Forest Ranger Stumbles Upon A Mysterious Strange Cabin In The Woods With A Shocking Surprise Inside

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if you spend enough time hiking or

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camping in the woods you'll realize that

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there's not much going on sure you can

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spot some pretty interesting wildlife

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scurrying around but beyond that it's a

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pretty standard scene trees rocks bugs

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away word squirrel or two and not much

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else so you can imagine a surprise when

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Marc Andre the Environmental Services

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Director for our car to California

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stumbled upon something he'd never seen

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before

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he'd been marking the trees to be

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harvested in the Arcada community forest

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when he realized something just wasn't

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quite right when he stepped closer to

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investigate his jaw dropped Marc Andreev

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Arcata California has devoted his career

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to exploring the woods in Northern

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California as the town's Environmental

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Services Director it was his job to

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spend time on the wilderness he knew the

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area like the back of his hand or so he

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thought recently while he was out

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marking trees to be harvested in the

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Arcada community forest he stumbled upon

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something just past some trees he had

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never seen before

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it certainly wasn't there last time he'd

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been in the area it was almost perfectly

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camouflaged and as Mark moved closer to

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it he realized it was some sort of

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elaborate makeshift cabin clearly

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illegally constructed he wasn't quite

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sure what he'd find when he went inside

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the cabin was situated in one of the

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most remote areas of the Arkana forest

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mark hadn't explored this area since

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about 1985 back when he was still just a

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forest technician obviously whoever

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built this wasn't expecting to be

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discovered the first thing mark noted

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about the cabin was that it seemed to be

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fairly well constructed every now and

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then Rangers will find random pieces of

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debris put together by someone looking

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for shelter in the woods but this was

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far from random it was expertly planned

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the cabin measured roughly 8 by 12 feet

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and was estimated to be about 15 feet

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high it featured a peaked roof a front

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porch in an awning and plywood walls

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covered in turps it was even built on a

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solid concrete foundation

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mark could only assume it's isolation

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was what made constructing the cabin

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possible in the first place I didn't see

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it until I was 12 feet from it he

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explained it's in the perfect

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out-of-the-way spot where it wouldn't be

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detected what made the cabin even more

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mysterious was that no footpaths or

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trails led to it mark also noted that

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there didn't appear to be any sort of

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environmental abuse or littering which

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commonly accompanies this sort of thing

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who ever lived there clearly respected

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nature mark decided to call forest

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technicians Xavier Nogueira and Nick

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manfro dia for help

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along with park ranger Heidi Grossman

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they trekked back to the site to explore

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the inside when they finally cut the

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padlock and flung open the doors they

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weren't sure what or who they'd find

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inside as Heidi entered the cabin gun

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drawn she shouted our cata police but no

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one answered soon the group began to

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scour the contents of the abode to see

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if they could figure out any details

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about its owner the group was quick to

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note the tightly kept quarters in the

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living room and kitchen area

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housekeeping supplies and assorted cans

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of food sannen shelves built into the

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wall in many ways everything seemed

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ordinary still there was more to explore

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beside a rocking chair there was a

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coffee table with a tea kettle sitting

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on it directly across from the chair was

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a pot-bellied stove whoever had been

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living here wasn't exactly struggling

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out in the wilderness in another corner

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of the cabin was a small bookshelf

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constructed on a wall it was lined with

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various titles including catch me if you

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can and medicinal plants of the Pacific

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West soon the Rangers began to suspect

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it was an older person who'd been living

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there other items like a stack of tapes

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lent credence to the search party

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suspicions still they continued to

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search for other clues that might help

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them determine just who it was that

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called this mysterious place home

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the group also found a handwritten list

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of things to do and get which told them

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a little bit more about the cabins at

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habited the list which includes dates

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was comprised of tasks such as build

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bench extended brush wall season cast

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irons get six-inch stove pipe lashing

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and get tongs 122 11 near the stove pipe

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the group also found a copy of nearby

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Humboldt State Universities the

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lumberjack newspaper dated March 25th

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2015

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between the list and the paper the team

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started to piece together a timeline for

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when the cabins owner might have lived

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there while they did find two drivers

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licenses they each bore the names of

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different people and they didn't lead

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the search party to any conclusions as

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to who lived there they could only

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assume the person was visiting

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seasonally since camping on public

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property is illegal even if the person

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who's doing it is being respectful of

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the land and the cabin existed on a

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nature refuge the crew left an addiction

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notice for the inhabitant from there

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things really got strange what

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authorities returned to a cabin site at

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a later date they found it had been

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totally deconstructed the only trace of

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it was a charcoal squatter symbol for

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the cabin once said that's the cleanest

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camp cleanup I've ever seen said Michael

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McDowell the natural resources

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technician for the Environmental

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Services Department

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there wasn't a nail not even a gum

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wrapper left behind it's unlikely that

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the cabins owner would come forward

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given the potential for legal trouble

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after all the cabin was built on public

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land still it's pretty impressive they

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were ever able to construct it in the

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first place talk about a mystery whoever

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built and lived in that cabin had some

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serious dedication it makes you wonder

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if they'll ever be found

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