Close your eyes and picture the deep, green, musty forest. You can almost feel it soaking up your anxiety and slowing down your rushing thoughts, soothing your soul and body. No wonder so many of us have a deep fascination with forests.
Woods are also among the most mysterious places. They never cease to capture our imagination, from early childhood days spent roaming there carelessly to watching horror movies about haunted forests (who needs a reminder about The Blair Witch Project?).
So no wonder there’s this impression that the only other place where what happens in there stays there, apart from Vegas, is the forest. And the collection of pictures below puts that into perspective. Scroll down through the craziest, weirdest, and most question-inducing discoveries people made while talking a walk out in the woods, and let us know if you too have seen something unusual there in the comments.
Psst! More bizarre and fascinating forest findings can be found in our previous feature here.
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Forest Huntress
I have seen this. It is in Skipton Woods. It is called Revolve, but I can't remember the artist. It is life-size and breathtaking!
Yes I was literally just there this weekend. What a weird coincidence
Load More Replies...That is absolutely gorgeous! I would guess it represents Artemis, goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, childbirth, care of children and chastity. It’s a breathtakingly beautiful piece of withy weaving, and I love it to bits! 😍
Well, it's actually relatively easy & willow branches can be made into many given shapes. First, u have to cut a branch off a willow tree. These branches can be planted in the ground at any angle & will grow a couple meters a year. The thick end of the branch should be pushed 20-30 cm into the ground. The drier the ground & thicker the branch is the deeper it will need to grow. Ideal conditions for willow branches are moist & sunny. It is best to plant the branches in late winter or early spring because that's when willow branches are normally harvested. U should also add compost to the soil to make planting easier, but don't worry too much 'cause willow branches help enrich the soil. Second, u should be aware that the roots spread out quite rapidly thus making certain that the branches are ten meters or more from any buildings, pipes, or other surrounding plants. & if u want to know more go to https://www.gardenlifelogcabins.co.uk/blog/living-willow-structures-and-willow-fedges/
Load More Replies...“We grow up hearing stories about the dangers of the forest - in fairy tales, the forest is the place where the witches and wolves lurk, the place where little children get lost and get into trouble,” Lauren McMenemy, a south London-based writer of gothic-influenced folk horror who is currently working on a novel set in the world of the Victorian occult, told Bored Panda. She was happy to share some insights into our endearing fascination with deep dark woods, so scroll down to see what she said below.
An Albino Moose In The Forest
Hope no a*****e decides to shoot it. Where I live we have the odd white stag but if anyone takes a photo they don't reveal the location because so many have been killed by trophy hunters.
Beautiful - but please don't tell anyone where it is as some jerk will go hunting for a 'trophy'
"Everyone can see me. Everyone can always see me." I hear this in an Eeyore voice.
I hope this is somewhere other than the United States, because someone here will undoubtedly want to kill it.
Found A Cool Tree In My Local Park And Felt Like It Needed Some Magic
When will the first batch of cookies be done. Dibs on a chocolate chip.
Someone casually walking into the woods, finding this be like :0
Why the hell would someone downvote this? If you are an actual reader here you would understand the context of the comment ffs. Now in saying that, bad bouche put. it. down.
Load More Replies...Came Across Some Dinosaurs In The Woods
It's not there anymore. It is in NJ, but some "activist group" destroyed it. It was for some cráp about keeping nature the same or smth. I've been there, and it was really beautiful. (I want to say Allaire State Park?)
I believe this is in Allaire State Park in NJ. If so, some shameless vandals destroyed them recently.
I would probably accidentally break all the sticks then scream and give up and break more sticks
That must have taken a lot of time and I get someone will come and break them :(
“Forests and woodlands are full of intrigue; it's a totally different world to the urban life many of us now lead. When we see trees in cities, they are carefully placed in a curated landscape, often as a way to distract us from the concrete jungle we live in. In forests, though, nature rules,” McMenemy, who is a professional writer, journalist, and experienced writing coach, argues.
“It's wild, it's unruly, and anything could be lurking there. To a certain sort of personality, that is captivating,” she explained.
I Found This Carved Fox Inside A Tree Stump, In A Forest Close To My Home
The Sculptures Are All Made Of Twig And Twine. They're Mostly Tucked Away Off The Main Paths, So If You Don't Know They're There, You Might Walk Right Past Them
Fun. I might get up there some day. That is about an hour north of me according to google maps.
They're unfortunately not in the park anymore. They generated too much human traffic to the park and (ironically) needed to be taken down to protect the ecosystem.
Load More Replies...Very cool, though if I was wandering in the woods and didn't know to expect this I would be a little spooked.
This could be part of a treasure hunt with riddles around these sculptures
Yes, She Found A Wild Mushroom In The Forest. No, She Didn't Eat Part Of It, She's Just Always A Derp
If this were one of those careful what you wish for horror movies you would wake up as that dog and notice it when you went to brush your teeth.
Load More Replies...I'm afraid, my friend, that everyone in the comment section (including me) have caught Derpy Doggo Disorder. There is no cure, yet. Symptoms are petting the doggo through the screen incessantly & continuously booping her nose.
Load More Replies...It is! That particular specimen is much too old to eat though.
