nikon D50 camera with her and tried to take a picture, but for the first time ever, for some reason the camera wouldn't even turn on when she tried to take a pic. She was highly upset over this, too. It kept reversing itself, traveling at different speeds until it disappeared over the next ridge, out of our sight. When it disappeared over the ridge, strangely, her camera started working again. We all sat there, talking about what we all just saw, taking an occasional picture, and then forgot about it. About an hour later, this same "ball" reappeared, going back the opposite direction from which we first saw it, and it was still doing these crazy maneuvers. And again, when Mama BFIV tried to take a pic, the camera wouldn't activate or work. As soon as this thing disappeared out of sight over Clinch Mountain her camera started working again. We've talked about this a lot since then trying to find an explanation for what it was and why her camera stopped working and started working again. I have no idea what it was. True story. If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'.

riding 4 wheeler through the woods one day and just totally randomly came upon two graves...one was old as hell and showed that the guy had passed in the late 1800's...immediately next to it was a brand new grave of someone who had passed the year before I found it who had the same last name as the old grave...no flowers or any other sign of people...only accessible by atv...

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Alright, so here's my story about Fayette. Was actually a little south of there between 61 and 33. I spent every single day in the woods, from sunrise to sunset, sometimes up to 20 miles away from anyone, and even spent nights out in the woods by myself if I needed to. I am at home in the woods, and 100% comfortable being there by myself for days. This story is 100% true.



So I am out cruising timber...marking trees designated as ones that were gonna be telephone poles. The way you do it is to go up one row looking at trees on both sides of the row, turn around, and do it on the next row over, back and forth, until you're done.

Park the truck, get out to go mark trees on this one section of property. I bring my Camelback and stuff in it, but leave the pistol in the truck. I am walking along, back and forth for about 2hrs, and come up on this area with a hardwood bottom, half briars, half trees, and about the size of a football field. I am thinking to myself....yeah, there's probably gonna be something in here. Kept going and getting closer and closer to this bottom (I am walking parralel to it getting closer each row). When I finish going through the first row in it, I get to the end of the tract and hear some shite rummaging around near the bottom. Turn and walk back through it, and as soon as I get in (couldn't see through it because of briars), I hear something walking away towards the rows I hadn't made it to yet. Whatever, figured it was a squirrel or something. Make it through and then hear whatever it was go back to where I just walked through. Once I get to the end of that row, I hear something that sounded like wet hardwood sticks banging on a hardwood tree. This was predominately planted pines, with that little section being hardwoods.

Sitting at the end of the row and I turn back around thinking...that was weird as frick, but whatever. I make it within probably 200yds of the hardwood bottom and I hear the stick banging on a tree noise again. Now I am thinking something funny is going on. No wind blowing that would cause the trees to move. Make it to the beginning of the bottom, and I hear something running off towards the end of the rows where I am walking. There was a food plot back there that hadn't been touched in 5 years. Get to the end, and hear whatever it was circling around, but going away from where I was.

So I walk back, get through the bottom, and I hear a stick being hit REALLY hard on a tree behind me. I get down on the ground to look around, and see nothing for the 3 or 4 minutes I am kneeling down. Turn around and just keep keeping on doing what I am supposed to be doing.

This time though, whatever it was is now running around, paralleling me as I walk down the row. It was basically leap-frogging me fast as frick. One second it would be behind me, and just as quickly it would be in front of me and not moving. I can hear it running behind me, but can't see anything. I know something was running, and it wasn't me, because I would stop occasionally and could it walking for a couple of seconds after I stopped. I got down on the ground again looking for something, and didn't see a damn thing.

So I am fully freaked out at this point, but I wasn't hired to not do my job, so I walk back to my truck to get the pistol and continue doing the damn thing. I had to walk through a pretty thick area of briars to get back to the truck, and when I get all of the way back, I can see the tops of the briars moving about 30 yards away, but can't see in because they are very thick.

Get in the truck and decided to mow down all of the briars at that point. Do it, and see nothing, so I continue doing what I am doing. Walk down the next row, and when I get a couple of hundred yards in, I hear the same running around and stick banging, but this time, I catch a piece of a stick flying through the air out of the corner of my eye.

I got down on the ground another time, and didn't anything again. At that point, I high-tailed it back to the truck. Only had 5 more rows to do, and there was a wide 4 wheeler trail signifying the edge of that plot. Get to the truck, decompress for a second, and drive down the 4 wheeler trail. Didn't see or hear a damn thing. I just looked for good trees, ran out and marked them, and jumped back in the truck. Pull forward, look, jump out, mark, and continued until I was done.


My mom is one of those Long Island Medium, squatch, cropsy, ghost-believing type people, and I told her about it on the way home. Immediately she said it was a squatch. I have no fricking idea wtf it was, but I do know there weren't any people for about three miles in either direction. There was one way in, and I was on it. Nobody was around there. There were man-sized trails through some of the briar patches, but I figured at the time it was from deer. Looking back, I dunno. I have run up on some weird shite in the woods, but that freaked me out for a couple of days after it happened