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Wierd things you have seen in the woods.
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[quote:odinson222:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzI4NzkyMDA0X0RDMEQ1MUE5] I remember back in the late 80s, I stayed with a girlfriend who managed a apartment complex in Laurel Md. The complex had wood lines around it. I took a stroll one day and smelled something dead. I work in research and I had smelled a lot of dead animals. Some that were dead for days like sheep in a field. Very nasty smells they were. However, this didn't smell like the others. I assumed that a body would smell this way. So I noticed that the smell was coming from the edge of a woods. I walked in carefully trying to follow the smell. I got about 20 feet in where the odor was the strongest. I am looking around and not moving from the spot. A maggot fell on my shoulder and I brushed it off. I looked up and I was standing under a body of a man in military jacket and pants that hung himself. He was there for a while because maggots had eaten his face away. It was mostly bones and maggots. So I called the police and they came by and roped off the scene. There were medical examiners and the whole works of CSI there. The funny thing was that when they cut the rope the body hit the ground hard. There was a plume of stench and maggots and people started upchucking left and right. The Noobs! ROFL! Apparently this guy went missing for I believe 2 months and he was suicidal. What a way to find a body! [/quote]
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I got a special wilderness permit to go into an area in the mountains in CA where they hadn't allowed foot traffic in, in twenty years. There were no trails. It was myself and two other Marines and we did it in exchange for seeing if there was a rare kind of trout in the streams up there. I guess the forest service didn't have anyone who wanted to do it. I'm not sure I was set up with this by a friend. Anyway we hiked for two days with no trails using just a map and compass and on the second day we walked around this huge cliff to find a full on cabin with a lawn and solar power and washer and dryer the whole nine yards all built into the rock face of the cliff. You couldn't see it from above so it had gone unoticed for years. We talked to the guy that lived there and he said we were the first people he had seen hike in, in 14 years. He was a retired helicopter pilot and he had flown all the equipment in by helo. He was squatting on federal land and knew it but didn't seem worried. He said he hikes out every two weeks for supplies by a different route then we came in and he showed it to us. We used that route to get back as he had a trail beaten down so the walking was easier. All in all it was pretty cool. The trout the forest service was looking for were in the creeks so it is still closed to foot travel and we never told the forest service about the old helicopter pilot so I would bet he is still out there.
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