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Ever find anything "unusual" while wheeling?

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#1 · (Edited)
I was out in the woods in northern Cali the other day and came across a huge USAF radar facility. This is nowhere near any military bases.

----Update 6-10-06, found this info about it on the interweb: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/an-fps-118.htm /Update----

A friend of mine said he once found what he believes is an old missle silo inside a chain link and barbed wire fence out in the woods, also in northern Cali, but he couldn't remember how to get back to it to show it to me.

What strange things have you found?
 
#1,398 ·
I actually joined this site cause of this thread.....I've been reading it off and on since 2006, I dont presently own a Jeep but have owned a couple in the past, have built a few of them, and i am also pretty big into 4x4's of all types but anyways i thought i would share some stuff around ohio and florida, the 2 places that i currently live at when im not working in iraq......

Ohio.....

Ohio has always had some good stuff, Moonville Tunnel is a good one though i havent had the pleasure of going, there is alot of old Oil and Gas rigs all over the woods in southeastern ohio, I have seen a few while wheeling down there, the town of Chesire in Gallia county is one you can visit, it was a thriving town til about 7 or 8 years ago when AEP Power had to buy all of it cause it polluted the area so bad it was killing all of the residents, There is alot of fire roads down southeast of Chillicothe (Richland Furnace is the name) that is supposed to have some good mountain trails, there is an old abandoned car or two in a ravine near Paint Creek Beach in Highland county, its about a 5 minute ride from my farm, and its weird cause of where its at, there really wasnt any roads to it even back when it was dumped in the 50's or 60's, on the state woods property behind my farm there is alot of old house foundations and stuff from when it was a normal place, roads, houses, farms, everything, then the state claimed it cause they built the lake and tore mostly everything down, someplaces you can still see where the old roads ran and they are still listed on most maps, down along the river also is a good place to see alot of old boats and barges.....


Florida....

There is stuff all over florida, you just got to find it, around central florida there is alot of old mining equipment cause of all the open pit mines, i know of atleast 1 humoungous drag bucket that was left to rot and if you know where to look you can see it plain as day on RT 17 North of Wauchula, its atleast 50 feet above the tree tops, Cruise around the Green Swamp north of Lakeland some and im sure you will find something out there, over around the space coast is a good place to look cause there has been alot of towns demolished when they built Nasa....


I know ofan old bombing range somewhere in WV that is pretty much devoid of any type of living thing, my buddy said he went down there with his cousin when he was visiting him and there was no sounds, no birds, no bugs......
 
#1,404 ·
I was thumbin' back from Montgomery
with a guitar on my back
When a stranger pulled up beside me in an antique Cadillac.
Well, he was dressed like 1950, half drunk and hallow eyed
Its a long walk to Nashville, would you like a ride, son.
He sat down in the front seat, and turned on the radio
and them sad old songs comin' outta them speakers was solid country gold.
Then I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale when he asked me for a light.
And knew there was somethin' strange about this ride.

Mister can you make folks cry when you play and sang.
Can you pay your dues, can you moan the blues
Can you bend them guitar strangs.
He said Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside,
Cause if your big star bound let me warn you its a long hard ride.

Well, he cried just south of Nashville, and he turned that car around.
he said this is where you get off, boy
cause I'm going back to Alabam'.
I stepped out of that ole Cadillac and I said Mister, many thanks.
he said you don't have to call me mister, Mister.
The whole world calls me Hank.
 
#1,413 · (Edited)
oh i just remembered one it is not that strange now that i look back on it but it was weird when it happened

about 12-13 years ago my family and i were up towards Pearl Pass in Colorado. not quite to the pass. we were right before the twin lakes trail head. we had just got back to the jeep and it was getting late. the sun had already set behind the mountains.

As we were packing up the jeep my dad, who was on the opposite side of the jeep, says quiet everyone there is a bull moose about 30 feet from the jeep. we are all like sure there is dad and keep packing the jeep not being any quieter.

he says no really there is a moose come look. so we walk around the jeep and sure enough there is a fully grown bull moose with about a 5' rack just standing there looking at us. we get very quiet and just watch him as he keeps walking past us on up the mountain.

when we got back to the cabin we called the forest ranger station and they told us that they were reintroducing moose back into the area. he had been spotted by some hunters the day before 3 mountain ranges over and they thought that he was following a small heard of cows since mating season was not far away.

i know that this does not sound very strange now but at the time we knew that there were no moose in Colorado and it was very strange that we saw one. we all kind of had an erry (sp?) feeling like something out of the Twilight Zone. on the ride home we were all discussing our different theories on how a moose could end up in Colorado.

oh well i guess that is not that Unusual but it is a story non the less.
 
#1,414 ·
Can't say if it was a ghost or not, but I gave a girl a ride and the lady at the store said it was a girl who had died, I've had others tell me the same thing along that same road. Somewhere along US1 or 121 before or after augusta, I can never remember which, It's been along time ago. I'm thinking it was on the US1 before augusta, GA.
 
