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Long-Dead Soldier Found In Treetop
BBC | Submitted by: eating eating eating
"I'll be honest, I couldn't even see it at first, because it was quite high up in the canopy... But once again the wind blew, and it started spinning and dangling. That was when you could make out the shape of a body. But it was covered in moss, and if it had been me, I would never have discovered it, even looking straight at it, but when it started swinging back and forth, you could see the shape of it."
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From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 09:55
A Partridge in a Pear tree indeed! A lucky find; corpses don't just grow on trees........Soup's ON!
From: pundit [likeIsaid pundit]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 10:06
I would guess some long forgotten movie prop. cant imagine rope could last that long. how long has nylon been around? if it is a paratrooper he's in for one helluva burial ceremony.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 10:21
Val Mayerik was the shit.  As was Mike Ploog. 
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 10:27
Galactus  Such a baddass as requires two heralds: The noble 'Firelord'  and of course the inimitable 
From: gigi67 [gigi]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 10:43
You know it's ripe when the moss covers it completely. Mummified air-jockey, yum!
From: retardedmonkey
[ISeeYouWhenYouSleep]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 11:41
pundit, nylon was invented and used in WW2 as was heavily treated canvas. Tropical as this place may be, 7000+ feet of elevation is going to dry things out a bit so treated canvases will survive. Furthermore most of the old jump rigs had metal cables entwined to take the shock load of bailing out so one could assume that the metallic structure would survive as well.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 11:46
A rolling stone gathers no moss.  GD in't der maison...yarrage.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 11:50
Golding. I always confuse him with Salinger. Holden Caulfield for prez!
From: munchkin
[munchkin]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 12:09
From: heraclitus [and in measures dying out] Date: 4-Sep-2008 10:02 Are they sure it's not someone's sex toy? -------------------------- LOL!  A WW2 sex doll.
From: munchkin
[munchkin]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 12:22
It's NOT a body but a branch. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/04/2355921.htm?section=justin "The Defence Force says reports of a body, believed to be an airman from World War II on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea are mistaken. A group of Australian trekkers thought they had found a moss-covered body hanging in a harness from the jungle canopy last month. Australian Defence Force (ADF) workers in Port Moresby inspected the isolated site, which is below a flight path commonly used during the War. But the ADF says it appears that a moss-covered branch had broken off a tree and could have been confused with the body of an airman." 
From: noracejusthuman
[Alien From Earth]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 12:22
Wow! Cool story if true! Sounds like when they found the "Lady BE GOOD" in the Libyan desert.. I wonder if it was also possible that this be a somewhat more RESENT body? Like a drug dealer, maybe? Tell the truth, I can't MAKE out where the "feet" at all in the picture..
From: azdollarbill [Jim Jones]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 12:57
Quote:"But the ADF says it appears that a moss-covered branch had broken off a tree and could have been confused with the body of an airman." Well, if it is just a branch, why are we even discussing it, LOL? In any event, what about the "goggles", or was that a branch as well?
From: noracejusthuman
[Alien From Earth]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 13:12
AZ's right... Fuck this ...now , thanks to Sandy,..NONstory... Google "The Lady Be Good" story on the "Damn Interesting" Site.. Now That was a REAL WWII (mystery) story! Anybody else know this one? I think was a B24 Liberator went down in 43 and was found in the 50s(?)
From: rottengirl [bring on the spankings]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 13:39
The only pertinent question here is, did he land in the tree alive and starve to death over the course of a week or two before his body spent the next 65 years or so hanging from a tree, destined to become a science project of intense study by the Australian government? Cause that'd just be adding insult to injury, and would be especially rotten.
From: azdollarbill [Jim Jones]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 13:53
Quote:"And why exactly do they believe he's dead?" Because he's a tree branch? Or better yet, a dead tree branch?
From: sp00k
Date: 4-Sep-2008 14:08
rom: munchkin [munchkin] Date: 4-Sep-2008 12:22 It's NOT a body but a branch. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/04/2355921.htm?section=justin But the ADF says it appears that a moss-covered branch had broken off a tree and could have been confused with the body of an airman." ========== First an inflatable doll is mistaken for a body, now a moss covered branch. Maybe its a moss covered inflatable doll. (there were lots of lonely japs in that jungle)
From: pundit [likeIsaid pundit]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 14:27
well shyt. all we need now is a bunch of bored hoaxers burying all sorts of fake bodies and hanging them from every conceivable location. then we'll never get to the bottom of this. this will become known as the fake corpse decade. how long is it gonna take before vladimir lenin takes on this quality?
From: fucktardmama [fook-me]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 14:35
From: munchkin [munchkin] Date: 4-Sep-2008 12:22 It's NOT a body but a branch. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/04/2355921.htm?section=justin "The Defence Force says reports of a body, believed to be an airman from World War II on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea are mistaken. A group of Australian trekkers thought they had found a moss-covered body hanging in a harness from the jungle canopy last month. Australian Defence Force (ADF) workers in Port Moresby inspected the isolated site, which is below a flight path commonly used during the War. But the ADF says it appears that a moss-covered branch had broken off a tree and could have been confused with the body of an airman." - - - - - - - - Buzz kill.
From: sirbutlust
[mike duff]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 17:06
i saw a monkey holding a kawala bear, possibly a raccoon but thats just me. I dont get invited to tree canopy gazing hikes in austarlia for this reason.
From: pressthebutton
[pressthebutton]
Date: 4-Sep-2008 22:56
Wont someone climb up that fucking tree to go look what the hell it is. The hikers have a guess, then the Aussie army guys take a guess...WTF! Take a ladder with ya and go check it out!
From: dbt66 [Haggis Basher]
Date: 5-Sep-2008 03:39
Turns out it's a tree! Nothing rotten here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7599398.stm
From: dikwitha [Dik]
Date: 5-Sep-2008 10:04
Final word on the human thought to be a tree branch mistaken for a dead human; Bones sez; He's dead, Jim! And that's the way it was, is, and will be. So there. Ya heard me?
From: sp00k
Date: 5-Sep-2008 11:24
From: pressthebutton [pressthebutton] Date: 4-Sep-2008 22:56 Wont someone climb up that fucking tree to go look what the hell it is. The hikers have a guess, then the Aussie army guys take a guess...WTF! Take a ladder with ya and go check it out! ==== At least poke it with a stick. See if its squishy or not.
From: 11b3vw8 [smell my finger]
Date: 5-Sep-2008 13:05
Just a branch.. BS.. what about the metal objects they could see associated with it? Its a dead alien.. pretty pretty sure..
Updated: 5-Sep-2008 13:05
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