+gallahad Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Listen!!! Are those dueling banjos???? And to think that I left my Robinhood archery set at home. Quote Link to comment
+archaeor Posted February 4, 2004 Author Share Posted February 4, 2004 (edited) They have hills that high in Kansas??!!!?? J/K, Rick Edited February 4, 2004 by archaeor Quote Link to comment
mufasa1023 Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 i ran into a whole bunch of those little ummmm dream catcher like things that were in "blair witch project" ......very realistic really but in the middle of the day so not all that scary Quote Link to comment
goldfishy Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 I'd choose dismembered dolls over deer carcasses ANY DAY!!! The day I find a deer carcass (or the like)- is the day I quit geocaching! By the way, how do you copy pics to refer to in your reply? Quote Link to comment
+Confucius' Cat Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 My neatest so far is a newborn fawn who was lying right smack in the middle of the trail and playing dead. I never get so lucky as finding a body or nothing, but I saw what might be a shallow grave in Schaumburg, IL. Didn't know whether to report it or not. Chose not- I figured there was probably some OTHER explanation than the "mafia" one. Quote Link to comment
+UtahJean Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Don't know how to make a link to an old forum, but here's a copy/paste of a post I made in June 03. In two years of hunting for ~870 caches, I'm always running across unusual things. Don't know why. Maybe some quirk of the 'force'. Can any of you match this list? How about the stash of pot in an aluminum briefcase, or the porn stash found on the banks of a river? Then there was the half-dug-up dead body wrapped in a blanket right after Elizabeth Smart disappeared (police got all excited but it turned out to be a dead dog). And the piles of somebody's ashes right where a cache was supposed to be hidden atop Mt. Olympus above SLC. Once I found a 4-foot bong in a bush. Another time I managed to stumble into a drug supermarket on SLC's west side one dark rainy night when looking for Bingo washers in a geo-game (that one was scary). On a lighter side, I found some super-sized puffballs that got local fungi enthusiasts all excited (54" circumference, 28 lbs), and then there were the lovers I found in the bushes. hee, hee. But the most unusual find category is a tie between running into a certain geocacher--(Craig) Cach-u-nuts--over and over and over (we haven't figured out what that means.), and lastly but not leastly, the time I found not just a drug stash but a whole frigging portable meth lab. It's a lust for adventure that gets me out caching, but this is getting rediculous. And then there was the time the bomb squad blew up my cache...! Sort of apprehensive about what might happen next? UJ I STILL keep running into Cach-u-nuts, 2 or 3 more encounters, the latest about a week ago when he zeroed in on me way up a canyon on an icy, snowy mountainside in the dark no less. Freaked us both out. It's been about a dozen times. Oh, I also continue to find drug paraphenalia, the latest a MJ pipe found in a jungle in Tahiti. UtahJean Quote Link to comment
ghOzt Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 http://www.mountainsanatorium.net/ Has anyone received that forward where it instructs you to stare at a picture until you see a ghost? After a while, a separate image of a ghost flashes on the screen accompanied by a loud noise. It's only a prank, but it's enough to force the poop out of even the manliest of men. Anyway, I can't even click on anything on that sanatorium site without thinking that that's what is going to happen! Very intriguing, though. I can't believe you actually explored it, SERG. Quote Link to comment
+gallahad Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Don't know how to make a link to an old forum, but here's a copy/paste of a post I made in June 03. In two years of hunting for ~870 caches, I'm always running across unusual things. Don't know why. Maybe some quirk of the 'force'. Can any of you match this list? How about the stash of pot in an aluminum briefcase, or the porn stash found on the banks of a river? Then there was the half-dug-up dead body wrapped in a blanket right after Elizabeth Smart disappeared (police got all excited but it turned out to be a dead dog). And the piles of somebody's ashes right where a cache was supposed to be hidden atop Mt. Olympus above SLC. Once I found a 4-foot bong in a bush. Another time I managed to stumble into a drug supermarket on SLC's west side one dark rainy night when looking for Bingo washers in a geo-game (that one was scary). On a lighter side, I found some super-sized puffballs that got local fungi enthusiasts all excited (54" circumference, 28 lbs), and then there were the lovers I found in the bushes. hee, hee. But the most unusual find category is a tie between running into a certain