You Found What Near The Cache?

October 12, 2005

The strangest thing that I found was a universal joint near a cache. The cache was in a park, about 3 miles from a road, and it had not been there for very long. We all wondered how it got there. It was big too, like from a truck or bus! :rolleyes:

October 12, 2005

I know I've already posted to this thread once, but came across another today. While searching for an as advertised "very urban", so urban in fact I didn't feel comfortable in the neighborhood and decided I'd have to log a DNF, cache, I came across an out of business place called...are you ready...wait...the GOD ALMIGHTY RESTAURANT!!! Gee, I wonder why they went out of business??? For the first time since I started caching on business trips, I don't have the camera with me, but this place is less than .25 from the cache in Nashville, TN near Meharry Medical College!!! :mad:

October 12, 2005

took a wrong turn on a switch back in Montana and came upon a sign,"you will be shot if you pass this point". Went back the way we came and found the cache also bagged a white jeep.

October 12, 2005

We came a across a hobo's tent near "Short Stop." Another time we came across five half-full beer kegs sitting in a creek bed. Looks like a party had been busted and the kegs were tossed down the hill behind the house. My wife would not help me carry one of the kegs back to our truck because we did not know how long it had been out there. But we did take the taps!

October 16, 2005

1. A brown backpack with a couple action figures and a note that said, "Fooled ya! Keep looking!"

2. A raccoon. Frozen in ice.

October 16, 2005

But we did take the taps!

Nice score. Those things carry a hefty deposit.

October 17, 2005

Last month, while completing Medway Ramble, in London, Ontario-we found what was a perfect cache location guarded by a raccoon. Upon closer inspection with our stick, we found it was only the raccoon head. It had been placed perfectly as a guard to the cache, but it was not properly skinned-so the insects were enjoying lunch on his decomposing flesh. It freaked us out quite well, we were just glad that we didn't have any kids with us. <_<

October 17, 2005

The best thing I ever found near a cache was 2 five dollar bills and a ten dollar bill. They were on the trail I took back to my car. (A different one than I took getting to the cache.)

I did a cache not too long ago that was hidden near the wreckage of a plane on the side if a mountain. Seeing what happens when a small plane meets a mountain side was interesting to say the least.

November 3, 2005

Ladybugs...lots and lots of ladybugs.

We came upon these last weekend while heading towards some Snow Mountain caches in Lake County, California.

November 3, 2005

Now that's cool. Great pic! <_<

November 4, 2005

Some strange things I have found, happend on CITO DAY this past year (March 05). There, we found 2 snakes with thier heads cut off, and other junk that we cleanned out.

But the other strange thing I saw happened when I first started caching at Taum Sauk Mountain SP in MO. A trail known as THE DEVILS TOLLGATE. A name like that ought to scare you from the start, but it is a hike that I have done before geocaching. So I knew the trail well.

But this time while on the way to the cache, I found a deer tail by itself. Don't know how it was there, but there it was all by itself.

Edited November 4, 2005 by rockey_f_squirrell

November 13, 2005

I went searching for a cache down by the river in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. took me two tries as on the first try I got sidetracked . . . a man fishing down by the waters edge called up to me to phone 911 - there was a dead body in the water.

I only caught a glimpse of it, but that was more than enough.

November 16, 2005

a man fishing down by the waters edge called up to me to phone 911 - there was a dead body in the water

Holy Patooties! I was going to tell about my deer carcass and refridgerator, but that takes the cake!

Edited November 16, 2005 by Miss Eagerbeaver

November 16, 2005

How about this?

Or this?

Edited November 16, 2005 by Two Geeks and a GPS

November 20, 2005

Found this today. From a short distance it was looking as if it might not be a doll. I moved ahead and checked before my daughter saw it, just in case. Still she was a bit creeped out and was ready to leave "Right Now".

MC

November 21, 2005

How about this

(image removed by moderator)

Sorry about the size. I am new and had no idea it would be this big!

Edited December 7, 2005 by mtn-man

November 23, 2005

Found a "body"

It's got a tag but it's no Travel bug

Edited November 23, 2005 by whatson II

November 23, 2005

Found a "body"

It's got a tag but it's no Travel bug

LOL, now that's gonna be hard to top!

November 26, 2005

While doing a new urban park cache, I found a Russian Hip Flask with a strong smelling liquid in it. Poured out the liquid but kept the flask...And this is in the middle of North Central Texas..

November 27, 2005

Rev.Kane felt obliged

And this was kind of neat

November 27, 2005

Let's see clothing, Crack Pipe, got within 20 ft of a 10 pt buck. And didn't actually see but smelled something very dead near one cache. And I picked up a cigerette lighter laying on the ground. Could come in handy. The usual assortment.

