+bpp_picnic Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 This is what was found at one of my caches (GC187PJ) the other day. There were 11 caches besides mine left there. This was so strange that I thought I would share it here to see if anyone has seen this before. Most of them went missing 2 years ago. They were all completely intact complete with logbooks, swag, and TB's. I am not sure how to place a picture here so you will have to view the cache page. bpp_picnic Quote Link to comment
+bethshiba Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Wow how cool, maybe they did not really understand the whole geocaching idea to take only one item inside not the whole cache and when they figured it out they like your location so much they dropped all the other cache containers off with you. Quote Link to comment
Trinity's Crew Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Totally weird. I have to wonder: A. What caused them to take the caches. B. What caused them to return the caches. I didn't look, but were these caches placed anywhere near area 51? Quote Link to comment
MarcusArelius Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Cache Pirates have a 12 step program? Quote Link to comment
+Flatouts Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Looks like Christmas Really Cool Really Really strange too! Quote Link to comment
+Flatouts Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Wow this is a strange thread too... Do Do Do do do do Quote Link to comment
+Team_CSG Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 I'm waiting for the Rod Serling voiceover Quote Link to comment
+wandering4cache Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Are any of my missing travel bugs in them? lol That's weird but VERY NICE of them!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+Confucius' Cat Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 How far a radius from your cache did the others originate? Quote Link to comment
+team moxiepup Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Very interesting and strange! Do the log books state anything about their "adventures"? Are there any correlations between the last dates in any of the logs? Quote Link to comment
Fluxuated Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 That is very strange. Quote Link to comment
+NeoAddict Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 It would be interesting to cross-reference the last log dates on all of them and see if there was any correlation. I have a hard time believing it would be a muggle that went to the trouble of finding 11 separate caches, then finding yours and depositing all of them there. Definitely a weird situation. I bet the owners of those caches are happy to see them! Quote Link to comment
+PJPeters Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 (edited) Cache Pirates, maybe? I think I'd try contacting the previous owners, as possible, to see what they want to do with the containers and contents. But that really is bizarre. [edit to add:] Keep us posted on what you find out about this mystery! Edited March 7, 2008 by PJPeters Quote Link to comment
+Dgwphotos Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Weird It's a parade of caches! Quote Link to comment
+softball29 Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 How about giving us the waypoints of these caches so we can all play detective! Quote Link to comment
+Crew 153 Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 (edited) Why do they all look brand new? All the caches I have found have some signs of them being in the weather but these look like they have never been outside the house. Edited March 7, 2008 by Crew 153 Quote Link to comment
+Okiebryan Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 (edited) I'm more than a little suspicious of the OP. On second thought, no I'm not. Edited March 7, 2008 by Okiebryan Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 (edited) How about giving us the waypoints of these caches so we can all play detective! Already there. Not anywhere in the thread, but on the cache page, the CO talks about the suspect signing the logs as "The Wongs". There is such a username, but they have invalidated their account, so you can't get to their profile from a username lookup. I do know you can modify a URL to get to someones profile by username. I just don't remember how to do it. Edited March 7, 2008 by TheWhiteUrkel Quote Link to comment
+RanHefner Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Wow how cool, maybe they did not really understand the whole geocaching idea to take only one item inside not the whole cache and when they figured it out they like your location so much they dropped all the other cache containers off with you. It's like that alien crop circle thing! Quote Link to comment
+bpp_picnic Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 Here is some more info on the caches. They all seem to have been within 10 miles of the cache and all in NJ. Most of them had a log entry from someone calling themselves the “Wongs”. Things like “Don’t mess with the Wongs!” “The Wongs take you cache’, “Beware of Wongs we mess with your cache” etc. The owners of the larger containers are picking them up. Here is the list of caches and TB’s. GCMH57 GCK38D GCJJPR GCN46T GCN46M GCN16F GCRWYD GCPZZR GCNWY8 GCRPQ5 GCPZYB and TBBB49 TBG4YT TBJFKG TBM3CG TBMGRQ TBJY1X TBB303 TBGM9G Quote Link to comment
+mvigor Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Here is some more info on the caches. They all seem to have been within 10 miles of the cache and all in NJ. Most of them had a log entry from someone calling themselves the “Wongs”. Things like “Don’t mess with the Wongs!” “The Wongs take you cache’, “Beware of Wongs we mess with your cache” etc. The owners of the larger containers are picking them up. Here is the list of caches and TB’s. GCMH57 GCK38D GCJJPR GCN46T GCN46M GCN16F GCRWYD GCPZZR GCNWY8 GCRPQ5 GCPZYB and TBBB49 TBG4YT TBJFKG TBM3CG TBMGRQ TBJY1X TBB303 TBGM9G It's interesting that one of those travel bugs was last tracked on 11/17/2007, but the other 7 hadn't been tracked since early 2006. Quote Link to comment
