We've been in our new house about three years. In the past year, my chickens dug up an old LED wristwatch...hmmm...today, while digging out some rebar, I found a carved stone pot pipe..guess that's how someone lost their watch....man, you seen my watch? What watch? Don't Bogart that, man...
Weird things you found on your property...
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UncleEd
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Relatives.
Looked out my bedroom window one Tuesday Morning (trash pick up day) and there were 3 large bags of garbage on my curb that weren't mine. Not a big deal I thought, the trucks will be by in a while and pick them up. But why would some one go to the trouble to carry their garbage down to my house to set it out for pick up? My curiosity got the better of me and I went out to investigate.
I opened up the first bag and was assailed by the rank odors of stale cigarette smoke and beer. There were some odd things like milk cartons and food wrappers etc but mostly beer bottles and the contents of numerous ash trays and nothing else.
I opened the 2nd bag and found more of the same but this bag also contained some discarded mail and I looked at the address and it was a house about 5 doors down from mine. It just so happens that 3 teenagers live in that house. I never bothered to open the 3rd bag. No point in it.
Didn't take much of an effort to figure out what was going on. Mom and Dad out of town for a few days. The kids had a party. It kinda made me smile. I seem to remember some similar goin's-on from my own teen age years. I let it ride. But if they ever start to give me a hard time I got something on 'em.
I opened up the first bag and was assailed by the rank odors of stale cigarette smoke and beer. There were some odd things like milk cartons and food wrappers etc but mostly beer bottles and the contents of numerous ash trays and nothing else.
I opened the 2nd bag and found more of the same but this bag also contained some discarded mail and I looked at the address and it was a house about 5 doors down from mine. It just so happens that 3 teenagers live in that house. I never bothered to open the 3rd bag. No point in it.
Didn't take much of an effort to figure out what was going on. Mom and Dad out of town for a few days. The kids had a party. It kinda made me smile. I seem to remember some similar goin's-on from my own teen age years. I let it ride. But if they ever start to give me a hard time I got something on 'em.
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OLDNAVYMCPO
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
When I was in my teens, I lived on Ft Bliss. Our house was surrounded by desert on three sides. I spent many a day wandering around the desert just looking for stuff as kids are apt to do. I found all kinds of military stuff that soldiers had misplaced while on exercises. Canteen cups, M-1 clips, entrenching tools, cans of c-rats, etc.
The neatest things I found was a Civil War Era bayonet and an old Spanish Conquistador's brass stirrup, the kind that looks like a pointy toed boot. My mother used the stirrup as a flower pot, for years. Both items disappeared with my parents passing. You know how that works.
The neatest things I found was a Civil War Era bayonet and an old Spanish Conquistador's brass stirrup, the kind that looks like a pointy toed boot. My mother used the stirrup as a flower pot, for years. Both items disappeared with my parents passing. You know how that works.
ParadiseRoad
Member
...along the top of the ridge on our property are small piles of quartz picked through by prospectors looking for gold probably 160 years ago...just east of our property line is a good sized hole in the ground where one of the prospectors must have found enough color to make it worth digging for a while...but it must have soon run out...
Keep it. I have another.
THE PILGRIM
Member
A Confederate soldier's tombstone.
But since I put it there, I wasn't too surprised.
But since I put it there, I wasn't too surprised.
I've told this before. We are living in mom and dad's old house. A few years back, we decided to put in a garden. We unearthed hundreds of hacked up little green army men that my brother had buried after they were killed.
THE PILGRIM
Member
I have owned a fair amount of rental property-
Two repair guys left me a stainless steel ice box with a compressor called a ice keeper.
Used in restaurants.
When I tried to sell it to a Buddy, he put on his black hat, got out his fiddle and played a sad tune
of how much it would cost to rebuild the compressor.
Then I told I would sell it for Barter Dollars.
We were both active in barter at that time.
What time can you meet me there?
He rebuilt it and sold it for cash to a local restaurant.
Not the weirdest thing ever left in a unit, but one of the only ones I didn't just throw away.
Two repair guys left me a stainless steel ice box with a compressor called a ice keeper.
Used in restaurants.
When I tried to sell it to a Buddy, he put on his black hat, got out his fiddle and played a sad tune
of how much it would cost to rebuild the compressor.
Then I told I would sell it for Barter Dollars.
We were both active in barter at that time.
What time can you meet me there?
He rebuilt it and sold it for cash to a local restaurant.
Not the weirdest thing ever left in a unit, but one of the only ones I didn't just throw away.
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jag312
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My aunt and uncle lived in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, next to Fort Lee. One day my aunt was digging in her garden and turned up the skeletal remains of a Revolutionary War soldier. After the remains were removed, my aunt had a priest bless the ground.
When my father bought our new to us house in the mid 50s, it contained a big safe in the alcove area. Asked the people what they kept in there and they said they just used the top for holding a few plants. Safe about 4' high and real heavy. They were supposed to take it but they did not and my father wanted to move in right away so he said leave it he would get rid of it.
Called a couple locksmiths and one managed to open it by manipulating the dial. Found only one thing in it a sealed envelope, the combination was in the envelope! Locksmith took the safe out and was going to resell it. My father was happy he got it out of the house for no charge.
a win,win!
