[meteorite-list] Strange things found while hunting for meteorites : )

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:12:08 -0500
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Yeah, when we first found it, we were a little apprehensive. Our
first reaction was to high-tail it out of there before some crazy hobo
emerged from the lean-to pointing a gun at us. But we soon realized
that the site had been abandoned for some time, so we looked around a
bit and poked through the debris, looking for anything of interest or
value. It did feel really weird, because I kept wondering where the
camp owner went, who he/she was, and why they were living in a crude
camp out in the middle of nowhere. Was it someone on the run from the
law? Someone down on their luck? Or were they doing something
illegal out there? It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up a
bit, and my hand was close to my Arkansas toothpick the whole time we
were there.



On 2/21/11, JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Mike:
> I stumbled upon almost the exact same setup while traipsing through the
> dense thicket looking for soft-shell turtles somewhere in the middle of
> Florida back in the late 1970s. I thought it was some kind of camp for
> runaway kids. It would be weird to live in those conditions. I kept thinking
> a psycho was about to murder me at any minute so I didn't stay long.
>
> Phil Whitmer
>
> -------------------------
>
> While not a meteorite story, my stepson and I did find something
> strange while hunting for fossils and arrowheads. While exploring a
> wooded area near the Hillsborough River, just outside of Tampa, we
> stumbled across an abandoned homeless camp. There was a lean-to with
> a mattress in it, a big plastic kiddie pool (for bathing and/or
> catching rainwater), the remnants of a garden, an animal coop, and a
> very odd assortment of bottles, buckets, birdhouses, and other
> objects. This out in the middle of a densely-wooded area, far off any
> trails, and it was a little spooky because it was hidden so well.
> Everything was low to the ground and concealed with palmetto fronds
> and vegetation. We literally walked right into the middle of it
> before we saw it. We took a few photos, logged the GPS coordinates,
> and kept on going.
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
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