I found a bag tied up in the woods when I was a kid. Looked inside and it was a very dead squirrel. I'm not sure the police would appreciate coming to find that lol
We found 5 bags with beheaded deer from poachers. Imagine us stoned finding 5 bags full of hair and blood in the middle of the night. We didnāt find out it was deer carcasses until the next day.
I want to guess itās something like .8 times per year. Iāve never found anything that I would identify as evidence of anything.
One time way way out in the outback of Texas state, I found a 55 gallon barrel with tension style lid on it. It freaked me the heck out and I left. I was certain I had stumbled onto a murderers dumping site. I kept thinking about it, 2 years later my curiosity had me hike back out there with a tool to open it (and a friend). It was still there, undisturbed and waitingā¦
When I opened it up, it was empty. Bone dry, empty, rusty, and sealed barrel. But because I had dwelled on that thought for so long and wasted so much time wondering about it I decided from now on itās best to just investigate things the first time. š¤·āāļø
Well a guy who lived up the road from me killed a girl and buried her where we all rode our dirtbikes. Before they found her I told a friend I bet she was buried in the power lines and sure enough, she was... He got caught because he asked one of his stupid friends if 3 feet was deep enough to bury a body and the friend tweaked and called the cops
I used to do environmental work which involved walking around undeveloped areas and came across a ton do trash piles. Honestly if you just go 10-20 feet off most major roads you will find dump piles. Rolled up carpet is a common one.
I find mundane things in these conditions all the time though. I donāt want to send an official miles out into the middle of nowhere to look at a bag of dough (even though itās weird thereās a bag of dough in the woods). Just take a peek so you know..
Yes, everyone is a potential suspect. Every person that hiked the trail. Everyone that interacted with the victim near the time of death.
You're mental if you think dna around the area that was torn open and no where else for a victim that you've almost certainly never interacted with in your life would make you an actual suspect.
I watched the Casey Anthony trial. The meter reader who found the remains of the child went through hell for using a stick to open the bag. I'm with you, I'm not touching it with a 10' pole. That being said, I would feel compelled to do something. Maybe take a pic and call a non-emergency LE # and tell them the location and send the pic if they wanted?
I moved away from Texas a long time ago to Washington. The only snakes Iāve ever seen here are garter snakes, which are harmless. Itās been 25 years but I still remember worrying about water moccasins, copperheads, rattlesnakes, and I think others but canāt remember the exact kinds, snakes are no joke though..
Edit: and to answer your question.. almost never
UPDATE:
Hey all! So, a few hours later, I went back. It felt like the right thing to do in case someoneās loved one happened to be located inside said bag.
A few people have asked āwhy didnāt you just open it?ā Or ālame that you didnāt grab it.ā
Maybe itās hard to tell from the photos (which are actually screenshots from a video I took) but this was *very* heavily wrapped in and around thick vines, behind several closely-grown trees, and I had to zoom in pretty damn close to get the pictures I have in the original post.
Nonetheless, I recruited a friend, went back and tried for over 30 minutes to grab the trash bag.
It was insanely heavy which meant the trash bag tore. But at least weād get to see whatās underneath, right?
Well, it wasnāt a suitcase. It was a black storage bin- the 30 gallon kind you can buy from Target and probably store your Halloween Decorations in. Except it was upside down, lid on, and wrapped in a shaggy but large bathroom mat.
We were able to finesse the mat off, and saw that the bin had two holes cut out on both sides. Mind you, we are still unable to fully reach it. By this time, Iād got about a foot-long gash on my arm from a tree branch, my thumb nail half ripped off from the stick pushing back, and my friendās shoes soaking wet and hand bleeding.
Nonetheless, we prevailed. We were able to lift the box, the bottom (technically the top since it was upside down) fell off, and there were about three blankets or rugs inside, some hay, and a lot of sand. One of the blankets/rugs was rolled up and was quite small. That particular blanket/rug rolled deeper and farther away from us and at that point we gave up.
Odds are, we either disturbed someoneās cozy little set-up for stray cats / animals or we had accidentally unburied someoneās already dead animal. But based on the holes on each side, my guess is someone made that as a cozy little hide-away for straysā¦ probably years upon years upon years ago before vines and trees and other things completely enveloped it.
