whats the weirdest thing you ever found while foraging?

[crashdive123]

The weirdest/scariest thing I found while out exploring was back in the 70's while hiking on the island of Kauai. Two Samoan's with M-16's pointed at us. Apparently we were hiking toward their pot field.

[Rick]

Amaranth - Thanks!! I thought a wasp nest would be too fragile to fossilize. Cool. Since this area was a shallow sea at one time that makes a lot more sense.

[feral chef]

once when i was a kid in my brothers room. i found a baggie while foraging for ways to get my brother in trouble... lol

[laughingbeetle]

Bet that worked to get him in trouble...lol

[rwc1969]

I found a tickle me elmo doll while hunting mushrooms. that was a bit weird and the way he kept staring at me was a bit spooky too.

[Amaranth]

This is on the way to one of my mushroom hunting grounds.

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At one point in time, it actually had glass windows.

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[shiftyer1]

Amaranth....any idea what it's purpose was? I love finding things like that and trying to figure out what it is.

My dad told me about a neat oblong rock he found when he was a kid, said it was kind of polished in the middle and chipped away in that spot. My grandparnets used it for a door stop on the front porch till it dissappeared. When we went to an indian museum he realized it was the head of a war club.

[Rick]

I found a tickle me elmo doll while hunting mushrooms. that was a bit weird and the way he kept staring at me was a bit spooky too.

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[crashdive123]

This is on the way to one of my mushroom hunting grounds.

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At one point in time, it actually had glass windows.

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Flintstones?

Yaba Daba Doo!!!!

[Amaranth]

It's a spaceship! Honestly...it is!
Local legend says.....a none too stable fellow built this "spaceship" so he could leave Earth. It had a dashboard filled with gauges, knobs, buttons (I remember those) and the like but they have long since been yanked out by people holding parties there.

He did build a second one but it is in his yard. Since I would like to keep my head on my shoulders.....I'll pass on confirmation.

Nowadays....it is a way off the beaten path tourist trap, down gravel roads, across two old swinging (suspension) bridges....out in the middle of nowhere....no signs pointing the way though. Quirky yet fun. : )

[Rick]

How does a concrete.....I mean if the spaceship is made out of........I'm gonna need a helmet.

[ClayPick]

This is one of my favourite fossils, they’re fresh water bivalves that died a natural death as they are open. I found them 20 ft. up a 60 ft. shale cliff face. Out of all the shale the fossils where only in a layer ¼ in. thick and Mississippian in origin. The cliff face is the shoreline for a saltwater bay.
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[SoCalTreker]

While walking around on college campus one time I found a big tomato bush growing next to the perimeter road.

[nig]

Winter - Here are a few pics of the wasp nest.

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If someone thinks it's something else then by all means chime in. That's what it looks like to me. I would have not thought something that fragile would fossilize but see is believing I guess. You can actually see fossilized larva inside the tubes. It's all rock.

Here's is a stone I found along Lake Michigan.

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looks a bit like an ammonite ( ps may contain spelling errors)

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

this is a pic of a glass buffalo chiped by a native Massacheucettebuffalo.JPG
it is one of my favorite wilderness finds.

[erunkiswldrnssurvival]

looks a bit like an ammonite ( ps may contain spelling errors)

that stone with a hole in it is a native's sinker for a cast net. very nice.

[SemperFi]

I found and Orange tree , all by its lonesome out in the prairie of west Oklahoma , the most bizarre thing , nothing grows in the pan handle this tree had rip oranges , there was like a wash near it ,but was dry , there was green vegetation so possible thats how it survived ,but it was bizarre and the fruit was damn good!