What Else Have You Found??

July 4, 2004

One of our first geocaching experiences led us to this place in the woods that had mounds of dirt, shovels, a couple of chairs and a mattress. It was in a fairly remote area, and we don't really want to know what goes on there....

July 4, 2004

One of our first geocaching experiences led us to this place in the woods that had mounds of dirt, shovels, a couple of chairs and a mattress. It was in a fairly remote area, and we don't really want to know what goes on there....

Home made BMX track.

Edited July 4, 2004 by Beta Test

1.7k · July 4, 2004

Im beginning to wish I had not read this thread. Will I ever feel the same way out there again?

Used condoms and needles are the worst thing Ive found while caching. Ive found human skeletons, but only in my former occupation of archaeologist.

July 4, 2004

My find

I can't believe that was almost 2 years ago!

July 4, 2004

I was out a while ago and I found part of a note with a ribbon attached to it near the cache site. I assume someone had tied this message to a balloon and set it free. I looked around for the other half of the note but it was nowhere to be found. Finding this got me a little bummed out. The note was just very sad to read, and it is so weird that I will never know who these people are or how this message ended up on a trail for me to find. Here is what the (partial) note said:

"...to be with. Joe loves me and I love him with the love you showed me. That is the gift I got from you. Love never dies and will never lessen, subside or disappear. We will meet again one day in heaven and will love each other like there was no pause. Thank you so much for the gifts that you've given me - I thank you and God for the relationships I've been lucky enough to find because of you. I hope you are happy, I feel that I finally am. I love you S. Monkey! Love always, Katie."

I kept this note just because it was so sweet and I couldn't bear to just throw it in the trash.

Edited July 4, 2004 by Imajika

July 4, 2004

One of our first geocaching experiences led us to this place in the woods that had mounds of dirt, shovels, a couple of chairs and a mattress. It was in a fairly remote area, and we don't really want to know what goes on there....

Home made BMX track.

We thought it resembled that at first, too, but absolutely NO evidence of bikes being back there, and the area was all too compact to be any fun for bikes.

July 4, 2004

One of our first geocaching experiences led us to this place in the woods that had mounds of dirt, shovels, a couple of chairs and a mattress. It was in a fairly remote area, and we don't really want to know what goes on there....

Home made BMX track.

We thought it resembled that at first, too, but absolutely NO evidence of bikes being back there, and the area was all too compact to be any fun for bikes.

Maybe radio-controlled cars, then. Or not. Doesn't really look like there's too much evidence of being used for that recently, either. Hard to tell without closer shots. Either way it's kind of odd.

July 4, 2004

Here is what the (partial) note said:

"...to be with. Joe loves me and I love him with the love you showed me. That is the gift I got from you. Love never dies and will never lessen, subside or disappear. We will meet again one day in heaven and will love each other like there was no pause. Thank you so much for the gifts that you've given me - I thank you and God for the relationships I've been lucky enough to find because of you. I hope you are happy, I feel that I finally am. I love you S. Monkey! Love always, Katie."

I kept this note just because it was so sweet and I couldn't bear to just throw it in the trash.

I'd submit that note to Found Magazine if I were you . . . That's classic!

Rick

July 4, 2004

One of our first geocaching experiences led us to this place in the woods that had mounds of dirt, shovels, a couple of chairs and a mattress. It was in a fairly remote area, and we don't really want to know what goes on there....

Home made BMX track.

We thought it resembled that at first, too, but absolutely NO evidence of bikes being back there, and the area was all too compact to be any fun for bikes.

Maybe radio-controlled cars, then. Or not. Doesn't really look like there's too much evidence of being used for that recently, either. Hard to tell without closer shots. Either way it's kind of odd.

Yeah.....that seems more likely, but even then, the mounds are too close together to avoid some serious crashing. Still, like you said, it's odd, and it seemed REALLY odd when you were standing there looking at it.

July 4, 2004

Here is what the (partial) note said:

"...to be with. Joe loves me and I love him with the love you showed me. That is the gift I got from you. Love never dies and will never lessen, subside or disappear. We will meet again one day in heaven and will love each other like there was no pause. Thank you so much for the gifts that you've given me - I thank you and God for the relationships I've been lucky enough to find because of you. I hope you are happy, I feel that I finally am. I love you S. Monkey! Love always, Katie."