Load More Replies...Meanwhile, in folklore and fantasy, forests represent places unknown, the place beyond the safety of home, McMenemy argues. “They are the liminal spaces - the spaces in between - where transformation can occur. Forests can be a place of threatening danger, or one of refuge, depending on the story.”
The writer continued: “There could be more to it than a warning, though; many pagan cultures are strongly connected to nature, and forests or woodlands were places of worship. Perhaps as Christianity spread, the tales of forest-dwellers became parables?”
A Buddy Of Mine Found This Dinosaur While On A Hike The Other Day
Yeah, I like it, it's cute and non-invasive (if that's the correct word?)... unlike others on this list... nothing added that wasn't there, nothing taken away, no trees messed with... (I fear I'll get downvoted for this but that's how I feel about it)
Load More Replies...This Tower We Found In An Irish Forest Looks Like Something Out Of A Fairytale
Maybe you should look for a longhaired skeleton on the top floor ... and the trap door, that reads "Pull, don't push!" ... and consider it likely she has never learnt to read or write...
Load More Replies......there's a door at ground level. Why would you need stairs?
Load More Replies...That looks like the kind of tower I saw at Glendalough. If it's 33 feet high, it's symbolic since Jesus was supposed to have died/been crucified at age 33. Monks would hide in these towers when the Vikings invaded, then haul their ladder up with them. The slender windows are openings just wide enough to shoot an arrow through.
That's called a Keep. It allows soldiers a view over the forest. From the top, on a clear day, it probably offers a 20km view, and you might just spot other towers in the distance. Often there would be a network of towers leading to the nearby castle.
Sucks you can’t find cool s**t like that in the US. We have some old lighthouse but that’s about it. Anything we have would be considered damn near modern compared to this.
A Forest Dining Room
I love the window in the far back, looks like you could open it for a nice summer breeze.
Reminds me of a quest in skyrim where you go into this person's mind and here they are at a dinner table in the forest
i was thinking the same thing. damn sheogorath is planning on giving someone the wabbajack
Load More Replies...HOW DID YOU FIND MY SECRET WITCHES CULT MEETING PLACE?!? Um… nothing bye YOU HEARD NOTHING
“As humanity once again wakes up to the importance of nature to our lives and our climate,” McMenemy told us, “I fervently hope the forest becomes a sacred place again. There is so little true, thick woodland and forest left in the world, yet these are the places where our imagination comes alive,” she concluded.
An Old Jacket Hanging In The Woods With A Bird's Nest Built In The Pocket
It's nice to see the animals adjust to our trash, but why was it necessary to leave this hanging in the forest?
Load More Replies...Killing two birds with one stone isn't that hard. I could probably kill 100 if I don't lose the stone.
Load More Replies...Radogast probably left it, as it isn’t brown. ( I don’t know how to spell Radogast!,,)
Yes it is. Until the lil boogers start putting stuff in the laundry I've hung out to dry. That's c crossing the line
Load More Replies...This Wooden Throne In An English Woodland
It's been on BP before. I visit Kendal often, but I've still not managed to see it. If memory serves it is in the park just off Parr Street/Sunnyside.
Load More Replies...Amazing, there’s days of work gone into this! I don’t know if the heraldic shields are based on genuine ones, but the motto on the front is real, it’s the motto of the British Order of the Garter, the highest of all British knighthoods. It’s Old Norman French - Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, “Shamed Be Whoever Thinks Ill Of It”.
It is. The Order Of The Garter. The shield of arms may not be genuine.
Load More Replies...This is awesome, ive always wanted to do something like this to a big stump in our local park
Out For A Walk, Found In The Middle Of A Forest
Tragically, the world’s forests have been shrinking at an increasingly rapid rate since the last ice age. According to the data by the World Economic Forum, once humans figured out how to cultivate plants and livestock for regular sources of food, they needed land to use.
For centuries, the loss of greenery was relatively slow. By 1800, the world had lost 700 million hectares each of forest and grassland, replaced by around 900 million hectares of land for grazing animals and 400 million hectares for crops. But industrialization in the 1800s rapidly sped up the process.
Igor Hit The Jackpot, And That's Why Jogging Is Good, Kids
Igor is smiling broadly. Does the "Finders, keepers" rule apply in Igor's country?
There is a war in Igor’s country and he found SAM system, which belongs to the enemy. So yeah, I think that he could keep it 😂
Load More Replies...This was even listed on Wikipedia. There is a list of how many of those systems each country has and right in the middle was "Igor from Ukraine".
Can someone genuinely update wiki to reflect this? Lol
Load More Replies...Puts a different spin on "I call shotgun!" doesn't it?
Load More Replies...I seem to recall a statement from the Ukrainian government that appropriated Russian military vehicles would not be subject to property taxes for their new owners, so that's a bonus!
For someone that truly knows. So really what is the protocol for finding such expensive and possibly still useful Russian equipment by civilians.
This Random Chandelier Left Hanging In The Forest
How did it get there? Why did somebody put a beautiful chandelier in a tree? I have so many questions!
