something odd in the state of Wisconsin

[cornerofmadness]

I go out for one of my hikes, camera in hand. This is
the first time it's been bright and pretty enough
without being too warm to go. So I start off on the
trail to the marsh. I'm barely out of my backyard when
I see bones and a bit of hair. Me, being me and bones
being fascinating, I snap a picture and head on. A few
yards later I find the lower mandible, sure now my
original thoughts on the humerus and vertebrae are
deer. I go less than a hundred more yards and there's
a huge mass of pale fur and more bones. Another photo
then some of the woods around it because this isn't
normal.

Having a very bad feeling about find two dead and
eaten deer, I forgo the marsh and turn back and head
north. There's another little bit of marsh plus a cool
place where you can see the change in hydrology. I
find a spooky fallen birch with very symmeterical
holes in it like a grid (bettles I'm assuming) I
almost make it to the rise to take the picture and
find more bones and a complete lower leg and hoof.

I leave. There is nothing natural about three dead
deer in a few hundred yars of each other. I think for
a moment as I silently move back thru the bracken lest
something find me, thinking even human poachers would
take their kills, unless they simply dismembered it,
taking only torsos but this is a risky area to try
that. I mean there's houses all along this road.
Possibility #2 - someone shot into a herd of deer
blindly and hit a few that ran and died. It's posted
land but that doesn't mean much.

Of course my mind, being what it is, starts
formulating stories for the teleplay. Hodag? Wendigos?
Carnivorous Kangaroos? Dire Wolves? (WI is supposed to
have all of them. It also has TWO UFO capitols but
those are futher south)

Comments

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

Id go with the carnivorous kangaroos.....

Or you know, a perfectly reasnoble explanation. :) Id have no idea what that'd be though as I know next to nothing about hunting patterns.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm more afraid of an infectious disease process. Deer are carriers. Maybe this wasn't something that went active. Or the cougar got hungry. I dunno.

[natgel.livejournal.com]

That's...Quite spooky actually. Would have made a great biotop research job though.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yes, especially since my last paper was the overabundance of deer. WILL be mentioning to our ecologist tomorrow.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's creepy all right.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

gonna talk to the ecologist about it. I'm hoping it's not CWD a version of mad cow but even at that I'm not sure it could fell 3 so close together

[rahirah]

That is spooky. Aliens!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Aliens is better than other thoughts of disease but it would have to be so virulent to drop three of them at more or less the same time...I need to stop hiking alone.