#1,415 ·
I grew up in southern Rhode Island, alot of indian lands there, hence the casinos etc.

But I remember several large rock ridges with really tiny rocks arranged in patterns on top of them, like really intricate circles of all different sizes.

Also came across a grove of mini rock statues, 3 tiny rocks forming a triangle, with two rocks stacked vertically on top of them. Saw hundreds of these things in this tiny *** dirt grove.

That same day, found a huge *** tree, with a **** ton of twigs and small logs all tied together hanging down from the branches, weird shapes all strung from the branches going around the tree.

I promtly headed back after that.
 
#1,417 ·
Well, this thread has been going for awhile - yet today is the first time I've noticed it. :cool:

20 years ago I came across what appeared to be thousands of dollars spread down a hillside near a ghost town in our coal region. I was with my wife in a YJ. Fortunately, my wife did not see the money. I had a bad feeling about it and got us out of there fast.

Sometimes I wonder about all the possibilities...

Bill
 
#1,418 ·
Speaking of bad feelings...

A while ago some friends and I stumbled across an old cold war era missile base (long abandoned). The structures were still present, and looked (for the most part) undisturbed. However there were fresh hand dug ditches extending from a few of them. They were ~3 feet deep, and extended for 50 or so feet in random directions from these buildings. And by fresh, I mean within a day or two. We followed these things by foot for a little while until we came across an area of waist high grass that was very recently matted down by a truck. The tracks led to a building covered by decades of overgrowth. The way the tracks appeared, it looked as if a truck very recently drove up to and inside the building (there were no tracks leading away from the building). We walked a little closer to the building, and at about the same time we looked at each other and both decided to get the hell out of there.

We figured it was either copper thieves going after the underground cables, a meth lab, or both. We didnt want to stay to find out. Havent seen that place since.
 
#1,421 ·
Driving on a dusty road in the Mojave desert in California, about a half hour north of Barstow, I drove into some kind of community out in the boonies. Maybe 4 to 6 40' pre-fab homes, flying California flags (no US flag). As I drove the road that circled the open compound some dude came out of a trailer with a 12 gauge shotgun in hand, following my movements... I just drove off and found another way back to where I came from. This place was a good 30 or 40 miles from the nearest road. Those people were definitely hiding from something... Weird...
 
#1,423 ·
Something funny, One time A couple guys and I were walking along a railroad track out in the middle of no where, and I went down to the toe of the fill of the rail bed into a drainage by the concrete box culvert to check the date on it to see what year it was built (the dates are stamped in the concrete). Upon inspection I noticed it was built in the 1920's. I was turning to head back to the top when I saw an old thermos. It was an old metal one from the late 70's or early 80's that was the type that came with a lunch box. I took it back up to the top of the rail bed to show it to the guys with me. Upon closer inspection we saw that the metal had been rusted through but the plastic was still intact. I screwed off the plastic mug from the top and then the plastic cap to see what was inside. I was hot chocolate, and still looked and smelled like it was just made!! It was however not hot anymore. And NO I didn't taste it. I am sure it had to have been there for several years to rust through like that. I am still suprised whan I think back on that how fresh it looked and smelled....
 
#1,424 · (Edited)
While out in AZ I was going through some nasty thick trails scratching the rig all up. Then all of the sudden the trail opened up all the trees and brush were gone and there it was the biggest pot farm I have ever seen (well the only one I have ever seen so maybe it wasnt the biggest one ever or anything) None the less it was probably 5 acres of pot. On the way in I came across a rig that had been burned up. Started to make me wonder what that was all about. Just then a truck started coming towards me from the "farm" I didnt stick around to see what he wanted. I was flying through the desert going through the brush and trees like crazy I dont think there was a body panel that didnt get scratched after that deal. On the way to the trail I had to climb a really large dune on the way out I forgot about that dune, when I hit it I couldnt stop in time and I shot out in the air landed about half way down the dune thought I about broke my back during the landing (luke duke I am not") got rolling again after the dune shot through the Gila River got back on the highway and never went back to that spot
 
#1,434 ·
Good reason to carry when going to the woods. The city can almost be safer! Plus did you report it? If someone threatened my life, which I assume they were going to do to you, I'd turn the ****ers in as think of the poor Jeeper that shows up next.
 
