What interesting things other than caches have you found.

[+Bassbully]

So I have caching a bit after a little layoff and have a streak of 21 caches without a DNF.

A few days ago I found a like new camel bak water bottle under a bush I found a cache in.

 

Today when looking for a very creative cache (which I found) I found a woman's wallet that had all her ID,Drive license, SS card allot of stuff but of course no money.

I had not been there long but was full of bugs and wet. I turned it into the local Police since the woman lived awhile away and there was no information on how to reach her.

 

So it made me wonder with all the people who cache on this forum besides the cache, trash, bugs, etc, what interesting things have you found out caching?

[+J Grouchy]

So I have caching a bit after a little layoff and have a streak of 21 caches without a DNF.

A few days ago I found a like new camel bak water bottle under a bush I found a cache in.

 

Today when looking for a very creative cache (which I found) I found a woman's wallet that had all her ID,Drive license, SS card allot of stuff but of course no money.

I had not been there long but was full of bugs and wet. I turned it into the local Police since the woman lived awhile away and there was no information on how to reach her.

 

So it made me wonder with all the people who cache on this forum besides the cache, trash, bugs, etc, what interesting things have you found out caching?

 

When I was out in a wooded area scouting for a place to put a cache, I found a woman's wallet. This place was obviously a cut-through for folks in a highly developed area, which is one reason I considered that area for placing a cache. I ended up putting it in here mailbox with a note about how I found it since she only lived about two miles from where I found it.

[+Spencer_320]

A few months ago, I found a brand new rifle on the way to a cache along side of a railroad tracks. The rifle was a .50 Muzzle Loader, still in the box and never been fired. Still trying to track down the owner. Not too easy to do.

[+The_Incredibles_]

I found a set of false teeth in its case, wrapped in a cloth. Fortunately there was a prescription bottle wrapped with it so I was able to bring the teeth to the pharmacy in hopes the teeth would be reunited with their owner.

[+Chief301]

I found a backpack full of clothes and stuff near a cache just off a local college campus. Reported it to university police. Nothing more interesting than that though.

[+St.Matthew]

Not me, but a local geocacher found a dead body, a male who committed suicide.

[+ShaunEM]

Not me, but a local geocacher found a dead body, a male who committed suicide.

 

Not an FTF you want.. to be sure...

[7rxc]

Couple of years back, I was heading up a local mountain trail, when I heard some voices somewhere downslope of me on the established trail... I made a loud comment about how loud and angry the bears seemed this year, and got an immediate reply about their plight... Only on the trail a short while ahead of me and had got sidetracked from where they wanted to go... I talked them uphill to the proper trail. Turned out one had already called home about being hopelessly lost (I did not know that at the time), but when they said that, and since I'm in SAR here, I took quick (barely earned) credit for being so quickly on scene. Suggested he cancel the call and let home know they were found already. Couldn't talk them into giving up, but since the true trail was fairly hard to lose, I just talked about being a bit more aware of what they were doing and not to lose it again. We parted company then and I went and got my FTF way up on a different ridge. That is probably my best unexpected find, I hear they got down fine later to boot.

 

Doug 7rxc

[+wmpastor]

Not me, but a local geocacher found a dead body, a male who committed suicide.

 

Not an FTF you want.. to be sure...

A guy posted a couple of weeks ago about something he "found" - a copperhead snake! He reached into where he thought the cache was and the hidden snake bit the hell out of his finger. He posted a photo of his finger in his forum post. From the tip to the first joint was swollen to triple size, & black. The doctor lanced it to drain it. It's still numb weeks later. Whew!

[+K13]

I don't remember anything I've found lately, but I have lost a couple of wallets and a new .50 cal muzzle load rifle......

[+The Jester]

I found that a baby monster is buried in Kent, WA.

 

I also found a bag of women's underwear (all colors and styles) in Reno, NV. Interesting swag they have down there...

[team tisri]

I was hunting a cache near a university campus and found a wallet. It had a driving license in it and a student ID so I figured the best thing to do was to hand it in on campus. Trying to find the right place on campus to hand it in was like pulling teeth - I'm in favour of doing the right thing as far as possible but after nearly half an hour of being shunted from pillar to post I was very close to just putting it back where I found it.

[team tisri]

On another note, the first (and so far only) CITO event I attended started out with a few of us using litter pickers to retrieve things like discarded food wrappers and stuff, and ended up with us having found enough old and rusted car parts to practically build an entire car. We found well over a dozen tyres, wiper motors, engine components, suspension parts, it was incredible. It would have been interesting to see just how much of a car we could have built from what we hauled out of that fairly small patch of land.

