re: Weirdest thing you've seen in the woods that nobody believes you about.

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Just out of curiosity, was this in the mid 80s? We were going Duck Hunting one morning in Northeast Louisiana, and saw the same exact thing. We thought it was the second coming, lol. I will never forget it.

No it was early 2000s. I'd never heard anybody talk about seeing the nighttime sky turn blue in a split second and stayed that way for a couple seconds more then turn right back to darkness.

Sometime in the early to mid 1980s the man who invented gun used to fire tranquilizer darts had a massive property on the west side of Atlanta. It was pretty common to be driving through the area and see giraffes and zebras and water buffalo which someone had captured and were being held there until they could be placed in a zoo or at times returned to the wild. He was friends with Jim Fowler who did the dirty work on Mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom while Marlin Perkins stayed in camp and did the commentary. Anyway there was always a bunch of exotic animals around the area and you would see them from time to time. The place had a pretty good creek on one edge of the property and I fished it a bunch as a kid - this was back when trespassing was a way of life and most land owners did not care if you fished on their property and mostly did not care if you hunted if you asked first. Anyway I have been fishing that creek and had elephants walk up to the fence to see what was going on. It was normal to hear lions roaring and monkeys chattering - it was pretty damned exciting for a kid who could easily convince himself he was in a Tarzan movie.

I was driving though the area one morning going fishing in another spot and on both sides of the road at the bridge across the creek there were police and TV news crews and a general ruckus going on....one of his lions had gotten out and was wondering around in the area. They caught it without incident but every time I fished that creek after that, and I did because it was full of BIG bream and shoal bass, I kept an eye out for that damned lion....I enjoyed being Tarzan when they were all hemmed up, when they got loose I was more of a Marlin Perkins type, I preferred being in camp narrating....

walking back to my camp after a morning hunt as I had to meet an electrician there at 8:30 am.

During the hunt didnt see or hear anything. Beautiful morning though....it was January 5th or so. I was grunting on the grunt call on the way back

I hear a deer snort at me through the now leafless forest to my right.

He was about 100 yards away and I saw his rack. He then takes off right at me full speed.

I raised my gun up and got him into my scope when he reached about 20 ft from me and blasted him in the neck.

He dropped like a sack of potatoes and died grunting at me. His pelt was wet from sweat

We aged him at over 7 years old to our estimates and even had other people look at his teeth. He was 11 points.

Lone wandering old buck tried to fight me and lost


still ate him and mounted his skull with the words Vivir Pugnar Est inscribed on the cypress. "To live, is to fight"

Sitting in a box stand in east Texas before the sun came up. I would always get into the stand 45-60 mins before sun and eat breakfast/settle in.
My stand backed up to a thick area to my backside. Right before first light I could hear something rustling under the stand which is about 10 foot off the ground. The stand was wrapped with this old thick leather looking stuff and enough of a gap that I could see below the stand in a few areas. I flash my light and on two legs sniffing into the stand is a cow horn spike. He was apparently bedded down overnight under the stand. First light came and he was wayyy bigger than I thought so he caught a 9mm behind the head.

Sometime around 1980 I had been fishing on West Point Lake (Georgia) from about 4 AM Friday morning to about 2 AM Sunday morning, sleeping some in the boat but fishing most of that time. I loaded the boat up around 2 and headed to Atlanta, about 2 hours from home. I listened to AM radio at the time almost exclusively and was listening to a syndicated talk show, Art Bell (Coast to Coast with Art Bell I think). This show focused on aliens and ufos and the paranormal and it was pretty entertaining - it was a precursor to our conspiracy theory centric world today but back then it was known for its quack scientists and "experts", people who today would be considered authorities who are trustworthy but we were able to detect bullshite back then. But I digress. I am driving alone, obviously tired from having fished about 40 out of the previous 46 hours and listening to some expert describe how aliens had infiltrated the Reagan administration when suddenly the entire world turned a bright green, almost enough light to be daylight but green. For about 1/100th of a second. Initially I thought I had fallen asleep and dreamt it or imagined it due to my lack of sleep. I discounted it completely, Just a few minutes after this happened I lost the station I had been listening to and started searching AM radio stations...and within minutes of this happening and over the next hour or so before I got home preachers across the country were on their Sunday morning radio shows telling anyone who would listen that the green light seen by anyone awake at the time east of Texas was the rapture. It wasn't just one, it was several different radios stations from the south and the midwest...AM radio back then at 5 AM was very interesting in that you could pick up signals from all over the country and even the Caribbean and Mexico and Canada. For an hour or more I listened to preachers telling their audience...small though that audience might be...that the green light was the rapture. Not being one to be overly concerned with the rapture I got home, went to bed, and slept until about 11 that Sunday morning....and there were newspaper and TV news reports about the green light....most of those TV reports were assuring viewers that it wasn't the rapture, how TVs would after the rapture they did not say, but was instead a fireball meteor which had been visible in most of the US east of Texas and had perfectly coincided with the sun rising to the east giving it a green hue and diffusing the light to more of a flooding of light than the concentrated light normally associated with such meteors. It was pretty interesting to see but the aftermath was really something to witness....

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Hunting in Southbury Ct. Sitting in my stand a car pulls up about 20 yards from my stand, as I am cussing them out, they get out of the car get in the back seat.
They get nude start fricking………she was hot