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Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6819251
03/27/20 03:06 PM
03/27/20 03:06 PM
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Central MN, sort of old
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I once saw the heel of a pair of waders sticking out of the water. I thought that they had maybe blown out of one of the rigs that the boat lift installers use. When I went to pull them out of the water I found that they were being worn by a guy who had just drowned that day and the air trapped in them had kept the heel afloat. I did not get to keep the waders ...they weren't my size anyway.


I'm just happy to be here! Today I'm as young as I'll ever be and and older than I've ever been before!
Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6819266
03/27/20 04:00 PM
03/27/20 04:00 PM
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Hilton, NY
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Thirty five plus years ago went out behind my mothers farm to kick up a couple rabbits. A couple hundred yards out going thru some brush and saplings I found a girl in her early 20's hanging in a tree. She had been there a couple days and was frozen solid. Fresh dusting of snow and no tracks. All she had on was a flimsy night gown and slippers. Seems she had just gotten released from a halfway house and was being put-up in a local motel not to far away. Found her the day after Christmas.

Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6819327
03/27/20 05:20 PM
03/27/20 05:20 PM
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Now you guys are starting to creep me out. I have a friend that says if you are outside enough you will eventually find a body.


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Re: Strange finds [Re: keystone] #6819501
03/27/20 08:07 PM
03/27/20 08:07 PM
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Madawaska, Maine
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He probably lost them by also being on hand and knees there. doing what you were doing years before. Who could have for seen that? You were meant to have them back.


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Re: Strange finds [Re: drasselt] #6819959
03/28/20 01:15 AM
03/28/20 01:15 AM
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minnesota
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uhh cocaine? confused

Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6819961
03/28/20 01:44 AM
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Champaign County, Ohio.
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Originally Posted by Green Bay
Now you guys are starting to creep me out. I have a friend that says if you are outside enough you will eventually find a body.


Mushroom hunters find lots of bodies during morel season.

Keith

Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6820071
03/28/20 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Green Bay
Now you guys are starting to creep me out. I have a friend that says if you are outside enough you will eventually find a body.

Been there.

Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6820329
03/28/20 12:06 PM
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I found a wallet on the sidewalk in Minneapolis back in the 60s. Went inside the store and gave it to the mgr. When I handed it to him he said "another one". Apparently the thieves walk by and throw them in the trash can. I guess they weren't very good at basketball.
just

Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6821303
03/29/20 04:47 AM
03/29/20 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Green Bay
Now you guys are starting to creep me out. I have a friend that says if you are outside enough you will eventually find a body.


Yeah, that, too. I just didn't want to be the one to bring it up. Still gives me bad vibes, because the guy died doing the exact same thing in the exact place that I'd done dozens of times. Could easily have been me.

Re: Strange finds [Re: Cragar] #6821339
03/29/20 06:32 AM
03/29/20 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Cragar
Originally Posted by Green Bay
Thanks for the stories guys. I have a theory that trappers find more things because we are always looking for sign and that carrys over into our daily lives.

Brian

I think that is very true. Trappers as a bunch are very observant. A couple of the wallets I have found were in the road and I've spotted them at speed and knew exactly what they were at that speed. I found a stopwatch upside down at 35mph on a dirt road. Found a silver charm bracelet in the sand with just 3/8" of it sticking out on a beach.

Amazing what your eyes can see when they are open.


What were you doing upside down on a dirt road at 35 mph?

laugh

Mike


One man with a gun may control 100 others who have none.

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Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6821360
03/29/20 07:12 AM
03/29/20 07:12 AM
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potter co. p.a.
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buddy and a friend found a body on the river bank tuesday when fishing.9 people arrested for murder over it.









Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6821365
03/29/20 07:18 AM
03/29/20 07:18 AM
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Valders, WI
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Here is another “find” for a coworker of mine.

It happened about 15 years ago, I was driving home from work and at a 4 way intersection I see my coworker pull up opposite of me. We both turn the same direction and pull over a few hundred feet later to BS. He tells me about the used Stihl saw he just picked up and was heading home to try it out. Go to look in the back of his truck with the tailgate down and no saw! He was ticked! We jump in his truck, turn around and head back to the dealer he bought it from. In a small village where he turned off one county highway onto another there sat his Stihl saw on the curb. Pull over to get it and an older gent was sitting on his porch and comments about how long it was going to take for someone to come back looking. My friend showed him the sales receipt and on our way we went with saw in back and tailgate up. Still laugh about that one.

Dave


Forever in debt to my Father who introduced me to trapping.
May I be half the man he was.
Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6821472
03/29/20 09:18 AM
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Minnesota
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Creepy stuff^^^


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Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6821473
03/29/20 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Green Bay

PS. Found the rest of the Glock yesterday. Barrel had been removed. Police spent three hours with me combing the area for the rest. Got a call before going to bed that it was used in a homicide.


Not sure if people read the original post again so posting here.


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Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6821480
03/29/20 09:26 AM
03/29/20 09:26 AM
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New York border
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Green Bay , cool on the update. ( everyone look at OP's 1st post )
Hopefully they get a conviction on it.

Very important find.

I've been called out with my FD on occasion to do a mass search ( forming a line all shoulder to shoulder) to search an area looking for firearms/evidence with the police.

Glad you found the magazine in the first place , bet the police are happy with you.


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Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6821522
03/29/20 10:00 AM
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I came across a cast iron pot full of dried rooster heads with some kind of ritual-looking sword stuck in the middle. This pot was resting on a satin blanket with occult/satanic symbols. Very creepy, gave me the chills. Finding this in the middle of the woods really catches you off-guard. I actually phone it into the state police and they said it was tied into some satanic holiday of some sort.

Re: Strange finds [Re: Green Bay] #6822171
03/29/20 06:56 PM
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right at sunset my beagle jumps a deer on the river bottom we were walking along and takes off in opposite direction! so I take off after her , its getting dark and up ahead I see a guy with a machette chopping what looks to be my dog!! walk up behind him (no weapon on me) and yell HEY!! guy turns around with blade in air like hes goin to use it on me and starts jabbering Chinese! luckily hes just choppin mushrooms off a tree! took a while for the old heart to settle down!

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