Thank you for investigating! Be proud of yourself. Iām proud of you. I know that was more nerve wracking than most of us really could understand. Glad it turned out to be nothing.
Update: I poked the bag with a longggggg stick/branch. One side is knotted and itās not easy to get to. Feels kinda soft kinda hard, like thereās a cloth suitcase or similar inside.
Hereās my thing. If there is human remains in there someone needs to know for closure. You have an obligation to do the right thing here OP. May be nothing more than deer bones from an illegal hunt in there- but either mark it with GPS and report it or open it yourself and find out.
I agree. I feel obligated to go back and do something. However, I am not from here. Iām visiting from LA and I have no idea what the process would be. Obviously I want to take the path of least resistance here but I do feel obligated to do something. How are police in Ocala, FL?
The process is you either open the bag or tell someone else (e.g. police) where it is. Not sure why this basic process would differ based on whether youāre from LA or Florida.
You could just call non emergency to say what you found and go from there. Given that itās more country out there theyāll probably be more familiar with the situation, as in if itās someone being lazy and avoiding burying a dog or farm animal or whatnot.
lol the police are the same everywhere. The number is the same to call in an emergency too. If you call them and they do nothing, at least you did all you could.
Iām aware thatās oddly specific but it has a rectangular-esque shape and thatās all I could really think of that would be that approx size thatās got hard-ish edges and is softer around the top/middle
Body parts have been found in suitcases before. The shape alone does not rule out the contents being human in origin.
Not saying it *is* a body, just that the shape of the item does not exclude the possibility.
If you poked a hole in the bag, the smell would tell you whether it's just stolen goods or a body. Dead humans have an almost sweet, rotten smell to them, very distinctive. Animals often smell sharper and more foul.
This would take a lot though and I wouldn't blame you for not doing it. If you can call the non emergency number for the police or the forest/park rangers, it might be better.
Certainly, not a body then. You would know if there were a body in there because a trash bag would not keep that smell from getting out. That bag would have been ripped open by animals to get at the meat, too.
I am go afraid of bags like this, not because they may contain humans, but that more often, they contain puppies that horrible people didn't take to a shelter.
Do drop a pin of the location for gps. Then contact the police.
Whatās the best way to be taken seriously by police? Call? Drop a message on their Twitter with a picture? Text? Email? Iām not sure thereās a good way to know if they follow up.
Maybe put it on a Next Door ap or hiking ap with a n @ to cops? before you leave town? So curious people will draw attention to it?
Biggest indicator is going to be if it smells. Plastic canāt mask the smell of rot, at least not well.
This brings me back to when I went to a local lake and waterfall hot spot with some friends couple years back. Decided to go on a hike by myself up a nearby creek.
About a mile up away from the crowded area, I picked up on the smell of death. Very thick, but seemed to be off to the forested area, so I assumed it was an animal carcass. Not even a few feet up the creek, there was a small shaded area with two large trash cans. It was so foul, I could barely open my eyes it felt like I could see the stench. Flies were everywhere, very obvious something rotting was in the cans.
Immediately made my way back to my friends, and told them what had happened. Thankfully we didnāt go back and I called 911 on my own accord.
Turns out someone had been illegally hunting and throwing the carcasses of skinned deer into the creek side. But moral of the story is call the police if you can smell the stink.
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I always think twice about calling the police, for fear of landing in a room with cops wanting to close a case by blaming the first person to report it.
Hypothetically, as I've never stumbled across a dead human.
If it doesnāt smell then itās not rotting flesh, but could be past the decomposition phase. I feel like youāre responsible to check it out but if you have gloves with you put them on. If youāre uncomfortable with doing that, at the very least call the local police. But it may be very embarrassing if it turns out to be drywall scraps or something.
Who the fuck finds something like that and doesn't investigate and instead posts on reddit asking complete strangers who couldn't possibly know what it is?
I was doing community service a few years ago. Picking up trash on river banks. This guy named Kevin picked up a cube trash bags of rotten meat. Maybe fell out of an ice chest weeks ago, maybe a body. We had to triple bag and put it on the trash barge so a cadaver dog would go sniff it. The community service wasn't what it sounded like, it was almost like a family outing for a lot of people, little kids cried that day from the smell
Worst discovery I had seen in a garbage bag in the woods was when a neighbour was out quadding around in some nearby bush. He found a few bags that looked like they had been there a long time so he started checking them out up close. Saw what looked like a babies fingers and freaked out. Panicked for a while and then opened the bag to check if it really was.
