Strange Things you find on the woods

[AaronOnTheRoad]

Found a flesh light while clean tradh off the road

 

[AlwaysLost]

Trank gun and a petrified hash pipe from the 60s

 

[Grubblin]

I work in the woods and I find all kinds of crazy shit at a rate of one or more a week. Favorite things were in abandoned house dumps in the Southeastern US Atlantic coastal states. A hundred years ago and more they used to just throw their trash down the holler in back of the house. So I'd dig through the pile looking for old coke and perfume bottles. I sold a perfume bottle from 1897 once for a hundred and probably still got ripped off.
I find half inflated mylar balloons constantly. After Valentine's day especially and they all say something like "I love you 4ever", I'm sure that's true until the balloon flies away.
The most disturbing thing I've found was a HUGE pink stuffed elephant along the North shore of Escambia Bay in Florida. It was devastating, deeply depressional, bc Hurricane Ivan had just ripped up thousands of homes south of that same Bay less than six months before that. There were still blue tarps on roofs everywhere. I thought about taking it off the shoreline and posting a lost and found ad but that seemed wrong. The elephant washed up so that it was actually standing on it's feet, just above the high tide line, kind of like that's where it always belonged. I mean, a stuffed animal washed more than a mile - probably, but at least several thousands yards - across a bay to land on it's feet on the other side. I did take a picture and the picture definitely fit the mood of the stuffed beast. It's an overcast day, the waves are white capping almost to it's feet and there sits the elephant, standing strong against the Storm. I think I still have that picture somewhere and while I haven't looked at it in a couple of years i used to look at it all the time when I started feeling sorry for myself. You get out of that picture what you want to take from it. If anything can be motivational and depressing at the same time, that picture is it. I suppose that doesn't fit the mood of the thread but hey, it's a stuffed pink elephant - where else, even on this site, can you fit that story in. Remember, it's rare that your circumstances will ever get so bad that you can't find someone else who is worse off than you - just ask pinky!

 

[HemlockSaoirse]

Outside of the town I used to live in maybe 10-15 miles out there was an abandoned cabin in the woods and a large sinkhole next to it. Wandering around stoned I thought it was a good idea to climb down the hole and check it out. It was a collapsed cellar and still had a good bit intact. Scanning around with my light I damn near jumped out of my skin because someone hung a sex doll from a noose in one of the uncollapsed sections and I thought it was a body. There were also Polaroids of three different women laying around. It still fucks with me to this day.

 

[Rob Nothing]

the wood can go both ways.. you see weird shit and you see beautiful shit and all the while just be glad you didnt run into any bears or poltergeists.. or sex dolls ( I am so sorry, man, thats creepy as fuck)

 

[TheWindAndRain]

Itsnot the woods,but here is a good one where a redditor finds then revisits a filthy porn lair inside a bridge. Photos included



Any way to get this image to show up?

@Matt Derrick also had/has a good story on squattheplanet.com/old where they found a bloody dildo and other questionable things at a train siding in the woods.

 

[HemlockSaoirse]

The fact that the bloody condom went missing between their trips is nuts. Great read though.