34 Creepy Things Folks Have Found In Forests

A homeless encampment made of abandoned shipping containers arranged in a loose circle, and probably a roll of duct tape with a
Jar of Vaseline... both very old. Strange stuff to find in a forest.

I live in Arizona so I'm substituting forest for desert.

I was out hiking though a wash/creek bed. I came across this part of the wash where trees and shrub bushes made a natural funnel. In the center of it was a dead dog on a leash. The leash wasnt tied, and I like to hope that it happened naturally. Maybe the dog got away from the owner, and got caught by accident.

I was about 6 or 7 yrs old and live in an apartment with my parents, just behind of us there was a woody area and a soccer field, in the night, we were going to visit to my grandma for her birthday and as a kid, I wait my parents outside while playing with god knows what thing, a rock? a bug? whatever.. suddenly I look at the woody area and a big big light just appear like 20mt in front of me, like "parking" vertically, I run to tell my parents what I just saw and my dad told me while laughing "maybe it was an UFO", today I'm 27 and still remember that brightness, the most bright thing I ever look at.

I once went with my family on a picnic in the woods in Lebanon, where I was raised. We are Muslims and we were in the Christian area so we were already a bit on edge.
We find an old abandoned home from a couple of centuries ago with a grave infront. Literally the type of settlements you'd find the ghost in the well In the early part of the witcher 3. Me and a couple of my cousins ventured a bit deeper and we found a tree stump with nails and teeth all over it. I told my older brother and we were asked to leave it alone and go back to our parents. It was definitely teeth. There was no less than 30 teeth hammered into that stump with much more nails.

It was during a drought in the summer. I was headed towards an old cranberry bog when I started hearing rhythmic thumping. I come into a clearing and see out in the middle of the bog which is nothing but mud a white man in overalls and dreads rocking out on bongos. That mud is thick and deep he must have slithered out there on his belly. I noped out of there real quick.

An abandoned tree house. There were no actual residential houses around.

Caged dogs, used for dog fighting.

Was both brutal and terrifying. They were vicious, barking their heads off, and ready to rip my throat out, but covered in scars, missing chunks of their body, and without ears (I believe the “owners” sheared them off to prevent competitor dogs from having something to grab hold of).

I was with a buddy and we were thirsty and had nothing to drink. We went looking for some berries to eat and found a cooler full of ice and beer.

I wish I could post the picture, I was 3 km or 2 miles back in the bush, I come out to a into a clearing before a steep incline 2/3 of the way up this incline is an old doll head missing an eye. I couldn't make out what it was until coming upon it by about 50 feet. I'm way out in the bush and it's an 80's doll with the flipping eyes and the eyelashes

No reason for it to be there. none not in that location not that far from humanity, a child of the age to have a doll like that could never have been there.

Wife and I were driving on rural backroads. Came across 2 trooper vehicles and a nice Cadillac parked on the side of the road. 4 cops and 3 dudes in suits just hanging out outside the cars watching us drive by. Granted we were high but it was miles from anywhere and seemed really weird.

It's not super creepy but was hiking with a guy and stumbled upon an entire deer skeleton. All the bones were there except the skull. Everything else was picked completely clean.

When parents purchased a plot of land in the forest, they found an old rusty baby stroller. In the forest that is a part of a town only on the papers. I still can't think of a why would anyone bring a stroller there and then leave it.

Oh one i can finally answer!! me and my dad grew up hiking all over the pacific northwest, and we’ve seen and found some odd stuff, but the one that sticks out the most to me and to this day i don’t understand is this, we were hiking miles and miles away from any roads or trails or anything, we did off trail hiking and would cross several mountains at a time, i’m honestly pretty sure we were in a place no human had ever walked before, and we this 3 foot by 5 foot pile of yellow cubes half embedded or buried in the ground, they were wrapped in paper in stacks of like five i think, and they had metal caps on each end of the stacks. most of the paper had deteriorated away but they were still mostly in the order they had been packed in, only some off the top had been scattered around. a few had holes drilled through the center as well. we didn’t stay long, but my dad took pictures and we took a few with us and showed them to a forest service worker and a game warden, and neither of them had the slightest clue what they were. there were so many of them packaged all together, and they were in a place so far away and hard to get to i don’t think it’s humanly possible for anyone to carry them in there, so we figured they fell out of a plane or something, but we never did figure out what they were or how they got there.

I found a few logs at Girl Scout camp with what seemed to be some... extraterrestrial language. Even now, maybe 10 years on, and with a greater knowledge of both biology and languages, I have no way of explaining what it was. The marks were too uniform and unlike anything I’ve ever seen.