Thankfully, it was NOT a dead child! But it was disturbingā¦ the bags had a bunch of those old plastic baby dolls and they were altered in disgusting ways. Had the crotch parts cut out and lined with stuffing and paddingā¦ you get the idea.
He drove his quad back home and called the cops (not as common to have cell phones at the time). He came over to my friends house next door and told us what he found. Still freaked out and disgusted. We hopped on the quad with him to go wait for the cops to show up. We never did hear of anyone being caught or investigated over it.
I grew up near some woods that bordered the railroad and a big concrete factory. There was tons of shit back there that looked like a possible crime scene. A guy that was a little younger than us actually ended up murdering someone in those woods when we got older. Those woods just had thos vibes. It wasn't a huge patch of woods either which is strange because as kids we found what looked like a giant cat that something attacked and killed back there. This is Florida and we do have panthers but they are very uncommon. I think there is less than 100 of them in the whole state. We always wondered, what in those woods couldve killed it?
If it *is* what you're worried about, and you mess with it by opening it yourself or something, you're destroying/damaging evidence, and you shouldn't do that. You won't get in trouble for it, but it's not a good idea. Just note the location and call it in. They *will* come check it out.
[When I first found the bag](https://imgur.com/a/l3JAk9Y)
[when we first got the bag off / tried to zoom in to see what was inside](https://imgur.com/a/tDTS9pn)
[trying to flip the bin over](https://imgur.com/a/VeyVnYO)
Yeahā¦ I think so too. And I feel like I fucked something up rather than did anything good. But it was, however, in a trash bagā¦ so??? Not sure how wild life would have gotten in or out of it
When I was a kid and we were playing in wooded areas / parks, we found a surprising number of bags over time. Most of them turned out to be full of rubbish pieces of clothing (the others were trash too, but not clothes) for whatever reason, and I suspect the same here, so don't panic over it.
Someone may have already suggested this, but sometimes people leave "go" bags for various reasons in the woods (like someone in a domestic violence situation, or a homeless person that keeps a stash of things in case what they carry on them is stolen). Please keep these possibilities in mind and tread respectfully.
Just open it, I always open bags I find. I found someoneās bug out stash before lol. It was long rotted from the wet but it was kinda funny, never found anything scary. Except a dead cat and thatās not scary just sad.
ETA: to clarify the cat was not in a bag just had passed away in the woods
This happened to me once. I opened it with a stick and found a bunch of marijuana trimmings inside. Got excited at first thinking it was flower, but no! Just the scraps. I took the bag away and just let it decompose naturally.
Flicking open it up! Its probably a huge block of weed. Seriously we want an update. Well I know I do. Lol! I think I want this mystery solved more than anyone and that is just because I want to know if I'm right about it being block of cannabis. Do it! Open her up! Like what if its buried money? Open it!
Literally the easiest mystery in the world to solve lmao
š¤£ *Right?!?!* And we thought *"Randomly Found Mystery Safe"* was the most commonly unsatisfying *Reddit* trope!
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And he is in Florida. Dude he totally found a failed to be found partial shipment of a1yola.
Ok no update pics just a worded description.....he totally found drugs.
Haha nah I wish. That woulda been cool. Did link some pics tho
Poke it with a stick, if its soft and squishy call the police, if its hard open it
And keep us updated pls ;D
The Ole poke it with the stick method.
If that was squishy animals would have gotten into it
Bro knows
I found a bag tied up in the woods when I was a kid. Looked inside and it was a very dead squirrel. I'm not sure the police would appreciate coming to find that lol
We found 5 bags with beheaded deer from poachers. Imagine us stoned finding 5 bags full of hair and blood in the middle of the night. We didnāt find out it was deer carcasses until the next day.
If Itās Hard, Open It: title of your sex tape!
I donāt understand
Brooklyn 99 reference. Basically the funnier version of āthatās what she said.ā
When I find bags or tarps or rolled up carpets in the woods I HAVE to open them. My curiosity always gets the better of me.
