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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1312027 United States 12/26/2011 10:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | But instead relocating them, the aforementioned man in a fit of *screw you guys!* released them all... I do know that for years there were tons of sightings of a chicken-killing black panther. Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan But to my knowledge, we're the only ones that ever saw a Hyena in the East Texas woods. Whoa I have a related story! I live in East TX and when I was younger I was working at a La Madeleine restaurant. There was a lady working there with me who was like 65 years old. I thought it was weird that she was working there and she was so old, and one day she explained to me that her and her husband had lost all their savings on buying an emu farm. They owned tons of emus and kept them in a giant fence that was like 8 feet tall, apparently they can jump really high if they get excited. Once she told me a story of her 2 dogs, she said that one was young and barked at everything, and one was old and only barked if there was real danger, so they only bothered to listen to the old dog. Well one evening the old dog started barking and getting really excited, so she grabbed her shotgun and went outside. There she was totally shocked to see that a black panther was in her yard, and it was carrying one of her emus OVER this 8-foot tall fence! She said that for some reason she was so scared that she was unable to shoot it. Holy shit-this reminded me of the time me and my brother saw what we swear was a black panther walking across a street in Alamo Heights, near downtown. We used to live 60 miles northwest of Houston up to about a year ago. More north than west. Considered East TX but not deep East. We lived a pretty good ways in the woods and the people whom had lived there for many years always swore there were black panthers around and had many different stories how they got there. We never really believed them till my wife was coming home about 2 AM one night. She was driving down the dirt road to our house about 20 mph when she said it looked like a huge black dog slowly walking across the road in front of her. But as she got closer, she said its' shoulders were doing that rolling motion just like a huge cat! It never picked up speed and just casually kept going. She worked at the State Park for a while after the sighting and asked the manager about it. He said that Texas State Parks released black panthers I think in the 70's sometime to try and control the feral hog population. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7452181 United States 12/26/2011 10:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was working near the White Mountain Apache Indian Res about 10 years ago. I'd worked hard all week and thought I would just take a night off and chill out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1061562 I drove for miles down a dirt road and far away from the nearest city. At About 10 at night I pulled to the edge of a rut in the road just to kick back. I climbed out of the cab of my truck, lit a smoke and started walking around. I could hear birds and little animals scurrying about. The desert seemed to come alive that night. I ended up laying on the hood of my truck sucking down a beer and taking in the beautiful stars. Coming from Southern California, I was amazed at the massive and wonderful Milky Way Galaxy. It was great to behold. I was nearing the end of my first beer and wanting to roll off the cab and grab another one so I propped myself up on one elbow. Then I heard them. The sound of unshod ponies striking rocks as they walked. At this point I stood up on the hood to see where the noise was coming from. I still couldn't see anything but knew they were coming from my right. I could feel my heart beat rapidly when the first one broke bush. He was the most proud person I ever saw. His entire body and horse all had a weird glow about them. He wore a full head dress with feathers that touched the horses rump. The ends of the feathers were lit with a reddish glow. Being scared to death, I didn't know what to do. I froze. I waited as he rode near the front of my truck. Once there, he stopped and stared directly in my eyes. He had deep lines that crisscrossed his face. I could tell that this man was important and held power. He was extremely strong looking, well built for his age and his face shown the worry of many years trying to keep his people alive. With a slight kick to his horses flank, he pushed on. Six other warriors followed him. Each dressed differently but all glowing as the first. None of them looked at me. They just rode by. When I could no longer see them or hear them I jumped off the truck and grabbed a .45 and a flashlight. I was still pretty shook up. I flashed the light across the path they'd taken but could find no tracks. Yet I know I heard the hooves striking stones and the horses breaking against the bush. I ran to the clearing to see if the edges might have broken or twisted branches. Everything looked normal as far as I could tell. Then I heard the sounds. It was as if they were coming back but now there were dozens of them. My legs became feeble