Wait. I actually love this. I have no plans to get married, nor do I have anyone to get married to, but if I ever have a wedding it will look like this. A beautiful nature setting in the summer with twinkling lights and chandeliers hung from the trees. Like Queen Titania's magical forest in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Immm gonna swwiiiiiiiiiing from the chandelier FROM THE CHANDELIE HIE HIER
Keeper Of The Woods
Hiking at night is not generally a good idea, unless you want a broken ankle
Load More Replies...Indeed, this! A great short anti-bully movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxQj0DumF8Y
Load More Replies...Lol I’m embarrassed to admit that the first thing I noticed was they gave her terrifyingly realistic boobs with nipples 🤭
Load More Replies..."For thee who makest me, I shall come. Thee who breaks me shall come undone." . https://crypttv.fandom.com/wiki/The_Birch_(character)
Fffouuuuuuukk NO. No. This is the stuff of nightmares. Not much phases me, but this...Fffouuuuuuukk no.nope....
Do you want hiker heart attacks? Because this is how you give hikers heart attacks.
Massive Abandoned Sanatorium I Found In A German Forest
Even the words 'abandoned sanitorium' scream the word NOPE, don't they?
Load More Replies...These were the Beelitz sanatoriums near Potsdam (built between 1898 and 1930). Today, many buildings have been demolished, and a whole new district is being created there with a kindergarten, residential buildings, etc..
Half hour by train outside of Berlin, Beelitz Hailstätten (sp?). It was incredible to explore but definitely don't go alone and make sure people know you're going to visit. It's on private property and massive. While the wall was up, it was considered the largest Russian hospital outside of Russia.
Heilstätten (Heil= heal), but otherwise correct. pretty impressive with these three Operation rooms where a big part of the walls/ceiling where made of glass. one of the to notch hospitals for treating tuberculosis.
Load More Replies...I would go inside it. Like stepping back in time. YouTube has lots of urban exploration videos
While half of Earth’s loss of forests occurred from 10,000 years ago to 1900, the other half or 1.1 billion hectares have been lost since 1900. Part of this loss, about a whopping 100 million hectares, has occurred in the more recent time period of 2000 to 2018.
In that sense, humanity’s destruction of nature and ecosystems is a result of very recent population growth and increasing consumption. Experts have calculated that today, the world has lost one-third of its forests. Globally we deforest around ten million hectares of forest every year. That’s an area the size of Portugal every year. Around half of this deforestation is offset by regrowing forests, so overall we lose around five million hectares each year.
Found A Little Faerie Door In The Woods
Yea. I got one hidden under a rock in a plastic bag .
Load More Replies...One must eat three clovers before "Arthur and the Invisibles" can be seen.✨️🪄
This Abandoned Ship In The Middle Of A Forest
There must be an old pawnshop owner that lives there looking for the devil's eye diamond, heaven forbid a couple of mice come to foil her plans
Agreed. Google image search pulls up an art print being sold on Etsy that looks almost identical but with different lighting.
Load More Replies...Eerily Humanoid Shapes On This Tree
i have theories but i respect your wishes to have a good nights sleep 😊
Fear Of The Dark - album cover come to life. "When the light begins to change, I sometimes feel a little strange... A little anxious when it's dark."
Have you run your fingers down the wall, and have you felt your neck skin crawl, when you're searching for the light?
Load More Replies...A Creepy Little Christmas Tree Fully Decorated In The Middle Of The Woods. Powered By What Looked Like Mini Solar Panels
Instead of carnival music it could be Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas playing over and over
Load More Replies...This belongs to Rambo. Don't get to close or you may end up with sharpened sticks embedded in your legs.
I Have No Good Explanation For This. Found Three Hours Into A Deep Forest, 20ft In The Air, And Impaled On A Tree. Hours Away From Major Roads
Here's the story of the tree truck: https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2014/07/29/roadtrip-2-with-dr-d**k-on-the-lost-coast/
"Di ck and his kids hoisted the thing up there some years ago, having removed the engine and transmission to lighten the payload. Why? Because they could. And, since it’s the Lost Coast, no pesky officials were likely to say no. The officials don’t get out that way very often."
Load More Replies...Came Upon A Stained Glass Window Hanging In A Forest In Belgium
Almost 30 years ago I stuck an 8' tall black monolith (a la 2001: A Space Odyssey) in the woods near where I was living. In a clearing along a public trail. You'd walk around a bend in the trail, it would open into the clearing, and boom, monolith! Probably didn't last long before tipping over, it was upcycled plastic. Hm. Basically I littered. My bad.
I read about these appearing in random places at once time .. so .... you are one of the culprits eh? :)
Load More Replies...Similar to the sculpture trail in The Forest Of Dean, in the west of Gloucestershire, there’s a huge stained glass window hanging in the trees like this. Great mountain biking trails around the forest as well.
Ever wonder these random items aren't so random previously saw a chandelier now I'm seeing a stained glass window there was a door perhaps this is someone's phone and they're just trying to decorate
I am just wondering sitting here whether it opens the doot to the other world.... just in case...
Forêt de Soignes but the installation isn't there anymore.
Load More Replies...Pass Under The Stairs To Nowhere, Then Turn Around Three Times, To Find Yourself Right Where You Need To Be. His Is In Madame Sherri Forest In West Chesterfield, NH
Sadly, this collapsed a couple of years ago. Still a cool place, though.
This is what's left of Madam Sherri's castle. I think it's been featured om BP before, I remember reading about it. It's an interesting place: https://newengland.com/today/travel/new-hampshire/madame-sherris-castle-ruins/
That looks like part of one of the fight locations in ‘Highlander’. I wonder how many people have ignored the notice?