geocacher--(Craig) Cach-u-nuts--over and over and over (we haven't figured out what that means.), and lastly but not leastly, the time I found not just a drug stash but a whole frigging portable meth lab. It's a lust for adventure that gets me out caching, but this is getting rediculous. And then there was the time the bomb squad blew up my cache...! Sort of apprehensive about what might happen next? UJ I STILL keep running into Cach-u-nuts, 2 or 3 more encounters, the latest about a week ago when he zeroed in on me way up a canyon on an icy, snowy mountainside in the dark no less. Freaked us both out. It's been about a dozen times. Oh, I also continue to find drug paraphenalia, the latest a MJ pipe found in a jungle in Tahiti. UtahJean And how long will it take you to find a new neighborhood in which to reside? I'd move my trailer out of that park pretty darn quick..... Quote Link to comment
+GeckoGeek Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 I used to be a whitewater guide, and once while on the river I spotted what appeared to be a wetsuit floating down the river. I had my raft paddle over to it, figuring I had a new wetsuit from the river gods. Well when I pulled it in, there was a ribcage and hips still in it. Freaky. And I didn't even get to keep the wetsuit I can't think of anything wierd that I have found while geocaching though. Er... um... would you REALLY still want the wetsuit? Yeah, it would be bad luck. It sure didn't protect the former owner..... Quote Link to comment
+mihiker Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 I feel that I've been fortunate NOT to find anything unseemly.... Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Is that Santa's sleigh overturned in the background? Quote Link to comment
+gallahad Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 I've done some hunting, but this represents slaughter. Utterly disgusting. Quote Link to comment
+The Cheeseheads Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Is that Santa's sleigh overturned in the background? Dangnabbit Sparky, I was eating. Now I've got to clean my keyboard... Quote Link to comment
+Team Fegel Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 Is that Santa's sleigh overturned in the background? Oh my word, I think your right. Look closely at the nose of the lead one!! Its Rudolf! Quote Link to comment
+rover-r-us Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 found a dead bird and a skull of a dog and alot of golf ball Quote Link to comment
+Planet Posted February 4, 2004 Share Posted February 4, 2004 I've done some hunting, but this represents slaughter. Utterly disgusting. Please don't be upset, it isn't slaughter. It's what the DOT does with all the dead deer that have been hit by cars. We had an odor problem in CT a while back because they put too many in one place. They can't leave them in the road, it causes more accidents. They can't just put them in the land fill, or burn them so they take them to a spot where they can decompose naturally, and also feed birds of prey. An Audubon center near here takes some of the dead deer and stakes out parts to the ground for the eagles to come and eat where people can watch them through telescopes, from the deck on the building, without the eagles taking the "bait" away. You'll notice (or don't look at it again) that some of these deer appear to have broken necks, obviously from being hit by a car. So, I believe that is what we are looking at there. Quote Link to comment
Bobthearch Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 and alot of golf ball Golf Balls? Golf Balls? Don't get me started! Thos things are ~everywhere~ out here. I've found them on top of mountains, in the desert miles from a road, Everywhere! As near as I can figure, someone flies around in an airplane dumping them out. And rarely have I surveyed anywhere that didn't have the remains of helium ballons. Please, in the name of all that is holy, STOP turning those dadgum things loose! Just an early morning, slightly hung over, haven't eaten yet, rant. -Bob Quote Link to comment
+joefrog Posted February 10, 2004 Share Posted February 10, 2004 My eldest daughter peeked out the window and was greeted by the grizzly sight of a deer head attached to a spine and two legs splayed on the ground in front of my Tahoe. See first accused me of shooting one of Santa’s reindeer. HAH! Oh, man... that's classic! "Daddy KILLED Rudolph! Waaaaah" And I can imagine Rover smelled peachy keen when he came inside, too! Quote Link to comment
