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the weirdest find was two micro containers hidden in a bra the was wrapped around the base of a tree.

 

the other a plastic baggie hidden under a cow chip in a field of cow chips.

 

weird caches we have made: fake stones, fake fruit, fake light bulb, real acorns, logs split in two and hollowed out, fishing bobbers, message in a bottle cache, fake bird nests, ball moss with a micro wired to it and lots more.

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One of our favorites is a Lost Dog sign cache that we saw in Fort Collins, CO.

 

-Rozie

 

Rozie, how was that sign hung? I have one waiting to go out and haven't figured a reliable way for folks to take it down and rehang it.

 

I've seen a similar cache. The owner had printed up the Lost Dog sign and slipped it into a ziploc bag, with the zip being on the bottom of the page, and then taped or velcro'd it to a telephone pole. When you found the cache, you just opened the bag on the bottom, slid the sheet out, signed the back and slipped it back into the bag and resealed it. I found the cache during a rainstorm and the paper was totally dry.

 

Bruce

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the weirdest find was two micro containers hidden in a bra the was wrapped around the base of a tree.

That's hilarious & weird at the same time! I think muggles wouldn't even want to touch that one if they happened upon it.

 

There is a cache in our area that is hidden inside of a pair of jeans just lying on the ground in a little wooded area off the side of a road. There is a baggie with the log inside one of the pockets. I was reluctant at first to stick my hand in there. That was probably the weirdest one we've come across & will never forget.

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One of our favorites is a Lost Dog sign cache that we saw in Fort Collins, CO.

 

-Rozie

 

Rozie, how was that sign hung? I have one waiting to go out and haven't figured a reliable way for folks to take it down and rehang it.

 

I've seen a similar cache. The owner had printed up the Lost Dog sign and slipped it into a ziploc bag, with the zip being on the bottom of the page, and then taped or velcro'd it to a telephone pole. When you found the cache, you just opened the bag on the bottom, slid the sheet out, signed the back and slipped it back into the bag and resealed it. I found the cache during a rainstorm and the paper was totally dry.

 

Bruce

 

great idea! I think Since mine is heat laminated and has a rite in the rain log glued to the back I am going to glue a rare earth magnet to it and use a tiny nail in brick or wood for attaching it. LOVE all these stories!!

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This will be my first submission. Not sure if it qualifies for "wierd"--

 

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It is a 4"dia. PVC pipe with a cap glued on the bottom end and a drain cleanout cover on the other. No digging, just screw off the cleanout valve lid and inside is the waterproof cache container.

 

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Went away for the Memorial Day holiday camping, got to do some caching.... NATCH :laughing:

Got to do a great Mystery, which took us through small town America, the final was a mailbox right there on Main Street USA.

It looked very similar to this one:

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Muggles everywhere no one noticed the Cache, no one noticed us retrieving it, scurrying away, or returning it.

Strange no one noticed us .....

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The weirdest I've ever seen would have to be a "Twinkie the Kid" twinkie holder, similar to this:

 

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It's been sitting in a light post skirt in a busy parking lot for years now. Amazing that it hasn't been muggled yet...

I've seen one exactly like that used as a cache & even the Hostess cupcake one!

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Generally I like wierd caches. The weirdest so far would be the "plate cache" which looks like an electric plate cover. Pretty neat I thought! :P I plan on placing some wierd caches myself! :blink:

 

I stumbled upon one of these "electrical plate" caches last weekend.... Took me forever to find it as I did not expect any geocachers would be near or want anyone near electric...

 

Not that I had a problem with it, I just did not expect it....

 

Not much room in them but pretty neat and creative...

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The weirdest one i seen was when i was out in Arizona..... There was an old Ironwood Tree with old burly Lookin Bark all by itself and they had a Micro tucked in a little hole in the tree ( not drilled....just a hole that was there) with a piece of tree bark to cover it up......This one always stuck in my mind and may do one here in Pennsylvania.....It took me at least 10 tries to find this one.

Joe

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I don't think this quite counts as "weird", but it sure was funny!

I work with cub & boy scouts a lot. One of the thinks I have helped them build is a bird house. I have has the same completed one to show a the finished product for over 4 years. Well I had not used it for over a year and decided it would make a cool cache container. So I go out to get it to work on it(my 12 yrs old close behind me, he loved cool caches) when I grabbed it of the shelve in my work shop, I bird came flying out of it! Seems she made her nest in it and and when we peek inside there were eggs in it. So we put it back and let nature take it's cousre. Well, mom and the babies are all gone now and the birdhouse now has a false second floor that is held on by magnets and steel screws. You can remove the floor and take the cache out without opening the house it's self. I'm going to try to place it with a hidden camera near by to see the reaction when some one goes to look and the bird(if any) flys out.