Same thing crossed my mind too, but I guess there can be only one!
Load More Replies...This is in my hometown! We used to be allowed to climb it, I guess not anymore. This entire forest is a treasure, actually. There's a mountain, a huge pond with herons, as well as this.
I go here all the time with my dad ! The stairs are worse now I am moving soon so I probably wont see it again nect time I go do I grabbed a little pebble from the debris to add to my woods collection
Just Going For A Little Hike
A cute 3D animated adventure, of course!
Load More Replies...It wasn't lost, there was an article about it in the local press, the delivery bots know the shortcuts through nature trails.
'Woods'? There's even a lamp post haha. It bet it's not that far from civilization. Maybe people live there and it's not even lost. ;)
Theres a lamp post in Narnia in the woods. Thats a magical world. He'd be real lost then.
Load More Replies...I Found A Plant-Based, Man-Made "Acorn" Hanging In The Middle Of The Woods
Skull Looking Rock In The Middle Of The Forest
I Found A Deer In A Makeshift Hut In The Woods
Not true. The ground covering is uhm - not the woods. I think a park or zoo. Do I see a fence or something in the background ?
Could be woods, we have woodland in the U.K. with clearings like this, although mostly the brash left from clearing out old trees is left, and there are little ’huts’ like this all over the place where kids stack branches up against the trees.
Load More Replies...These deer are getting very good at woodwork considering they've only got hooves
This Guy I Found In The Woods, About 11ft Tall
We are no longer the Knights who say Ni. We are now the Knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!
Steam Engine Left In The Forest. Ontario Canada
Possibly used to power a saw bench for cutting boards during lumber work, and just left behind.
You are probably right. Ran everything with belts off the drive wheel on the right side.
Load More Replies...Looks to be in really good shape to have been sitting for a long time. I'm wondering....
So I Was Walking In A Forest Near My City And Found This
Found A Random Painting In The Middle Of The Woods
You had a chance to say tree-v and you missed it
Load More Replies...Until aliens appear further up walking towards you with those big creepy soulless eyes.
Load More Replies...What would have been even better, would have been a photo of the scene from the other side of the tree in the frame. Nice thing to find, though.
Found A Cougar Skull In The Woods
Now that is a hard find. Don’t see them very much. I’d like to have found this and cleaned it up. If found a bobcat skull but never a mountain lion
I've been lucky enough to find a couple of coyote skulls, but never a feline
Load More Replies...Clean it and keep it! You don't find something like that often!
You lucky duck! I'm always hunting for bones in the woods. That's beautifully intact.
Piano In The Woods
That dosent just look like it’s just seating in the woods. I see steps and a stage
Bach anyone? I will see myself out, with the doorhandle on the tree which is around here somewhere....
*joins Asexual Zelephant & play a duet together, not leaving another two hours*
Load More Replies...Play that 30 second piano solo in "scene seven II the dance of eternity" by dream theater on it
Found This Gnome Town On A Walk In The Woods Today
for a solid five minutes, I was trying to understand how this said lose and leave at the same time. Then I realized it said neither of those things. maybe I should get some more sleep...
I built those as a child all the time while on holiday in summer, this bring back some good memories
This Creepy Paper-Mache Family I Found While Walking In The Forest
Looks like a crazy person lives there and those are their "Wilsons".
A Cast Iron Cauldron I Found Buried In My Forest
If 3 weird sisters told you some nonsense about becoming king, I wouldn't listen.
When this was buried it was an incredibly valuable object, but its weight made carrying it somewhere incredibly hard - there's a high likelihood that it was buried when its owner was forced to move with little notice and no chance to plan a way to move anything bulky or unwieldy like this... so the owner buried it where only they knew to keep it from being claimed by their neighbors in their absence, intending to come back and reclaim it (the fact that there seems to be something else buried near the bottom, still covered mostly in dirt - perhaps something canned? - supports this theory). Clearly they never returned; the intent cannot have been to be gone long or it'd have been wrapped in oilcloth or something else to prevent oxidation. Probably they never had economic capability or opportunity to reclaim it, or an accidental death - a guess, but I think the overall theory is pretty solid.
Cast iron is still incredibly valuable, a cauldron this size NOW, in an era of mass production, is still worth several hundred dollars or more - at least one that size, thickness, and quality. From the level of oxidation I'd guess this is from the 1800s - I'm no expert though and there's an enormous number of variables that could contribute to wear or preservation, so it could be older or newer; also, this type of cookware was incredibly popular and considered almost NECESSARY for a family in that era due to their versatility and durability. So assuming 1800s, the price for a new high quality cast iron cauldron would plausibly be between 50 and 100 dollars (it's very difficult to find historical prices as it varied a lot by area, year, supply/demand, haggling). In 2023 dollars that's between $1200 - $2500. Considering that they're lifetime investments, passed to descendants, I may be estimating too low. Size/style/quality affect cost, so $200 ($5000) might be more plausible.
Load More Replies...I Was Walking In The Forest And Noticed That Some Plastic Was Sticking Out From Under A Rock. I Find It A Bit Eerie Since I Still Was On My Dad’s Property
Still Loling. Silence of the Lambs reference.
Load More Replies...Creepy. We almost found a headless body on our farm. Instead they dumped it just over the fence on my cousin's farm. Crazy old guy axed his wife. They caught him and he admitted it. Tired of her nagging or something like that. Seemed surreal / bizarre.
