Once Seen, It Cannot Be Unseen

File under amazing coincidences:

A man who was hunting in the Mark Twain National Forest, just 30 minutes from Lebanon, was about to set up camp in a spot he uses each season, when he noticed something about the ground that didn’t seem right. After poking around at the ground a bit, he got concerned about what he found and urgently called police. The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department came running, bringing along with them a massive team of expert personnel they called in for assistance.

Officers found a huge cache of “extremely volatile” explosives, which police described to be of a style “that could not be purchased for recreational use.” This suggests that the extensive supply was all homemade pipe bombs or other IEDs, created and collected with a specific plan in mind. The stock was so dangerous that it couldn’t be safely detonated without the help of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit (EOD), the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s EOD Unit, and the Waynesville Rural Fire Department, KY3 reported.

People buried something they didn’t want found, almost certainly in the dead of night, in a forest that covers over 2300 square miles, probably trying to conceal it’s appearance after burying it, and a guy landed on it purely by chance and saw it. Not impossible, but…

I’m telling you, it is out there.

Apocalypse cometh™