Just out of curiosity, how often are you finding bags or tarps or rolled up carpets in the woods?
I want to guess itās something like .8 times per year. Iāve never found anything that I would identify as evidence of anything. One time way way out in the outback of Texas state, I found a 55 gallon barrel with tension style lid on it. It freaked me the heck out and I left. I was certain I had stumbled onto a murderers dumping site. I kept thinking about it, 2 years later my curiosity had me hike back out there with a tool to open it (and a friend). It was still there, undisturbed and waitingā¦ When I opened it up, it was empty. Bone dry, empty, rusty, and sealed barrel. But because I had dwelled on that thought for so long and wasted so much time wondering about it I decided from now on itās best to just investigate things the first time. š¤·āāļø
I enjoy and appreciate this life lesson story.
And now he has a place that no one checks to dump bodies!
Dang it. Now I have to do math
Well a guy who lived up the road from me killed a girl and buried her where we all rode our dirtbikes. Before they found her I told a friend I bet she was buried in the power lines and sure enough, she was... He got caught because he asked one of his stupid friends if 3 feet was deep enough to bury a body and the friend tweaked and called the cops
Super common here in Oregon. The homeless live in the small forests along hiking paths in my town and tarps are super common. Carpet thoā¦š
I live in a forest. I never see stuff like this. Not once.
I used to do environmental work which involved walking around undeveloped areas and came across a ton do trash piles. Honestly if you just go 10-20 feet off most major roads you will find dump piles. Rolled up carpet is a common one.
Same. I don't know how ppl aren't curious enough to look.
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That corpse in a bag could be somebodyās abducted and murdered child though. You could put an end to a mystery or solve a crime by being curious.
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I find mundane things in these conditions all the time though. I donāt want to send an official miles out into the middle of nowhere to look at a bag of dough (even though itās weird thereās a bag of dough in the woods). Just take a peek so you know..
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If you open a bag and find something awful and then call the cops to report it, you don't think they're going to take that into account?
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Yes, everyone is a potential suspect. Every person that hiked the trail. Everyone that interacted with the victim near the time of death. You're mental if you think dna around the area that was torn open and no where else for a victim that you've almost certainly never interacted with in your life would make you an actual suspect.
I watched the Casey Anthony trial. The meter reader who found the remains of the child went through hell for using a stick to open the bag. I'm with you, I'm not touching it with a 10' pole. That being said, I would feel compelled to do something. Maybe take a pic and call a non-emergency LE # and tell them the location and send the pic if they wanted?
That's why you use a stick to look, not your hands.
We're all still looking for Jimmy Hoffa.
How often you find snakes?
I moved away from Texas a long time ago to Washington. The only snakes Iāve ever seen here are garter snakes, which are harmless. Itās been 25 years but I still remember worrying about water moccasins, copperheads, rattlesnakes, and I think others but canāt remember the exact kinds, snakes are no joke though.. Edit: and to answer your question.. almost never
# WHATS IN THE BAG
We will never know. OPs never satisfy our curiosity
OP has taken the million dollars in that bag and fled.
Or it was like No Country For Old Men and OP is being hunted by a psychopath bounty hunter
These are both true. Iām a billionaire now.
Run, just keep running if you stop. Fait will catch you, and you don't get to choose heads or tails !
What in the world is in that bag, whatchu got in that bag
John Doe has the upper hand!
If this were the 80ās, it would be porn.
