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So was the shine still good??1. I found an absolutely pristine pair of 1970s-era Fiskars scissors.
2. I found a weather balloon that NASA had launched in Huntsville (they paid me a $50 bounty for mailing it back to them.
3. several abandoned deer stands and blinds
4. a destroyed still and a jug of shine hidden in a nearby tree stump
5. The old I95 radio station van
6. The remains of a '57 Chevy Nomad so deep in the woods and hardscrabble I am not sure how it ever got there
7. An abandoned radio tower
8. an old set of mine cart tracks that seemed to end at some sort of kennel deep in the woods (lots of dog-sized cages - very creepy)
9. stacks of '80s era porn mags in a shallow cave.
10. a pile of seemingly used condoms at an old campsite. Not several strewn about, but a small hill of them.
11. A pair of panties and a dog skull hanging next to each other in a tree.
12. A pair of fisherman's waders buried with the feet sticking out so that my friend and I spent hours trying to dig them up to see if we needed to call the cops about a body (they were just full of mud and rocks). This was practically right under the skull and panties, so you can understand our concern.
13. A dirty baby diaper, seemingly recent, but so deep into the woods and away from any trails as to be disconcerting.
14. An abandoned rope bridge over a creek/small gorge in the deep woods of Tennessee that was so old that when one of us touched one of the guide ropes, one whole side fell apart.
15. The remains of a chainsaw sticking out of a tree and overgrown by the tree. Guess Mother Nature won that fight twice.
16. several fireplaces/chimneys
17. A piece of oceanic driftwood covered in barnacles nearly 300 miles from the nearest beach. That trail was only a few hundred yards from a neighborhood, though, so it might have been a discarded souvenir.
18. A hammer that my cousin's black lab had stolen from me nearly a decade before while I was running barbwire. Found it with the Bush Hog, unfortunately, while trying to cut a trail through the woods for a feeder.
19. An abandoned cemetery dating back to Reconstruction that had been part of a black community that had long-since moved to town and been forgotten.
Most of these were found in the woods around Birmingham. The creepy mine tracks/kennels were found deep on Lookout Mountain in Alabama. The weather balloon and the hammer were on our farm. The deer stands were found all over, and the chainsaw was found on Sand Mountain.
I have found many portable tree stands abandoned. This is state lands and far back. Not allowed to leave them in tree. I am thinking either they could not find them after left earlier or too lazy to go back. Maybe they shot a deer and dragged it half a day to the road and decided not to return and get climbing stand. Ii have found ladder stands and wood stands. Also construction scaffolding several stories high and rusted from years in the weather. Also I was checking and scouting before firearms season and looking at huge ruts and scrapes. I am looking around and spot game trail cameras. I just walked away. I guess the hunter returned to realize their spot is not secret anymore. Ii have found abandoned farm houses and out buildings. Still had many old tools and parts in several sheds. Trees growing through buildings. I have a few antique bottles I spotted and one has the cork still in it. I also found tiny headstones{4} and well worn and buried in weeds in middle of no where. The dates were 1800's on them. These state lands were acquired a little at a time as old farms sold or donated to the state. I have been going to one large mountain for over 40 years and thought I covered every section of the place. I still find old farm equipment and other stuff in there.