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I have made a couple of weird caches. One is a bottle cap glued to a container that i placed in the ground and is made to look like litter. I also made another one that was weird and i feel might have been illegal to place if a cop came by. I drilled into a telephone pole about an inch in and placed the cache in there. I then covered it with a fake reflector that could be pushed aside to reveal the cache. There is one cache I found that was made to look like a serial number on an electric generator, but once the magnet was peeled off; on the back of it was the log sheet. I have many more weird caches in the works :D

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I've found a couple in telephone poles, they are quite popular around here.

 

I found a tennis ball (hollowed out) under a light-pole skirt.

 

I've found a couple magnets too...

 

There is a local cacher who likes to drill holes in sticks, then put really small tubes in them. Then put them in the middle of the woods, and watch people DNF it. :D He's also got a hide in a gravel pit, in front of a Lowe's, the container has gravel glued to the top of it, and is sunk in the ground.

 

I've found a fake rock once... didn't take long to find it, would have been faster if the coords were correct...

 

There was one, under a light pole... I don't know how to explain it... it was like a giant magnet attached to the base, but it blended right in.

 

Electrical plates are getting common around here too.

 

There also is a local cacher who likes to hollow out big bolts (like the head screws off) and then she puts them in trashy areas so they blend right in.

 

I've found a fake sprinkler head once too... it took me 3 tries.

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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 :P

 

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.

 

Where I work this would not be an inappropriate question... expiried sterile containers, (how about expired risperidone for those that need it!), or any other hospital owned item still needs appropriate authorization to remove from premises. A docs idea is hardly authorization. I think the light comment on the appropriateness should be taken as meant - lightly.

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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.

 

i reciently placed a simalar spider cache, i used fishing line with fishing sinkers on one end and the other tied to the spider and strung it over a branch.

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I'm a Newbie Cacher, I've only found 18 so far. But my two favorites so far are:

 

#1 Cache container is an old tree stump [Hurricane Ike took care of the tree itself] where the top of the stump was cut off, hinge placed on both the remaining stump and the "top" of the stump and then closed. The inside of the stump was hollowed out which contained the cache. The clue for this cache was "don't get stumped."

 

#2 Cache container is one of those stand up lights people use in their living room, but it was placed near a real light pole in a parking lot. The real light pole contained a 35 MM film container with a note that said "TRUST YOUR GPS!" because near the real light pole was the stand up light pole and instead of the light bulb, there was a 35 MM film container in it's place.

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Well I'm pretty new myself. But I found one near a lake. It was a hollow fence pole with no top.

 

The thing was you had to fill the pipe with the water from the lake. :laughing: seems pretty simple right. WRONG!

There were multiple holes at the bottom of the pole letting alot of water out at once. So the trick was to get three guys there. One to get the water. One to cover the holes. And one to cheer them on while there doing! LOL. That was my favorite so far.

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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 actually really like this idea. Too bad ya got in trouble though. It seems someone has a SLIGHT sense of humor, since they gave you the coffin's new coordinates!!

I may have to recruit you for a haunted house i work at in Alabama! :blink:

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The coolest container I've found was probably a piece of round tupperware hidden inside the bottom of a hollowed out stump. When the stump is flipped over, the lid is disguised and it blends in perfectly.

 

One that comes as a close second was a container in the form of a homemade small wooden house (talking maybe 1.5 by 3 inches here), hidden along a fence line behind a wall of bushes. It took me a while to find.

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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 found one similar to this one... it was a 5 gallon water jug, the ones used in offices for fresh water, & was filled with 35mm film containers, Everyone had a note in it & only one had the log. Some of them had small swag to trade. This was one of our 1st finds & thought it was a lot of fun... you only had a small hole to get the film containers out of it so it took us a while to find the right one :P It was called "Micro Madness" but has been archived now cuz muggles decided to use it for target practice :laughing: We have recently got a couple friends interested in geocaching & thought it would be fun to take them to this one :P

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Speaking of film canisters inside a larger container, this one of mine has 64 inside it, only one of which has the log book in it, which fits tightly so it doesnt rattle when shaken. There is also no writing impliment to give the game away.

 

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This is one of a number Gnome caches I have.

 

Here is the cache, it has been well recieved since it was put out.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...88-1990abf9128c

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We have one up here that is called Hydroflute Red or Blue? When you find ground zero you have to pour water in some PVC pipes and float the cache to the top where you can grab it....only problem is, when you pour the water in, the water squirts out and usually hits you. Another added "thrill" is that lizards or mice frequently are in the pipe after the residual water so they take the ride up on the floating cache and sometimes jump out at your face!!! Get's your heart pumping, I can tell ya!

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I don't remember the name of it, but this one guy who owned a patch of woods decided to place a geocache on it. He had an existing container, so he put it among the trees, placed a bunch of large rocks on it and published it. He had a sign on the edge of his property that said "No Tresspassing - unless you are a geocacher".

 

Anyhoo... the way this thing worked was that you went there to his woods and start looking for the cache around this one camping travel trailer that happened to be there. Cachers would walk around the camper, looking and looking for signs of the cache...