Definitely give the police a call, however I would think a murderer wouldn’t use a plastic bag for weapon transport. However, campers may. My extended family loves the cooking-over-an-open-fire aspect of camping, so half our kitchen has to go with us every time.
I could see using plastic to transport it to avoid transfer. Though it seems like taking it out of plastic at other end would be better for degrading evidence. As would basic washing which does not appear to have happened here. Unless they were in a hurry. The picnic angle crossed my mind. I 've had knives in ziplocks for family gathering type stuff just so my car doesn't get dirty on way home.
Load More Replies...Yep. They forage the same area and stash the knife in case they come upon a find unprepared. I lost a knife in my forest recently, no doubt one day someone will find it and think dark thoughts.
Load More Replies...Umm… did you ask your dad about about it if he doesn’t know then move
That must be recently put there. Plastic bags degrade fairly quickly from the elements. If there are no holes in the bag; it can't have been there more than 1-2 years, yeah? Even if police laugh at me, I'd call them to come get it (rather than taking it to them).
It was under a rock though. Also, it makes sense that the bag would still be in tact, elements or not, since plastic is not biodegradable.
Load More Replies...If there's any chance of something having been used in a crime... it's a freaking knife in a bag, randomly in a forest on this person's dad's property! It may be nothing, why not make sure? Haven't we all seen enough crime shows to wanna err on the side of caution?
Load More Replies...This Super Mario Pipe In The Woods In New Hampshire
Sleeping Bus In A Japanese Forest
...or a group that never returned from their trip to the food stands in front of the bathhouse.
Load More Replies...That was my first thought. Incredible, yet very tragic story.
Load More Replies...imagine going there with some lofi music and just drawing or doing homework....ahhh that sounds so peaceful
Clean-Cut Stone In A Swedish Forest
Doorknob On A Tree In The Middle Of The Woods
Random Old Chimney And Fireplace In The Middle Of The Woods. Found Off The Trail While Fishing In Northwest Pennsylvania
Yep, places like this are littered all over that part of the Eastern US; former homesteads that were abandoned years ago and forgotten. Bill Bryson writes about them in his book ‘A Walk In The Woods.’
Load More Replies...Yes, most modern American houses are timber construction, they’re easily constructed and America has lots of timber. Vulnerable to wildfires and tornadoes, though.
Load More Replies...These are super common where I live, the fireplace was the only thing stone and the rest of the wooden house fell or burned down a long time ago. Kind of bittersweet, but rather surreal to find.
They are everywhere especially in the northeast US if you find one be careful for old wells that have been covered over YOU CAN FALL IN THEM
There are several of these around where I live. What’s left of the old houses. Make awesome grills or ovens for cooking outside. Edit: also marks a good spot to do some metal detecting. I’ve always had luck around the biggest shade tree in what used to be a yard. Kids would play there and lose change and old toys.
I love coming across similar remains in middle of nowhere. I may take pics, but I never disclose the location.
This Small-Scale Railway In The Forest
I must confess that at first I thought it was a cow :-)
Load More Replies...I had to scroll down to see if anyone else mentioned that! It was my first thought!!
Load More Replies...My Friend Has The Theory That If I Laid Down I Would Wake Up In The Hole In The Middle Of The Woods Every Night Like A Curse, And Keep Coming Back
I wonder if this might have been a very old grave. Maybe they carved it out, put something over it, but the upper stone was later lost or stolen ...
It's a sword mould. Molten metal was poured in to make the blade with part of the hilt and then when it had cooled the blank was worked into a usable sword
OMG THE ENIGMA OF AMIGARA FAULT BY JUNJI ITO (read it and you will understand what I’m talking about).
This is where a weeping angel sleeps ... it's obviously awake ...don't blink!!!
Old Shoes In The Forest Turned To Moss
An I the only one to realize this is just yeah left behind by somebody to lazy to carry their broken shoes back home.
There used to be a pair of high-heeled women’s boots nailed to a tree root by a byway I used to ride along. I’ll have to check out whether they’re still there or not.
I Found An Old Abandoned Cottage N The Woods
First three photos: very interesting place, I would like to see it, fourth photo: no, no no!
The skull looks fake, so I think it would still be a kinda cool place to check out!
Load More Replies...Brilliant lifehack to keep people out of your cabin during the off-season.
But you can see Mr. Skull is living there, so it is not abandoned ;)
Introverted person decides dying in a lonely house is better than going to a hospital and seeing people
An Ordinary Photo Of Some Lost Items In The Woods
This guy murdered the owner of the moss sneakers with the knife in the plastic bag and hid all the evidence in the woods
A RuneScape Player With Low Cooking Made This
Yeah? Well, best beware the moth that it turns into!
Load More Replies...Someone overbaked their Challah and shared it with forest animals. Not the healthiest choice, but a delicious one. Then "bandit" stole it, appropriately to their name.
Imagine being being so mad you burnt the bread you run outside and chuck it into the woods
I think Hansel and Gretel were confused about how the breadcrumb trail works
In The Woods
It's genius but would look better if made of old planks or carved into stone
Load More Replies...They should have made four more and then one final sign, "You have turned Sticky Keys on."
