Wow where to start…

When boys were little we came across a beaver dam that had so much crap in it. Even had a toilet seat built into the dam itself. Garbage cans, pieces of scrap. The beavers used anything they could find around I guess.


One night several years ago was checking traps and with my little flashlight I walked up to a dirthole coon set with a very large boar coon in it, but the coon was killed and half eaten. Had never seen that before. Around here a big boar is a pretty formidable creature, incredibly strong and scrappy. That was pretty eerie. Never figured out what did that.


Old meth labs or remnants from them we would find sometimes. Just relayed the info to the sheriff.

Found a set of coveralls laying next to a fence and my first thought was maybe the farmer got warm and took them off then forgot to pick them up. Thought I’d be nice and return them. But quickly discovered someone had a very runny bowel movement all over the inside and that’s why they came off and were laying there. Yuck.

Found a child’s gloves once laying next to one of my sets. Weird thing and placement for those. It was way out in middle of a picked bean field waterway in cold January and no tracks around. One glove could have blown there by itself but not likely both did at same time. Never found the owner and landowners wasn’t sure either he didn’t have kids.

Jim

Oh and several years ago had a game warden that liked to set the trap off then leave his business card between the jaws. After about the third or fourth time I found this and called him every time he acknowledged the sets were legal no issues and we got to point he was comfortable I was playing by all the rules and haven’t seen that again since.
Jim

I heard Rosie O'Donnell was hanging out in your neck of the woods.

Not trapping but was marking timber in northern Michigan. Found a cooler with a dollar bill sticking halfway out of the closed lid. Despite being certain of a bomb or severed head inside, I let my curiosity get the best of me and opened it. It was empty.

I took photos and talked to a local LEO about it. He said it’s very likely a meet-up for local Christians who hide certain tendencies in their closets.

Found the home owners wooden handled rake...shovel...and hoe... basketball

And soccer ball in the Beaver dam ...near his house

I thought this was weird when I found it, but have found something similar a few times since. Found a wallet a couple years ago a good ways behind a closed gate. Guy lived a couple hours away and the landowner had never heard of him

Dead Man

^ that reminds me.

We found a dead game warden once. Everyone got cuffed and stuffed and all our gear and truck was impounded before they figured out we walked up on him and tried to bring him back. He got out of his truck to check out our truck while we were deer hunting in the woods. We found him when we walked out for lunch. He fell over dead next to our truck, Brain Aneurism. He must have hit his head when he fell. It looked like someone clubbed him a good one. We didn't get our stuff back until a few days after the aneurism report came back.

Shrike did that.

We call em butcher birds.

Yep! I got educated after finding it. Thought the fairies had been making sacrifices at first, but someone let ne know what it was pretty quickly after.

After a fresh snow, saw a bunch of tracks out on a beaver pond. When I walked out there was tracks from a single coyote, fox, hawk, racoon and fisher. You could see the marks where the hawk had landed. All the tracks formed a circle each animal coming from a different point of the compass and they all left the same way they came in. There was absolutely nothing in the center where they all gathered around. Dug down through the snow looking, expecting to find blood, feathers, some sort of fresh kill, nothing.

Closest I have come to picturing animals that talked.....

Found a rail spike driver head buried in a creek bank where they used to haul logs to the river, found a plastic grenade stuffed into a dirt hole I had set for cats, caught a mole in a #330 body grip.

Caught two muskrats in one conibear.

A buzzard in a live cage trap set for coon with old grape jelly for bait.
Musta thought it was a blood clot, I recon.

Caught two mice at the same time in a 110. Also found a #2 DLS in a gravel bed next to a colver I had been trapping by for the last 5 years or so. One spring borke when I compressed it so I know it was there for awhile. Can't read the copper name tag on it but gussing it's at least 20 years old or more.

not trapping but when my son was young (8-10?) we were rabbit hunting in the state park by a lake. We were following the beagle and she led us through some thick stuff. In the middle of it, there were little hardware cloth cages protecting tiny marijuana plants.

I should have just called 911 and had them send someone to meet us. Instead we started driving to the ranger station. Part way there, a sherif deputy was on a traffic stop. I just pulled over behind him (at a distance) and waited on him to finish and come talk to me. In hindsight, that was a bad idea. He was very nervous about what we were doing and approached with a lot of caution. To make it worse, the window regulator in the truck chose that moment to fail. So I couldn't roll down the window. I had to open the door. He wasn't happy. I showed a picture of the weed on my phone and said we found it in the park hunting.

He wanted me to tell him where it was, but it was hard to get to and find. I bookmarked it in the dog's GPS, so I knew I could get to it, but I couldn't give good instructions. So he reluctantly agreed to follow us back. Even though my son was with us, the sherif was obviously very suspicious of me, like I was leading him into a trap or something. Until we got all the way to the weed. Then it was clear I was telling the truth and he visually relaxed. Within another 30 minutes there were a lot of vehicles there. park rangers, sherifs, drug task force, etc.

There were a half dozen or so plants 3 inches tall.

not wierd but i caught a crawfish in my 110 one time

Lol.....quite a story.Glad it all worked out for you

Not really weird and I've posted them before but here they are again as nothing else has been that interesting on the line. lol