Called a couple locksmiths and one managed to open it by manipulating the dial. Found only one thing in it a sealed envelope, the combination was in the envelope!
Locksmith took the safe out and was going to resell it. My father was happy he got it out of the house for no charge. a win,win!
I grew up on the site of an old Indian village.. Lots of Tipi rings.. When we had a hard rain, I found lots of arrow heads and scrapers. They were all lost in a divorce.
Also found where the old trapper Jim Bridger scratched his name in a cliff back in 1836.
Also found where the old trapper Jim Bridger scratched his name in a cliff back in 1836.
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Rpg
Member
Some time ago, I was rototilling the back yard in preparation to install sod.
Dug up a bunch of wires: cable tv, phone and electricity went out!
Dug up a bunch of wires: cable tv, phone and electricity went out!
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THE PILGRIM
Member
Found an unusual rock in our pasture down in Miss.
It was heavy and just different looking. Never saw another like that down there.
It was Either a meteorite or a 10 pound rock somebody brought in and left in our pasture.
It was heavy and just different looking. Never saw another like that down there.
It was Either a meteorite or a 10 pound rock somebody brought in and left in our pasture.
Ivan the Butcher
Member
By the time I got married, I furnished a three bedroom house with nice furniture left in our apartments.
One unit had an AP-74 hanging on the wall when I took possession. That is a semi-auto 22 RF that looks like an M-16. It didn't work, so I took it to my F-I-L who was in charge of firearms training at the police academy. It had a broken firing pin, So it cost me $1.64 to have it repaired!
Got a nice WWII CPO jacket once, and over the years probably 50 sets of BDU's
100's of cans of food
I found two and my brother two and a maintenance man found one,
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Ivan
One unit had an AP-74 hanging on the wall when I took possession. That is a semi-auto 22 RF that looks like an M-16. It didn't work, so I took it to my F-I-L who was in charge of firearms training at the police academy. It had a broken firing pin, So it cost me $1.64 to have it repaired!
Got a nice WWII CPO jacket once, and over the years probably 50 sets of BDU's
100's of cans of food
I found two and my brother two and a maintenance man found one,
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. Dead tenants.
Ivan
Posted this once before...
Found under my deer stand in Edwards Co, Texas.
Juan was passin thru and lost his blade.
Found under my deer stand in Edwards Co, Texas.
Juan was passin thru and lost his blade.
DWalt
Member
Back in Ohio where I grew up, it was not unusual to find arrowheads and other stone implements buried in my back yard and in the surrounding property. Lots of native Americans lived in that area for a long time. I had quite a few arrowheads, arrowhead fragments and spear points, and one of those dished stone slabs used by Indians for grinding grain. No idea what happened to them. My mom probably threw them away. One of my friends dug up a revolver in his back yard, but I don't remember what it looked like, other than it was really rusted. At my current house, several years ago I found a man's wedding band in the back yard. It had belonged to my neighbor's son who lost it over 30 years ago. He was very happy to get it back. He said he had spent three days looking for it with no luck.
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There are some big oak trees about 200 yds behind our house and I have been told there was once a house there that burned down.
A few years ago a bad storm blew down some of the trees and I cut them up for firewood. One was about 3 feet thick and I was cutting it every 18 ins. The chunks were too big to handle on the splitter and my grandson was using a hammer and wedge to split them in half. On one cut he couldn't drive the wedge in the center so he started on the outside breaking off pieces and when he got to the center there was a horse shoe and we could see he was trying to drive the wedge through the horse shoe. It was in a straight part of the trunk and nothing showed from the outside that it was in there.
I wish that horse shoe could talk and I am glad it was between saw cuts. I tried counting the rings to maybe tell how old the tree was but got cross eyed and gave up. Larry
A few years ago a bad storm blew down some of the trees and I cut them up for firewood. One was about 3 feet thick and I was cutting it every 18 ins. The chunks were too big to handle on the splitter and my grandson was using a hammer and wedge to split them in half. On one cut he couldn't drive the wedge in the center so he started on the outside breaking off pieces and when he got to the center there was a horse shoe and we could see he was trying to drive the wedge through the horse shoe. It was in a straight part of the trunk and nothing showed from the outside that it was in there.
I wish that horse shoe could talk and I am glad it was between saw cuts. I tried counting the rings to maybe tell how old the tree was but got cross eyed and gave up. Larry
Identity confirmed for dead woman
In March of 2009 I was looking for antler sheds on my hunting property and found a woman's dead body. She'd been missing for 9 months. Went for a walk and never came back. I found her in a brushy creek bottom. I literally stood right over the body not knowing what kind of "animal" it was .... until I saw the back of a bra strap. Ultimately I was just happy I could give them some closure. But man, that'll shake you up.
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In March of 2009 I was looking for antler sheds on my hunting property and found a woman's dead body. She'd been missing for 9 months. Went for a walk and never came back. I found her in a brushy creek bottom. I literally stood right over the body not knowing what kind of "animal" it was .... until I saw the back of a bra strap. Ultimately I was just happy I could give them some closure. But man, that'll shake you up.
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