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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?
 
#1,649 ·
a bit of a short story really but up in northern wisconsin (basically shawano lake) we decided to head out behind the lake we were at (Loon Lake) out on the indian reservation to look for bear one night. while we were out my dad stopped the car turned it off and got out to "look" for bear. the car lights turned off and he waited around for a while then snuck up to the car and banged against it causing my stepmom and sisters to scream. well we had the windows open and after they screamed we all laughed cuz the realized it was my dad. a split second later we heard screaming coming from further in the woods. like little kids screaming while being murdered. had to have been some 20-30 people doing it. it was a horrible noise. well we went to go get closer and check it out and see what it was and we ended up stumbling onto the Rama Behera Cult. they were in the woods in the middle of the night dressed in their cult garb doing who knows what. anyways we took off really fast after that. not all that scary to read but being there it was creepy beyond belief
 
#1,650 ·
Thought I'd add something to this after reading all the stories. I technically didn't find it, as it's located on a state park and has been "found" before, and it wasn't while wheeling, just while walking my dog. And it's not very unusual, but I still thought it was really cool. An abandoned farm turned into a state park. I've only walked a bit of the trails through here - there are TONS more and even a second entrance that I have yet to go through.


The biggest building - the barn

Pig sty? (Don't know, haven't seen that many to know what a pig sty looks like.)

This broken down shed was a LONG walk away from the main buildings - almost on the opposite side of the park.

One of the chicken coops next to the barn

An old part of a train

Another chicken coop
 
#1,657 ·
Found an outhouse sized shack in the middle of the woods near lewiston that looked like it had been there for 60 years. Inside there was no seat, just shelves. And all the shelves were PACKED with trophies. Big trophies too. But all of the trophies had little golden winnebagos on top of them, every last one. No idea who gets a trophy for owning a winnebago, let alone about 300 of them......and then store them all in some wooden shack in the middle of the woods.
 
#1,662 ·
^ was that area developed at one time, then abandoned for one reason or another? Just askin cause there are a couple "ghost towns" like that around here where you find a bunch of foundations, maybe a gas pump or light pole out in the middle of nowhere...
 
#1,663 ·
Whew. Just finished this whole thread (4 days of reading). Lots of good stuff here. so I guess I'll throw in one of my storys. Not wheeling but in the jeep non the less.

Two weeks ago I was heading home from wheeling with a friend. I decided to take the old river road near my house cause its a neat little drive. As I pull on to the bridge my motor cuts out about halfway across (thats CJ's for ya) and I stop. Well I'm sitting there trying to get it started again when i notice I'm rolling backwards, up the incline of the bridge. I finnally roll all the way back off the bridge and back onto the regular part of the road.

So I'm weirded out by this enough as it is, but I get out to adjust the choke on the jeep to get it goin again (turns out I flooded it). But I un do the hood latchs and then happen to look down at the top of the hood and there in plin sight are 3 sets of hand prints in the coat of mud on the hood. One was adult sizesd and the other two were child sized hand prints WTF. So needless to say I get the Cj goin and head home again.

On the way home I stop at my parents house and tell them about it. My dad who is very christian and doesn't normally cuss, just looks and me and says "holy f*** it happened to you to?".

Turns out the story goes that back in the 70's a guy and his two kids were driving accross the bridge when they hit a patch of ice and went off the side into the river. It is (previously unknown to me) common knowledge that the man and his sons still haunt the bridge and will push stopped vehicles off of the bridge so that no one else meets the same fate as them.

Weird right? I never was much of a believer in ghost until that happened to me. And it definitly wasn't cause the bridge wasn't level, which it isn't, but I was rolling up the incline and on to the road which is to steep of an incline to just roll up.
 
#3,431 ·
whew. Just finished this whole thread (4 days of reading). Lots of good stuff here. So i guess i'll throw in one of my storys. Not wheeling but in the jeep non the less.

Two weeks ago i was heading home from wheeling with a friend. I decided to take the old river road near my house cause its a neat little drive. As i pull on to the bridge my motor cuts out about halfway across (thats cj's for ya) and i stop. Well i'm sitting there trying to get it started again when i notice i'm rolling backwards, up the incline of the bridge. I finnally roll all the way back off the bridge and back onto the regular part of the road.

So i'm weirded out by this enough as it is, but i get out to adjust the choke on the jeep to get it goin again (turns out i flooded it). But i un do the hood latchs and then happen to look down at the top of the hood and there in plin sight are 3 sets of hand prints in the coat of mud on the hood. One was adult sizesd and the other two were child sized hand prints wtf. So needless to say i get the cj goin and head home again.

On the way home i stop at my parents house and tell them about it. My dad who is very christian and doesn't normally cuss, just looks and me and says "holy f*** it happened to you to?".

Turns out the story goes that back in the 70's a guy and his two kids were driving accross the bridge when they hit a patch of ice and went off the side into the river. It is (previously unknown to me) common knowledge that the man and his sons still haunt the bridge and will push stopped vehicles off of the bridge so that no one else meets the same fate as them.

Weird right? I never was much of a believer in ghost until that happened to me. And it definitly wasn't cause the bridge wasn't level, which it isn't, but i was rolling up the incline and on to the road which is to steep of an incline to just roll up.
sweet jesus
 
#1,664 ·
^^Sounds like the "gravity hill" here in Indiana. Very similar story about kids pushing a vehicle up a hill. Apparently 1 story is there was a bus full of kids that ran off the road and they all died. So if you park your vehicle at the bottom of the hill and shut it off. Then sprinkle powder or flour on your bumper then wait inside, your vehicle will be pushed up the hill. Once on top you can check your bumper and find small hand prints.
 