as I chamber a round in the .45. Soon I could not only hear them 50 yards abreast of me but I began to see their faint glows. I have to admit, I lost it at this point. I ran back to my truck to get away but realized the doors were locked and keys inside. I must have bumped the auto lock when I grabbed my gun and flashlight! I thought about shooting out the window or breaking it with a rock but that might incite them in some way. I was scared. With my brain in panic mode I ran off the road, deeper and deeper into the brush. I ran until I could run no more than I walked and ran some more. Finally, not seeing or hearing them anymore, I stopped and looked for shelter. It was cold that night and I had little in the way of supplies with me. All I could think of doing was staying hidden and keeping warm. I didn't dare use my flashlight for fear of being seen. So I reached down and scooped pine needles all around my body. I must have fell asleep during the night because when I awoke the sky was black with dark clouds and it began to rain heavily. Once again, I felt my life was in danger and knew I had to do something. I used the flashlight to find better cover but even under big trees, little streams of water would fall. After about 10 minutes I found a very small cave. Not a big one like you see on tv. I ran up there to check it out and found it to be suitable enough to completely shield my body with extra room to spare. By this time, I was soaked! Everything I wore including my underware was wet. I decided to make a fire at the mouth of the cave for warmth and to dry my clothes. So, I gathered fallen wood from under the trees and pine needles. I tried to light the pine needles but they wouldn't catch. Finally, I pulled off one of my socks, found a dry patch near the top and used it to start a fire with my lighter. The fire felt good but smoke filled my small cave. I ended up grabbing a small log and used it to push the fire away from the entrance. It worked and now the cave was clearing but the fire was going out because of the rain. Naked, I left the cave site to look for long branches. I found a handful of large ones and placed them tepee style around the fire. Now, as the rain hit these green sticks, the water clung to the sticks and was displaced around the fire. I dug a small ditch around my tepee waterbreak and watched as the water pooled around it and spilled over in safe direction. I was very scared that night and couldn't sleep for many hours. When I awoke, I was freezing. My fire was completely out but my clothing was nearly dry. My plan that day was to retraced my footprints, get back to my truck, break the damn window, get the hell out of there and never come back. I didn't take long for me to realize the rain had washed away my tracks. I had run for hours the previous night and had no clue as to where I was. I could see no landmarks in any direction. I walked around for a while looking for the biggest nearby hill. Once on top, perhaps I could spot something and find a way out. As I neared the crest of the hill, my heart sank. I couldn't see anything I recognized from my vantage point. As I sat down, trying to collect my self, I saw strange indian symbols hanging in the tree near me or stuck in the ground. There were no footprints in this area as well but I knew it had been done recently. Sticks were used to make the symbols and they were twisted and broken. The wood inside was completely green. I know I had walked into some sort of religious site and I'd better get the hell out. I backtracked to the best of my knowledge the way I'd come the night before. I fell twice and hurt my right leg in the process. I had to stop for a break. I sat there thinking how crazy the night had been. and tried to rationalize the experience. Finally I just got up and kept walking in a westernly direction. I came to a small pool of water in some rocks and wanted a drink but the water looked filthy and animal and bird dropping were all around the water. I just lay my head on the rock and almost cried. Alright, I cried a little. After a time, I got up and pushed onward. I saw a fairly large clearing ahead and made haste. When I reached the clearing I froze in my tracks. A wooden indian spear with the blunt end pushed in the ground stood before me. A single white feather with a painted red tip hung loosly near the top. A large rabbit was impaled on the tip. Its guts on the ground and its blood still slowly dripping like small rivers down the length of the spear. I'll have to finish my story tomorrow. It's getting way late and I have to work tomorrow. for the rest of the story! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1536391 United States 12/26/2011 10:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was riding my dirtbike in the national forest up in Michigan, a couple miles from the nearest road or house. On one part of the trail there is a steep incline with a turn around a large tree at the top. You really have to stand on the throttle to get up the hill. Anyway I came ripping up the hill as usual and sitting at the base of the tree was a little blond girl. Probably about 11 years old. I saw her at the last second, thank God, and continued straight off into the saplings where I dumped my bike. Had I started the turn my foot peg would have crushed her head. As I picked my bike up I said 'Christ girl what the hell are you doing out here?' She just stared at me. Then I said 'Why didn't you move when you heard me coming up the hill?' More staring. I got a little creeped out, started my Yammie, and tore off down the trail. The next day I saw the same girl walking down the street where I live. She was staring again as we drove by. She saw me pointing at her as I told my wife 'That's her that's the little girl.' Prolly just some local kid out there smoking pot or hiding from her abusive and neglectful parents. But I still thought it was pretty strange. