Strange or unusall things seen while hunting

[NightHawk]

As hunters we spend many countless hours in the woods. what strange or unusuall sights or things have you seen? In Texas ranchers have claimed to have seen and have the body of a chupacrabra? In Ohio, many have claimed to have seen the grassman. It seems as if every part of the country has its' stories of the wierd and unusuall.

 Near Bloomington, Indiana there are boulders that have been placed in the boughs of large trees. Some of these boulders weigh more than 300 pounds. There are different stories as to how the boulders came to be in the trees. I have heard everything from ufos to hot air balloons.
  another story unfolds by a bridge that is popular as a fishing spot and also serves as a dropping of spot for a days hunting but it also has an eerie side. It seems that on certain nights travelers driving along the road and over the bridge have encountered a young woman walking towards town. Being a friendly place many have stopped and offered the young lady a ride only to discover that as they get near town the girl disappears. The story goes that she was a homesteaders wife and the couple were going to town when their buggy turned over killing the young bride and on certain nights when the moon is bright she appears to those traveling and accepts a ride to town only to never arrive

  Post your stories and share your experiences in the woods and streams that we as hunters tread

[NightHawk]

Unionville, Indiana  - Large Boulder in a 40-ft. Tree

At the Limon State Forest in Bloomington, I saw a very odd thing. At the top of a 40-foot tree is a big boulder about 4-foot across resting in the fork of tree. This is deep in the woods of the park, well off any the roads or paths unaccessible to any heavy equipment due to the thick woods.

I have asked others that live there in Bloomton about this,and it turns out many have seen it. How something that large could have got there is unknowb to me (my guess is a tornado). I had my GPS and recorded the location: GPS N 39*12.604, W 086*22.314. [Randy Stoops, 03/30/2003]

[Eric Krewson]

[Tom Leemans]

Looks like it was either placed in the crotch of a tree when it was young, or a very determined tree grew around it, then up. You can see where it split a little at one time, then healed. Either way, Mother nature likes to play these little jokes on us now and then.

[LimbLover]

I usually find old abandoned wooden tree stands. Some are really intricate, others are just planks nailed to a tree.

They always kind of creep me out.

[PhilNY]

Nearly twenty years ago I was hunting and saw a pure white animal that walked like a skunk and sure enough it walked right under my stand and my hunting buddy saw it also, it was a pure white skunk. I have also seen white and piebald deer in this area. Maybe it's the water.

[ChuckC]

Plants typically grow  up.  What was the bottom today will still be near the bottom in twenty years from now.  Unless it was indeed a very virtuous tree in its youth,  the rock was placed there.
ChuckC

[KentuckyTJ]

Didn't happen to me but did to my brother. He was in his tree stand when a barred owl flew in at first light one morning. He watched the owl for a while, then it flew to a new perch behind him. All the sudden he heard it fly from behind him and then it snatched his hat off his head. I would have never believed him if I hadn't seen the bloody talon marks on the side of his head. The owl dropped his hat 40 yards away. To this day he is scared to death of an owl.

[bolong]

Years ago a couple of friends an I were rabbit hunting  along a levee in a river bottom. I saw the dogs rolling around in something in some tall grass. I went over to  investigate as it it usually some type of dead animal, I have found many nice deer skulls/antlers this way. This time though it was a dead man. Ha been there quite some time. had been picked clean from the waist up by coyotes and buzzards. We called and reported it to the Sherriff. Had to meet them and the coroner at the main road and take them to the scene in my truck as it could only be reached with 4 wheel drive. I have found an seen a lot of strange things while hunting but a dead body is certainly something you dont run into every day.

[KentuckyTJ]

Shazzzam!

[Blackhawk]

While elk hunting on a warm September afternoon, I spotted some unusual blonde-colored movements about 100 yards away in the trees.  I immediately thought elk.  

After retrieving my binocs for a closer look, it was a naked couple enjoying a romp on a blanket.  :eek:  

I guess they figured elk hunting was slow that day.  

[Roy Steele]

Once while turkey hunting some public land a mile or so from anything back in 75.I can aross a car tire high up in a tree,70 foot at least.It was down over the main trunk about 25 feet from the top.The tree all most took up the whole inside of the tire.

