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Wierd things you have seen in the woods.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 7570540:MV8xNzM3MDUxXzI4NzkyMDg1XzYzRDNFQjM3] My strangest experience wasn't a woods kind of thing. We lived in a rural KS area in a country neighborhood of about two dozen homes laid out on a big gravel circle cut into a section, each home with several acres - some with ponds. I swear we had a ghost (an old Mexican man) but he never bothered us and seemed to like us so that wasn't an issue (perhaps he was our protector). Whatever the cause, I believe the neighborhood was somehow cursed - or very unlucky. We lived there 8 years. During this time, one neighbor was hit by a train and another rear-ended a garbage truck - both dead. The UPS man overturned his truck on the gravel - dead. A neighbor boy got strangled in a weight machine - dead. A neighbor girl got drunk and flipped her three-wheeler - dead. A neighbor friend of mine flipped her Suburban on the gravel 1/2 mile away and died. A neighbor boy flipped his truck on the gravel and a passenger was killed. A neighbor man blew his brains out. I was so glad to get out of that place. [/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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