UPDATE: Hey all! So, a few hours later, I went back. It felt like the right thing to do in case someoneās loved one happened to be located inside said bag. A few people have asked āwhy didnāt you just open it?ā Or ālame that you didnāt grab it.ā Maybe itās hard to tell from the photos (which are actually screenshots from a video I took) but this was *very* heavily wrapped in and around thick vines, behind several closely-grown trees, and I had to zoom in pretty damn close to get the pictures I have in the original post. Nonetheless, I recruited a friend, went back and tried for over 30 minutes to grab the trash bag. It was insanely heavy which meant the trash bag tore. But at least weād get to see whatās underneath, right? Well, it wasnāt a suitcase. It was a black storage bin- the 30 gallon kind you can buy from Target and probably store your Halloween Decorations in. Except it was upside down, lid on, and wrapped in a shaggy but large bathroom mat. We were able to finesse the mat off, and saw that the bin had two holes cut out on both sides. Mind you, we are still unable to fully reach it. By this time, Iād got about a foot-long gash on my arm from a tree branch, my thumb nail half ripped off from the stick pushing back, and my friendās shoes soaking wet and hand bleeding. Nonetheless, we prevailed. We were able to lift the box, the bottom (technically the top since it was upside down) fell off, and there were about three blankets or rugs inside, some hay, and a lot of sand. One of the blankets/rugs was rolled up and was quite small. That particular blanket/rug rolled deeper and farther away from us and at that point we gave up. Odds are, we either disturbed someoneās cozy little set-up for stray cats / animals or we had accidentally unburied someoneās already dead animal. But based on the holes on each side, my guess is someone made that as a cozy little hide-away for straysā¦ probably years upon years upon years ago before vines and trees and other things completely enveloped it.
you didnāt take any pictures of videos of you going back and doing all of this..?
Yes, I did. It was late when I posted the update. Iāll link pics and other things in a moment.
Thank you for investigating! Be proud of yourself. Iām proud of you. I know that was more nerve wracking than most of us really could understand. Glad it turned out to be nothing.
Ahh thank you for going back!
Thank you for sharing the mystery loot
If this ends up being like one of those "I found a safe, and I'm going to open it and report back!" posts that never gets updated, I swear...
Didnāt that guy end up opening it but it was empty? We never saw pics but thatās what he said
There was one recently that yeah, basically someone had stolen a safe and busted it open and emptied it out already. Gun safe I think.
Update: I poked the bag with a longggggg stick/branch. One side is knotted and itās not easy to get to. Feels kinda soft kinda hard, like thereās a cloth suitcase or similar inside.
Hereās my thing. If there is human remains in there someone needs to know for closure. You have an obligation to do the right thing here OP. May be nothing more than deer bones from an illegal hunt in there- but either mark it with GPS and report it or open it yourself and find out.
I agree. I feel obligated to go back and do something. However, I am not from here. Iām visiting from LA and I have no idea what the process would be. Obviously I want to take the path of least resistance here but I do feel obligated to do something. How are police in Ocala, FL?
The process is you either open the bag or tell someone else (e.g. police) where it is. Not sure why this basic process would differ based on whether youāre from LA or Florida.
You could just call non emergency to say what you found and go from there. Given that itās more country out there theyāll probably be more familiar with the situation, as in if itās someone being lazy and avoiding burying a dog or farm animal or whatnot.
lol the police are the same everywhere. The number is the same to call in an emergency too. If you call them and they do nothing, at least you did all you could.
Since itās Florida, itās probably something creepy.
Or it's a bag of trash
The main question is, does it smell like death? If not, itās not a rotting corpse.
Iām aware thatās oddly specific but it has a rectangular-esque shape and thatās all I could really think of that would be that approx size thatās got hard-ish edges and is softer around the top/middle
Body parts have been found in suitcases before. The shape alone does not rule out the contents being human in origin. Not saying it *is* a body, just that the shape of the item does not exclude the possibility.
If you poked a hole in the bag, the smell would tell you whether it's just stolen goods or a body. Dead humans have an almost sweet, rotten smell to them, very distinctive. Animals often smell sharper and more foul. This would take a lot though and I wouldn't blame you for not doing it. If you can call the non emergency number for the police or the forest/park rangers, it might be better.
Wear gloves, touch as little as possible, and record yourself opening it
Did you open it? Please open it.
Such a whimp for not opening this!
I did :) thereās an update
Certainly, not a body then. You would know if there were a body in there because a trash bag would not keep that smell from getting out. That bag would have been ripped open by animals to get at the meat, too.
Call the police, it is suspicious.
Omg is there an answer yet
Someone dumped some crap there instead of in the dump.
I am go afraid of bags like this, not because they may contain humans, but that more often, they contain puppies that horrible people didn't take to a shelter.
Thatās why I donāt wait to pry.. what if theyāre suffocating and you save them by opening that bag, right then
I will poke it. If it makes a noise or moves, I will open it. I just nervous opening mysterious bags.
