39 Amazing and Weird Things People Found in the Woods

Cool, strange and curious finds

 

Almost everyone loves the occasional walk in the forest. For the athletic types, for the adventurous types, the romantic types – it seems the forest has something to offer, to everyone. To the curious type of people as well. Those who like to explore, and the like. Forests have a lot to offer to them. Their vastness, the fact that, while they are frequently visited, they are not part of folks’ everyday lives routes. So a lot of things go unnoticed, or hidden in the woods.

Here is a list, of those things. Things that people stumbled upon, in a forest, and they were deemed so cool, strange or curious that they just had to share with the rest of us. We are glad they did.

Enjoy. Tell us which is your favorite. And share with us, your forest finds, stories or photos. Cheers.

 

There is a 2400 year old giant “honey mushroom” in Oregon, covering 2200 acres, slowly killing off the trees in the forest. It is the largest living organism on the planet.

In the Battle of Hurtgen Forest during WW2, the forest was so dense and dark and hard to navigate that the German and Allied medics shared an aid station in the only building either could easily find.

The Redwood Forest in northern California is famous for its towering redwood trees which can grow more than 350 feet tall. This is the height on an average skyscraper. Some redwood trees are so big that miniature forests grow on their upper branches.

A man called Jadav Payeng single-handedly planted a forest bigger than Central Park to save Majuli Island in Northern India from erosion. The forest is now home to large amounts of stray wildlife.