 

...until they noticed that there were a bunch of large rocks placed just over the doorway. The door was unlocked.

 

When cachers entered, the logbook was the size of a coffee table book and there was an array of colored pens to choose from. The swag was in the cupboards.

 

I wish to heck I could remember what or where this cache was.... someone told me about it at some cache gathering.

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I don't remember the name of it, but this one guy who owned a patch of woods decided to place a geocache on it. He had an existing container, so he put it among the trees, placed a bunch of large rocks on it and published it. He had a sign on the edge of his property that said "No Tresspassing - unless you are a geocacher".

 

Anyhoo... the way this thing worked was that you went there to his woods and start looking for the cache around this one camping travel trailer that happened to be there. Cachers would walk around the camper, looking and looking for signs of the cache...

 

...until they noticed that there were a bunch of large rocks placed just over the doorway. The door was unlocked.

 

When cachers entered, the logbook was the size of a coffee table book and there was an array of colored pens to choose from. The swag was in the cupboards.

 

I wish to heck I could remember what or where this cache was.... someone told me about it at some cache gathering.

 

Holy cow, that sounds AWESOME!!!!! :unsure:

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I have recently gotten into placing weird cache containers, such as a bolt cache. I would like to here of such novelty caches that you have either placed or found (the stories that go with the cache would be nice to include).

 

I went geocaching with my son and daughter in law and LOVED it. We found a cache that looked like lichen on an old stone!

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I have seen some great stuff out there. I have one cacher who had his cache inside a bell of a alarm resting on the building. B) Then I had another who built a 6 foot Scare crow and put a Pumpkin head on the cache and named it The Great Pumpkin head Charlie Brown. The weirdist thing that I have done is carried a Toliet Seat up into the hills and placed it over one of my caches. I called it King of the Throne. Most of the Cachers tell me it's a crappy cache. :) things you buy at a store people have seen them before. Just need to look outside the box thats what will make some ones day. It also needs to be water tight and resisted to weather to make your job easier as cache owner.

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:) We were vacationing in Florida last week and on one of our caching jaunts encountered a weird container. It was a huge plastic hollow bug...kind of a giant roach, hanging between two floor joists under a ranger station...elevated for flooding so we could walk right underneath. It was attached to the floorboards with a plastic ring so it could just be slid up over the beam and sideways so to access the log but anyone walking under there couldn't see it. Neat one!
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One I traveled to last summer here in Ohio had a great story to it. I don't remember what it was called, but the word troll was in the name. He tells a story about trolls being rescued or something and that you need to find them and give them a new home. I thought maybe he was being literal and took my son with me who loves trolls and action figures, but when we got there, we were surprised to find it full of the 35 MM film canisters, each with it's own plastic bagged log. The canisters were the trolls that he wanted the cachers to adopt and asked that finders post on his cache page where they gave them a new home, meaning where they became micro caches, so he could visit them in the future. My son was bummed they weren't real trolls, but I thought it was great.

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one of them was a cordless phone (complete with sender/charger cradle) attached to a tree, with the cache being a logsheet inside the battery compartment of the phone. further down the trail from that cache was a ceramic squirrel hanging on a tree, with a film canister stuck in a hole in its belly. i've also seen a pair of fake mushrooms sitting next to a tree, with the cache inside being accessible through a hole on the bottom - rather genuine looking mushrooms too, so this one took a while to find :D oh and in the same sense there was some fake dog poo next to a tree also.

 

and then there was a football. not a regular sized football, but a giant sized football attached to a tree. the actual cache was some tupperware container inside, as the football itself wasn't waterproof.

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Let's see. I had one made from a film can tucked inside a resin squirrel. Folks would email me that they thought they knew where the cache was but they could not get the squirrel to move.

 

On a similar note, I had a cache made from a hollow, rubber, articulated wild turkey decoy. Got several emails and logs of folks saying the could not find the cache but saw a turkey nearby or they could not search the area well because they could not get the turkey to go away.

 

I have another that is a 12" tall metal frog playing a saxophone (called "Frog Sax"). Slapped a magnetic key holder on the back and plopped it in a cluster of trees. It's very simple, but it surprises people who are expecting just a bison tube or something hanging in a tree and they like the little surprise.

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I have the Halloween Series. Arachnaphobia is a spider (of course) under a rock, the Haunted House is at a popular Halloween haunted house (supposedly actually haunted, too), Nightmare on Elm St. is part of a red and green striped sock kind of shredded (tried to make it look like a sleeve). It's safety pinned/duct taped at the bottom. In it is a stay awake pill bottle (which no one notices) where I put Freddie's "hit list" (first few names is people he killed off in the movies) which is splattered in "blood". That's the log page. I have it hanging in a fence post topper. I just hid Letterboxer's Lobotomy. It's a fake brain with a matchstick container glued in it. It's really close to a letterbox so I just added that to the title. I love being creative with my caches. I hate boring. LOL.