+jaxxom Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 So here I am in between routes, and decide to go and use a bathroom in one of our public city parks here in San Diego. I do my business and decide to go and find a cache that is here in the park, and so I wander off deeply engrossed with my e-trex. I walk down a trail and come to a fork in the road, and try to decide which of the two caches here I was going to get. I notice a movement off to my left, and look up to see a woman leaning forward over a rock and her gentlemen friend leaning over her back with their pants down and her shirt off. I thought "WOAH" and turned to the right and then saw a photographer and his assistant who were taking pictures of the afformentioned couple. I said "WOAH" again and turned and walked back to my bus trying to come to a valid reason for what I just saw. This by far is the most bizarre thing I have seen while geocaching out and around San Diego. What really angered me was that I din't get the cache. Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 So here I am in between routes, and decide to go and use a bathroom in one of our public city parks here in San Diego. I do my business and decide to go and find a cache that is here in the park, and so I wander off deeply engrossed with my e-trex. I walk down a trail and come to a fork in the road, and try to decide which of the two caches here I was going to get. I notice a movement off to my left, and look up to see a woman leaning forward over a rock and her gentlemen friend leaning over her back with their pants down and her shirt off. I thought "WOAH" and turned to the right and then saw a photographer and his assistant who were taking pictures of the afformentioned couple. I said "WOAH" again and turned and walked back to my bus trying to come to a valid reason for what I just saw. This by far is the most bizarre thing I have seen while geocaching out and around San Diego. What really angered me was that I din't get the cache. were burt reynolds or mark whalberg in the area? Quote Link to comment
+tirediron Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 This was sort of creepy Quote Link to comment
+Evil Chicken Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 In NJ, nothing sticks out as strange, because finding strange things in the woods here is so commonplace. Have to agree with Brian here... At just one "family friendly" cache site down here in the swamps of Jersey we found a rather large burgled safe, critter bones, porn rags, condoms, little black nooses and a beaver (not that kind!) pelt barb wired to a tree with dried blood all around! Quote Link to comment
+PandyBat Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 <image snipped>This was sort of creepy What is that? Looks like someone with flip flops on laying under a red sheet. Quote Link to comment
+PandyBat Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 a beaver (not that kind!) pelt barb wired to a tree with dried blood all around! Someone training dogs for hunting maybe? Didn't think people hunted beavers, just trapped themso why would anyone do something like this?! That's just weird! Quote Link to comment
Gary the Possum Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 (edited) On Saturday I saw a Rattlesnake on the trail while hiking to a geocache. My brother was in front and there was a part on the trail where you had to step up about a foot. My brother stepped up and then jumped forward and yelled "Watch out, watch out!" Well, I stopped and looked down and I was standig right next to a Timber Rattlesnake. I took one step back, said "Uh-oh" and then jumped backwards as far as I could. Luckily the snake just sat there. We had to wait for it to leave before we could continue on, so we took its picture and about ten minutes later it left. Edited June 29, 2004 by Gary the Possum Quote Link to comment
+tirediron Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 <image snipped>This was sort of creepy What is that? Looks like someone with flip flops on laying under a red sheet. There's no someone. It's actually a prosthesis. The owner was swimming down below, which I didn't realize as I was coming down the trail. I have to admit I did a bit of a double-take! Quote Link to comment
+AJ of Dunbar Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 assuming hunters did that, they need to be drug into the woods, kicked repeatidly in the nuts then shot. Tahts coming from hunter,,,, aj Quote Link to comment
+AJ of Dunbar Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 This was close to my first cache hide. i didnt see it when i hid the cache, but another cacher told me about it so i went back and checked it out. Looks to be an abandoned homeless camp. Maybe just for the winter? I came up saying hello first before i got real close justttt incase. Quote Link to comment
+Beta Test Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 <image snipped>This was sort of creepy What is that? Looks like someone with flip flops on laying under a red sheet. There's no someone. It's actually a prosthesis. The owner was swimming down below, which I didn't realize as I was coming down the trail. I have to admit I did a bit of a double-take! LOL I though it was a Barbie on a rock! Quote Link to comment
+cmpalmer Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 My kids and I set off to hike up a power line trail to a local cache. The first thing we found was a deer that had got hung up in a iron fence and died. Nice start, huh? The rest of the hike (after contacting the fence owner) went fine... Quote Link to comment
