Weird things you found on your property...

[italiansport]

I did a lot of deer hunting while in Illinois on a private farm near the Illinois River. The hunting was excellent and I got a deer every year. However; A lot of the guys spent more time looking for Indian artifacts then deer hunting and the axe heads,spear points etc. that they used to find were really neat. There must have been a lot of Indians living there at some time based upon the number of artifacts found.
Jim

 

[dougb1946]

My brother in law bought a house outside a town in N Das. Big lot, trees, couple of buildings. While doing some work on the yard, he looked into a dug hole and found a yellow school bus. A previous owner had wanted a storm shelter and had dug a big hole, put a used up school bus in it and filled in the hole. The water table was high so the bus was filled. He had a secret swimming pool. Roof on the bus started to cave in over time.
Wasn't mentioned in the disclosure papers.

 

[ACORN]

When I was a kid I was sitting in their backyard over looking a small wooded area and started digging in the dirt with my pocket knife for no particular reason. I dug up a metal cross about 5 or 6 inches long that had writing on it. It was black with corrosion so I guess it was bronze or iron. I asked my uncle who is first generation Italian if he could read it(couldn't) and took it to my priest figuring it might be in Latin and he couldn't either. I'm not sure where it is now but I'd like to find it.
I used to find a lot of stuff digging in the woods. A souvenir pocket knife from Tennessee, a Liberty Loan medal made from a "captured German cannon" it says. I also found some large bones that I assume were either cow or horse.

 

[jessebogan]

I was at my cousins house in Southern Virginia a couple years ago for a family reunion. I was standing in the driveway with my brother and my kid, when he bent over and picked something up. He dropped it in the dirt, and I asked him what it was. "cow tag" The farm has been in the family since pre revolution days, and I though a cow tag from there would make an interesting key chain. I picked it up and rubbed some of the dirt off of it, and it was NOT a cow tag, but a commemorative coin made for Fords 30th anniversary in 1933. Has a 33 ford on one side, and the 30th anniversary on the other. It is on the curio shelf though, not a key chain.

 

[Bob L]

A couple of years ago, my wife was down south and I was home alone. I woke up around 1:30 am with a start because I thought I heard the door bell. As I laid there trying to decide if I was dreaming or it really rang. After a couple of minutes, I go up and walked out to the front door. Didn't see anything after standing there for a couple of minutes and everything was quite so I went back to bed. Along about 4 am, there was heavy pounding on our front door. Jumped up and headed to the door and saw two squad cars in the driveway. I opened the front door without thinking and set the alarm off. Said that I would be right back and ran to the alarm panel and shut it off. Went back to the door figuring that the Officers had the wrong house and open the screen door and asked how they were doing. They asked me if everything was alright and then asked if I was home alone and I said yes. I asked what was going on and they informed me that someone had called in that I had a woman locked on our porch. I told them that I didn't and they asked if I would check. I said sure and invited them to go with me. Went to the backdoor that opened onto the porch , unlocked and opened the door and here was a naked woman, wrapped in a blanket, sitting on the floor and the hottub was opened and her clothes on the floor. Turned out that it was a young neighbor lady that had gone off her meds and was rather confuse. Turned out that she had called 911 because she was locked out of my house. The officers handled it very well and got her to the hospital. I am sure that when I opened that door and saw her that my jaw hit the floor.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

Naked lady wins!

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Besides the naked lady I saw deer hunting,
I had a weird encounter with one just outside Vegas.
Neither one was on my property.

 

[hemiram]

About 3 months after we moved into the house I'm about to sell, in 1982, I went down into the basement crawl space to drill a hole for a radio antenna cable and there was this weird green wooden box right inside the door to the basement. You couldn't see it from the outside. I had a feeling what it was going to be, and I was right. It was the previous owner's porn collection. Later 50's to early 60's, a lot of it was the odd nudist mags that had porn type pics and baseball articles (to make it have "legitimate" content). I told my neighbor about it and he bought about half of it from me. Some I still have.

 

[30-30remchester]

About 2am one morning the doorbell rang. Never a good sign. With a houseful of kids, the wife armed herself in the hallway to their rooms, and I answered the door. It was a couple of lost hikers and their dog. My search and rescue pages had been going off all evening planning an early morning search for the pair. I called dispatch and cancelled the call out, then loaded them into my truck and drove them back to their vehicle.

