Things I Found in the Woods
By Jo Ann
@akalinus (44366)
United States
March 30, 2019 5:59pm CST
I enjoy walking in the woods. Over the years, I have found many strange and wondrous things while exploring different woods. Here are some of them.
The spookiest was a long bone from some unknown creature. It was broken and at least four feet long.
A cluster of balloons sent by school children in Canada. I found them on a trail in western NY state.
A bone fell out of a pine tree as I was standing there. It was from a small animal or bird.
The skeleton of a small animal swinging in a tree. Its foot was still jammed into a vee shape in a branch.
The saddest was a wolf drowned in a deep hole. I will never forget that awful feeling.
A mummified cat. How and why? I don't know.
On a happier note, I found a nest full of baby bunnies and once an Indian necklace made with beads on a leather string and a horseshoe just sitting in the trees.
Have you ever found unusual things in the woods or when you were walking anywhere?
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
31 Mar 19
The weirdest thing I ever found in the woods was a fish..a big carp or something..when there was no water around. I have no idea where that thing came from..but my dog really enjoyed rolling on it!
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
31 Mar 19
@akalinus I have no idea..There was a creek nearby, but it was polluted..never saw a fish in it..The lake was a few miles..Some animal must have been carrying it and dropped it..Or maybe someone was going to cook it..I have no idea, but even as a young kid, I was flabbergasted to see it there.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
31 Mar 19
@snowy22315 If there was a lake nearby, it would not be surprising but this is beyond eerie. I have never seen a fish in the woods.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
31 Mar 19
We have found a musket ball and a few antique bottles.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
31 Mar 19
@akalinus it was a pretty cool find.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
31 Mar 19
@Tampa_girl7 Yes, it is. How big was it? I have never found anything like that.
@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Mar 19
when I lived in the suburbs of Latvia there were many places to walk in the woods. I was always wonderful to wander about as if the world was far away. In time we stumbled upon a grave a real small grave with a cross. Never found out why or who.
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Apr 19
@akalinus no because it looked so old that we just left it alone. Perhaps someone still came there for the memories.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
3 Apr 19
@RasmaSandra It just seems suspicious to find a grave in the woods. It is like someone has something to hide.
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@BloggerDi (3121)
• United States
31 Mar 19
I enjoyed your post about the odd things you've found.
It's been a long time since I walked in the woods. I can't remember finding anything weird, but one time I found a meadow in the middle of the woods, with many different colored wild flowers. It was so beautiful!
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
1 Apr 19
@BloggerDi Maybe you can find something like it again.
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@resukill22 (25050)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
4 May 19
Very unexpecting experience of yours
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
4 May 19
@resukill22 We used to have deers grazing in our driveway. There were bunnies too. We had a possum living in a broom closet. Once, I saw a huge bird fly out of a tree. It was the biggest bird I ever saw. I never saw it again, though.
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@resukill22 (25050)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
4 May 19
@akalinus oh I see, but have you experience to see face to face a wold animal in the wood?
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@Spontaneo (14699)
• United States
10 May 19
I have found pennies on the ground! 
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@Spontaneo (14699)
• United States
10 May 19
@akalinus I never walk in the woods. So, yes, I find pennies in parking lots.
@Shivram59 (50131)
• India
31 Mar 19
@akalinus Every evening I go to a small,but dense jungle at the outskirts of our town.The only thing I found there in a bush was a catapult and pug marks of a hyaena near it.
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@Shivram59 (50131)
• India
31 Mar 19
@akalinus It might be a village kid.They hunt birds with catapult.I don't know how he left it there.I have seen hyaena in there.They fear human beings. The villagers near the jungle say that there are 5-6 hyaenas in the jungle.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
1 Apr 19
@Shivram59 Do the hyaenas there bother people much or do they stay in the jungle?
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@thedevilinme (5217)
• Northampton, England
31 Mar 19
any cute guys in the wood s;-)
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@isweartokira (3459)
• United States
31 Mar 19
what strange little treasures. I don't think I've found much if anything in the woods other than painted rocks
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
1 Apr 19
@isweartokira I have not seen much on FB about it lately but it is cold again so maybe if it gets warm.
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@thedevilinme (5217)
• Northampton, England
31 Mar 19
you look like a magic mushroom girl
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@didinedhia (8482)
• Algeria
31 Mar 19
omgg!!!!!!! i love woods !! but we dont have any here
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
31 Mar 19
I grew up in the country. I lived in some cities and saw strange things there. I am a country girl at heart and still live in a park but there is a lot of space around. It is crowded in the park but there is a racetrack, an orange grove, a horse pasture, cows I can hear mooing and a donkey braying somewhere. I think you can find things on walks no matter where you live.
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
5 Apr 19
Most of the time I don't find anything unusual, but I once found a shoe. I don't know who left it there or what happened to the other shoe.
@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
6 Apr 19
@akalinus In was in a forest. The shoe didn't look completely new. It looked like someone had worn it. I was surprised to see it. I have found gloves and things like that. That didn't surprise me, because I have often lost one of my gloves. Sometimes they fall out of my pockets.
@akalinus (44366)
• United States
6 Apr 19
@Porcospino I asked because people have been disappearing in forests and parks. When they are found, their shoes are missing. Sometimes someone will find the shoe of a missing person.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
16 May 19
very sad 'bout the balloons. so wish folks'd stop releasin' 'em, they cause critters great harm 'n not jest those'n the ocean/waterways.
quite the interestin' collection, eh? 'tis been some years since i've been'n the woods (flat, arid grasslands here) so'm strainin' tryin' to recall? oh! i found sleigh bells, actually the pup found 'em. he started diggin' frantically 'n lo'n behold, a whole string 'f sleigh bells, lol.
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
1 Apr 19
I haven't had any woods to walk in. Your treks sound interesting.
