Last night Duke and I talked about the strange death of two hunters.
A listener writes “The story of the two hunters found dead in the tree jogged my memory about a situation that happened on the property adjacent to the acreage my parents own and live on in Florida.
It’s posted no trespassing but you still get illegal dumping occasionally. This guy drove his truck back onto the property and got it stuck, called for a tow truck and told the towing company that he was going to hike back out to the highway to meet the driver. Long story short, he never showed. I don’t remember whether the towing company called the Sheriff’s department or the guy’s relatives did but they were out there looking for the guy through the night. Shortly after sunrise, they find the guy up in a tree, dead. I never did hear what the cause of death was, and the incident didn’t make the local news, which is odd because our Sheriff never met a reporter or camera he didn’t like. Only reason I know as much as I do is that I have relatives in the department. I spent my teenage years tromping around on that property and got chased out of the woods once in the same general area that the guy was found in by something large that I never did get a look at. Honestly, we weren’t interested in sticking around to find out what it was.
I was about 16 when I got chased, and I’m 49 now but the land hasn’t changed much. There’s restrictions on developing that land due to the water table and the aquifer. I’m not certain who owns it now, but the plan back in the late 1970s-early 1980s was to put a drive-in theater on it and Floyd Theaters owned it then.
A lot of weird stuff went on out there back in the day. I haven’t heard any recent stuff, but my parents adamantly disbelieve in the subject so who knows?”