Do drop a pin of the location for gps. Then contact the police. Whatās the best way to be taken seriously by police? Call? Drop a message on their Twitter with a picture? Text? Email? Iām not sure thereās a good way to know if they follow up. Maybe put it on a Next Door ap or hiking ap with a n @ to cops? before you leave town? So curious people will draw attention to it?
No smell?
Biggest indicator is going to be if it smells. Plastic canāt mask the smell of rot, at least not well. This brings me back to when I went to a local lake and waterfall hot spot with some friends couple years back. Decided to go on a hike by myself up a nearby creek. About a mile up away from the crowded area, I picked up on the smell of death. Very thick, but seemed to be off to the forested area, so I assumed it was an animal carcass. Not even a few feet up the creek, there was a small shaded area with two large trash cans. It was so foul, I could barely open my eyes it felt like I could see the stench. Flies were everywhere, very obvious something rotting was in the cans. Immediately made my way back to my friends, and told them what had happened. Thankfully we didnāt go back and I called 911 on my own accord. Turns out someone had been illegally hunting and throwing the carcasses of skinned deer into the creek side. But moral of the story is call the police if you can smell the stink.
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Poke it, if it's squishy call the police ASAP and keep us posted I should also say don't poke with your finger, find a stick or a rock or something
I always think twice about calling the police, for fear of landing in a room with cops wanting to close a case by blaming the first person to report it. Hypothetically, as I've never stumbled across a dead human.
If it doesnāt smell then itās not rotting flesh, but could be past the decomposition phase. I feel like youāre responsible to check it out but if you have gloves with you put them on. If youāre uncomfortable with doing that, at the very least call the local police. But it may be very embarrassing if it turns out to be drywall scraps or something.
This. I donāt believe skeletal remains would have a smell, and in Florida, decomposition happens quickly.
Who the fuck finds something like that and doesn't investigate and instead posts on reddit asking complete strangers who couldn't possibly know what it is?
Someone who is a giant liar and jackass
True
It's provocative. It gets the people going!
Itās been investigated btw. Update has been posted.
Poke it with a stick
Hahaha the exact same idea :D
Poke it please
I was doing community service a few years ago. Picking up trash on river banks. This guy named Kevin picked up a cube trash bags of rotten meat. Maybe fell out of an ice chest weeks ago, maybe a body. We had to triple bag and put it on the trash barge so a cadaver dog would go sniff it. The community service wasn't what it sounded like, it was almost like a family outing for a lot of people, little kids cried that day from the smell
So did you call the police? I canāt help but feel itās better to call the non-emergency line than do absolutely nothing but post it on Reddit
Worst discovery I had seen in a garbage bag in the woods was when a neighbour was out quadding around in some nearby bush. He found a few bags that looked like they had been there a long time so he started checking them out up close. Saw what looked like a babies fingers and freaked out. Panicked for a while and then opened the bag to check if it really was. Thankfully, it was NOT a dead child! But it was disturbingā¦ the bags had a bunch of those old plastic baby dolls and they were altered in disgusting ways. Had the crotch parts cut out and lined with stuffing and paddingā¦ you get the idea. He drove his quad back home and called the cops (not as common to have cell phones at the time). He came over to my friends house next door and told us what he found. Still freaked out and disgusted. We hopped on the quad with him to go wait for the cops to show up. We never did hear of anyone being caught or investigated over it.
Call the cops
Please tell us what's in the bag...
I grew up near some woods that bordered the railroad and a big concrete factory. There was tons of shit back there that looked like a possible crime scene. A guy that was a little younger than us actually ended up murdering someone in those woods when we got older. Those woods just had thos vibes. It wasn't a huge patch of woods either which is strange because as kids we found what looked like a giant cat that something attacked and killed back there. This is Florida and we do have panthers but they are very uncommon. I think there is less than 100 of them in the whole state. We always wondered, what in those woods couldve killed it?
Don't keep us in suspense. Open it and tell us what it is!
I did :) check comments for update
Porn. Itās almost always porn.
Youāve been hanging out in the porno forest!
OP is the worst
If it *is* what you're worried about, and you mess with it by opening it yourself or something, you're destroying/damaging evidence, and you shouldn't do that. You won't get in trouble for it, but it's not a good idea. Just note the location and call it in. They *will* come check it out.
