What's the weirdest stuff you've found in trees?

Who had the story about removing a tree in va or somewhere, big old tree, making a felling cut about breast height and hit metal, came down a foot, hit metal, another foot, same thing.
Long story, they got the tree down and found a cavity with the remains of a revolutionary or civil war soldier, I can't remember, who was gut shot and crawled in the tree with his rifle an died there. Anyone remember that one? Way cool
 
Ran into a family of raccoons I've time living in a cavity of a big horsechestnut, as well as recently a whole colony of small flying squirrels(winged squirrels, whatever they are called in New England) about to be fed through the chipper! Also, not technically found in a tree, but came across a pair of Oakley sunglasses clearing an paltry nest off a client's chimney !!
 
Found this while working in a apartment complex, was about 25' off the ground on a long horizontal limb, still can't figure it out...​
Some one in your area has some mad fork throwing skills. Did you dissect the branch to see if the fork handle had been sharpened? I'd probably keep it like it is as a conversation piece. Just warn the guess not to trip around your coffee table.
 
Some one in your area has some mad fork throwing skills. Did you dissect the branch to see if the fork handle had been sharpened? I'd probably keep it like it is as a conversation piece. Just warn the guess not to trip around your coffee table.
I left it as is, the sad part is it layed on my floor in the bed room for a few week, finally found some where to put it after I triped over it in the middle of the night.
 
I once found a very old revolver in the main fork of a large Maple tree. Also found a piece of 3/4" rebar, a car rim, a section of dog chain, a hoe head, and a kids Tonka truck all in the same tree the revolver was found in. The tree was in a very "interesting" part of town and was located in a type of "community sitting area" you could say. I guess that old tree had seen everything from outlaws in the 30's, to a group of neighbor kids playing with toys a few years ago. Was quite the tree to remove. First one I had ever used a torch and bolt cutters on to make a place to safely send a saw through without hitting steel! And hopefully the last!
 

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