re: Strangest thing you have ever seen outdoors?

A lot of yall have had way crazier experiences in the woods than I have

When I was like 10, my dad and his friend bought about 500acres a few miles before Natchez, MS. There were 3 houses on the property that was occupied by people. 2 weird trashy white couples and 1 older black man that was 97 when my dad bought the property. We told them that they could live there as long as there wasnt any problems. Well, of course there was.

The 2 trashy white couples would steal from the old man. He used to grow tobacco back in the day there and had a barn with a lot of tools that the trashy white couples would break in and steal a lot of stuff. Most likely pawned them off. We told them to either gtfo the property, or return the tools / $$$ to the man and stop this crap. 1 couple said they were gonna kill us in our sleep, so it got intense. I was like 11 when this happened and it got intense. My dad and his friend are big men, 1 of them was a catcher in the MLB. Grown men strength. That couple left the next day, but destroyed the shitty house they were in. Like we cared. It wasnt our stuff and we werent going to be using the house.

The other couple stayed for another year, and they lived deeper in the property than the old man. And our property bordered another persons land, and had a great relationship with him. He lived there. 1 day during late summer he called my Dad and said that couple was doing some really really weird stuff and that we needed to get up there. We get up there, and the house looks like complete shite. Windows busted, shutters ripped off, doors kicked in, etc. Cops come too and take them off the property. We walk into the house, and there is some crazy stuff in there. Crack pipes, chemicals, ropes and chains nailed into walls, devil worshipping stuff, trash everywhere, snake skins, and just some more weird shite.

We ended up burning that house down. But, there was an awesome old claw foot bath tub in there that we took out and cleaned it up and all that. But walking through that house at 11 or 12 years old and seeing all that stuff was 1 of the scariest things ever. Some weird and sick people.

That old black man was an amazing person though. He lived to be 102years old. And was tough as nails. He would cut his yard with 1 of those old pushing lawn mowers til he died. He was still living in the 1930s and didnt have AC, TV, phone, etc. Just had a radio and a rocking chair on the front porch, and that was all he needed.

Found some other cool stuff on that property though. Hunting 1 chilly morning when I was 11 with my Dad and as we were walking from the stand, there was something under a log that looked like ice. So I said "oh ice" and went down to touch it. Wasnt ice. It was an all white indian arrowhead. Still have it to this day. Pretty cool.

That property was awesome. Best turkey hunting I have ever seen. And Ive paid a lot of $$$ to go on hunts in New Mexico, South Dakota, etc. None of that touched that property. Some hunting TV show filmed an episode on it turkey hunting. It was amazing. A couple hundred acres but absolutely loaded. In the AM you would use the hoot owl call and just wait... always would head 4 or 5 gobblers. Just had to pick a direction and go. And had some big deer on it. But man it was a bitch to walk. Only flat land on the property was at the top of the ridges and foot plots. And it wasnt just hilly, it was straight up and down just about. It sucked. If you were talking up a ridge, you had to take multiple breaks and pack water. It would take you 25 minutes to walk up a ridge. We were driving the 4wheeler down a ridge on this dirt road after it rained, but the road was pretty much washed out and it was too steep to stop. My Dad threw me off the bike and as he jumped off, the dirt road completely gave way and the bike started sliding and couldnt stop. It was about a few hundred yards down the the ridge. That bike went down at about 100mph, hit a log, flipped in the air, landed on its tired at the sandy creek in the bottom, still running. Was 1 of the more incredible things I have ever seen to this day.

Just looked up the property on google maps, whoever owns it now torn down the old mans house and the other 2 around it, built a mansion and installed a pool in the backyard haha.

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I was walking through the woods one day and had a pack of 5 wild dogs run up on me and start flipping their shite. It was the fastest I have ever sharpened a stick in my life.

Never went in the woods again without a piece

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Another batch of wisdom.

One feral dog = bad.
A pack of them could easily = fatal.

I wish I had a few hundred acres. I don't need anything fancy in life. Just some land and a small house with a porch. I'd be in the woods and creeks all day. That to me is relaxing and with my family, would be perfect. I could watch a sunset from my porch with a beer in my hand and figure out the meaning of life in about ten seconds. One day. One day.

Another cool thing that happened at my old camp....

We had old boat seats in my favorite stand. I get in the stand, and notice that there are a lot of holes and stuffing ripped out of it. I hit it a few times to make sure there are no bees in there before I seat. Im good to go. So im sitting in the stand for about 10minutes, when I start feeling something moving in the seat. I jump up real quick and look back and 5 little flying squirrels climb out of the seat

They were awesome too. Werent scared of me and very friendly. I bring peanuts in the stand to snack on, and sat back down and fed them. They would crawl all over me, randomly hop out the stand and glide down, run around for a little while and then come back up, sleep on my leg, and do it all over again. And a few of them stayed in that seat during the season. Didnt do much hunting that year but had a blast with them flying squirrels

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I'll take 5 acres with a lot of public land adjacent to it. I'll be there in 5 years. 

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^ This. I lucked out when I found the 8 acre piece of land I live on now (backs up to the Nat'l Forest). My dad lucked up because it's two parcels down from his, so he gets his grass cut for free again.

I have found a kids tennis shoe in the woods. Always wondered how one shoe ended up in the woods.

Two UFOs along rivier below belle chasse almost shot at them

Next day we realized they were harriers

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A very creepy story. I probably would have had to change my pants if that happened!