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5726022 United States 12/26/2011 10:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A few minutes later three men in uniform with dogs on leashes came into our camp and asked if we'd seen anyone tonight. My friend and I just pointed towards the creek and described our encounter. They told us a patient had escaped from an asylum recently. They said we weren't safe here until he is caught and told us to leave and they headed down towards the creek after him. So we packed up and left, neither of us said a word we were still scared shitless. About a week later my buddy comes by and says , you gotta see this, he looked like he'd seen a ghost and was having a difficult time breathing. He pulls out his digital camera and shows me the pictures he took on that particular camping trip. Quickly flipping through pictures of trout and the landscape, etc. He stops at a picture of me wading in the creek fishing and zooms in to the woods and bank behind me and points to the face of the 7 ft man we saw. He was watching us from behind a tree. Chillls. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7738474 United States 12/26/2011 11:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Porn man. When I was in 5th grade, me and two of my classmates went hiking in this hill behind his house and we found an old wooden shack. Inside was a bunch of old porn magazines. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1243759 I found the same thing when I was about 16. It was an old sack with what must had been over a 100 smut magazines in it. there was also a bag with unopened bear bottles in it. I suspect now that there are demons who this to lead people away from God and get them trapped into a life of pornography. I mean, think about it, who carries porn and bear into the woods and just leaves it there knowing that kids could find it? If someone is an addict and they repent and want to get rid of their sinful stash, wouldn't they make sure that it was burned or at least put out with the garbage... not taken into the woods for others to find. Actually there is some truth to this. |
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OmarEastwind
User ID: 1493015 United States 12/26/2011 11:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I found a child's casket way out in the Ozark woods...the bottom had rotted out, but the rest of it was in pretty good shape...no body or bones, so I took it home and made a coffee table out of it.... Quoting: OmarEastwind Epic! Why, thank you! We hillbillies are very creative and we don't like to waste good materials we find... It was a great coffee table, with a large storage area... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7570540 United States 12/26/2011 11:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Trout fishermen need to be careful. It's not unusual to have your car broken into when you are out fishing. Also, my husband has had strange men come up to him and start conversing - in the middle of nowhere! Thankfully, he always fishes with a friend so if anything like that happens, they can yell down/upstream at the buddy and the crazies run off. Just saying...there's a reason why people disappear off the face of the Earth. |
RedlicoriceRedux
User ID: 7738433 Canada 12/26/2011 11:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Trout fishermen need to be careful. It's not unusual to have your car broken into when you are out fishing. Also, my husband has had strange men come up to him and start conversing - in the middle of nowhere! Thankfully, he always fishes with a friend so if anything like that happens, they can yell down/upstream at the buddy and the crazies run off. Just saying...there's a reason why people disappear off the face of the Earth. Quoting: Faith I believe it. Drunks, Crazies, and Vandals in the Woods. Excerpt: I've had people intentionally try to tip my canoe with their motor boat and set up a shooting range right next to my camp at midnight (illegally on public land). [link to www.survivalistboards.com] |
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AmericanInfidel
