Skeletons on the Cache site

[adm4984]

My wife and I went caching yesterday with my ten year old sister in law. She had never been before and was very excited at the prospect of finding stuff hidden in the woods. After two DNFs because of the recent flooding Connecticut had, we went to our third and final stop for the day. The cache was located about 1/2 mile from the parking lot and about 250 feet into the woods. After circling the area, my sister in law calls out that she found something-not the cache though. Tangled in some low lying branches was-get this- A SPINE!!!! After loooking at it for a while, we determined that it looked eerily human and I decided that maybe we should call the police. I led them to where it was and we all had the same opinion: if there had been a body at the bottom of the lake, the flood could have washed it up. However, after much examination, it was determined it wasn't human. We dont know what it was, but the important part is that it wasnt human. After that, we were able to continue our search and my sister in law found the cache!!! Has anything like this ever happened to anyone?

[+StarBrand]

Deer, skunk, rattlesnake, antelope, coyote - seen all those at or near cache sites over the years. Also spotted a few bones sticking out of the ground near an old abondoned cemetary - creepy!!!

[+trooperdjb]

Deer this weekend at our first cache on Sunday. My kids had never seen one so all kinds of questions. lol

[+briansnat]

Seen lots of deer skeletons.

[+Mudfrog]

We found one near this cache!

 

D.B. Cooper Jr.

[+ke6n]

Some people might be more concerned about skeletons in their closets...

 

But yes, I've found skeletons near cache sites. Pretty much just about any time I head out to take a hike somewhere I find the remains of some poor creature.

[+Miragee]

This cache has a funny history if you read the subtle "hint" in the description and then read the earliest logs.

 

In addition to "Bob," I have seen many skeletons of critters along the trails.

[+Jhwk]

Deer skeleton on Saturday while tracking down my last cache of the day.

 

Better than finding a putrefying body on a hot August hunt...

[+DavidMac]

It's not uncommon to find deer skeletons this time of year, since deer season recently ended in many areas. I visited a cache two weeks ago beside which someone had dumped a deer carcass sometime in February. Recent logs talked about how revolting it was, but by the time I visited, all that was left was a few bones and some fur.

[+Juicepig]

I made a cache out of deerbones as my firest hide. (added a LARGE waterproof container inside to keep it dry)

 

I did find a human once while caching, it was still fresh. Cops said it was a suicide.

 

Otherwise, lots of deer, beaver, skunk, racoon, Coyote, and porcupine. Weirdest I came across though was what looked like a cattle body dumping ground. It was a valley between 2 cattle farms, and it looks like various cow parts had been thrown into it. Oh well, nothing like a breeze of fresh air!

[+edscott]

My wife and I went caching yesterday with my ten year old sister in law. She had never been before and was very excited at the prospect of finding stuff hidden in the woods. After two DNFs because of the recent flooding Connecticut had, we went to our third and final stop for the day. The cache was located about 1/2 mile from the parking lot and about 250 feet into the woods. After circling the area, my sister in law calls out that she found something-not the cache though. Tangled in some low lying branches was-get this- A SPINE!!!! After loooking at it for a while, we determined that it looked eerily human and I decided that maybe we should call the police. I led them to where it was and we all had the same opinion: if there had been a body at the bottom of the lake, the flood could have washed it up. However, after much examination, it was determined it wasn't human. We dont know what it was, but the important part is that it wasnt human. After that, we were able to continue our search and my sister in law found the cache!!! Has anything like this ever happened to anyone?

 

Well sort of... mine was while drawing an orienteering map and it was human...

[+Gator Man]

Let's see, Deer, Possums, Raccoons, Feral Pigs, (several, they're a problem in S. FL), Snakes, Lizards, Frogs, but no Humans. (so far, ) I've also had encounters with the LIVE variety of some of these, which is MUCH MORE scary! Best Adrelaline Rush, encountering a Florida Panther while doing "THE GHOST ORCHID" Multi. GC112JY)

 

GM

 

PS: OOPS! And of course, a GATOR! (~3 foot one, nothing really scary)

Edited April 23, 2007 by Gator Man

[+Nevada Stars]

This virtual is located about 7 miles from my house: GC5EB8...check out the pic of the dog

[+bccruiser]

Yep, sure have. Deer seem to be the most commonly found. Just this weekend I found a young deer skull. The horns are more like stubs..Looks kind of like a devil skull. Also, I have found dead racoons, a dead fox rotting close by caches. It adds to the hunt if you ask me.

