Out walking the dog with kids earlier in a local woods (Childwall woods if anyone knows it). Threw the ball for the dog who being the tit he is took off in the wrong direction leaving me to go down into a sunken area to retrieve ball. As I turned around I noticed someone hiding in the bushes who looked like he was spying on us. Went over to have a word and realised that he was yellow and his feet were a few inches off the ground. Immediately panicked as the girls were just about to come on the scene. Screamed at them to get back and luckily the 7 year old didn't see anything although the 11yr old did and is obviously a little upset. She can't get the image of seeing his completely still legs just hanging there although she seems to get coming to terms with it now. Called police and ambulance who arrived in numbers and closed off the whole scene. After an hour and a half of examining the scene the body was removed and I gave a statement. Just hope he didn't have wife/kids.
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Yeeeeeshk. Hell of a thing to find. 🙁
Take care of yourself and your girls. I'd imagine these things can haunt you for quite a while.
Grim!
Very sad for all involved.
Have you checked the whereabouts of your local Labour candidate?
Sorry to hear that mate. At one point in my life I considered ending it. The thought of being the selfish centrepiece of what you describe made think I shouldn't.
Keep talking to everyone until you've got it sorted in your mind and hope the girls are OK.
Jeez, sod that.
RIP whoever that is. 😯
I saw someone jump off a bridge right in front of me last year.
Watch yourself for the next day or so as I had a bit of a wobble about 48 hours later. Talk it through with someone if that helps. In my case it was a colleague who told very bad taste jokes for about 10 minutes. It worked for me as prior to that I kept seeing the guy going in head first every time I closed my eyes.
Take care.
Ugh. Sorry dude.
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Sorry to hear that mate. As others have said, take care of yourself over the next few days, talk to people. Keep a close eye on your little one too.
I opened this thread hoping it was going to be an amusing thread with a click-bait title. I still wish it was 🙁
Hope you all cope as best you can 🙁
That must have been very shocking. Take care of yourself and your girls, make sure you talk it all out with someone.
Had a friend find similar a few years back. Really got to him, so don't be afraid to ask for some help or go and talk to someone.
These days, death is something that very few of us come across in our day to day lives so when we do see a dead body (or someone dying) then it's a big shock.
As others have said, keep a watch on how you and your daughters feel and get help should you need it.
there is a line of research suggests if you get (your 11yr old) to play tetris or anything like this intensively for the next few days it distracts her brain from going over the short term memory she has formed of what she saw (and building/reinforcing the multiple synaptic links that form memory) and stops it forming a strong long term memory. In theory it will even weaken the short term memory and make it seem more distant like something she saw in a film etc.
ooffff. hope you are ok, sorry your girl had to see that.
i often wonder about people like my Dad, who was a fireman for nearly 40 years, do you ever get used to it.
Nasty stuff. I remember a couple of lads at school found a body in the local thicket. It seemed like a cool thing at the time, but I bet it wasn't for them.
Thats only a few hundred yards from my Mother and Father in Laws!
Horrible.
Awful, RIP. Somebody's family will be devastated today. Look after the girls. Death is normal, but unnatural death is not.
My friend died in front of me on a ride last year. I carry that memory and the images with me every time I ride.
Awful thing to happen. Look after yourselves in the next few days
Something I've often wondered, given how many of us spend time in woods on our own. Just made me decide to ride home on the towpath, not through the woods
That's a horrible thing to experience. Look after yourself
You should talk to both your children about it together as a family, explain the facts. Be honest and stick to the facts. It's one of the recommended ways of dealing with traumatic situations.
Crikey
Terrible.
Hope your 11 year old isn't too freaked out.
Well done loddrik for dealing with it and your children so well. Not sure I'd have managed to remain so calm in those sort of circumstances.
As others have said, do look after yourself and if either you or your kids are struggling don't be afraid to post up on here.
And don't forget there are plenty of us who don't live a million miles from you if you need a friendly ear.
Did you poke it with a stick? Did the dog have a nibble?
Sorry to hear about your experience.
My top tip would be to take your kids back out for a walk in those woods tomorrow. Take the mrs and have chocolate and nice drinks with you. Make it a nice but short affair and try to make everyone laugh whilst you are about. Don't let their memory be one of a pair of hanging boots.
( multiple tours of Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and one of Sierra Leone-though worst case of ptsd I ever saw was two lads who found a body whilst kayaking down the wye)
loddrik -
he was yellow and his feet were a few inches off the ground.
For some reason, i read that, and all i could think was of this guy:
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Sorry about that, doesn't help the OP, but that's the way my brain is wired.......
Thanks chaps. I'm ok. Daughter seems to be ok now. She is talking about it which has helped her. The thing that I can't get out of my mind was the stillness. Even though it's obvious that a dead person would be still, the fact that it was in a sunken heavily wooded area with no breeze, and the body was just hanging there completely and absolutely still. It was kind of surreal.
Don't be afraid to talk to someone, seek counselling, or whatever it needs to be called.
I got involved in the recovery of a body at sea one time. It didn't effect me as I wasn't closely involved in the body personally. Those who were involved got offered counselling, some took it, some didn't. Of those who did take, they said it helped. Those who didn't all said they hoped to never have to go through the experience again.
Christ, that's a tough thing to have to deal with.
As said above, keep an eye out for any problems, (PTSD type thing) and don't hesitate to get help. Both your daughter, and yourself.
Loddrick hope you can venture out to those woods again quite soon, like falling off a bike you must remount and ride again, probably the person will be named in the liverpool echo, then youll possibly know a bit more about the chap, and his family, which may help you all.