I kept this note just because it was so sweet and I couldn't bear to just throw it in the trash.

I'd submit that note to Found Magazine if I were you . . . That's classic!

Rick

I do subscribe to Found Magazine! I did send it to them and never heard anything. I emailed them a scan of it. They never print anything I send them anyway. The note is just sitting in my desk drawer right now.

Edited July 4, 2004 by Imajika

July 4, 2004

"...to be with. Joe loves me and I love him with the love you showed me. That is the gift I got from you. Love never dies and will never lessen, subside or disappear. We will meet again one day in heaven and will love each other like there was no pause. Thank you so much for the gifts that you've given me - I thank you and God for the relationships I've been lucky enough to find because of you. I hope you are happy, I feel that I finally am. I love you S. Monkey! Love always, Katie."

It kinda sounds like a sucide note... dosnt it?

Niss

July 4, 2004

"...to be with. Joe loves me and I love him with the love you showed me. That is the gift I got from you. Love never dies and will never lessen, subside or disappear. We will meet again one day in heaven and will love each other like there was no pause. Thank you so much for the gifts that you've given me - I thank you and God for the relationships I've been lucky enough to find because of you. I hope you are happy, I feel that I finally am. I love you S. Monkey! Love always, Katie."

It kinda sounds like a sucide note... dosnt it?

Niss

I thought it sounded like she had met a "new love" and was finding a way to gain closure with a dear departed so she could move on. Very message-in-a-bottle'ish!!

July 9, 2004

One of our first geocaching experiences led us to this place in the woods that had mounds of dirt, shovels, a couple of chairs and a mattress.

Perhaps someone was looting an archaeological site??

I stumbled upon a site in Florida that was in the process of being looted, and from the trash strewn around, it was likely that it was an ongoing job of several months' time. In addition to a lot of holes dug in the ground, we found several empty cases of Arizona iced tea bottles, beer bottles, candle lanterns, spent batteries, and porno mags.

Edited July 9, 2004 by Archaeologist-PA

July 10, 2004

Doing cache maintenance last weekend we found this on the shores of Lake Superior. The email address lead us to a 3rd grade teacher whose class had set 19 of these afloat and was tracking the progress of each.

July 10, 2004

One of our first geocaching experiences led us to this place in the woods that had mounds of dirt, shovels, a couple of chairs and a mattress. It was in a fairly remote area, and we don't really want to know what goes on there....

Ewww...creepy! It would be interesting to see if there is anything buried in those mounds.

July 10, 2004

My find

I can't believe that was almost 2 years ago!

Eeks! Another creepy one! Did you ever find out what happened to him and how that other guy came to find him?

July 10, 2004

One of our first geocaching experiences led us to this place in the woods that had mounds of dirt, shovels, a couple of chairs and a mattress. It was in a fairly remote area, and we don't really want to know what goes on there....

Ewww...creepy! It would be interesting to see if there is anything buried in those mounds.

You know, it never occurred to us to dig into one. And I'm NOT going back there!

July 10, 2004

In fifteen years of living in the same house near a large parcel of suburban woods, I have found a barn, nine cars including two old mercedes benz, three VW bugs, an international flatbed truck, and a couple buicks. I have also found two homeless camps, rusted bikes, treehouses, sawed off dog appendages, various skulls, golf balls in the middle of a thorn patch, trails that don't go anywhere, old roadbeds, and climbing walls. And thats just in a 40 acre patch of woods. While caching I've found porn stashes, 1 small plantation of weed complete with potting soil, satan worshiping spots complete with dead dismembered goats, and placesin themiddle of nowhere with plastic chairs in a circle.

July 10, 2004

I've been a scout leader for 18 years, and I have spent probably 500 nights (or more) in the woods. I have never found a dead human body. Yikes.

We've found lovers, weed patches, old encampments, wallet without ID but with hundreds of dollars, found a 11 cases of unopened beer in a pile once...had to be at least two years old, the weirdest thing was we were walking Johnson County Park in Indiana and came across this big concrete pad...that had, without a doubt, at least 100 (used we suspect, as they were unwrapped) condoms scattered all about.