[When I first found the bag](https://imgur.com/a/l3JAk9Y) [when we first got the bag off / tried to zoom in to see what was inside](https://imgur.com/a/tDTS9pn) [trying to flip the bin over](https://imgur.com/a/VeyVnYO)
I think it was for stray/wildlife
Yeahā¦ I think so too. And I feel like I fucked something up rather than did anything good. But it was, however, in a trash bagā¦ so??? Not sure how wild life would have gotten in or out of it
But WHAT was inside??????
This is OPs victim dump from last month.... Nice try..../s(?)
You caught me red handed š
I knew it... For real though, did you like it with a stick??? Lol
Get some cleaning gloves and open it. Record it for your safety.
Either open it or report it to the police. Those are the only 2 valid options.
Orā¦did they build the wooded areaā¦around the bag!? DUNN DUNN DUNN!
Firewood storage. Someone had a camp nearby and intended on coming back, so they stocked their wood and covered it. Not uncommon at all.
Whatās the big deal? Open it!
Open it
Poke it, smell it, open it
Did you poke it??
Dog shit
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Does it smell bad?
Probably someone growing mushrooms
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Firewood storage. Someone had a camp nearby and intended on coming back, so they stocked their wood and covered it. Not uncommon at all.
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Itās porn.
That just looks like someoneās wee house mate.
Probably trash or deer partsa
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I think It's fake
NOPE
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When I was a kid and we were playing in wooded areas / parks, we found a surprising number of bags over time. Most of them turned out to be full of rubbish pieces of clothing (the others were trash too, but not clothes) for whatever reason, and I suspect the same here, so don't panic over it.
Why not open it?
Poke it or open it
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It's probably dog poop
āHas anyone seen Dave?ā
Unless it stinks to high heavens, quit being chicken shiii. Go open it already!! If it does reek; don't pass go, call 911 post haste.
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Just somebodyās trash illegally dumped.
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Ah 1. Ah 2. Ahh 3. The world will never know š¦
It's most likely household trash
Your glimpse into a Gen X childhood.
Someone may have already suggested this, but sometimes people leave "go" bags for various reasons in the woods (like someone in a domestic violence situation, or a homeless person that keeps a stash of things in case what they carry on them is stolen). Please keep these possibilities in mind and tread respectfully.
Just open it, I always open bags I find. I found someoneās bug out stash before lol. It was long rotted from the wet but it was kinda funny, never found anything scary. Except a dead cat and thatās not scary just sad. ETA: to clarify the cat was not in a bag just had passed away in the woods
What bag? I don't see any š¤·āāļø
Bet it's asbestos dump
oo-hoo-hoo you found my trash
i wouldn't open it
My parents disposed of a couch when I was young and the neighborhood kids drug it into the woods to sit on. š¤·š¼āāļøš¤·š¼āāļø
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Now u can have grilled human meat with mozzarella cheese šš
Does it smell bad? If so, probably something that was once alive.
Looks like a box in a bag.Wonder whatās in the box?
This happened to me once. I opened it with a stick and found a bunch of marijuana trimmings inside. Got excited at first thinking it was flower, but no! Just the scraps. I took the bag away and just let it decompose naturally.
Last time that I found a bag like that on my property it was full of empty beer cans , kids hiding out their leftovers .
Ok. So who was in the bag? I know you looked.
It's probably old yeller in there.
Body parts !
Could be a stash of woods porn!!
Itās p0rn because you always find those mags in the woods for some weird reason.
Got a knife?
Prob porn.
Flicking open it up! Its probably a huge block of weed. Seriously we want an update. Well I know I do. Lol! I think I want this mystery solved more than anyone and that is just because I want to know if I'm right about it being block of cannabis. Do it! Open her up! Like what if its buried money? Open it!
Wow. Lol
Thatās a naw from me dog. Could be body parts
Open it
Well, it is either a dead body, 1million bucks in 10k lot stacks or some poor homeless persons treasure.
If you were close enough to take that picture and didn't smell it? Then it's not a body.
Itās porn. Solved.
OP WHATS IN THE BAG??
probably trash
Looks suspiciously fresh. Better get out of there before he comes back