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My favorite was a fire hydrant--- yes a real one-- -but no it wasn't hooked up.

 

The entire top of it, where usually there are huge bolts holding it together, the bolts were missing.

The whole top slid off to reveal a large cache contanier inside.

The fire hydrant was up by someone's house, in a weird place to begin with. Well it was student dorms really. You can find anything at student dorms I suppose.

 

Library hides are strange. Some are in books on shelves.

 

I've come across electrical boxes a few times. I had heard of them, but when I checked in the first one I found my geo-partner thought I'd gone nuts and was getting into stuff I shouldn't have. It was on the side of an electrical box, a large one that was real.

 

I've come across two small electrical cover plates. These are just metal covers the size of an electrical outlet cover but without any holes. THey are kept on magnetically. One was on the roof of the glass museum, the other was next to a boat that was on display at the dock. The boat is out of the water, it's a historical boat, and it's got you searching all over and under this boat, when the cache is in the electrical box nearby.

 

The nano caches that are the size of your fingernail are getting popular around here. We came across two cachers in a local park that were pulling their hair out. We didn't know they were caching at first and just thought we'd walk around to check things out. I saw the GPS and started a conversation. They had been looking for 45 min. and were about to give up. I told my friend to go back to the car and get his GPS and we'd give it a try (he's got the best one). As he started to walk off I looked down at the base of the park bench through the metal grill. "Oh nevermind" I called to him. "I've got it". It was a super small magnetic nano next to the bolts, masquerading as a bolt. We'd seen them before so I knew what to look for. The newbies' were amazed anything could be that small and still hold a log.

 

the fake bird house was pretty cool.

 

I hated the micro under a rock in a drainage area that was like a long driveway filled with rocks.

 

There's one I haven't gone for yet that has to be found at night. There is a path of reflective tabs on trees in the woods. You have to follow them with a strong flashlight. That one sounds cool but I don't cache at night. Another night one is on a wall that is plain in the day, but they light it up at night to be a work of art.

 

My very favorites are all of the lake caches around here. There are TONS of lakes within ten miles of my house and within 15 miles there are probably some 20 lake caches. Probably more that I haven't found yet. These are ones that you HAVE to get by boat. I have an inflatable rubber boat so we go out on these small lakes to find the caches. That is definately a good example of the journey being more profitable than the find!! We've had some marvelous times. Of course we always take a picnic lunch.

 

This area specializes in tough micros. I haven't found all of them yet. I'm sure there are many more stories to come.

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I recently found an acorn in a pine tree!

I glued a plastic tube into an old leg bone from a deer.I havent placed it yet as I havent found the right spot.

I tried it, and after replacing it 4 times(the last actually tethering it)the local wildlife will find it, and they will have their way with it.

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The containers I have been using lately are not weird but what they are supposed to be used for is weird. I work in a hospital setting and have access to containers that are used to ship biopsy specimens, don't worry I always grab the NEW UN-USED ones. So does that count???

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The containers I have been using lately are not weird but what they are supposed to be used for is weird. I work in a hospital setting and have access to containers that are used to ship biopsy specimens, don't worry I always grab the NEW UN-USED ones. So does that count???

 

So, you're admitting that you're stealing from the hospital?? :blink:

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Get your facts straight before you wrongly accuse someone of stealing. The containers have an expiration date on them, I'm sure much like your risperidone (medication) does. If not used by that date, they are thrown out or disposed of, does that sound like stealing??

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Get your facts straight before you wrongly accuse someone of stealing.

 

Wow - Vegas - chill! It sounded like stealing to me! You said you "have access" to and that you "grab" the containers from the hospital where you work. I think that assuming you were just helping yourself to hospital property was a pretty logical conclusion.

 

What is really cool is that, since they are being discarded because they are expired, is that you are actually recycling them. Very cool! I'd love to see a photo of one. The only thing that comes to mind is those clear sterile cups they make you pee in and I'm guessing you're talking about something different.

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Get your facts straight before you wrongly accuse someone of stealing.