  Last year agian I was on public land bow hunting deer.After it got daylight I saw a bow hangig on a limb.I walked down and someone must have gotten mad and let his high country bow.4carbons with rocky mountain broadheads.Another laying beside the bow broken into.His stool was laying 5 or 6 yards away.And and arrow sticking in a tree about 7 or 8 feet off the ground 30 yards down the hill.

  His pack,10X RAINGEAR,GLOVES.KNIFE,SURVIAL PACK,SNAKE BITE KIT,GPS,COMPASS,TOPO'S OF THE AREA,WATER CANDY BARS that the squrrels got.

  I wasn't sure of what happened at first untill I looked the place over.Saw the arrow in the tree,broken arrow at his bow.And stool kicked over.I think he just got mad and left and quit bow hunting after a miss.
   I needed some new rain gear.

[Roy Steele]

O'yea I forgot he must have really been mad because he also left his bag of weed and pipe and lighter.

[WVeer]

My Dad and I were turkey hunting one morning when I heard a funny squawk.  I called in a red and yellow parrot miles away from any house.  I took off my coat and tried to catch it (couldn't fly because wing was clipped).  I tell ya, they can run like a turkey.......I tripped on a grapevine and I fell down.  Finally gave up with my Dad laughing so hard we had to move to another area to continue to hunt........the parrot followed us.  Must have liked my calling   :p

[willob]

While groundhog hunting around a soybean field I noticed what I thought was a pink ballon quivering in the wind at the far end of the field.  As I got closer it would disappear and reappear.  At about 75 yards I threw the binoculars on it and it turned out to be a girls pink underwear. About that time she decided to stand up with her boyfriend.  My truck was parked on the farm lane they walked out on.  I'm sure they were a bit surprised to see it there.

[willob]

About 10 years ago we were sitting around the campfire at noon time during the October archery season here in southern Indiana.  My buddy was looking down the large creekbed by camp and all of a sudden he stood up and said who the heck is that walking up the creek?  It was 2 guys wearing all black.  I grabbed the binocs out of my pack and took a look.  It was 2 people dressed in black scuba suits.  This was right after 911 and we said something about them really looking hard for terrorists!!!  As they got closer it was 2 search and rescue divers looking for a body of a man that had washed over a bridge during the highwater a few days earlier.  The water in the creek was only a couple of feet deep at the time.  They found the body right accross the creek from camp, not 70 yards away in some downed timber.  We had to wait until the coroner got there and then help them carry the body accrossed the creek.

[bofish-IL]

Was hunting elk in Colorado in 1999 and walked into a meadow with one tree at the end overlooking a beautiful big valley with other mountain ranges in the background. Just happen to look up and there was a plague with a guys ashes and spurs in the tree. I thought it was very fitting location for someone remains to rest. I have a photo and thought about adding it but then thought the guy would like his privacy, so I won't.

[COLongbow]

Summer of 1995, scouting for elk and deer near Black Sage Pass in Colorado. Had my compound with me to do some stumpin' (before i saw the light and ditched the wheels). I was alone and don't often tell this story cause folks sometimes don't believe me. Anyway, I was walking along a hillside through mixed timber, mostly aspen. Happened to see a coyote about 50 yds off to my right. I stopped to eyeball him, and he also stopped walking and sat down like a dog. After a while I continued walking slowly, and the yote paced me, keeping his distance, watching me all the time. After about 300 yds of this, he stopped and changed angles. I followed him and he let me get closer and closer, angling down the mountain. At one point, I was witing 10 yds of him and was talking to him like a dog. No alarm was evident from him at any time. Then he took a turn to the left and I followed. He rounded a blowdown right in front of me, and there curled up was another coyote! This one saw me and bolted. The first one just looked at me and then sauntered off as I stood there open mouthed. He showed no signs of illness or anything, seemed healthy and alert. It seemed to me at the time that he wanted me to follow him to the other coyote. Still haven't figured it out to this day. Wierd, huh?

[twitchstick]

On a elk hunt years back maybe 10 years. We were hiking in for an afternoon hunt and came acrossed a dead calf at the edge of a waterhole. It had been killed by an aspen tree that had fallen and smashed it's head. At frist we thought that it might had died frist but it was fresh. That poor calf just had pick a bad time water I guess.

[twitchstick]

That was a heifer not an elk.