User ID: 7718666 United States 12/26/2011 12:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Destroy all that is evil, so what is good may flourish. Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage. KCCO |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7744609 United States 12/26/2011 12:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Any ideas on why a bright colored pipe would be protruding 6 inches above the ground so many miles into the woods and mountains? ^^^^^^^^ I was stationed @ Ft Hood, TX for a few years and when we were stateside, my buds and I would go camping all over Tx. We found pipes sticking out of the ground in numerous remote locations. Usually 6" to a foot above ground. I've always wondered if these were from some underground facilities. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7718380 United States 12/26/2011 12:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Devil's Creek Kentucky is another weird place to go to. I had a friend who would ride horses through there at night and would have all kinds of experiences. One time he told me he wanted me to go with him to see what I can see because he knew I have a good sixth sense. When we got over there I couldn't feel or see anything right away, but I lagged a bit behind the group of people with us and all of a sudden I felt like I was completely surrounded by something. In my minds eye I could see "them"...jumping at me. I later told my friend what I thought they looked like and he said yes, one of his friends had come around a bend in the road one night and one of them was standing right in the glare of the headlights.I had described them exactly the way his other friend had seen it. They look almost human, but with light hair all over their body,very long arms, and really round,heads, smaller than a human's head. They have been terrorizing the people in that area for a long time, but have never harmed anyone. It's just scary when you can feel something and not see it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5682902 United States 12/26/2011 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was hiking in the Sangre di Christo mountain range in Colorado. I decided to leave the trailhead to climb a ridge and get a better vantage point of the surrounding landscape. Several miles from the trail I stumbled upon an old stone chimney in the middle of a perfect circular clearing. I was shocked because it didn't seem like the place there would be a chimney and I was not expecting to discover something like that. It threw me off guard. The base was wide and there was a large opening to put burnable material inside. The chimney portion narrowed out and towered at least 20-25 ft. For the hell of it I grabbed some dead branches and started a little fire. There were words carved in the opening around the base, but I couldn't make them out. They didn't seem like english from what I could tell. It was a cool experience to say the least. Someone had spent the time to build the thing. It was an odd location and I considered myself lucky to have found it by chance... |
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User ID: 7627839 United States 12/26/2011 01:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | still don't know what it was. i would think if it was an animal it would stay away from us as we were making some noise. i have never been scared of those woods before at dark but i think i always will be now. consciousness shift |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1515944 United States 12/26/2011 01:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | . . . Saw a mangled Baby-Doll hanging from a "noose" in a small tree and very nearby a dead cat stuck up on the end of a stick or small tree. This was near the end a road by the river where my cousin and I were going to check out for Indian artifacts. A dark strange place a few miles from any homes and a few more from any towns. . . . . Not too far away from here I also saw man-made stone piles along the hillsides similarly to what was described before in this thread. At first I thought they might be stone graves, but later was told they were likely leftover defensive spots from the Civil war activity along the river. . |
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watcher User ID: 3037610 United States 12/26/2011 04:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in the PNW where deep dark woods are all over the place. I find random shelters made out of broken - never cut - wood...fresh moss & ferns lining the insides...sometimes bird feathers like something was eating inside of them. They're out in the woods and I know there could be homeless people living out there, but these shelters have no trash, clothing, food litter, etc...no signs of building a fire. They're very clean and completely made out of nature and without cutting tools. I also find intricately woven fence-like things and rock cairns that are amazingly constructed like you wouldn't believe! I'm not talking your average run of the mill rock cairn made by people along trails...just piles of rocks stacked. No, these are intricately balanced carefully chosen rocks off the trails and I will go back a couple of weeks later and find them still there but changed! I started taking pictures of them so I know they've been changed by comparing the pictures. I've heard tree-knocks, rock-knocking...quite a few sounds actually when I'm out walking that sound like Sasquatch. Lots of orbs too out in the woods! |
AmericanInfidel