 

Wow - Vegas - chill! It sounded like stealing to me! You said you "have access" to and that you "grab" the containers from the hospital where you work. I think that assuming you were just helping yourself to hospital property was a pretty logical conclusion.

 

What is really cool is that, since they are being discarded because they are expired, is that you are actually recycling them. Very cool! I'd love to see a photo of one. The only thing that comes to mind is those clear sterile cups they make you pee in and I'm guessing you're talking about something different.

 

Oh trust me I am chilled, very chilled :( Access and grab sound very different from stealing to me, I guess people just try to read into things. Helping myself to anything at the hospital is definitely out of the question because of the security cameras and check points. We do get some cool pens for free from time to time though, my favorite was one from Viagra :blink:

 

It was actually the ideas of one of the Doctor's to use the containers since he knows I cache. They are about the size of a small coffee can with a large rubber o-ring on the top, they are only good for one use and if they are not used with 6 months they are tossed. I'll see if I can get a pic of one with all of the stickers and warnings and post it.

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I just got my hands on a bunch of movie reel cans. You know... the big round movie reels? some of them have movie titles on them. Gonna make a few movie related caches. I also just got a wooden chest I am going to fill with poker chips with our cache team logo on it.

 

I love the coffin story. :anitongue:

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Get your facts straight before you wrongly accuse someone of stealing. The containers have an expiration date on them, I'm sure much like your risperidone (medication) does. If not used by that date, they are thrown out or disposed of, does that sound like stealing??

 

Well, first off, I was having fun.. I qualified it with an emoticon. Secondly, even if they do expire, I would imagine that there'd technically be a policy for disposal that did not involve the public at large getting whatever is being thrown.

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I just got my hands on a bunch of movie reel cans. You know... the big round movie reels? some of them have movie titles on them. Gonna make a few movie related caches. I also just got a wooden chest I am going to fill with poker chips with our cache team logo on it.

 

I love the coffin story. :o

 

The incident caused me some anxiety but in the end, it turned out ok. Here was my original BLOG posting on the issue.. http://bart.flentjefamily.com/post/2009/05...Its-Demise.aspx

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We have placed a few weird caches and cachers love them!

 

A giant rubber bat hanging upside down by its feet. We cut off the head, secured a medium pill bottle inside its neck with epoxy. We secured the screw-off cap inside its head with epoxy. Cachers have to screw off the head to get it open. Its feet are wired to a stick and it's propped between branches in a tree that stays full all year long. When a cacher opens the branches to look around, there's a bat hanging upside down with its teeth showing, right at eye level! We got the rubber bat on the clearance shelf of Halloween stuff. Cache name: "I'd lose my head if it wasn't screwed on."

 

A small fuzzy rat hidden in a bunch of rocks near a river under a bridge. We cut a hole in the belly and secured a small film container inside with epoxy. Also a Halloween clearance item.

 

A very small rubber spider with a nano hidden in its belly. Haven't placed this one yet, but cache name will be "Elastic Arachnid" meaning rubber spider; I tend to use names that have hidden meanings. Yet another Halloween clearance item.

 

A medium pill bottle, first painted with flat green spray paint (the stuff that is meant for plastic). Then we hot-glued silk leaves in fall colors all around the outside. This one hasn't been placed yet, but when we do it will be just laying on the ground. Title will be "Leaf Me Alone."

 

Some of the weird caches we have found are a giant plastic turtle and a plastic decoy bird hanging in a tree. Also a "pickle barrel" cache which was a giant plastic container with about 50 small film containers inside; the concept is that a cacher has to open all the film containers to find the one with the log in it but we lucked out and it was in the first one we opened.

 

We've heard about, but never seen, a cache that sounds fun - when you get to GZ, there's a film container staring you in the face, hanging right out in the open on a tree. When cacher opens it, there's a note inside that says "Not this one." Cacher looks around and realizes that there are another 50 film containers hanging in the same tree, all attached to the main container with fishing line.

 

I LOVE reading these posts about clever containers!!

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I have recently hidden some natural looking caches "GC1Q62H Brian" which is a magnetic nano glued in a garden snail shell. This has had some good logs and seems to be appreciated, with links to a popular Uk tv show from my childhood.

Also " GC1QV9D" which is a hermit crab shell again with a magnetic nano, this is placed in an area where a hermit used to live.

Both are stuck on metal work in locations that muggles wont interfere with.

No animals were harmed in the making of these caches, they were already dead!

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I don't think this quite counts as "weird", but it sure was funny!

