whats the strangest thing you seen while detecting?

[flash5153]

Its raining here in michigan right now so I have some time. Will go dirt fishing tommorrow.

Everybody must have seem something wierd or strange while out detecting,, what sticks on ur mind?

Well here is the strangest thing that ever happened to me. I posted this on this site , many years ago when it happened. I was detecting a county park area. A huge mowed field about a 1/4 mile square, place is remote not many use it for anything. I was alone in this field until a car pulled up 150 yrds or so away.Right out in the middle, laid down a blanket and started the " wicky wicky". They didnt seem to care that I was there at all. I couldnt help looking but tried not too. remember them big ballon type toys with a handle on top, you could sit on them and bounce around. I think she had one of them with her. lol

Good Luck

 

[GRAY GHOST]

i was sweeping along out in a field a few years back and came across a wasp attacking a brown spider. it was quite a battle and lasted for over half an hour. laying my machine down, transfixed, i watched the scene intently. the wasp would dive in and try to sting the spider, fly off again, and dive again. the spider never yielded an inch of ground, staying in an upright position and countering every move the wasp made. the speed these two moved at was incredibly fast. finally, the wasp made the mistake of landing on the ground and fighting the spider on it's own terms - the spider simply lunged forward and sunk his fangs into the wasp. game over.

another time, i saw there were two pigeons perched side by side on an old phone wire. not paying much attention to them, sweeping right along, suddenly out of the corner of my eye came a brown blur from the sky. one of the pigeons instantly fluttered to the ground, dead. the other pigeon was carried off by the hawk, limp in it's talons. the hawk had dive bombed both pigeons at one time, breaking both their necks in a split second. again, the speed the hawk moved at was incredible. i had to do a double take on that one.

it's a neat thing to come across a red fox playing with a box turtle out in the middle of the woods, yipping every time he jumped up, dribbling the turtle all over the ground. that's another great thing about our hobby - when out in the woods and fields, we get to see nature the way it really is. these were all awesome displays of nature's power, and i will never forget them as long as i live. thanks, and hh!

 

[drummerman]

The strangest thing for me so far was a part of a window crank for I believe a 1957 Chev. (I use to have one) The crank had what looked like a engraved heart and the initials of a couple of lovers. I couldn't quite make out the initials.
I like to think that maybe back in the day, a guy and gal were maybe parked somewhere and one of them scratched their initials in the handle as a tribute to their love.

I always have a blast even finding junk. I wonder what the history could be on that item.

Just like the old coins and other items we all find.
Depending on the age of the coins and stuff, Who had that coin just before it was lost. Could it have been say a gangster in the 30's and 40's? Someone of importance in our history?

I love metal detecting!

 

[whattheheckisthat]

History. What is it, (the specific feeling,) about history that moves us deep inside and facinates us so much? I don't know, but I know that it does. At least for me, and that's what makes metal detecting so cool. While I'd love to find a gold debloom financially, I'd be more facinated by it historically. And I'm broke! He, he, he...
Just this last month I've seen two hawk attacks! One right outside the window I'm sitting at now, in mid-air no less, a hawk swooped in and grabbed a bird, never landing. The other right in my Moms back yard one swooped down and grabbed what we think was a chipmunk. This hawk was huge! About a 5' wide wingspan. He never landed either, swooped down, SNATCH! then flew along the ground about 40' then whoosh, right back up through the trees, and he was gone with his little appetizer. Amazing...

Tom W

PS. Thanks for the "balloon" vision you planted in my head... This now gave her "three" balloons, right?

 

[mwaynebennett]

Gray Ghose:

Do you know why wasps attack spiders? Where I live, the mud nest building spiders paralyze spiders and then place their bodies into the compartments they make in the mud nest along with a wasp egg. I believe this is so that when the egg hatches, the newborn will have a fresh piece of meat to eat. The wasp nests I have opened were full of live but immobile spiders.

Mark

Elite 2200

 

[flash5153]

There were 2 other occasions where some strange things happened.
first- when I was teckin in a field by myself, by a pond and I just happen to turn around and look(while kneeling to dig something) and I seen this mink coming at me.At first though maybe it didnt see me so I stood up, it kept coming and was chasing me around,lol, but for real. It was trying to get me, and I noticed there was something real wrong wt it.didnt look well and had a wound on it.Not going to say exactly what happen next but I had a golf club in my truck if you know what i mean. If I wouldnt have seen it coming, still to today I wonder if it would have bit me , and maybe it had rabbies, sure looked like it did.
another time in a huge field I started to hear something ,a huming noise ,so gradual at first it didnt even dawn on me. seemed to get louder and louder until I finally(like i got hit by a brick) I stopped teckin and was looking around. Like what the heck is that. As I looked I seen many bees at my level swirling around all over the place, then I looked up and there was a huge ball of bees about 30-40 ft up traveling across this field. I have never seen anything like it. The swarm was huge at least 30 ft around.I watched it go across field and into the woods.

 

[whattheheckisthat]

That's true, but even better....
Back when my kids (4) were young we had to put a new screen house up every year, because the kids weren't very adept at actually "openning" the zippers before bolting through, this ruined the zippers. So even though there was only a slight openning, usually on only one side, we would trap bees, flies, whatever in there daily. They found their way in, but couldn't find their way back out.
Amazingly... And this truly amazed me, "Tiger" Bees' would come daily right through the small openning, hunt around for about one minute, snatch a fly, bee, whatever, then SHOOT RIGHT BACK OUT THE OPENING! How was it they knew, when all the other bugs seemed so stupid? That amazed me. And how did they know we basically "trapped" meals for them?
But the tiger bees' behavours are just like the mud wasp. They dig holes in the ground, go get and paralize a meal, bury it and place an egg on it. Repeat.Repeat, repeat, repeat. Pretty damned cool, and ballsy! Those crafty, sneaky, brutes!

Tom W

 

[silversmith]

It's been my experience, and this ain't no joke, two things at a new site, that guaranty me lots of finds, are 1. cigarette butts all over the place, and 2. discarded "profos" all over the place. Ok, somebody had to say it

 

[dig it DanO]

Just a few months ago I was hunting a park that is by the lake. I could see a big dark something in the field about 65 yards in the direction that I was going. As I worked my way closer, I could see that it was a huge turtle. I got closer and closer. Figured it would run the 40 feet or so to the water when i got too close. I walked or worked my way (detecting all the time) right up to the huge reptile and realized she had dug a hole and was laying eggs. I sat next to her and watched her plop out 4 eggs on top of what appeared to be more than a dozen that she had already lay ed. She never flinched or did not seem to mind that I was there. As I stood up to go on with my hunt, my detector gave a signal, I pin pointed a target and dug a clad quarter two feet from her head. I thought it was a pretty cool experience.

DanO

 

[mwaynebennett]

Ok, the turtle store is my favorite. I am a HUGE fan of turtles.

Mark
Elite 2200

 

[airbrush]

This year back in April I was metal detecting this girl was walking and this man come up behind her grabbed her and pulled her in the bushes started beating the crap out of her ,i ran him off the law got him he's in jail.

 

[flash5153]

WOW. You do have to pay attention to what is going on around you, when out teckin.

 

[GoGoGopher]

Danger around every corner...Be careful not to step in any....lol

HH,