Was walking down a railroad right of way one time, there were some box cars parked off a spur...as we walked by I heard some music and soon I saw these two guys in the box car, shooting up. They both jumped out and started screaming at me, I took off down the tracks (they were in no shape to catch me) and made my escape.

I geocache in the daylight.

July 11, 2004

I remember seeing these threads some time ago in "The Hunt/The Unusual" Forum some time back:

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=66071

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=31547

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=31392

Thankfully the only thing Ive come across is a bag of doot along the Appalachian Trail while caching. And a dead animal once and a while.

However there have been numerous reports of cacher finding couples in the act at my local rest stop cache.

July 11, 2004

the weirdest thing was we were walking Johnson County Park in Indiana and came across this big concrete pad...that had, without a doubt, at least 100 (used we suspect, as they were unwrapped) condoms scattered all about.

And I was upset because I found 3 in 3 different locations while we were caching the other day.... That is by far just about the most disgusting litter out there.

~Rhubarb

July 12, 2004

Go to this cache, select "view all the logs on one page," and scroll down to the log for November 28, 2002.

July 12, 2004

While caching... nothing out of the ordinary so far. Once while Jeeping... nuclear waste dump - behind a hill within five miles of my home!

2.3k · July 12, 2004

One of our first geocaching experiences led us to this place in the woods that had mounds of dirt, shovels, a couple of chairs and a mattress. It was in a fairly remote area, and we don't really want to know what goes on there....

How remote is it, since I see a house or building in the background? :unsure:

July 12, 2004

How remote is it, since I see a house or building in the background?

It's in a wooded area down by a river. What you see in the background looks deceivingly close. There is a LARGE open area between the edge of the woods and that building (which is the back of someone's garage). The area is adjacent to a park that has a soccer field (is out of the picture, to the right), but there's quite a bit of open area even between the field and the woods. Even when you're at the entrance of the woods, you really can't see the area I've photographed. My husband was the one who wandered away from the cache site and found this, and we couldn't see him from the cache site, which was at the front edge of the woods. I know the picture doesn't appear that way, but you could be back where we were and absolutely no one would know it. You could even be talking in a normal voice and anyone in the open area would not hear you.

July 12, 2004

A Volkswagen bus/van halfway down a remote hill, in the woods, with no roads anywhere near the place.

July 12, 2004

A Volkswagen bus/van halfway down a remote hill, in the woods, with no roads anywhere near the place.

That's called a 30 year old crash!

1.2k · July 13, 2004

Here is what the (partial) note said:

"...to be with. Joe loves me and I love him with the love you showed me. That is the gift I got from you. Love never dies and will never lessen, subside or disappear. We will meet again one day in heaven and will love each other like there was no pause. Thank you so much for the gifts that you've given me - I thank you and God for the relationships I've been lucky enough to find because of you. I hope you are happy, I feel that I finally am. I love you S. Monkey! Love always, Katie."

I kept this note just because it was so sweet and I couldn't bear to just throw it in the trash.

I'd submit that note to Found Magazine if I were you . . . That's classic!

Rick

I do subscribe to Found Magazine! I did send it to them and never heard anything. I emailed them a scan of it. They never print anything I send them anyway. The note is just sitting in my desk drawer right now.

Umm, your note is on that Found site already.

http://www.foundmagazine.com/fotw/031404.html

Edited July 13, 2004 by Vargseld

July 13, 2004

surpasses my man on his knees with his pants down to his ankles and the magazines spread on the ground. no pics.

July 13, 2004

Go to this cache, select "view all the logs on one page," and scroll down to the log for November 28, 2002.

Here's the direct log link:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...cb-835d671cb24c

OMG - Weirdest thing I've heard of being found around here geocaching was a pair of underwear that had been -um- soiled.

That, and about 25 geophones I stumbled on in the pre-geocache days (for seizmic subsurface oil exploration) in a bundle complete with wiring harness between them that looked like they'd been laying out there for 20 years or so.

Since so much of Texas is private property, the bodies from dope deals gone bad or "wetbacks" that didn't make it across the desert from Mexico are usually found by oil field crews, ranch hands, or hunters (or park rangers / border patrol).