[+MartyBartfast]

I once found a multi-tool which after dismantling and cleaning up was as good as new and 8 years later I still carry it on every caching trip.

[Space*Cadet]

We found a little Sheltie dog once while searching for a cache in NW Austin. She was in pretty bad shape! We rushed her to an emergency Vet and they said it appeared that she had been attacked by a Coyote and had a pretty bad injury to her hind quarter. Sheltie Rescue took her in and named her "River" because the area we found her in was called "Riverplace". Other than finding the little dog, I've found snakes near a couple caches. But you watch out for that in Texas.

[+cisnguy]

While trying to be the ftf on a newly posted cache recently, I was searching the ground when a ten dollar bill being rolled by the wind came to rest at my feet. Geocaching rewards are seldom so tangible. I wasn't able to find the cache, but felt I had found a great consolation prize.

[+sparklefingers]

The best thing was a £10 note by a cache. The most interesting thing was an arrow. sadly I couldn't keep it as it was in Germany and I only had hand luggage... try explaining that away... It's with my friends until I drive over there...

[+MartyBartfast]

The best thing was a £10 note by a cache. The most interesting thing was an arrow. sadly I couldn't keep it as it was in Germany and I only had hand luggage... try explaining that away... It's with my friends until I drive over there...

 

You should have attached a TB tag and given it a mission to go back home and got it delivered by Geo-Post

[+sparklefingers]

The best thing was a £10 note by a cache. The most interesting thing was an arrow. sadly I couldn't keep it as it was in Germany and I only had hand luggage... try explaining that away... It's with my friends until I drive over there...

 

You should have attached a TB tag and given it a mission to go back home and got it delivered by Geo-Post

 

only it would have gone missing on the way home.

[+mdplayers]

We found kittens once.

 

We were searching in an area that was being used by local teens for a 'fort' hang-out area. There was some plywood laying on the ground. When Hubby lifted the corner to peak under to see if the cache was there, he jumped about 3 feet in the air and screamed like a girl. We then lifted the plywood again, bracing ourselves for the attack, and found a litter of kittens. They looked healthy so we left them alone.

[+J Grouchy]

We found kittens once.

 

We were searching in an area that was being used by local teens for a 'fort' hang-out area. There was some plywood laying on the ground. When Hubby lifted the corner to peak under to see if the cache was there, he jumped about 3 feet in the air and screamed like a girl. We then lifted the plywood again, bracing ourselves for the attack, and found a litter of kittens. They looked healthy so we left them alone.

 

Found a hybrid last week that is guarded by some local cats. They're all set up there in the woods. Someone built 'em a fancy little house and everything.

[+wimseyguy]

Not me, but a local geocacher found a dead body, a male who committed suicide.

 

Not an FTF you want.. to be sure...

A guy posted a couple of weeks ago about something he "found" - a copperhead snake! He reached into where he thought the cache was and the hidden snake bit the hell out of his finger. He posted a photo of his finger in his forum post. From the tip to the first joint was swollen to triple size, & black. The doctor lanced it to drain it. It's still numb weeks later. Whew!

 

Clarification, it was still swollen and bruised weeks later. Today there is some minor scarring and loss of sensation at the finger tip due to nerve damage. The incident took place in 2008.

 

Back OT-in addition to the snake, I have found a busted open and empty safe in the woods behind a restaurant. I have found porn stashes, and at another location a very large sex toy that had been repaired? with duct tape.

 

I've also found amazing vistas, beautiful architecture including a college campus with several Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings, strange and unusual bits of local history, and several scoreboards.

[+Bassbully]

Not me, but a local geocacher found a dead body, a male who committed suicide.

 

Not an FTF you want.. to be sure...

A guy posted a couple of weeks ago about something he "found" - a copperhead snake! He reached into where he thought the cache was and the hidden snake bit the hell out of his finger. He posted a photo of his finger in his forum post. From the tip to the first joint was swollen to triple size, & black. The doctor lanced it to drain it. It's still numb weeks later. Whew!

 

Clarification, it was still swollen and bruised weeks later. Today there is some minor scarring and loss of sensation at the finger tip due to nerve damage. The incident took place in 2008.

 

Back OT-in addition to the snake, I have found a busted open and empty safe in the woods behind a restaurant. I have found porn stashes, and at another location a very large sex toy that had been repaired? with duct tape.

 

I've also found amazing vistas, beautiful architecture including a college campus with several Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings, strange and unusual bits of local history, and several scoreboards.

 

That's a very weird and rough place you cache in that's for sure.