+bpp_picnic Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 It's interesting that one of those travel bugs was last tracked on 11/17/2007, but the other 7 hadn't been tracked since early 2006. That one happens to be someone I know and what he did was make a copy of a coin that he has in his collection. I found the copy but he also lets people disover the real coin when he is at events. That one threw me too! Quote Link to comment
+GPSlug Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Apparently the old adage needs to be updated. Because it may take some time, but eventually two Wongs can make it right. Quote Link to comment
+mvigor Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 ...eventually two Wongs can make it right. WOW. Quote Link to comment
+Vinny & Sue Team Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 It was done by leprechauns. Quote Link to comment
+Tahoein' Bunch Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 It was done by leprechauns. Noooooo Thay would wait until St. Pattys Day..... Quote Link to comment
+wandering4cache Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Apparently the old adage needs to be updated. Because it may take some time, but eventually two Wongs can make it right. Quote Link to comment
Zoptrop Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Reminds me of the film "The Wanderers". There was a gang in it called "The Wongs" and their motto was "Don't F with the Wongs". Hmmm.... sounds like somebody's idea of a joke that didn't garner the attention they intended and so they got bored and went away. In high school we kidnapped someone's little smurf doll and held it for ransom (complete with note made from cut-out letters pasted together and grainy video tape.) The guy didn't play along (200 green m&m's was the ransom) and so the whole thing wasn't any fun. We ended up giving back the doll. Quote Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 What's so strange here? We all knew it would happen sooner or later. The geocaches are breeding. Quote Link to comment
+katrina1 Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 LOL! It's like a geocache Bermuda Triangle. Quote Link to comment
+Douglas_Clan Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Apparently the old adage needs to be updated. Because it may take some time, but eventually two Wongs can make it right. Two Wongs don't make a right, but three left's do Quote Link to comment
+doingitoldschool Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 (edited) Apparently the old adage needs to be updated. Because it may take some time, but eventually two Wongs can make it right. That is the best laugh I have had on these forums yet! By the way - three cheers to bpp_picnic for being willing to restore these to the owners! Edited March 14, 2008 by doingitoldschool Quote Link to comment
+Vinny & Sue Team Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 (edited) Wow how cool, maybe they did not really understand the whole geocaching idea to take only one item inside not the whole cache and when they figured it out they like your location so much they dropped all the other cache containers off with you. It's like that alien crop circle thing! Well, one of my NJ geo-buddies, who happens to be quite active on this forum, advised me via phone the other day that ALL of the missing caches were from southern NJ, just over the PA border into NJ. If this is true, I must wonder if perhaps the missing caches had been originally hidden in the Pine Barrens, and particularly, if they had been located near Ong's Hat in the Pine Barrens, for that "town" has a reputation for all kinds of strange goings-on, particularly all kinds of purported time-space warps. Better yet, there are plenty of conspiracy theories which link Nazi activity to Ong's Hat as well, and so we can finally say that this thread has met the requirements of Godwin's Law. Edited March 15, 2008 by Vinny & Sue Team Quote Link to comment
+Butterfly_lady Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 There is a misconception by some that the cache itself is trackable electronically.... Maybe they thought cachers would have a homing device on it... Interesting - most of the TBs were placed by the same cacher. Perhaps someone followed him / her. Cool to see some hope... Quote Link to comment
+Gustav129 Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 (edited) Wow how cool, maybe they did not really understand the whole geocaching idea to take only one item inside not the whole cache and when they figured it out they like your location so much they dropped all the other cache containers off with you. It's like that alien crop circle thing! Well, one of my NJ geo-buddies, who happens to be quite active on this forum, advised me via phone the other day that ALL of the missing caches were from southern NJ, just over the PA border into NJ. If this is true, I must wonder if perhaps the missing caches had been originally hidden in the Pine Barrens, and particularly, if they had been located near Ong's Hat in the Pine Barrens, for that "town" has a reputation for all kinds of strange goings-on, particularly all kinds of purported time-space warps. Better yet, there are plenty of conspiracy theories which link Nazi activity to Ong's Hat as well, and so we can finally say that this thread has met the requirements of Godwin's Law. Sounds more like the "Philadelphia Expirament" to me. Edited April 9, 2008 by gustav129 Quote Link to comment
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