When a kid, we used to ride our bicycles out into a place a few miles out of town in the middle of nowhere after a rain and pick up spent .50 bullets, brass, and bomb casing fragments at an old WW2 training target site. We'd bring spent ordnance to school for show and tell and no one ever batted an eye. Never found any unexploded stuff out there.

As teenagers many would go out there to do the nasty - and bring back spent ordnance. So many nifty places for geocaches that, alas, aren't really open to the public - some of which have a lot of history.

July 13, 2004

Speaking of finding unusual things in the deep woods and remote mountainsides, I'm surprised no one has found a crashed aircraft or two.

If a person plays with the amateur radio APRS system, there is a downloadable file called "crashall.pos" that has the coordinates to hundreds of downed aircraft in remote areas. It was compiled for CAP search and rescue so that wreckage that had been there for 30 years wouldn't be mistaken for the object of the search. I've plotted them on a map of West Texas / southeastern New Mexico and was amazed how many have accumulated over the years.

Each record in the file has a description field - like color and tail number if legible, make/model, condition. I guess they are still there due to the economics of hauling the wreckage out.

In East Texas and western Louisiana, I wonder how long it will be before other pieces of the space shuttle Columbia are found while geocaching, and if they will continue to surface for the next 50 years or so?

July 13, 2004

Gunnigirl/n5psp:

I haven't seen the name Mulvane in years. I used to live there in the late '70's.

I took a look on Terraserver at the area of town I used to live in. Wow. Lots of changes.

Way OT, but is Shepler's still in business in Wichita? We used to go there quite often when we went to town.

2.2k · July 13, 2004

Speaking of finding unusual things in the deep woods and remote mountainsides, I'm surprised no one has found a crashed aircraft or two.

If a person plays with the amateur radio APRS system, there is a downloadable file called "crashall.pos" that has the coordinates to hundreds of downed aircraft in remote areas. It was compiled for CAP search and rescue so that wreckage that had been there for 30 years wouldn't be mistaken for the object of the search. I've plotted them on a map of West Texas / southeastern New Mexico and was amazed how many have accumulated over the years.

Each record in the file has a description field - like color and tail number if legible, make/model, condition. I guess they are still there due to the economics of hauling the wreckage out.

In East Texas and western Louisiana, I wonder how long it will be before other pieces of the space shuttle Columbia are found while geocaching, and if they will continue to surface for the next 50 years or so?

there are already a couple of caches based on this.

July 13, 2004

I've found one in Frozen Head state park but not while caching

July 13, 2004

Speaking of finding unusual things in the deep woods and remote mountainsides, I'm surprised no one has found a crashed aircraft or two.

If a person plays with the amateur radio APRS system, there is a downloadable file called "crashall.pos" that has the coordinates to hundreds of downed aircraft in remote areas. It was compiled for CAP search and rescue so that wreckage that had been there for 30 years wouldn't be mistaken for the object of the search. I've plotted them on a map of West Texas / southeastern New Mexico and was amazed how many have accumulated over the years.

Each record in the file has a description field - like color and tail number if legible, make/model, condition. I guess they are still there due to the economics of hauling the wreckage out.

In East Texas and western Louisiana, I wonder how long it will be before other pieces of the space shuttle Columbia are found while geocaching, and if they will continue to surface for the next 50 years or so?

there are already a couple of caches based on this.

Got some links?? Sounds like something to plan on a vacation trip or a long weekend for.

July 13, 2004

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f5-707f62b07a94

This is the link to a cache at the site of an airplane crash. It's in a pretty out of the way spot, but I plan to log it in September when I am there again.

If the link above does not work it's October Marauder by Radio Gunner. We have hauled home a couple of boxes of airplane parts from this site.

July 13, 2004

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f5-707f62b07a94

This is the link to a cache at the site of an airplane crash. It's in a pretty out of the way spot, but I plan to log it in September when I am there again.

If the link above does not work it's October Marauder by Radio Gunner. We have hauled home a couple of boxes of airplane parts from this site.

There's another virtual at an airplane crash site high in the mountains of northern Arizona:

B-24 Crash Site

This one, which I hope to visit someday, has a memorial plaque on one of the larger pieces of wreckage, and a memorial marker nearby.

