What is this?! keep seeing on my walk.

I once came past a "tropical plant" spot hidden deep in the bushes, I was curious so I set up a hunting trail cam to see if it wasn't a scary gang, I then made a burner email written it down on some paper then taped it up to make it waterproof but still visible and placed it next to one of the spades to contact the person or persons just out of curiosity, they got back to me it he was a really sound lad that didn't want to give drug dealers money and beloved in self sufficiency, he offered me to help him but I quit that stuff years ago haha

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Title_in_progress@reddit

Your local witch having a field day?

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HiddenSynner@reddit

Yes definitely hex bags

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Proud_Ad_4642@reddit (OP)

Really? I have actually seen someone pull up and take it, why would people be exchanging hexes

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HiddenSynner@reddit

I was joking....

It looks compostable by the looks of it could be used for creating mulch for growing shrooms, maybe a bio experiment of some kind for attracting birds of insects.

Why not try asking them where about sin the world are they found.

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Proud_Ad_4642@reddit (OP)

Whoosh 😭 my bad it does look like a hex or protection bag tho now i see it.. maybe not as big of a conspiracy as i thought

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InkedDoll1@reddit

I practice witchcraft so my mind immediately went to it being a spell of some sort, but I don't see how it could be a hex, unless they're trying to hex the trees

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Proud_Ad_4642@reddit (OP)

The rock marks the start of the Cotswolds where i am so maybe they are trying to protect it?

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HiddenSynner@reddit

I was thinking the bags seem to sold as compostable leaf bags, maybe check local geocaching apps see if there on there. Might just be firewood people are letting dry in some way.

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kindaadulting87@reddit

I read that as sex bags

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HiddenSynner@reddit

Well people are kinky you never know 🙈

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Positive-Farmer-3972@reddit

Looks like somebody was collecting materials to create a terrarium with and dropped it by mistake

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Proud_Ad_4642@reddit (OP)

They keep picking it up and dropping it off i don’t think mistake

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andy3600@reddit

One man’s trash is another man’s pot pourri

It’s some kind of soup.

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Queasy_Trick_2043@reddit

Looks like what I take for my terrariums lol

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Kitty-Gecko@reddit

Is it open at the top of the bag?

I wondered it was trying to be a bug home / hotel of some kind, maybe there's a particular insect that would absolutely love this.

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Myc__Hunt@reddit

People do weird things in the woods. Ive found a random yew in an ash/beech woods covered in stars of david made from sticks blair witch style.

Another time i saw a paper gift bag on a log 30ft off the path with a foil helium balloon tied to it. Somebody must have left their present in the woods lets go have a look.... dead rabbit inside.. a wild one not a pet, it was pretty dark out so i left promptly.

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Master_Poet5106@reddit

Saw a guy in the small wooded section of cannon hill park in birmingham stabbing a tree over and over with a kitchen knife. I left promptly

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Sophisticated-Tiger@reddit

Scrolled down this and hoped there would be a chain of people telling weird stories then saying they left promptly. There was not, so I'll leave promptly.

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Myc__Hunt@reddit

Good call. Ive seen enough films to know if you called out to him "are you ok" hed turn lock eyes and the chase scene begins.

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Gabbie403@reddit

https://youtu.be/o0u4M6vppCI?si=aP5ZeGmyS9Or-6k6

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BunnySlippers404@reddit

Was he saying "Squeal, Squeal like a pig!"?

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flipfc177@reddit

Sasquatch bait

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SquidVischious@reddit

THAT is a bag of rocks, and sticks

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phridoo@reddit

It looks like someone's building a terrarium or terrariums (terraria?) & they've found some lovely elements, but want to first get an idea of what sort of creepy crawlies are present. The mesh bag would isolate teensy insects that are feeding on the bits of wood & let them carry on munching, allow insects that wouldn't benefit the terraria to meet their designated maker(s) before being introduced to a new closed environment, & keep out any new insects that might come to feed on the teensiest creepy crawlers

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Jaded_Library_8540@reddit

No clue on the contents but this sort of porous bag is used when collecting mushrooms so that the spores can fall out and spread more mushrooms in the forest.

Again, not sure why you'd put sticks and rocks in one, though

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GreenThumb235@reddit

Could be inoculating the wood with shroom spores.

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wildeaboutoscar@reddit

Maybe to weigh it down?

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No-Sandwich1511@reddit

These bags are often placed in gardens or along walking paths to provide shelter for beetles, spiders, and other small creatures. I have never really seen them hanging from anything though.

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Existing_Ad_5811@reddit

My first thoughts too. The mesh looks a bit fine for that though, would insects get in?

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No-Sandwich1511@reddit

I think they should be able to burro like though the mesh as its so fine making a small hole but keeping the larger items intact. However I could be completely mistaken.

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NipplesAndNeedlework@reddit

So I go on walks with my kids and take a bangor my oldest to collect this exact sort of collection of stuff…..maybe someone else does this and dropped it?

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rich06@reddit

Might be someone collecting rocks and wood for putting into aquariums or terrariums perhaps?

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okwhateveryouwin8@reddit

This was my thoughts also. The rocks and wood look like the kind you would use for an aquarium.

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ricin2001@reddit

Just a bundle of sticks

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captainapplejuice@reddit

Could be for attracting insects and other invertebrates (detritivores I'd assume). It's easier to catch them like this rather than searching by hand, and if your bags are all the same size and have similar contents then your methods will be consistent between sites. Rocks are probably to stop it blowing away.

Best way to know for sure is to ask though.

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jackgrafter@reddit

Ask who?

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Informal-Hospital980@reddit

insect hotel?

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made-of-questions@reddit

As kids we would do weird collections like this and giggle at the idea that it would confuse whoever found our "art" display. The weirder the better. Man, hobbies were so different before the internet.

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CarpetGripperRod@reddit

Mrs Carpet said she and her mates did this when she was a nipper. It was all pretty innocent stuff until a local ~~loony~~ eccentric decided to make it 'real' and started to build a whole miniature town around whatever she and her mates had left behind. "Land of the Little People", it came to be known as.

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buttsparkley@reddit

It dosnt look like anything witchy at all. Leave a note and ask them since it's regular

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prophet1022@reddit

Jabberwocky nest.

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eggyjim@reddit

Kids treasures, like the bottom of our pram.

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Moomoocaboob@reddit

Be careful…sticks and stones may break your bones

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UnremarkableCake@reddit

Some really, really crunchy Bombay Mix.

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SpectreSingh89@reddit

Hex bag🤷🏽‍♂️

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chronicmelancholic@reddit

No clue but I would guess something for insects maybe? no idea how they'd get inside though. Or maybe catching birds for surveying? So they get their claws stuck in the netting? But I don't think they'd be lured by rocks or such massive sticks... Hmm

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blurredlynes@reddit

So my stepdad used to go and take the dog on a walk, which would end up at this circular wood. If the dog had done a poo before getting to the gate if the woods he would hang the poo bag up on a branch nearby then grab it on his way back out so he didn't carry the poo around for the whole walk (easily half hour minimum).

Maybe someone is collecting sticks and bits for an art project or something while on a walk, but doesn't want to carry it around while doing a circular loop and is picking it up on their way back? And using the "landmark stone" as an easy point so they don't forget them?

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