 

[FifthWheel]

Bought this century home 20+ years ago. In the storm cellar there was a five gallon jug of homemade wine. It said "sesti vino" on the jug. One day a friend came over and we sampled it, not bad!

 

[steelslaver]

Better that the cops came and found the naked lady than your wife.

 

[357magster]

Well, I wouldn't call this stuff "weird" exactly, given that my house has been around since the 1700's and lord knows what folks tossed out in the yard back in the day, but it is the coolest stuff that mother earth has literally belched out of the ground so far:

Various bits of crockery:

An intact Clorox bottle. There are actually people who collect these. Found one of their websites. This bottle dates to 1939. Trying to get a factory letter on it.

Lastly, a Hiram Walker & Sons booze bottle from Canada. Guessing it is Prohibition era, given the "Federal law forbids sale or re-use of this bottle" embossed on it. Bottoms up!

 

[6518John]

Better that the cops came and found the naked lady than your wife.

Then he might have needed the cops. Coroner too.

 

[Ron M.]

Back in Massachusetts visiting relatives, I brought out my metal detector and took a run over my aunt's front yard. House dated back to 1840's. Got a strong "half dollar" signal and dug down about two inches. Found three silver quarters from the 1950's stacked up on each other. Still have them. Figured my cousins were playing buried treasure and forgot where they had stashed them. Finders keepers! Also found a 1935 Lincoln penny in my own front yard in Campbell, CA just laying on top of the dirt. Still doesn't beat the naked lady story, though...

 

[1955joe]

when I bought my house there were a row of weeds about 5 foot high behind the building. went at it with a scythe and after a few bang.... something metal. was the remains of a old tow behind sickle bar

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Mystery find-
Found this nearby in the national forest.
The line appears to be nylon and is about 4 feet long.
It's a well made heavy duty __________ .

 

[mtgianni]

We moved in 6 days ago and had this place built so no surprises so far. Growing up I found half a case of dynamite. I told Dad who knew it was there and he had it disposed of as it was starting to sweat. IIRC the local Fire Dept took care of it.
In our rentals growing up not a lot of neat stuff, cases of self published history books, a few cheap knives and such. Doing heating work I found a bunch of porn mags hidden above duct work. I usually told the owner and let them deal with it.
In Missoula, MT one of the liberal Univ Students brought a one lb LP cylinder to our dispatch as we sold gas and they did not want such a hazardous substance putting them in close proximity to danger. Dispatchers were arguing with them telling them we sold a different type of gas when I walked in and volunteered to take the $2.99 product of their hands and dispose of it safely.

 

[italiansport]

I call this my "Desert finds" display" even though I didn't personally finds some of these items. As far as Indian pottery shards go you could pick up a car load out on the desert here if you were so inclined a practice I quit several years ago.
I've also added several more relic firearms since this picture was taken. For example: The Model 1858 Remington revolver was found by a Union pacific engineer many years ago at Ft Churchill in Nevada. I purchased it from his son.
Jim

 

[CajunBass]

The wife and I have found a lot of cool stuff on our property here in rural Ohio. Our brick home was built in 1826 so a the next cool find is just around the corner!
Preparing my garden, I found this old coin in the dirt. Another yard find is this old civil war era button.

One of the things I found out in the field behind the house I mentioned earlier was a Liberty Head half cent like that one. I can't remember if the date was 1821 or 1812 now. No idea what happened to it.

The button appears to be a standard "Eagle Button" from a Union Army uniform. We found hundreds of them all over the area.

I was walking down a woods road one evening going to my bow stand and spotted something shiny in the sand of the road. Bent over and it was a Liberty Head dime...I forget the year now. I carried it for years, but lost it somewhere along the way.

 

[codenamedave]

I call this my "Desert finds" display" even though I didn't personally finds some of these items. As far as Indian pottery shards go you could pick up a car load out on the desert here if you were so inclined a practice I quit several years ago.
I've also added several more relic firearms since this picture was taken. For example: The Model 1858 Remington revolver was found by a Union pacific engineer many years ago at Ft Churchill in Nevada. I purchased it from his son.
Jim

Ima need the stories behind the rest of those.

Please?