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I don't remember the name of it, but this one guy who owned a patch of woods decided to place a geocache on it. He had an existing container, so he put it among the trees, placed a bunch of large rocks on it and published it. He had a sign on the edge of his property that said "No Tresspassing - unless you are a geocacher".

 

Anyhoo... the way this thing worked was that you went there to his woods and start looking for the cache around this one camping travel trailer that happened to be there. Cachers would walk around the camper, looking and looking for signs of the cache...

 

...until they noticed that there were a bunch of large rocks placed just over the doorway. The door was unlocked.

 

When cachers entered, the logbook was the size of a coffee table book and there was an array of colored pens to choose from. The swag was in the cupboards.

 

I wish to heck I could remember what or where this cache was.... someone told me about it at some cache gathering.

 

Holy cow, that sounds AWESOME!!!!! :)

Seconded, all in favor, please say "aye."

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Came across the electric plate just the other day. Had been looking for a while and thought maybe the cache was gone. I actually hit the plate causing it and the log to fly off the electric box. The wind caught the log and I almost didn't catch it.

 

Another strange cache was a small ziploc bag wrapped in camo tape. It was hidden on a tree behind some peeling bark.

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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.

 

 

Ok- so this one was really good. So I took the idea and ran with it. Only, I changed it up a bit.

I have 72 eggs in a tupperware container sitting on a concrete block in a big trash can. Here's the diff- after searching through all 72 eggs (with each egg containing remarks like, "Nope, not this one" or "8 Ball says try again"), only then do you realize the log is actually camo'd in the bottom of the trash can. Happy Easer, folks! :)

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Recently I found real, hollow fungi with magnetic top and it was placed on the tree with hooks.

Its most hardcore container I have ever seen.

The boot on the top of the tree on top of the hill wasnt nothing in comparison

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Also, once I have found container - mountain, former partisan bunker 2x2x2m. It was masked as a stomp on the top of the hill

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There's a really great Paul Bunyon series around McChord AFB/Ft Lewis, WA. Everything is super sized and just sitting out in middle of the woods. The names give you a hint to what they might be such as Paul's "breath enhancer", "skeeter swatter", "cowlick tamer" or "menacing micro". They were very creative and HUGE!

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There's a really great Paul Bunyon series around McChord AFB/Ft Lewis, WA. Everything is super sized and just sitting out in middle of the woods. The names give you a hint to what they might be such as Paul's "breath enhancer", "skeeter swatter", "cowlick tamer" or "menacing micro". They were very creative and HUGE!

 

That was my favorite cache series! Found a few after an event, loved signing "menacing micro" with the huge pencil!

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As for my weird caches, this cache of mine and the surrounding area was obliterated by a wood chipper. :P (I named it Ultimate Geocache back when I thought a stump was original :lol: )

 

Said cache's page. The funny story is, I was new to caching and was using a boat GPS. On my way to place it, I ran into a cacher looking for my other cache in the same park. I sheepishly tried to skirt around him with this stump behind my back, but he saw me. When he asked what I was doing, it was pretty hard to hide that I was the cache owner placing another cache. I didn't know about the 500 feet rule, so he kindly walked me 500 feet out to this nice patch of trees with a view of the pond and marked the coordinates. He then went back to my other cache while I hid the stump. An hour later (I wanted it to blend in perfectly ;) ) I walked back down the hill and found two more cachers at my cache! I handed them the paper I wrote the coordinates on and said "have at it!"

 

 

Then there's This one. I still need to find a building that will give me permission to place it.

 

I have a few other unique ideas, I just need to build the containers and find a hiding spot.

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i think the weirdest cache "container" i've ever found was a coconut. a real, empty, roughly split in half, coconut hanging in a tree. the log was placed in a film canister and the canister put inside the coconut, just sitting there.

 

the cache description explicitly said that the container isn't waterproof and that people shouldn't leave any kind of items that don't survive the elements. needless to say, people still did. apart from the log inside the film canister, the whole cache contents were a complete mess. small plush toys rotting away, travel bug tags rusting away etc etc. yuck.

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Not unusual: A plastic container about the size of a 35mm film canister.

Unusual: it was in a coconut!

 

Also found a multicache where stage 1 was some coordinates on the back of a large piece of bark then stage 2/final was a 35mm film canister in a hole drilled in a chunk of wood.

 

As for entire containers that were unusual: a Halloween themed "monster" cache that was an actual modified Monster energy drink can! Sadly, one day it will probably be collected by someone who thinks it is litter...

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I have just acquired what may be close to the ultimate ammo can.

155mm howitzer transport canister. Comes with compression lid, and O ring seal. All I have to check is the bottom is waterproof. I am contemplating getting a nano container, putting it in a slightly larger container, then that inside a slightly larger one, ect, ect, up to the howitzer canister. Just like those russian dolls that stack inside each other.

Hopefully, I can get about 20 containers inside each other. With luck, I will get too big diametre wise, before I get too big length wise, so I can make up a second dummy set of containers, which will also go inside the howitzer container as well, just to confuse the issue a little.

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