I work with cub & boy scouts a lot. One of the thinks I have helped them build is a bird house. I have has the same completed one to show a the finished product for over 4 years. Well I had not used it for over a year and decided it would make a cool cache container. So I go out to get it to work on it(my 12 yrs old close behind me, he loved cool caches) when I grabbed it of the shelve in my work shop, I bird came flying out of it! Seems she made her nest in it and and when we peek inside there were eggs in it. So we put it back and let nature take it's cousre. Well, mom and the babies are all gone now and the birdhouse now has a false second floor that is held on by magnets and steel screws. You can remove the floor and take the cache out without opening the house it's self. I'm going to try to place it with a hidden camera near by to see the reaction when some one goes to look and the bird(if any) flys out.

 

Several years ago, my son and I were looking for a new cache.... after searching everywhere (we thought), we spotted a birdhouse in a tree...

 

Knowing that birdhouses are sometimes used as cache containers, my son reached up to dislodge the birdhouse, when out flew....

 

not a bird, but WASPS!!!!

 

We were both stung a couple of times.... mine weren't bad, but his swelled up to about 4" across...

 

You might want to block the opening so that wasps don't take it over.

 

I know insect stings are a risk in a sport like this, but paper wasps like places like birdhouses.

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I don't think this quite counts as "weird", but it sure was funny!

I work with cub & boy scouts a lot. One of the thinks I have helped them build is a bird house. I have has the same completed one to show a the finished product for over 4 years. Well I had not used it for over a year and decided it would make a cool cache container. So I go out to get it to work on it(my 12 yrs old close behind me, he loved cool caches) when I grabbed it of the shelve in my work shop, I bird came flying out of it! Seems she made her nest in it and and when we peek inside there were eggs in it. So we put it back and let nature take it's cousre. Well, mom and the babies are all gone now and the birdhouse now has a false second floor that is held on by magnets and steel screws. You can remove the floor and take the cache out without opening the house it's self. I'm going to try to place it with a hidden camera near by to see the reaction when some one goes to look and the bird(if any) flys out.

 

Several years ago, my son and I were looking for a new cache.... after searching everywhere (we thought), we spotted a birdhouse in a tree...

 

Knowing that birdhouses are sometimes used as cache containers, my son reached up to dislodge the birdhouse, when out flew....

 

not a bird, but WASPS!!!!

 

We were both stung a couple of times.... mine weren't bad, but his swelled up to about 4" across...

 

You might want to block the opening so that wasps don't take it over.

 

I know insect stings are a risk in a sport like this, but paper wasps like places like birdhouses.

 

A friend of mine met up with me at our church's campground during family camp and told me that he went to snag a cache I have nearby and that it was missing. He reached in the guardrail and didn't find the cache but was stung by a bee. I said I would check on it. I use magnets on my guardrail caches so it sticks out of sight and not the simple one laying inside of it, so I peered over the edge carefull and back where I knew it was to be was the cache...sticking out of a hornet nest!!!!! With an angry hornet looking right at me. So I ran over to a nearby town and got some spray took out the bees. Cleaned up the cache and it is good to go.

 

I came back to camp and told my friend to go ahead and log it as a find, not to worry about signing the log since he earned it. He turned over his palm and even after 2 days it was still puffy and purplish. LOL, I felt bad, but also am going to start checking guardrails alot closer before I reach in them and feel around.

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I once placed a full size toe pincher coffin in the woods for a Halloween series. It contained a zombie dude holding an ammo can. Yep, I got in trouble for it too.

 

http://www.co.dakota.mn.us/NR/rdonlyres/00...lume4Week49.pdf

 

I love how the article makes the cops sound like they are so on top of things. I cannot figure out how anyone would mistake that as real. I mean eyeballs but no skin? Anyway I hope you get it back....I've made a mental note for this one.... :D

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:unsure: heres a freaky cache...heheh.......my friend and were caching deep in New Mexico and it was a quite wooded part of the state and there were alot of thornes.....well we had looked all over and were kinda bord so.....hehe.....we played CRAP SOCCER!!there was quite alot of rabbit dung...we we made goals with sticks and were playing when he found some thing that looked like a bigger animal dung pile...of course he kicked it...it turned out to be the cash....when his mom found out we had kick "wast" she was furious......until she found out we had found the cache.....the she told us we were "using our heads."

that is one of my favorite caching experiences.

 

NM Marine :P

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