FallenFaery Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 Dead baby. [sic] Those all seem mundane compared to glass jars of eyeballs! -Bob a dead baby mundane compared to glass jar of eyeballs!? Quote Link to comment
+GEO.JOE Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 I've done some hunting, but this represents slaughter. Utterly disgusting. Please don't be upset, it isn't slaughter. It's what the DOT does with all the dead deer that have been hit by cars. We had an odor problem in CT a while back because they put too many in one place. They can't leave them in the road, it causes more accidents. They can't just put them in the land fill, or burn them so they take them to a spot where they can decompose naturally, and also feed birds of prey. An Audubon center near here takes some of the dead deer and stakes out parts to the ground for the eagles to come and eat where people can watch them through telescopes, from the deck on the building, without the eagles taking the "bait" away. You'll notice (or don't look at it again) that some of these deer appear to have broken necks, obviously from being hit by a car. So, I believe that is what we are looking at there. this tells about the deer picture. Quote Link to comment
+Anonymous' Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I was hunting for a cache on a popular island in the San Juans when I came across deer bones. This doesn't sound that weird but someone arranged the bones in a strange way. Also nearby were some strange devices made out of things found in the woods. I'm being a little vague, but it wasn't something I really wanted to remember. I never found the cache, but it turns out it was stolen. Quote Link to comment
+Evil Chicken Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Didn't think people hunted beavers, just trapped themso why would anyone do something like this?! That's just weird! "Weird NJ" aint just a magazine - it truly is weird! Quote Link to comment
+Malystryxx Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 We went back to check on one of our caches placed earlier this week, in the woods of northwest Washington state, and found an in-tact coconut placed in the stump where our cache was hidden. Our cache had been moved about a foot, but I'll admit for those couple of moments before finding it, we were completely baffled as to if someone had traded our cache for a coconut, or how the coconut came to be there. We still have no idea what purpose the strange tropical treat was doing in a cedar stump so far from anything. Quote Link to comment
davwil Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I have four words: NEW JERSEY and WASHINGTON Quote Link to comment
BassoonPilot Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 (edited) I found one primitive structure built into/among some boulders where a (homeless?) family had apparently spent time a couple of years earlier, from evidence found at the site. They left a couple of secret caches of their own behind. In three different states, I've come across naked couples "makin' bacon" smack in the middle of the trail. In several areas, I've been mystified by the apparent tradition people have of tying up their dog-exhaust into plastic bags and hanging them in the trees like Christmas Tree ornaments. I've also come across apparently commonplace finds like stashes of hiking/camping/fishing equipment, beer and porn, but that carefully folded American Flag in the plastic bag buried under a few rocks remains a mystery ... Edited June 30, 2004 by BassoonPilot Quote Link to comment
+K0BKL Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 For something strange near a geocache, check out my Maple Hill site. In the gallery you will find a picture of some bottles connected with tubing. The thing, whatever it was, was gone before I got around to check the site. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...eb-e3c00248ba79 Quote Link to comment
+Beta Test Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 For something strange near a geocache, check out my Maple Hill site. In the gallery you will find a picture of some bottles connected with tubing. Seems like a drug lab to me. Maybe it some kind of condenser or cold still. Quote Link to comment
WH Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 For something strange near a geocache, check out my Maple Hill site. In the gallery you will find a picture of some bottles connected with tubing. The thing, whatever it was, was gone before I got around to check the site. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...eb-e3c00248ba79 Sounds like you stumbled upon someones meth lab. If you ever find one again, DONT TOUCH IT. Immediately call the local police. Some of the chemical bi-products of making meth can be deadly. Quote Link to comment
