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Strange occurances in the woods

LoadedLimbs said:
@KYHunter - Years ago I was in Eastern Pennsylvania and stumbled upon a similar finding. Wasn't sure what I'd found at first - why were there so many dead deer piled up in one place? When I spoke with a Conservation Officer about it, I learned that it was a spot where the county or state was dumping road killed deer.
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Interesting. There was no worn path or tracks to the interstate in this situation. I even walked up to the fence to look for a gap in it thinking something like that may have happened
 
Maybe that ditch flooded.and the deer got swept up and the water piled them up?

The other night dragging my deer out I had a pack of coyotes howling relatively close....not a concern but u don't here the coyotes vocalize very often around here unless a siren or something like that sets them off.

My dad and I were up late 1 night at his friends property. The neighborhooding property is owned by an amusement park/zoo. We heard the coyotes sounding off on and off but then later we could hear some crazy screaming and then minutes later all the coyotes went nuts. We figured they made a kill and were all happy with each other and vocalizing like u see the wolf's do in the documentaries. Best guess was the crazy screaming was from the zonkies (zebra+donkey) they keep

Another time out there they were quail hunting and I was tagging along....we crested the hill and there was a huge camel eating the stuff he plants for the quail....it made some weird noise and ran off all stupid like camels do
 
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Weldabeast said:
Maybe that ditch flooded.and the deer got swept up and the water piled them up?

The other night dragging my deer out I had a pack of coyotes howling relatively close....not a concern but u don't here the coyotes vocalize very often around here unless a siren or something like that sets them off.

My dad and I were up late 1 night at his friends property. The neighborhooding property is owned by an amusement park/zoo. We heard the coyotes sounding off on and off but then later we could hear some crazy screaming and then minutes later all the coyotes went nuts. We figured they made a kill and were all happy with each other and vocalizing like u see the wolf's do in the documentaries. Best guess was the crazy screaming was from the zonkies (zebra+donkey) they keep

Another time out there they were quail hunting and I was tagging along....we crested the hill and there was a huge camel eating the stuff he plants for the quail....it made some weird noise and ran off all stupid like camels do
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Sounds wild seeing a camel in the woods.
And maybe?? We’d had a big snow but no runoff just yet. And this ditch flowed from the interstate to the main creek so not much upstream of them. Who knows
 
I saw a UFO yesterday morning. Bright twinkly light doing some weird motions, distant roar like a jet, and it was gone.
 
Jrybicki said:
Hogs are one thing I have yet to get used too... Pulled a SC coastal bear permit in 2017 and decided to do some pre season scouting... now growing up in MI hogs were never something I had to worry about but I had heard there were hogs in the WMA I would be scouting/hunting so I brought my 45ACP. About the time I get off the high ground and into the low country swamp, I soon noticed hog sign everywhere and thought I need to keep my eyes and ears open and find an escape plan... unfortunately all that was around were palmetto leaves and cypress trees took 2 more steps and all the sudden I hear some squealing and running towards me... with no where to go I ducked behind a cypress tree and drew my pistol... not that it'd do much... they popped out from the palmetto leaves 10 yards from me and took a hard turn to the right. After collecting myself and cleaning my britches I headed back for the high ground and stayed away from that area during bear season.

Aside from being chased by coyotes during bow season and the occasional bobcat/fox screams on the walk in that always sound like a young girl screaming, I have yet to see Wolfman, El chupicabra, big foot, skunk ape. My question is do you get a picture or do you try to kill it and get a full body mount because why not lol?!
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I’ve been chased by hogs at Donnelley WMA in SC.
 
I was walking in one morning before daylight without my headlamp on. I started hearing heavy footsteps coming down the trail in my direction. I figured it was a deer and would eventually take off but it didn’t. I was convinced it was a Bigfoot that was about to kill me but it turned out to be a horse. When I finally turned my lamp on it was about four feet away. It decided it needed a good he’d scratching and leaned into me and almost knocked me down.
 
I walked to a duck swamp that was about a mile back into some public land one morning. About 3/4 of the way in I smelled cigarette smoke pretty strong. It was so strong I expected to see the glowing cigarette but there was nothing. It spooked me pretty good and I went ahead and loaded my shotgun. I smelled it a couple more times before daylight but never saw anyone. When daylight broke I noticed there were boxcars parked on a railroad tracks a few hundred yards away. I always felt like it was hobos hiding out in the boxcars. I haven’t hunted that place in the morning since.
 
One winter bow hunting a local reservoir, just as the sun was coming up I kept hearing a deep pitch almost sonar sound every 10-30 minutes...kind of freaky...then as I was leaving a few hours later, I walked onto the ice...there it was again... Ice cracking, but not like I heard on the river before.

OH, and same area....NEVER cut through the pines to short cut to your stand...roosted Turkeys make a hell of a racket when spooked...LOL
 
gcr0003 said:
My buddy was telling me about the time he was scouting TVA land and an old guy and his lady friend were driving a golf cart on the main game trail that hugged the creek bank. He couldn’t believe they were out there with a golf cart but he said hi to them and went on his way scouting. On his way back, in the middle of the game trail that he entered on but a little further down the way, he comes on that very same golf cart, and this old dude with his butt cheeks out and his old lady bent across the golf cart going to town. That’s some next level of weird stuff to find in the deer woods lol
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Good lord, I'd rather run into an axe murderer.
 
when I was 13, first fall bow season after an unsuccessful winter bow LOL, I woke up at 3:30, walked the 2 miles to my "spot"
walked into the woods and down a trail, no light and could not see in front of my face
came to the clearing I wanted to hunt and sat down up against a tree, all by feel , ready for the sun to come up.
in the darkness of the clearing, something was walking towards me, still couldn't see 6" and nothing to do except sit there

the walking got closer, and closer, then I heard breathing and sniffing, the distance closed even more, then it happened
that deer that was standing two feet away from me in the dark, snorted with all its might running away. mist hit my face from the snort
most terrifying 10 minutes waiting for the light to crack.
and of course when it did get light, I didn't see a thing
 
Weirdest thing I had happen was during one of my first hunts as an adult. I got back into hunting at around 26, after my uncle had given me a bow for helping re-roof my grandmas garage.

We takes me out to this piece of public he's had lots of success on, and I climb a tree using my climbing stand. I get situated well before dark and the waiting game begins. About an hour after sun up, the biggest flock of crows/blackbirds/ravens I've ever seen starts flying around and cawing. It's so loud I wouldn't have been able to hear anything approaching. This goes on for about an hour and as fast as it started, it just abruptly stops.

A couple hours later, I start to hear the "moo" of cows. Just like the birds, it builds until it's this deafening nonstop mooing, and lasts about an hour before just abruptly stopping.

A couple hours after that, the sound of machinery starts up. Like huge equipment banging and hammering, and I could feel the ground shaking a little. It's deafening, like I'm working on a construction site. This goes on for about an hour before abruptly stopping.

Eventually, I climb down without having seen anything all day, and my uncle walks up the trail to me. I ask him if he heard all these sounds like I did, and if this is normal when he hunts there. He said he heard it too and have never heard anything like it in all the years hunting there. It was just weird how each noise came in waves, and started and stopped suddenly. I've hunted there a lot since, and have never heard anything like that again.
 
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