+ras_oscar Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 The title says it all. What's the oddest thing you've opened that turned out not to be the cache? I'll start: Arrived at GZ to the fence line of a small utility station. There was a length of 4" PVC, 3 feet long with caps at both ends, wired horizontally to one of the midrails of the fence. Opened it up to find a roll of paper 36" wide. what a HUGE logsheet, I thought unrilling it. It was the permit office's approval set of construction drawings for the facility. OOPS!!! Quote
+highrez Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 The title says it all. What's the oddest thing you've opened that turned out not to be the cache? I'll start: Arrived at GZ to the fence line of a small utility station. There was a length of 4" PVC, 3 feet long with caps at both ends, wired horizontally to one of the midrails of the fence. Opened it up to find a roll of paper 36" wide. what a HUGE logsheet, I thought unrilling it. It was the permit office's approval set of construction drawings for the facility. OOPS!!! Quote
+highrez Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 A large plastic bin of drug paraphernalia nicely hidden in the woods. We got out of there FAST!! Quote
+Shinook & White Juan Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 A stash of needles and gauzes. Quote
+J Grouchy Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 A plastic grocery bag filled with athletic socks and 9mm bullets. Though I do have to say that I always think it's pretty weird to be opening the base of a light post in a parking lot. Quote
Ranger Fox Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Drugs, more drugs, and a light pole cache where someone replaced the contents with feminine hygiene products. For caches themselves, a cache owner put a bison tube inside a regular size container full of Vaseline, lube, or something like that. I didn't have nitrile gloves with me, so had to use a stick to coax the bison tube out from that mess. I've found other weird stuff, but it'll take a while for me to remember. Geocaching days have long since begun to blur together. Quote
+Panther&Pine Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 There a been a few odd ones but the time I broke a rock chunk off a boulder is pretty odd. I also took apart a sprinkler once, but I did know how to put it back together correctly (even aimed it). Quote
+kunarion Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 A purple mushroom. The cache was "A Little Ding-E", and I couldn't find it. So I tried to work on that title. "Dingy" as in "dull, not shiny"? "Ding" as in ringing a bell? So on the third attempt, when I saw a large bell-shaped bright purple fake mushroom, I knew that was the cache! Obviously it was a shiny plastic, and it stood out so well, I wondered why I hadn't even noticed it before. I reached down and grabbed it and it was real, it disintegrated on contact, and I had a handful of bright purple mushroom juice all over my hand. Is that good to have on my skin? So I had to go wash it off. Quote
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 A 30-cal. ammo can...... full of ammo! Quote
+narcissa Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Found drug stashes a few times. Found a container wrapped in electrical tape that, upon closer inspection, was probably someone's dead cat buried under some rocks. We didn't open it. Quote
+NYPaddleCacher Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Ten posts in and nobody has found a porn stash? Quote
+Traditional Bill Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 I actually found this stuff at a cache in my first year of caching. We came upon a Tupperware container on the edge of what appeared to be a wiccan circle. It was about thirty feet or so from the cache coordinates so we thought it was the cache and went about opening it. Well, as you can see below, it most certainly was not the cache. Rather it was a stash of different items you would see used in a Wicca ritual. Snake skin, candles, stones......We went on to find the cache soon after, but I couldn't help but wonder who put their stuff there first. Seeing this kind of stuff in the middle of the woods was a first for me, so I can thank caching for that! Quote
+Traditional Bill Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Ten posts in and nobody has found a porn stash? Not a stash, persay, but pages of a magazine that had emphasis on male genitalia scattered all over an area. Glad to have quickly found that one. Seeing that stuff scattered all over the place was a bit discouraging, heh. Quote
+The Leprechauns Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 Not much change since my last report. The hermit crab was named Pepe, and I still remember that smell clearly, 8.5 years later. 1. An altoids tin, 30 feet from the micro I was searching for, that contained the remains of someone's pet hermit crab. I can still recall opening that tin. It was something that cannot be unsmelled. 2. An urn containing the cremated remains of someone's pet. At least I hope it was a pet! 3. Last weekend, I reached in a crevice between two rocks, and pulled out a used sanitary napkin. I'll be logging my DNF of that cache in due course. 4. A pornography stash, found while searching for the cache hidden by Magellan for a contest back in 2003. Quote
+DadOf6Furrballs Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 3 or 4 years ago we went to check on one of our caches in a small wooded area in town that had a couple of legitimate sounding DNFs. Arrived on site, and yes, the cache was gone, so we replaced it. Then I noticed a black back pack about 50 feet away next to a fence. Thinking that lady luck had finally shined her smiling face after all these years, and it might be fully loaded with unmarked $20s $50s, etc, I opened it up and looked inside. Nope. Just somebody's soiled laundry. Good thing I had hand sanitizer in the truck, it was pretty nasty. Quote