[+The_Incredibles_]

Also found someone's drug stash while looking for a puzzle cache.

 

It was a clear container and I could see a lighter in it. My first thought was 'oh, that's bad swag, I'm going to remove that lighter'. Opened the container and saw a plastic baggie with no logbook. My second thought 'oh dear, no logbook, good thing I brought my cache-repair stuff'. Then I saw a few brown/green rocks and finally I clued in. The cache I was looking for was on the other side of the log.

[+TheBarmat]

I found the skeleton of a horse. Scared the bejesus out of my daughter(she's 8). Not something we were expecting in an urban park.

[Space*Cadet]

Also found someone's drug stash while looking for a puzzle cache.

 

It was a clear container and I could see a lighter in it. My first thought was 'oh, that's bad swag, I'm going to remove that lighter'. Opened the container and saw a plastic baggie with no logbook. My second thought 'oh dear, no logbook, good thing I brought my cache-repair stuff'. Then I saw a few brown/green rocks and finally I clued in. The cache I was looking for was on the other side of the log.

 

Yeah...That reminds me, once while hunting a geocache with a fellow cacher,a couple years ago, we thought we had found the cache we were searching for in the Zilker Park area of Austin, but the container had a pipe and some funny tobacco ! We quickly replaced it and continued our search for the "right" cache! Another time while hiking the Leon Creek trail in San Antonio we found a "Flask" hidden under a little foot bridge. And my Best find was a baby Sulcatta Tortoise! I still have him!

[+nittany dave]

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So it made me wonder with all the people who cache on this forum besides the cache, trash, bugs, etc, what interesting things have you found out caching?

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[+Bassbully]

I found the skeleton of a horse. Scared the bejesus out of my daughter(she's 8). Not something we were expecting in an urban park.

 

Wow! That's crazy how could that of got there? You think somebody would of noticed the smell

Edited July 29, 2013 by Bassbully

[+The Jester]

Another find, while looking for a fairly tough micro at a park trailhead, was two 18 packs of beer hidden in the rocks.

[+sasqwatches]

we had just placed our 2nd cache and we found 2 partial skeletons of a small wild animal near by, really nice pieces of driftwood, we found a fellow geocacher twice and lots of trash which naturally ended up in my garage at home

[+Anansi Joy]

I found a handmade tombstone with the pertinent information scratched in on one side, and the

Coca-Cola logo on the other.

[+briansnat]

I found a digital camera sitting on a rock while returning from a cache maintenance trip. I bought it home and downloaded the photos hoping to find some clues as to the owner. There were hundreds of pics on it as the owner had a very large SD card in it. I found it in Feb and there were many pics of family from the recent Christmas, something I knew I had to get back to the owner. There were some photos in a driveway and I tried to make out the license plates hoping that would be a clue. Then I found the golden photo, a family photo of them standing in front of an ammo box. They were geocachers! But who? Later in the library I noticed a park sign and enlarged it to make out the words. Since the photos were taken on the same day I assumed that the cache was in that park. Found the park on the map, went through all the caches and found the likely log (it mentioned they were visiting from NJ). End of story, camera reunited with owner.

 

And reason number 34 to log your finds.

[+Crow-T-Robot]

I found a drug pipe under a bridge while looking for a cache. The bridge was on a fairly busy trail, so I put the pipe in my pocket and then put it in my trunk when I got back to the car so I could dispose of it when I got near a trash container. I never thought how that might be hard to explain if I had been searched by the police for whatever reason.

 

I also found a Razor scooter hanging from a tree in a county park. It really was out of place because it was the middle of winter and those aren't winter toys. It was near a parking area where kids went sledding and it looked like it was in pretty good shape, so I left it there for, hopefully, some lucky youngster to claim.

 

[+briansnat]

I found a drug pipe under a bridge while looking for a cache. The bridge was on a fairly busy trail, so I put the pipe in my pocket and then put it in my trunk when I got back to the car so I could dispose of it when I got near a trash container. I never thought how that might be hard to explain if I had been searched by the police for whatever reason.

 

 

It wasn't me but someone logged one of my caches and mentioned that he found someone's stash. A baggie with pot and pipe stuffed in a crack in the rocks near my cache. It was probably some neighborhood kid who didn't want to keep the stuff in his house.

[+dirty dog duo]

We were at a cache site and our GPS said the cache was inside the large building by about 40 feet. We just figured either our GPS was off or the cache owner's was off when he posted it. SOOO we find a key on a tag and the tag has the same letters as the cache. We then start looking for a lock. Nothing. I wonder and walk around to the front of the building and try the key in the door. IT FITS.. IT UNLOCKS THE DOOR... We lock it back up and wonder what we should do so I text the cache owner who calls me and assures me the key had nothing to do with his cache. THE BUILDING IS OUR LOCAL WALMARK. Never know what you will find at a cache site. Oh we did not do any after hour shopping.