July 13, 2004

There is two that I know of near Las Vegas that invole downed aircraft. One (actually two now that another cache was place ten feet away from the first one) is on top of MT Charleston near a wrecked military cargo plane from the early fifties. The other is in Arizona and is a Virtual at the site of an A-10 crash site. I've only been to the first, but am planning on the second this fall.

Shannon

July 14, 2004

I found Mopar . . . how strange and bizarre is that??

Happy caching and stuff! After all, isn't that what it's all about?

July 14, 2004

Gold Mine in the side of a mountain, 1890's stage stop that still stands, Red fox-his skull is now schelaqed and on my bookcase, old graphite blasting electrodes, the most beautiful places and scenery that nobody else knows where is, seeing the looks in any animals eyes when they see me and I see them and we just watch each other and wonder why each is in the middle of the woods looking at each other, old railroad telephone boxes still on the poles, antigue electric poles with the glass insulators still on them, petroglyphs, old adobe missions, Aspen trees with the bark eaten off of them by elk, old prospector holes in the side of mountains near quartz deposits, all the private fising holes you can imagine and take all the free fish you want, go to my homepage on my profile for more pictures.

July 14, 2004

Doing cache maintenance last weekend we found this on the shores of Lake Superior. The email address lead us to a 3rd grade teacher whose class had set 19 of these afloat and was tracking the progress of each.

a la "Paddle to the Sea" by Holling C Hollings (I think that's his name) looks almost like paddle too!

Edited July 14, 2004 by Grey_One

38.2k · July 14, 2004

I found this platform made of saplings lashed to a tree about 50 feet from a cache. It's more where it was then the fact that it existed. The cache was in about as a remote a spot as one can find in northern NJ. In fact the cache is called Middle a Nowhere. There are no trails that lead to, or near it and the shortest walk from a road is a brutal bushwack through dense mtn. laurel.

The cache owner apparently looked at a map and chose the most remote spot on it to place his cache and the builders of this platform apparently did the same. There is no mention of the platform in other logs, or on the cache page, so I guess it was built after the cache was placed.

Edited July 14, 2004 by briansnat

April 6, 2008

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!

OMG!!! IT IS RUDOLPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :unsure:

April 6, 2008

Not really strange but Squirt and I found an old GPStheGame.com hidden treasure #483BHN

while looking for a geocache.

Looked like the last find was a year ago.

I could't find anything on line about it except for a GPS the movie site.

April 6, 2008

I found a dead Santa behind a gift shop. Right next to the handicap ramp. Seriously -- manequin was just laying there, in full costume, like someone had killed him gangland-style!

Too mkae a long story short, I almost shot Santa one night while responding to a burglar alarm, and doing a walk thru of the store. Walked into a darkroom and saw this guy standing in the corner........he just about took a .357 magnum.

April 6, 2008

I have found a clear plastic bag with a note inside from a school 40 miles away. A sicence project- I E-mailed the teacher the Coordinates where it was found and digital pic's of the LZ. He wrote back and said it was the best reply they ever had.

Also found two IV bags with plastic hoses attached and full of unknown liquid. A biohazard- I left the cache and split. Also one of my dogs found a carcase and rolled in it. She smelled so good all the way home. <_<

April 6, 2008

I did a cache requiring a 3 mile hike down a remote area of the Cheat River Canyon on an old tram road. It's possible to get down there in a serious 4 wheel drive but you might not make it back up. About halfway down, I came across this:

It makes you wonder if it was the last group of cachers who tried it

April 6, 2008

once near 412, i saw about 8 dead dogs and a spine and other bones.

3.9k · April 6, 2008

once near 412, i saw about 8 dead dogs and a spine and other bones.

hmmmm.... I had always assumed, perhaps mistakenly, that Groundspeak, unlike Craigslist, does not allow using pop culture codespeak slang terms such as "412" and "420" for illegal activities here on the forums. :grin:

April 9, 2008

Im beginning to wish I had not read this thread. Will I ever feel the same way out there again?

Used condoms and needles are the worst thing Ive found while caching. Ive found human skeletons, but only in my former occupation of archaeologist.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I knew a cache was under a tree last night, and got donn on my hands and knees, to stick my face under the tree, and find myself a foot away from one. I almost threw up.

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