User ID: 7718666 United States 12/26/2011 04:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live in the PNW where deep dark woods are all over the place. I find random shelters made out of broken - never cut - wood...fresh moss & ferns lining the insides...sometimes bird feathers like something was eating inside of them. They're out in the woods and I know there could be homeless people living out there, but these shelters have no trash, clothing, food litter, etc...no signs of building a fire. They're very clean and completely made out of nature and without cutting tools. I also find intricately woven fence-like things and rock cairns that are amazingly constructed like you wouldn't believe! I'm not talking your average run of the mill rock cairn made by people along trails...just piles of rocks stacked. No, these are intricately balanced carefully chosen rocks off the trails and I will go back a couple of weeks later and find them still there but changed! I started taking pictures of them so I know they've been changed by comparing the pictures. I've heard tree-knocks, rock-knocking...quite a few sounds actually when I'm out walking that sound like Sasquatch. Lots of orbs too out in the woods! Quoting: watcher 3037610 Sounds like a squatch. My advice, befriend him or her. Have them teach you the ways of the Forrest, and in turn, teach them of our world. Destroy all that is evil, so what is good may flourish. Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage. KCCO |
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watcher User ID: 3037610 United States 12/26/2011 04:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah, I also have photos of big barefoot prints...in mud, gravel, etc...funny thing is - it's always just one print like they just want you to know that they're there. I leave fresh apples & pears out there for them. When I first started leaving stuff out there for them it was oranges. I would walk by a few weeks later and they would be gone. Then a month & a half later I would be walking by the same place where I had left them and on the way back out there would be the same orange sitting there in the same spot where I had left it a month or two earlier and in perfect condition - not moldy at all. Never happened with the apples or pears, just the oranges. It was like they were politely giving them back to me and letting me know they didn't really like them. |
Wolfen /v\
User ID: 7744631 United States 12/26/2011 04:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the Fall of 1988 a buddy from work and I went hunting on State park property on the upper end of a lake in Ohio. We were deer hunting and had made our own tree stands and had scoped out the area the 3 weeks b4 the Season opend. We chose our areas and had went into the woods about 2 hours b4 daylight to set up our stands. We setup my buddies spot first and I helped hand all the equipement up to him when I heard footstreps coming toward me from maybe 30 feet away. I whispred to my buddy that something was coming and he didnt quite hear me and I repeated it and he said no way and I thought maybe a deer had heard us rustling around and was coming to see what we were. I always carried a handgun when bow hunting, you never know what you are going to see in the woods of Ohio. (I have had fox, groundhogs and bobcats walk up on me and many MANY deer come from behind) I set my hand on my handgun and suddenly a man wearing nothing but camo coveralls walked right up to me and I asked him what are you doing? He stared at me for about 30 seconds and walked off. I saw no weapons on him no hunter orange as was the law. Nothing. Life is short.....live it with ecstasy! Intuition is a status of mind to live by. The most destructive lies we tell are the ones we tell ourselves. Once you stop this behavior things begin to change. The universe embraces you and gives you the courage, forbearance, faith, hope and love to move up the staircase. It's enLightening. Changing the world one person at a time. I II IIII IIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIII THE DOOR OF DOOM HAS BEEN BOLWN OEPN AND TREHE IS A GIPANG HLOE IN JAAPN! "One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." -- Gerard Way |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7753883 United Kingdom 12/26/2011 04:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In the Fall of 1988 a buddy from work and I went hunting on State park property on the upper end of a lake in Ohio. We were deer hunting and had made our own tree stands and had scoped out the area the 3 weeks b4 the Season opend. We chose our areas and had went into the woods about 2 hours b4 daylight to set up our stands. We setup my buddies spot first and I helped hand all the equipement up to him when I heard footstreps coming toward me from maybe 30 feet away. I whispred to my buddy that something was coming and he didnt quite hear me and I repeated it and he said no way and I thought maybe a deer had heard us rustling around and was coming to see what we were. I always carried a handgun when bow hunting, you never know what you are going to see in the woods of Ohio. (I have had fox, groundhogs and bobcats walk up on me and many MANY deer come from behind) I set my hand on my handgun and suddenly a man wearing nothing but camo coveralls walked right up to me and I asked him what are you doing? He stared at me for about 30 seconds and walked off. I saw no weapons on him no hunter orange as was the law. Nothing. Quoting: Wolfen /v\ Kinda sinsister! |