#1,667 ·
When we were in high school, a couple of buddies and I were out in the middle of the woods on dirtbikes. We were real familiar with the area, and there wasn't a house or development for ~5 miles in any direction. We get real far out into the woods and are ripping through a big rock garden when out of the corner of my eye, I spot an old lady. I would guess she must have been in her 80s. She had a white sweater on and blue dress, with no pack/walking stick/water etc, and was sitting on a rock looking up into the trees, even as we passed on our 2-stroke dirtbikes which she HAD to notice. I was last in the group, and by the time I saw her we had passed the rock garden and my buddies who were better riders than me were far ahead. By the time I caught up with them and told them what I saw, it was 10-15 minutes later. We turned back to see if she needed help, and she was no longer there (or any where else on the trail in either direction).

It was creepy because she looked to be in no shape to go out for a leisurely walk that deep in the woods. She had a ton of wrinkles, white hair and was pretty overweight. There was no trace of her either, we went farther back down the trail in the opposite direction and couldn't find her. The land around there was marshy with very thick brush. It is almost inconceivable she walked off the path.

We still talk about her, and my only explanation I can come up with is she walked into the woods to die. When we went back to look for her, she hid to avoid being found so she could die peacefully and alone. It sounds dark, but I really have no other explanation for it.
 
#1,668 ·
A couple years back riding bikes with my dad we found a real old logging skid. Our barn is 100 years old and all the wood in the barn came out of our property. Also, I find trash and alot of other old stuff like washing machines, car doors, tires, seats from cars.

When my mom was younger she and her sister scared a guy because he was poching and they rolled up on him in an olive drab International Scout.
 
#1,669 ·
A couple years back riding bikes with my dad we found a real old logging skid. Our barn is 100 years old and all the wood in the barn came out of our property. Also, I find trash and alot of other old stuff like washing machines, car doors, tires, seats from cars.

When my mom was younger she and her sister scared a guy because he was poching and they rolled up on him in an olive drab International Scout.
grrr i hate poachers! Found one on my property once....
 
#1,670 ·
My friends and I were out Geocaching last Saturday night. We were in my friends 2DR JK and we were finding all the caches around his house. Well this one was kinda out in the middle of nowhere so instead of walking to it we found a way to access it by driving the Jeep. Well my friends were looking at some leftover Ike debris and I was like to heck with that look at the dude in the middle of the trail on his knee's! It was cold (in the low 40's) and very damp. Up in front of us maybe 100ft was a guy with just a flannel shirt, and blue jeans with either a camcorder or camera. Off to the side of the road was a dude on his belly with another dude sitting on top of him!!!!!! We came across some broke back mountain lovefest out in the middle of nowhere!!!! We continued on our way and found the cache and signed the log.

We all decided we would find another way out vs going back by the broke back mountain lovefest and that other way out consisted of a nasty mud bog with green stuff floating on the surface (nothing had been through that water for months). My friend drove in slowly at first, but that didn't work. On the second attempt it was all tall skinny pedal and lockers and we were able to get some traction and get out. My buddies Jeep looked like the swamp thing after that bog, but at least we didn't have to go back by those dudes!

Geocaching is a lot of fun, but sometimes you never know what you're going to run into!
 
#1,672 ·
Geocaching is where a bunch of people with GPS units go out and hide ammo cans, or tiny matchstick sized containers and fill them with a log or just a bunch of misc goodies. Then they go online and post the location of the cache and some hints on how to find it.
 
#1,675 ·
^^Sounds like the "gravity hill" here in Indiana. Very similar story about kids pushing a vehicle up a hill. Apparently 1 story is there was a bus full of kids that ran off the road and they all died. So if you park your vehicle at the bottom of the hill and shut it off. Then sprinkle powder or flour on your bumper then wait inside, your vehicle will be pushed up the hill. Once on top you can check your bumper and find small hand prints.
There is actually antother one like that about an hour and a half from where I live. Its in Somerset, KY its also named gravity hill.
 
#1,676 ·
Ehh, I have a local road I wheel on that is actually a public road, owned by Penndot, but it hasn't been maintained in AGES. There are some areas down there where lockers and 35s are a must. It runs in between some really redneck cabins, and a crick. (Yes, i said crick.) On the trail, it's actually kinda cool to see what you can find. There's a 60s International Scout shell, an EARLY Grand Wagoneer that's mostly complete, but under a fallen tree, an early 60s Buick, pushed down over a hill, and on it's lid right by the water, and a Ford F350 upside down just to the left of one of the aforementioned difficult areas, with it's axles and lift kit stripped off. I've also found coolers, and empty 5.75X51MM shell casings down there.
 
#1,680 ·
Chainsaw, shovel, maybe a set of irons, and a flatbed to put er on. DO IT NOW.

Or at least pics for us to judge how bad its planted in there, either way its not bad to pull out a vehicle "in the weeds" with a little hard work.. Just watch out for animal friends who may have found residence there, angry squirrels are not fun squirrels.
 
#1,683 ·
If I go down sometime, I'll have to grab pics. I have a buddy that lives right by the exit, so I may be able to do that sometime soon. The Scout is trash, as is the Waggy, however, I think the engine is still in the F350.
 
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