[+Lil Devil]

I found a cache once that, instead of being hidden under a bunch of parallel sticks, was under a bunch of parallel rib bones. I think they were from a deer but I'm no expert.

[+Bad_CRC]

someone dumped a deer spine with the head still on it near a cache we found last fall.

 

was pretty nasty. don't know why they couldn't have just thrown it in a garbage can instead of in a park. (was clearly butchered, ribs had been sawn clean with a saw)

[+karstic]

Here ya go

 

Bearly There

[+Wacka]

I found a dead iguana in a tree one time.

[+rdaines]

I've been caching for 4 months now and am surprised by the number of bones I've run across. These include skeletons of deer, dogs, cats, racoons and other unidentified remains. My cache found number is just over 80 so my conclusion is that if you are hunting woodland or non suburban caches you are likely to find dead critters. Finding humans remains would be a shocker.

[Suscrofa]

You know there is no undertaker in the wild so to find dead animal remains is not only common but shows there is still some wildlife ! Does not last long before scavengers and maggots make everything disappear.

I hunt and usually I return to mother nature the carcass of my preys after having butchered them. This is recycling, and is not disgusting.

[bogleman]

 

You'll find some strange things while out nosing around.

[+WRITE SHOP ROBERT]

Maybe a furum expert with better access to the computer can find the link to the thread about the body that was found at the bottom of the cliff, belonging to a college student that was missing for years, bringing closure to the family?

[+genegene]

I found a deer skull that i plan on makeing into a micro one day. does that count?

[+Goldenhawk]

Does this count?

 

 

From Captain Thomas Smith's Revenge, in MD.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...22-1ce621cb2422

 

*grin*

[+Snoogans]

We found one near this cache!

 

D.B. Cooper Jr.

 

 

Poor D.B. He never got to spend the money.

 

[+Lovey Pigs]

while searching for a new cache site to hide came upon a complete deer skeleton and ended up making a multi-cache named Boneyard GCYJYV and incorporated some of the bones as part of the cache. Last week while on a cache we found a dead bird with no head on it, still had feathers & everything but no head?!

Edited May 7, 2007 by mdegarmo

[+mamid]

I found a dead frog body (just the head) with my newbie cacher. Actually, he's been doing most of the work for me because I broke my toe just under two months ago. Broke = shattered.

 

We were looking for a traveling cache and found the micro near there instead. We wanted to grab it because its last known location was right by a dyke and this is "flood season" so I wanted it to make sure it didn't get sent out to sea.

[+Iowa Tom]

I find bones all the time and in fact made a cow skull into a really neat cache container. I called it Dummkopf. That's German for "block-head." I remember my grandfather using the term on more than one occasion, usually when I was riding in a car he was driving. The last guy to find my cow head cache said it was the best cache container he had ever seen. That was the last time anyone saw it. It headed off somewhere right after that.

 

-it

[+Kacky]

I have a gas-saver, 4 caches on one long-ish trail. Someone puts out deer carcasses to attract coyotes. It's a bit disconcerting to some of the cachers, but it's one of the approved uses for that parcel.

Edited May 7, 2007 by Kacky

[+Kacky]

while searching for a new cache site to hide came upon a complete deer skeleton and ended up making a multi-cache named Boneyard GCYJYV and incorporated some of the bones as part of the cache. Last week while on a cache we found a dead bird with no head on it, still had feathers & everything but no head?!

 

Ozzy Osbourne's a geocacher?

[+ePeterso2]

While scouting out a location for a new cache, I found the skeleton of a dog. Every bone was still in place ... even the collar and leash were still around the neck.