CulinaryActor Posted July 17, 2010 Posted July 17, 2010 You found what near your cache?!? Well..... My 3 friends and I found a dead body.. I recieved a GPS from my parents for my birthday two months ago, so the day after my birthday my friend and i headed out. We go and find a cache at a church and my friends INSIST that we go look for this cache about .1mi away, even though it hasn't been found in over 10 months! So I give in and we drive the short distance to a neighborhood entrance sign which is about .1mi away for the neighborhood itself. There are tones of cedar trees lining the back of the sign, so we immediately start searching the trees, when all of a sudden we watch my friend slowly back out of the trees, slightly shooken up. "I think there's a body in there", she tells us. I immediately think that she is talking about a homeless person just sleeping there, even though we don't have many homeless people roaming the streets. I quickly want to leave them alone and justmove onto another cache. But of course before we leave we want to take a look at this "hobo". We all seem to see the same thing at the same time.... the green aura of the skin. This is when we all started breathing deeply, shake, and some even cried. We whip out our phone and call the cops. Within ten minutes the whole area was cautioned taped off with probably 6 cop cars, an ambulance, and fire truck. We end up staying there for another 2.5 hours waiting for the investigator to come and ask us questions. In the mean time we filled out witness statements and tried to comfort eachother... Here is a link to the story in the newspaper with a picture of the area: http://www.planostar.com/articles/2010/06/...n/cops/9930.txt And here is the news release: http://cityofallen.org/SiteContent/56/docu...ed%20Person.pdf Took a little coaxing to get back into geocaching for all of us. It was rough.. No one believed us when we would tell them. This was probably the scariest moment of my life. But I feel fairly good about it all because not many people would have seen the body unless they were looking for the cache and since the cache has had no activity in over a year, not even cachers would find it. I feel we were drawn here to find her and let her be buried properly and to end the worrying of her kin. -CulinaryActor Quote
+brennan7 Posted July 17, 2010 Posted July 17, 2010 (edited) Wow! Now that is wierd. Did you ever find out how the body got there or how it died? And did you find the cache? Edited July 17, 2010 by brennan7 Quote
CulinaryActor Posted July 18, 2010 Author Posted July 18, 2010 It was a suicide apparently. And no.. the cache hasn't been found since last August so it was a shot in the dark going to look for it. Quote
DannyCaffeine Posted July 19, 2010 Posted July 19, 2010 That can happen almost anywere. I saw the EMT bring a body bag up an emankment across my street. (a guy got in a car accident and fell down into the ravine) Ironically the first cache I found a year later was down there. It felt strange climbing down there to get the cache knowing a dead guy was there at one time. Also your links are not workin. Quote
Irishdudecowan87 Posted July 20, 2010 Posted July 20, 2010 I've had a couple of moments...not quite like that...but def scary. I was at a Christian camp last week and we were looking for a cache in the mountains and saw a bear just down the trail right where the cache was supposed to be. that was a moment when i thought i was gonna pee my pants. Quote
+Zwack_&_Irish_Eyes Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 (edited) You found what near your cache?!? News Release I'm not sure I can find the matching news story, but... OK.... News Story I haven't found anything nearly as scary... Z. Edited July 28, 2010 by Zwack_(I.E.'s) Quote
+geoscreepers Posted August 16, 2010 Posted August 16, 2010 Hopefully it wasn't a geocacher that refused to get a DNF Quote
+lazyjak7 Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 My kids and I are new to caching. This was our first weekend with our new GPSr device, and we were having a great time. We were in the CA mountains at about 7000 ft, give or take, and found our cache no problem. We took it out of the hole in the rocks it was hidden in, signed the log, took our time looking at things, etc. Then two of my kids headed back to the trail while the oldest stood about 10' away. I shoved the ammo box back in the hole. About that time the hole begins rattling and buzzing. We had been standing next to a rattlesnake for all this time and didn't know it. He was perfectly happy to have the box out of his den, but was none too happy about having it returned. Due to a decided lack of anti-venom, I tried to cover the cache via a stick, and left him to his box of treasures. Problem is, now I cannot find the correct coordinates for the find, to let everyone know of the problem, so please pass this around if you hear of it!! Quote
DannyCaffeine Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 Hopefully it wasn't a geocacher that refused to get a DNF That is just horrible Whats worse is I can't stop laughing Quote
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