I was about to make a slender man reference but you beat me to it. I'm 15hours to late 😢
Load More Replies...That's an old joke, one of my youtubers I watch literally had said that in a video so they probably took that and actually did it, I think the YouTuber was Markiplier who said it
This Tree Broke This Rock And Kept Growing
An Actual Pet Cemetery In The Woods
there's a blue cross et cemetery near where i live these are always emotional to come across.
Does a blue cross mean there are pets buried there? 🥺
Load More Replies...These Steps I Found While Hiking Are Carved Out Of A Fallen Tree
A tree fell along the path, and they chose this novel way to deal with it. Nice.
This Gravestone I Found In The Woods
I would guess likely in the same place as before. Some act of nature washed the tombstone away.
Load More Replies...water must not be fast running of the letters would be more weathered and eroded
A Random Abandoned Mausoleum In The Middle Of The Woods
It would seem the people buried there don't wish their loved ones shared your sentiment.
Load More Replies...Not necessarily abandoned. I bet there's still occupants in there....
I imagine for many years after the inhabitants died, it was used as a place of comfort. I often times forget what happens when they pass away? Family lost to generations.
Just Strolling Through Kielder Forest, UK
A few of our National Parks and Forests have sculptures and sculpture trails through them. As well as mountain biking trails.
I love surreal, Imagine Dragons album cover/music video-esque stuff 😁
When Walking In The Woods And Finding The Exit Of The Matrix
If there's something strange In the local woods Who you gonna call? (Ghostbusters)
Sad to think that maybe there's a long lost reason as to why this was placed here in the first place.
There Is A Plane In The Middle Of The Forest In Oregon
Yes, Bruce Campbell, he bought it in 2009, and had it towed to his ten-acre plot for use as his home. Seriously cool place to live.
Load More Replies...That looks like a Tristar, possibly Olympic Airlines, the image has been reversed, but I sort of recognise the logo.
There Are Abandoned Bunkers In Lithuania. They Look So Surreal In The Middle Of A Forest
There are some in Ukraine, too! I once just stumbled into a random one
Abandoned Fireplace In The Forest
Often times the only thing left standing when the rest of the building rots away.
While Cycling Through The Forest I Found This Old-Looking Wood Carving
Beautiful House In The Woods That Was Abandoned
I would totally live there, after some TLC of course. That place is gorgeous!
Maybe because it has Texas Chainsaw massacre vibes 😳
Load More Replies...Found This While Walking My Dog In The Woods. Someone Put A Lot Of Time Into Making This
If you find an altar in the woods, please leave it alone. It is a sacred place.
Calm down witchhunters, it's just an magic altar. Probably used by wiccans or pagans. No evil here.
It's sea magic, those are clam shells I believe, which are used for travel blessings or at a push fertility x
Load More Replies...Ummm those candles look near new - this shrine is still being used... 0_o
Never touch these kind of things...you'll never know what evil is attached to it..even when you laugh about it because you don't believe in it
I think this is a 'travel safe' spell for someone's love. Clams are used for water/sea magic and for safe journeys or safe life. Red candles are for sexuality or love x
Load More Replies...NC Mountains
I had a dream once a plane crashed near my house and I was excited because all the meals were already hot. Something wrong with my brain
it gets more creepy if you think of the passagers as the meals
Load More Replies...Stay away from any deep, wide circular pits and start working on your defences
Anyone Lose A Camera Say, I Don't Know, Maybe 80 Years Ago Down At Eagle Creek? I Think We May Have Found Ansel Adams 1st Camera
Obviously, we were in a spot not many people have been. Down a high steep slope next to the creek!! My homie Ethan found it almost completely buried! And it still has a film in it!
See if it is possible to get the film developed. In good condition, these cameras can be worth about £300
I was wondering the same, so I checked out his Instagram. It happened a while ago actually. 172 weeks ago he replied to a question saying : "We took the film to a place that specializes in recovering old film, but the film was too damaged to get anything off of it unfortunately. 😞"
Load More Replies...Geodesic Dome In The Woods With Dry Stone Surround
Kind of a sci-fi sort of vibe, when you're walking through the woods and happen on this. Great acoustics inside.
Walking In The Woods And Came Across This Building With A Whole Wall Made From Old Wooden Doors
This Payphone In The Middle Of The Woods
🎶I'm at a payphone tryin to call home all of the change I wasted on you🎶
Tall View Of A Tree Besieged By Woodpeckers And Termites
An Old 8 Ball Found Deep In A Forest
My Friend Found A Tiny Tree House In The Forest
It's the Faraway Tree, I wonder what land was at the top when OP visited.
Found On A Hike Through The Woods In The Middle Of Nowhere, West Virginia. Nothing Else Around, No Buildings Anywhere
Is a Zelda relic. Trade your orbs for a heart container or a stamina vessel.
The building could have been made of wood. Some of those trees don't look that old so that could be where the buildings were located.
Someone Hid A Bunch Of Little Plastic Dinosaurs Amongst The Trees On A Hiking Trail
That is an AWESOME idea. I love doing stuff like that to make people wtf?
Looks very clean. The OP purposely put it there, took a photo and posted it for internet points?
