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| | | Re: Disgusting/Funny/Weird/Etc. things found (Not work/lunch safe) < Reply # 473 on 9/19/2006 11:46 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I was beginning to worry that I'd never reach the end of this thread. But, I guess it's time for me to share. These are for the "weird" category. 1. Actually found while saving a turtle, not UEing, but...under a concrete bridge in some big boulders, a dead dog. The way it was positioned it looked like someone trapped him in the rocks somehow because it looked like he had been struggling, and he was so well preserved (completely mummified and beyond the point of smelling), that at first it looked like just a bald dog sleeping--until we saw his spine sticking out. No pics, sorry, might be able to get some, though--I think it was better preserved than anything I've seen so far on this thread. It was rather unsettling to think that someone might have trapped him there to die. 2. On a trip to the backwoods mountains of western North Carolina, a friend and I set off to explore the wilderness around our cabin. A good distance from the backyard of an old farmhouse (not abandoned, sadly), we found an old, no longer used dump with lots of various glass bottles. Now, I know the consensus is not to take things from UE/RE sites, but this was a dump, and I don't think anyone was going to be upset nor anything bothered by us taking a few discarded old bottles. Turns out most of them were broken, but we did find a few good ones, including one of the big clear gallon ones with thin necks. We took them home but left them in the yard for a few months because we kept forgetting to clean them out, but eventually we did get around to dumping the dirt and crud out of them. However, we discovered that the big hunk of...stuff in the gallon jug was not dirt, but fur. And 42 mouse skulls--just the skulls, no other bones at all (not even big, visible bones like hips). So the jug ultimately left us with more questions than answers: How did they get in there? Where's the rest of them? Were they "fresher" when we took the jug (we hadn't inspected the contents and that particular jug was on the top pf the pile)...? Was/is there some crazy hillbilly living near there who liked to chop the heads off mice and keep them?
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| | | Re: Disgusting/Funny/Weird/Etc. things found (Not work/lunch safe) < Reply # 474 on 9/20/2006 9:06 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | While SCUBA diving in a very deep shipwreck (the Kamloops) in Lake Superior in the 1990s, I entered the engine room & came upon the saponified (look it up) but mostly intact remains of one of the engine room guys, still partially clothed. He died when the wreck sank -- back in I think around 1929! I looked but didn't stare, & then went about the rest of my dive. **THANKFULLY** I was warned in advance that he was there.
A cool thing I found while SCUBA diving in another deep wreck in Lake Superior -- I was inside one of the crew's quarters just poking around, and slowly opened a small dresser drawer for the heck of it. It was full of silt (which is why I opened it slowly, so the silt didn't mess up visibility), but I felt around in it, and found a pack of Wrigley's Spearmint Gum, circa early 1950s when the freighter had sunk! It was still sealed. The year-round 40 degree water & then several inches worth of silt had preserved it for 45 years. It was tempting to take it, but I put the pack back where I found it.
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