The Creepiest Things Found in the Woods

October 13, 2022
•11 min read
The woods are a creepy place where lots of strange and mysterious things happen. Let's find out about some of the creepiest things found in the woods!
There are many things that you expect to find as you’re walking through the woods: trees, bushes, rocks, birds, fallen leaves, and maybe a deer if you’re really lucky. But the people in this article got the shock of their lives.
I don’t know about you, but I think I’ll be taking someone with me next time I go into the woods from now on. You probably will too, once you get to the end of this list of scary things seen in the woods.10. The Bunker
Somewhere in the woods of Northern Germany, a mysterious bunker was discovered by a couple who first noticed some pipes sticking out of the ground. As they explored the strange place, they found medical gloves, flooded corridors, weird machinery, and heavy metal doors that had been violently ripped from their hinges.What happened down in this bunker? What was it used for? Was there some type of experiment that got loose before it was abandoned?

9. The Mysterious Man
In nearby Switzerland, people are dealing with a different type of mystery in the woods, a man dressed in a military outfit, cape, and gas mask. He was first spotted around 10 years ago. Despite this and the fact that he supposedly takes that same path every day, nobody knows anything about him and only one picture of him exists.
Although he’s never shown any aggression towards anyone that’s had the misfortune of encountering him, he continues to strike fear into nearby residents who just want to know who he is and why he chooses to walk around like that. He’s over 6 feet or nearly 2 meters tall and may not even be a man. Theories range from it being someone with a strange skin condition to a hermit obsessed with the end of the world. The only thing that could be creepier is a clown walking around in the woods. But that would never happen, right? Wrong. Reports have been made by some kids who said a clown was inviting them to follow them out into the woods in a small town in South Carolina.8. The Colt Family
All families are messed up, yet they love each other, but the Colt family took those two qualities to a whole new level. When this clan was tracked down in the woods of Australia, 38 people were found, all of them the products of incest. Women were having children with their full brothers or fathers for 4 generations.
As you may have already guessed, a number of these kids had deformities. Many of them also couldn’t speak properly and instead spoke in a strange language of their own invention. They lived on an isolated farm and had no running water nor access to the outside world. It was a wonder how they survived living in such conditions. The reason the police knew to look for them is pretty creepy on its own and sums up just how seriously messed up this family was. A local kid overheard a girl in the woods talking about how her older sister was pregnant but they didn’t know which of their brothers was the father.7. Dead Animals
When someone finds a dead animal in the woods, they typically have one of three reactions: it’s cool, disgusting, or fascinating. But what if you found a pile of more than 250 dead animals out in the woods? A pile of dogs, cats, rats, mice, deer, foxes, racoons, and an exotic bird?
Yet, that’s just what was found in the woods in Virginia. What may have been even creepier is that many of the dogs and cats still had IV catheters in their legs which indicated that they had been treated at a veterinary hospital before their demise. So how did they end up in the woods? Long story short, a company that was supposed to cremate all of these animals didn’t do their job. Instead, they dumped them in the woods. It has yet to be revealed to the public exactly why they did that, but I can’t think of a single good reason to do such a thing.6. Breathing Earth
When they say that the earth is alive, they don’t mean that it’s literally alive and breathing, yet it seems like that’s exactly what a man in Canada seemed to have caught on film. He posted the creepy footage below in a Facebook group but nobody was able to figure out exactly what was happening in the video.
5. The Mysterious Cabin
While out marking trees on a nature preserve, a Californian worker stumbled across something unexpected. It was a cabin built from plywood that was carefully covered in plastic sheeting, leaves and branches, to protect it from the elements and keep it hidden.
It was so well hidden, in fact, that if you were more than 100 feet away from it, you couldn’t see it at all. Inside the cabin were a small living room and kitchen, complete with a small library and plenty of canned foods and spices. There was a bench, a rocking chair, a wood-burning stove, and a typewriter all neatly arranged in the small space. In a raised loft area was a bed. Clearly, someone was living here even though there weren’t any signs of travel to and from the cabin in the surrounding woods.
The authorities were called in, and since it’s illegal to live on public property, they put up a notice giving the owner a few days to vacate. But, when they returned when the time was up, they were astonished. The cabin was gone. Not just the things inside, but the whole cabin itself.
4. A Gravestone
There have been plenty of incidences of graveyards or individual graves being found in the woods. Sometimes, these were forgotten graveyards that become overrun by nature while other times, an individual may have been buried far from the churchyard for whatever reason.
But one incident stands out as odd because while the body lay peacefully in the cemetery where it belonged, the original gravestone had somehow ended up in the woods. A hiker who goes by the name of 'River Wolf' found it, and by doing so revived the sad story of the woman to who it belonged.
3. Tongues Nailed to Trees
It’s common to see things like posters nailed to trees, but what about tongues? Well, that’s exactly what happened in Brooklyn, New York when visitors to Prospect Park found not one but fifteen cow tongues nailed to trees along a path winding through the woods.
If these huge fleshy tongues fastened to tree trunks with nails weren’t creepy enough, the likely reason behind it will make your flesh crawl: cow tongues are actually part of rituals in several different cults. By nailing them to trees, someone was trying to silence their enemies. That just leaves us with a few questions: who performed this ritual and who were their “enemies” that they were trying to silence? Who has bovine enemies?2. Explosives
Most of the things you can pick up from the woods are relatively innocuous. At the very least, they won’t kill you. That wasn’t the case with a construction worker in Arkansas though.
He found a live landmine from the civil war while working. He first thought it was a cannonball, so he tossed it into the back of his truck.

1. Strange Statues
There’s no shortage of strange statues that can be found in the woods, including ones made to look like female body parts on wooded islands.
But since those statues apparently disappeared after their discovery, let’s take a look at the statues below. What exactly is that? And where did it come from? It looks like a bunch of aliens performing some type of ritual. For better or for worse, the truth is a lot less exciting. This statue is one of many that can be found in the woods of Great Britain. It’s part of an art exhibition called 'The Sculpture Park' where you can also find a blue woman holding an umbrella, a lone pair of wheels, and skeletons performing a number of different tasks.