An Abandoned Piano In The Forest
My guess is that they are taken to the woods for a video / photo shoot and then left because it is so difficult to move them
Load More Replies...All those fern looking leaves on those plants look incredible surrounding the piano like that. The single birch looking tree looks a bit odd but looks like it's holding up the piano a bit. It would be a cool place for a video at sunrise or sunset with some good colors filtering in. It's very pretty.
GOSH DARN IT IMAGINE DRAGONS KEEP TRACK OF THE PIANO DAN PLAYS IN THE MUSIC VIDEO!!!!!
Was Out Foraging In My Local Woods Today, And I Wandered Off Down A Long Overgrown Path I'd Never Followed Before
This rather unsettling padlocked door freaked me out a bit.
Could be an old mine or quarry, they’re often dangerous places for the casual explorer. There are old underground stone quarries not far from me, repurposed for storage for the Royal Navy, and as a government centre in case of invasion during WW2, with a railway access spur from Box Tunnel, near Bath. The old workings have been sealed off, too many kids going in and get hopelessly lost in the miles of tunnels.
This might be a cache for some prepper. Food, ammo, Med supplies…who knows?! But that’s what I’d do if I were a prepper.
The Things You Find In A Forest
Found This Weird Underground Door In The Woods. Thank God It Was Daylight
I'm way to curious to leave this door alone ^^. Guess i'm the person in the horror movie who always gets killed first : )
I Love The Cool Stuff You Find In The Woods
I Found A Bomb While On A Hike
Comment from OP: "Gonna poke it with a stick" 🤦🏽♂️
Load More Replies...Found A Boat In The Woods. Well, Half A Boat
Found In The Woods
Found This Big Structure Hiking In The Woods. Big Square Cement Tower, About 3 Stories Tall, Inside Had Metal Ladder To The Top With A Small Seat And Window. What Is?
If the area is prone to flooding, then it's quite likely a water depth gauge site
dang, I was reading about this the other day! I have a short memory so ill remember in a week or so, but it was a bunker thing I remember tho
Wouldn’t a bunker be underground? My guess is a defensible observation tower. Photo of outside of tower might help.
Load More Replies...Took A Walk In The Forest And Discovered A Decorated Gnome House Inside A Tree
it seems cute at first sight. however, such small caves are inhabited by animals, it is their shelter. for the animals these things are rubbish and disturbing.
Wouldn’t they just clean it out? I assume they clear out crevices like this when they find them and want them as homes anyways. ? Maybe?
Load More Replies...For those interested, the sign reads : "Gnome's Tree. I've been living here happily since a long time. Please come back more often. Love, the gnomes
"gnome tree I have been living here for a long time with pleasure, do you also come here more often, love the gnomes" (from Google translate)
If an animal really wants a place for thr home nothing will stop them
Picture I Took In A State Forest
Red Balloon Far Out In The Woods
Floating in the summer sky/on their way to the horizon, right?
Load More Replies...If you see a balloon in nature, please take it with you. It's hazardous for the wildlife.
Yes, thank you! This is not a cool discovery, this is litter and needs to be removed
Load More Replies...For all of you asking where the other 98 are, they are still floating in the summer sky
Found A Random Door In The Woods In A Fairly Desolate Area Of Pa Near A Lake. The Door Also Faces Almost Perfectly East / West
"..... Faces Almost Perfectly East / West" Then maybe it's not "Random"
Came Across This Abandoned Building In Vermont While Hiking In The Woods. There’s No Door And The Windows Have Been Boarded Up And Caged
"Behold the mother of forests, the Deathless Mother, nesting in dreams. Turn your back to the forest, hut, hut. Turn your front to me, hut, hut." The work of Witchers to seal a witch.
What Is This Metal Sphere I Found In The Woods?
I believe these are something that drops off of space shuttles upon reentry? I feel like I've seen this before, they usually wind up in the ocean.
I Found A Pac-Man Manhole Cover In The Middle Of The Woods This Afternoon
This Photo I Found Impaled In The Woods
Okay I came here to find this. People thinking the altar was "evil". This is most likely the leftovers of a performed cursing ritual. I know it looks simple, but I've done similar ones. THIS is what you should not touch. In fact, the OP shouldn't have even gotten that close. This is personal. Or it's a kid being dumb. But more likely it is an intentional attack on that person with the forces everyone only half believes in, and are very real. Stay away from things like this and DO NOT touch it. Sincerely, your bored panda Norse witch.
This Was Found In The Middle Of The Woods
Because look at all that wood..... I'll see myself out
Load More Replies...Is it singing? I mean, I hope. Because that face looks like those cheap blow up dolls.
I Found Plane Wreckage While Hiking In A State Park This Weekend
Judging by the trees behind it, I would say it crashed there about 10 years ago. Possibly a Piper M600/SLS
The Lines On This Tree I Found In The Woods
It looks like it's from a bark beetle that burrows under the bark and basically kills the tree by keeping it from getting food and water.. they leave lines like that under the bark.. I grew up in a national forest that had a problem with them..
Chair In The Woods For The Outsider Art Park
All The Trash I Found In 25 Square Feet Of My Forest
This Absolutely Humongous Plow I Came Across In The Middle Of A Forest
It's a ditch-cutting plow, used to create drainage channels.
Load More Replies...What Are These Big Concrete-Blocks I Found In A Forest In Switzerland?
Actually "the Toblerones" is a nickname for these "tank-stoppers" here in Switzerland.