[+etphoneme2plz]

I found a broken bong by a cemetery cache and I found someone's debit card laying in the street a few weeks ago. CITO the bong to the trash can by the cemetery and took the debit card to the issuing bank....

[+Bassbully]

We were at a cache site and our GPS said the cache was inside the large building by about 40 feet. We just figured either our GPS was off or the cache owner's was off when he posted it. SOOO we find a key on a tag and the tag has the same letters as the cache. We then start looking for a lock. Nothing. I wonder and walk around to the front of the building and try the key in the door. IT FITS.. IT UNLOCKS THE DOOR... We lock it back up and wonder what we should do so I text the cache owner who calls me and assures me the key had nothing to do with his cache. THE BUILDING IS OUR LOCAL WALMARK. Never know what you will find at a cache site. Oh we did not do any after hour shopping.

 

That is a very strange one for sure.

Edited July 31, 2013 by Bassbully

[+briansnat]

Someone found my cousin's debit card while caching. He saw the last name on it and immediately contacted me because it's such a rare name and he figured we must be related. Said cousin is basically the family black sheep, so I no longer have contact with him. I told the finder to cut up the card and toss it. He was going to mail me the pieces as proof he did it, but I said it wasn't necessary.

 

An odd thing I found was an American flag carefully folded and wrapped in several layers of plastic bags and tucked into a rock crevice at an overlook not far from a cache. I had no idea what to make of that.

[+redwoodkestrel]

I've found drug paraphernalia while out caching - mostly stuff related to marijuana... I believe I've found at least four bongs now - all broken though. I usually assume it's some teenager's hiding spot so the parents don't find out.

 

This past Sunday I definitely found a teen stash spot, with two bottles of vodka - one halfway full, the other almost completely full. They looked like they hadn't been outside for very long, maybe just put there a night or two before. At first I was a bit frustrated since I thought the spot the bottles were in must've been the cache hiding spot, and I assumed the teens had just taken or tossed the cache. But I decided to poke around a bit longer and eventually found the cache in a less-obvious hiding spot.

 

I was tempted to just take the bottles... I'm not a fan of vodka but I do make a mean bloody mary when the occasion calls for it! Instead I left them where I found them but added a note saying that they were lucky the bottles were still there and that they should find a better hiding spot.

 

[7rxc]

I bet the next cacher there finds them tucked in with the cache.

 

Doug 7rxc

[+cerberus1]

We were at a 4 terrain on a boulder ridge a few years ago, when I spotted metal in between some smaller rocks.

Turned out to be a Jackson pulaski axe head.

Put a new handle on it and hangs on the wall.

Last year, further down on the same ridge, I found an Akron pulaski axe head.

- That one (after a new handle) I use.

Odd.

[+The Stainless Steel Rat]

I have found while caching

garbage

homeless camps

small pot plants in a pot

a pretty girl

a chickens foot

a coyote skull

odd chemicals with a spoon

a wagon wheel

thorns

old buildings

stinging nettle

deer

sunglasses

 

while fishing I have found knives fishing rods tons of gear old bottles native artifacts and forget what else

 

if you want to read ALLOT of pages of what people find in the woods look here:

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=148441&page=31

[+popokiiti]

Found a pipe while we were looking (unsuccessfully) for a cache. Very pretty, but as it was near GZ, we CITO'd it. On the way home, I thought that if we were stopped by the police for any reason.........I had "drug paraphernalia" by my seat! It went into the garbage bin (wrapped) as soon as I got home!

[+QClan]

I found the skeleton of a horse. Scared the bejesus out of my daughter(she's 8). Not something we were expecting in an urban park.

 

Did you report it? A horse forum I'm on always runs missing horse threads and it is impressive how very lost a lost horse can get. Three missing recently (two seperate incidents) were all found dead. The individual was found in a park less than a square mile with homes on all sides. Very busy. The pair was found within three hundred yards of where they were lost. It's like they get lost and just wait there... And they can be hard to spot in the trees.

 

A VERY busy trail in CA had an impressive discovery of a skeleton in tack from the 70s approximately. Fifty or sixth feet off this heavily used trail and never seen for forty years. No one discovered where that horse came from or if the rider made it out or is somewhere in the park.

[+QClan]

And if you didn't, I'd be interested in knowing where it was. Someone on the horse forum might want to go check it out.