Some good advice has been given in this thread, don't be afraid to seek a professional to talk to if needed, and if you use the woods a fair bit get back in there asap.
I've seen a few dead bodies in my life but one sticks in my mind in an area of wood I used to walk in a few times a month I haven't been back in that would since the day even though I could be at least quater of a mile from the site.
Blimey that must be a shocking sight. Hope you're all ok.
I once found an old boy dead right in the middle of a bridle way when I was out on my bike. Clearly just keeled over while out for a walk. Saddest part of it was that few weeks later and he was in the paper and they still hadn't identified him. In all that time not one person had missed him.
Clicked on the thread assuming it wasn't actually about finding a real dead body!
That is awful, thoughts with your family. But also for the poor chap who felt it was the only way out, its never the only option.
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I echo the sentiments of others who have posted. Hope you and your girls are doing okay. So sad that somebody finds that to be the only resolution to their problems.
Me too.
Dead, decapitated pigeon on the back lawn.
Looked like some rats or something had been in and ripped it's head off and shat themselves at the excitement of it.
I do a lot of walking these days, rather than riding, and it does cross my mind that one day I might come across human remains, either someone who's died through natural causes, or committed suicide, or possibly been a victim, as there have been cases of people just vanishing, but fortunately it hasn't happened as yet.
I'm not sure that it would bother me unduly, I don't have the mindset, and I have seen and touched a deceased accident victim without it praying on my mind afterwards.
I would, however, be very, very sad and upset for those close to the unfortunate soul.
I can understand just how much of a shock this must have been for Ioddrik and his little ones, hope it fades away with time.
Not good. Make sure you talk to someone about it, your kids too. A neighbour hung herself, fortunately we where away so didn't have to witness police breaking in to cut her down. Was still very upsetting having seen her just a few days before. Post natal depression and left 4 kids behind 🙁
Thanks for doing all the right things.
It's sad to hear but nothing unusual.
You did the right things, keep the kids occupied and entertained for the foresable. Tend to built up anxieties and keep the family close.
Unfortunately suicide is much more prevalent than most people realise
As a member of local Mountain Rescue Team I've spent a fair bit of time searching woods and looking up in the trees.
The is a fair chance someone was missing him and you finding him will have given some form of closure. Small comfort but perhaps something to think about.
In the past year, 2 people have been found dead by suicide (hanging) on my local dog walking routes, one of them a heartbreaking case of a bullied teenage girl. Very sad.
On my commute home a few months back, somebody had just thrown themselves off the high level bridge in Newcastle and landed right on the spot where I would have been riding. They were getting CPR as I arrived on the scene but were beyond saving. That one shook me up for few days thinking of the what-ifs.
Chap last year tried to walk in front of a train next to me. He just stepped out as it approached and i happened to be next to him. I didnt think i just wrapped my arms round him and pulled him back.
Bit shaken up after, tbh the only thing i could think of was the coutney lawes tackle of the french guy when he just wrapped his arms round him in the same way, athough mine was a lot less dramatic.
You dont really have time to think, if he was big he could have taken me with him.
I hope someone claims him and marks his passing.
Sorry to hear that loddrik - for you and yours as well as the dead person...
I had the same experience about 18 years ago near Delamere - found a guy who tied the rope around a tree trunk, put it through the back of the van and and then around his neck.... then drove forwards 🙁
Same police response. Still think about it to this day when we go to that place.
Not good really.
Keep your eye on your kids mate. My mrs always tells me the story of when she was little her and her mates were playing in the woods and a freind of hers ran into a hanging body and it totally messed her up. Think these days there are better support mechanisms about.
It doesn't get any easier; we quite often see bodies in the street when on trips to Nigeria; either in bits smashed up by the traffic or well-dressed men and women just lying by the roadside. Nobody will go near them because of the juju and because they fear getting involved. Apart from the shock of realising what you're seeing, what absolutely wrenches my heart is the thought of the children waiting at home that night for Mum or Dad to come home and probably never finding out what happened to them.
To echo what has has already been said, these things can come back a while after the fact when you're least expecting it.
I was first on the scence of a RTA about 20 years ago and didn't think anything of it really, until about 5 years ago while on a first aid work course there was a picture on the slideshow that brought everything flooding back. I was asked to leave the room by one of the trainers who took me for a cup of tea and a chat after which I felt much better. I hadn't realised but as that picture was shown I went a shade of green and just stared into the distance for a minute or so before someone pointed it out.
I hadn't thought about the incident for years, and it didn't trouble me at all at the time (quite the opposite, I felt really good about being there and able to help in some way, and the driver fully recovered) so even if you feel ok now, talking it over might help (either now or in the future)
Looks like he was a little older than first thought. Still tragic.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/mans-body-discovered-childwall-woods-12913098
It doesn't get any easier; we quite often see bodies in the street when on trips to Nigeria; either in bits smashed up by the traffic or well-dressed men and women just lying by the roadside. Nobody will go near them because of the juju and because they fear getting involved. Apart from the shock of realising what you're seeing, what absolutely wrenches my heart is the thought of the children waiting at home that night for Mum or Dad to come home and probably never finding out what happened to them.
Funny but I was going to say almost the same.
The bit gets me is the sickly sweet smell when they appear to just be left for days....
It is something you kinda get immune to though.
Years ago when I lived in Libya a mate and his wife were going to one of the about 3 resto's and came across a whole load of immigrants being rounded up and the ones that ran shot in the back..
He and his wife told me this was what made their decision to leave.. not because they witnessed this but because they then drove back and around and went for the meal
I ride along undercliff everyday in Brighton - Have seen two people trying to jump and two on the floor.. still have nightmares...