+Beta Test Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Sounds like you stumbled upon someones meth lab. If you ever find one again, DONT TOUCH IT. Immediately call the local police. Some of the chemical bi-products of making meth can be deadly. I agree. Seems like cachers find a lot of these. It was probably a dump site or "death bag". Quote Link to comment
+Doggiewoggie Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 Well, I haven't really found anything strange while caching (other than a man giving himself a good time), but when I was caving in Guatemala, I came across human remains quite often. Some may have been Mayan burials, but I think most were people who "disappeared" during the civil war. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 I've also come across apparently commonplace finds like stashes of hiking/camping/fishing equipment, beer and porn, but that carefully folded American Flag in the plastic bag buried under a few rocks remains a mystery ... Yes, I found that same American flag and wondered about its significance. Quote Link to comment
+joefrog Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Well, I haven't really found anything strange while caching (other than a man giving himself a good time) And I thought there was no one for miles! Quote Link to comment
Pilgrim, Rhubarb, & Sweet Pea Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 We went back to check on one of our caches placed earlier this week, in the woods of northwest Washington state, and found an in-tact coconut placed in the stump where our cache was hidden. Our cache had been moved about a foot, but I'll admit for those couple of moments before finding it, we were completely baffled as to if someone had traded our cache for a coconut, or how the coconut came to be there. We still have no idea what purpose the strange tropical treat was doing in a cedar stump so far from anything. Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate??? (Sorry, Rhubarb's a Monty Python fan and could not resist!) Dang, some of these stories are just creepy, and if it had happened to me, it might be enough to put me off caching. Those people with the photographer? Gag - get a room! I think I would have called the cops on that one. All the dead stuff - ew! Animals are one thing, but the wetsuit story and assorted bags and half buried stuff is just creepy! The doll picture is hilarious, but creepy as well. Would love to know the story behind that one. This whole thread makes our caching experiences sound pretty mundane...and I think I like it that way! Quote Link to comment
+Centex Trekker Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Okay . . . here's the Doll Pic (sorry it took so long, had to have my wife email it to me from her work). Pretty scary, huh?? Rick I thought you said all the arms and legs had been pulled off. I see only a couple missing. Even so, it's still freaky. Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 There's no someone. It's actually a prosthesis. Ha! My mother's best friend had a special "swimming leg." I guess it was an old, beat up prosthetic. Anyhow, when she wasn't swimming, she used to lean it up against the wall in her bathroom. Whenever you went in there and caught sight of the leg, your first instinct was to blurt, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know anyone was in here!" Boy, she could float for hours! Quote Link to comment
+Malystryxx Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 We still have no idea what purpose the strange tropical treat was doing in a cedar stump so far from anything. Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate??? (Sorry, Rhubarb's a Monty Python fan and could not resist!) The two people I was caching with (my dragon brothers) are both geeks-in-arms with me, and of course there were a lot of of jokes about the coconut. Later, I was telling another friend about the coconut, and the first thing out of his mouth was, "Was it an African or a European coconut?" The rest of the room erupted in, "Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?" So many nerds, I love my family. I've got to say I'm pleased that I haven't yet found anything horrid or lewd, although I can't say I'll be too suprised now, after reading this thread. I won't feel so alone in my suffering, if that should ever be the case. "Remember, you're not the only one who's had to deal with this!" Quote Link to comment
+Robespierre Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 We had a bizarre start to our 2003 Christmas morning. Sometime during the night my dog, a chow /lab mix, My black dog is lab/chow. No fair. How come I'm the only one who hasn't found a dead body! Well, do YOU live in New Jersey? Ive come across a homeless camp. I was also unfortunate enough to find 3 homosexual men who obviously got lost looking for the Holiday Inn Must have been a Columbus, Ohio city park. I've never found anything all that unusual. I found a lavender ladies applique of some kind for a feminine product in the river, when I was wading to check my cache. Quote Link to comment
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