Load More Replies...There is a lot to explore in the Swiss Alps, especially next to borders. A lot of houses or artificial rocks are disguised bunkers!
I Went For A Walk At An Old Ski Hill And Found The Abandoned Snow-Maker Machines
Altar Of Lost Toys In The Woods Near A School
Trash I Found In 25 Square Feet Of My Forest
That's rubbish! I teach Cultural Education to kids at a behavioural school. One of the lessons was altruism and caring for Country. We cleaned up a Sacred site where somebody had dumped a couple of trailer loads of building materials. People have no respect
I Was Told Y'all Might Like This Reel-To-Reel Audio Tape I Found Near A Collapsed House In The Woods
Off the subject, but many folks claim the brand name as being MAXWELL when it's actually MAXELL.
Ash Williams stranded at the cabin from hêll with everyone and his hand possessed 🥺😱
Load More Replies...That's a good quality tape with an NAB-standard center hub often found in professional environments. It might be worth a wash and a listen.
Reminds me of the movie Archive 81 on Netflix. Isolated deep in the woods and you find old media that is poking at the, 'curiosity needs to be fulfilled', part of the brain. What could possibly go wrong, right?
Actually looks like a 2" videotape, the kind used in the early 1960s when broadcasters were transitioning from film.
It looks that way because professional 1/4" audio tape and 3/4", 1" and 2" video tape all use the same NAB standard center hub, and reel diameter.
Load More Replies...This QR Code Etched Into A Rock Along A Forest Trail In My City
Here you go. The answer you are looking for https://web.archive.org/web/20180822235659/http://ooakteez.com/1/92/Game_of_Stones/
Anything to have a conversation with Robert Preston.
Load More Replies...An Auto Rickshaw Abandoned In The Forest
Iron Door In The Middle Of The Woods, With Rock Behind Them
Run at it really, really fast! If you don't go through it means you didn't run at it hard enough
Load More Replies...Came Across This On A Remote Forest Road
🥺 looks like a car seat in the background. Maybe a memorial site for a horrible wreck
Yeah I think a car accident also that looks like a road on the right side.
I often hike off-trail (I'm a biologist) and have encountered many weird stuff, most of it harmless. However, last winter I found a dead body. I was pregnant, far away from any road and had to lead the police to the place after calling them. It was wild. I still feel very sorry for the family of the victim and the person itself. Turned out it was suicide. The guy was my age. I have clinical depression myself and am so sorry nobody was able to help him. I am however glad that I found him and not the wild boars or wolves... And now his family at least knows what happened and can hopefully start the process of grieve. (Sorry for the language, I'm not a native speaker)
That must have been tough for you, especially while pregnant!
Load More Replies...Just do one of the weird carvings on dead plants and broken logs. It's not littering and it looks like a fairy did it.
Load More Replies...Was in Centralia, PA (the town Silent Hill is based on), walking in the hills above what remained of the town. Found half a dozen burnt Barbie Dolls impaled on branches...then the siren started. The siren attached to the empty, defunct, derelict police station started up, wailing over the town, across the hills. Time to leave!
Found this a few years ago in Abbotsford, BC. 20160124_1...bb27bb.jpg
In the late 80s-early 90s you'd have found ME, hanging from a gallows-arm branch by my hands, yelling for the big kids to come get me down: I was the littlest so they'd find a "hang-Claire" and put me up there, knowing that if I let go and dropped I'd sting my feet and at worst sprain or break an ankle. They thought that was funny. My hands used to go numb, to the point where I could feel my grip loosening but I couldn't do anything about it. One time I had to crawl home because I couldn't walk. That was super-duper funny .
It's been a while since Bored 🐼 shared such a good thread and there are 105 images too! Very nice!
I often hike off-trail (I'm a biologist) and have encountered many weird stuff, most of it harmless. However, last winter I found a dead body. I was pregnant, far away from any road and had to lead the police to the place after calling them. It was wild. I still feel very sorry for the family of the victim and the person itself. Turned out it was suicide. The guy was my age. I have clinical depression myself and am so sorry nobody was able to help him. I am however glad that I found him and not the wild boars or wolves... And now his family at least knows what happened and can hopefully start the process of grieve. (Sorry for the language, I'm not a native speaker)
That must have been tough for you, especially while pregnant!
Load More Replies...Just do one of the weird carvings on dead plants and broken logs. It's not littering and it looks like a fairy did it.
Load More Replies...Was in Centralia, PA (the town Silent Hill is based on), walking in the hills above what remained of the town. Found half a dozen burnt Barbie Dolls impaled on branches...then the siren started. The siren attached to the empty, defunct, derelict police station started up, wailing over the town, across the hills. Time to leave!
Found this a few years ago in Abbotsford, BC. 20160124_1...bb27bb.jpg
In the late 80s-early 90s you'd have found ME, hanging from a gallows-arm branch by my hands, yelling for the big kids to come get me down: I was the littlest so they'd find a "hang-Claire" and put me up there, knowing that if I let go and dropped I'd sting my feet and at worst sprain or break an ankle. They thought that was funny. My hands used to go numb, to the point where I could feel my grip loosening but I couldn't do anything about it. One time I had to crawl home because I couldn't walk. That was super-duper funny .
It's been a while since Bored 🐼 shared such a good thread and there are 105 images too! Very nice!