+.Flo. Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 It wasn't a container that I opened, but once I did a multi in a forest where one stage had been a plastic squirrel in a tree. At one of the next stages I discovered what I thought was a plastic frog sitting in a tree hole. I was just about to grab it when it suddenly moved! Turned out the real stage was a normal plastic container hanging from a branch of that very same tree. Quote
Andronicus Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 It wasn't a container that I opened, but once I did a multi in a forest where one stage had been a plastic squirrel in a tree. At one of the next stages I discovered what I thought was a plastic frog sitting in a tree hole. I was just about to grab it when it suddenly moved! Turned out the real stage was a normal plastic container hanging from a branch of that very same tree. On a similar note, I thought I found a tricky FTF, but then I noticed the 'cache container' was breathing Quote
+Manville Possum Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 A black zip-case with a pill crusher and other drug paraphernalia 20 feet from GZ. Quote
+baloo&bd Posted October 21, 2014 Posted October 21, 2014 (edited) A "occupied" urn. No, we're not dumping it. the "occupied" opening is on the top side, the bottom side (as oriented in the pic) is a compartment for putting in personal effects. I whipped out the phone and took a pic before trying to stop laughing and explain it to the individual handling it. It was at GZ in a hollowed out log. Authorities seemed to care leass and it took a couple weeks before the CO disabled it, so all parties must have known it was there. Edited October 22, 2014 by baloo&bd Quote
+redsox_mark Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 An increasingly popular cache around here is the fake magnetic snail. I've found many a real snail thinking it was a cache. Quote
+Chief301 Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 One of the guys in our local caching group found one of these a few days ago.. It is NOT a bison tube..? Quote
+NYPaddleCacher Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 One of the guys in our local caching group found one of these a few days ago.. It is NOT a bison tube..? Lip gloss? Quote
+baloo&bd Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 One of the guys in our local caching group found one of these a few days ago.. It is NOT a bison tube..? What makes it different from a bison? Quote
+cheech gang Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 One of the guys in our local caching group found one of these a few days ago.. It is NOT a bison tube.. What makes it different from a bison? For one thing it is not family friendly. Quote
Andronicus Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 One of the guys in our local caching group found one of these a few days ago.. It is NOT a bison tube.. What makes it different from a bison? I think it likely has a unbalanced electric rotary motor. Quote
+coachstahly Posted October 22, 2014 Posted October 22, 2014 I opened a can of chew tobacco that I thought was the cache and it had chew tobacco in it, thankfully NOT used. Quote
+ras_oscar Posted October 27, 2014 Author Posted October 27, 2014 I opened a can of chew tobacco that I thought was the cache and it had chew tobacco in it, thankfully NOT used. Just popped right out of your back pocket, Eh? Quote
+briansnat Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 A US flag neatly folded, wrapped in plastic and encased in tupperware. It was stashed in a rock crevice at a remote, scenic overlook about 30 feet from the actual cache. There must have been some significance, but I have no idea what it was Quote
+ras_oscar Posted October 28, 2014 Author Posted October 28, 2014 A US flag neatly folded, wrapped in plastic and encased in tupperware. It was stashed in a rock crevice at a remote, scenic overlook about 30 feet from the actual cache. There must have been some significance, but I have no idea what it was When a solder dies in combat he is afforded a military funeral at which his family is presented with a flag folded into a triangle. I suspect that is where this flag came from. I hope you left it where you found it. Quote
+rebecca&chris Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 a woman my mother works with, well her friends went caching, and found two sawn off shotguns that were used in a murder... Quote
+The Jester Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 I found a bag of women's underwear in a rock crevice near Reno once - all styles and colors. In a nearby crevice I found a bag of adult magazines. Interesting swag they have there... Looking thru a pile rocks, I came across two 18 packs of beer. It took another trip to find that cache... Quote
4wheelin_fool Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 I found a bag of women's underwear in a rock crevice near Reno once - all styles and colors. In a nearby crevice I found a bag of adult magazines. Interesting swag they have there... We found pretty much the same thing, only the women's underwear was hanging from trees. The first pair made it appear that it was removed for some reason, but then there was more, and more... A few dozen bras and panties hanging from trees, not all in one spot but spread over a good distance and not on the trail. Quote
+PeoriaBill Posted November 16, 2014 Posted November 16, 2014 (edited) Found this jar in a small tree next to a cache GL1Q3EJB in a Dallas, Texas cemetery in 2008. Edited November 16, 2014 by Peoria Bill Quote
+SwineFlew Posted November 16, 2014 Posted November 16, 2014 (edited) lol. I found something very similar but bigger. One of the guys in our local caching group found one of these a few days ago It is NOT a bison tube..? Edited November 16, 2014 by SwineFlew Quote
emmeany Posted December 26, 2014 Posted December 26, 2014 I once found a small glass bottle labeled poison. It actually ended up being Victorian age and worth 50 bucks! Quote
+jellis Posted December 27, 2014 Posted December 27, 2014 what I thought was a cache that was a Hide a Key container. Turned out to be a real key inside that opened a gift store in a winery. Oops I hope CO moved the cache after I contacted him and told him his cache was too close to the key. Quote
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