#1,425 ·
I was night wheeling my MJ in the National forrest with my ex-wife (not ex at the time). We had stopped and I was trying to get some trail nookie. We were laying in the bed of the truck. I heard soemthing big moving around off to the side. I figured it was a deer or something, but I stuck my head up to look. I saw a guy in full camo take of into the trees, and I could have sworn he was carrying an M16 or AR15. I yelled out "hey" and he sped up and dissapeared. We sat looking around for a few minutes and then I went back to what we were doing (I was very determined). About fifteen minutes later I heard a bunch of movement all around us. When I looked up we were surrounded by 10 guys holding rifles. There was a short minute or two stare off, during which I nearly crapped my pants. Then the biggest guy raised his rifle up to point at me. Then the guy next to him busted out laughing! I had accidentally driven off of the WMA lands and onto a private hunting club. The club members were having paint ball wars, since it wasn't deer season. When they found us out there they decided to have some fun at our expense. It was particularly embarassing since we were both down to our underwear by the time they came back to mess with us. We ended up getting dreesed and chilling out with them, they even shared their beer. Man those paintball guns can look real in the dark from 20 feet away! My (at the time) wife never did loosen up and stayed pissed the whole time. She never was much fun (hence the ex part)! We all had a good laugh (except for the ***** ofcourse).
 
#1,427 ·
I live in Va so lots of civil war battles took place around where I live in the Vally, along with lots of troop movement. I like to hike to rock climb and look for caves. So I'm way back in the sticks fallowing a creek through the mountains. I'm farther than I've ever gone and up to my right on the bluff I see some cool rocks so I climb up to them. There I find a cave. It's not a huge cave but it's not small. I started to look around and found General 'Stonewall' Jackson's name carved into the wall of the cave. No date, just his name.

Coolest thing I've found. My dad told me he found Stonewall's name carved in a cave back when he was my age south of where I found mine.
 
#2,494 ·
Im down here in Kentucky and my dad and grandfather are originally from Virginia. My grandpa still lives there. We are all into civil war and rev war history. Every time I go to visit my grandpa we always stumble onto a new memorial, or battle site or cemetery, but to find something like that would be amazing. If you dont mind disclosing the general area (county, city, etc) Id like to visit the are and maybe poke around. If not thats cool, I completely understand. thanks
 
#1,433 ·
My Turn!!!

Barker Ranch in Death Valley. The last hideout of the Charles Manson. We walked inside and sat at the kitchen table, saw the beds, etc. We even sat in his look out chair up on the hill. I have more pics if anyone is interested.



Ghosts of the Valley..



Someone forgot the pick up their bombs...



Finally...we helped rescue this downed biker.



 
#1,436 ·
I would like to say I did report it but....

I didnt report it I was 18 and did not have the best relationship with the police I was a bad kid but not anymore so now I would have been on the horn calling for backup but what are you going to do that was a long time ago Im sure something has happened with it since then. If they were hippies then Im sure they burned out if they were a bit more hardcore they probably have been caught If anyone wants to ge look go to el mirage road down by by P.I.R. on the left side of the road there was a dune go over that drive back about 5 miles until you see a BIG BIG dune go up that and then hit the trails for miles and miles heading towards Buckeye should get you there eventually. That being said its probably all houses now the last time I went to Phoenix the ranch I lived on was a housing development so no guarantees:dunno:
 
#1,437 ·
We used to ride at a place we had named the observatory when I was younger(I had a 84 bronco II not a jeep).This place is in the middle of nowhere on a mountain 2 miles back.It had electricity and a huge fence and this was in the 50s! Rumor has it the government owned the whole place and did surveys there.There was a 10 foot white pod looking thing that sat on railroad tracks so it could be spun 360 degrees.Lord knows how much electric wire running into it with a open top that was slightly angled.The strange part is what we found inside of it,it was what looked like a 50s style fridge with 3 huge hinges that once had padlocks.The bottom had a hole cut out about a foot wide with chicken fence covering it up.About 15 feet from it was what looked like a manhole except 5 times bigger and built very solid.We tried to open it up but it was rusted shut.There were several tops of pipes coming out of the ground about 8 inches around,you could drop rocks in there and wait a good 5 seconds before hearing a loud metal pinging sound.About 50 feet from the pod was what was left of a building that had a partial concrete wall that hadent fallen.What was left of that room had 2 concrete slabs 1 of which was about 5 feet long and the other about 3.They were both about 3 feet tall.

I told my dad about this place a few times,of course he wanted to go check it out.So we loaded up the 4 wheelers and went back there looking around closer than what I did before.We found what was left of some papers which i found partial names and dates back in 1955.There was also some names written in pencil in the observatory from the 50s along with USGS.Till this day I cant figure out what the fridge thing was and what they need 3 locks on it for and also the slabs in the building.I know exactly where it is however alot of the land on the mountain has been bought,shut down and is under development.It is rumored that the country singer John Micheal Montgomery bought all the land around there but sold it later on.I know they did put up a new huge gate at one point that someone drove into and over to go wheelin.This whole mountain has some strange stuff and I have some more stories if anyone finds this interesting I will post them.By the way this is right off highway 8 in Warren County TN right up the mountain where Mayhem offroad park is in Viola that was on xtreme 4x4.
 
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