November 29, 2005

How about this rather bad photo of some altar or shrine in a park in the middle of my town? My apoligies for the bad quality of the picture.

geocache6-25%20017.jpg

Edited November 29, 2005 by ScottFla

November 30, 2005

In the same woods I found a full sized SUV (I think), a car hood, and a screen door. The screen door was kinda weird because the screen had been punched out, and it was around a tree trunk. (the tree was a normal size tree!!) I also found a party spot, complete with a fire pit filled with beer cans and pringles. There are a lot of beer cans around here!

Edited November 30, 2005 by micro500

2k · December 6, 2005

Walked round the bend in the trail and almost bumped into two young ladies.

I am not sure, but I think one was searching for the others tonsils!

December 6, 2005

Saturday I went caching with two friends - within five minutes of our meeting at the park, we saw a guy get his bicycle stolen as he went into the restroom - when he came out, he raced after them, screaming and surprisingly, he almost caught them (both on bikes, peddling sedately away). At that point the words my wife uttered the day before started to haunt me, "Ewww. That's not a good area." and I just laughed it off. On the way to the first cache, we saw clothing, trash and what looked like several campsites and lots of graffiti too. I was wondering why anyone in their right mind would hide a cache there, but understood after I saw the view of the city below the hill. The next "find" was hilarious, when my friend Ohgr literally "stepped in it" - "it" being a huge pile of what may have been human crap, possibly Bigfoot - yes, it was that big and a bright red (not blood, possibly berries). After I left (found two caches) my friends Ohgr and Maria went to find a third cache and came across a porn stash and what looked like another campsite - they logged it as a DNF when they realized the crackheads in the park were watching them. Ain't caching just one adventure after another?

That my friend with the berries in it was Black Bear poop. D'oh!

December 7, 2005

Walked round the bend in the trail and almost bumped into two young ladies.
I am not sure, but I think one was searching for the others tonsils!

And dear Penthouse...

December 7, 2005

Saturday I went caching with two friends - within five minutes of our meeting at the park, we saw a guy get his bicycle stolen as he went into the restroom - when he came out, he raced after them, screaming and surprisingly, he almost caught them (both on bikes, peddling sedately away). At that point the words my wife uttered the day before started to haunt me, "Ewww. That's not a good area." and I just laughed it off. On the way to the first cache, we saw clothing, trash and what looked like several campsites and lots of graffiti too. I was wondering why anyone in their right mind would hide a cache there, but understood after I saw the view of the city below the hill. The next "find" was hilarious, when my friend Ohgr literally "stepped in it" - "it" being a huge pile of what may have been human crap, possibly Bigfoot - yes, it was that big and a bright red (not blood, possibly berries). After I left (found two caches) my friends Ohgr and Maria went to find a third cache and came across a porn stash and what looked like another campsite - they logged it as a DNF when they realized the crackheads in the park were watching them. Ain't caching just one adventure after another?

That my friend with the berries in it was Black Bear poop. D'oh!

Sorry, I didn't mean to shout. :-)

Icemannwt.

December 8, 2005

This is the image I posted earlier and was removed by the moderator. I have edited the image to conform with forum guidelines.

I thought I resized it but that didnt seem to help. Sorry again for the size.

Edited December 8, 2005 by bobbarley

December 8, 2005

Well, let's see............My wife found a loaded Beretta 9MM semi-aoto pistol behind a bank in Tucson, Az while looking for a micro.......I have found a dead elk, dead horse, dead Javelina, a couple of porno stashes, and a red size 48HH bra hanging in a palo verde tree that I first thought was a parachute for a mini rocket. ...I also came upon a hobo sleeping in a plywood shelter. I'm not sure who was the most startled. ....And the last.......A live rattlesnake that I apparently stepped on and somehow didn't get bitten. It was cool out and he apparently wasn't too active yet, but when I heard the unmistakable "buzzing", I looked down to see the tail flailing around. I think I stepped (On it) very close to his head, and he couldn't reach me that quickly. Who knows.................

December 27, 2005

Hachie_hounds here

We were in San Diego 2 summers ago ( we are from Texas and it was our first trip to San Diego) We HAD to cache while we were there..... it looks good on our stats to cache while on vacation! WOW caching in California is much different than Texas! We had to buy a shovel to dig up the beach and still didnt find it..... another was we were caching in town but in a wooded area with our two young boys 4&7.... naturally the straightest rought isnt always the safest route..... we headed into the woods, forget the path..... down an hill to a creek area and back up the hill... about halfway down we past 2 cots that were in a heavily wooded spot that had bottled drinks and pron magazines and the feeling that someone was JUST there....... WHAT A CREEPY FEELING> Did we have our cell phones with us???? NO lucky for us we didnt see anyone but we are sure they saw us.... to cross the creek our youngest fell in and he was whisked up so fast in fear so we could keep moving.... on the way back up there was a small tent with trash all around so here we were creeped out again..... we were never so releaved to get back to our vehicle! We did find the cache and for the rest of the vacation we were scared out of our minds everytime we entered a wooded area. We have come upon a dead, dried out, skunk that stank soooo bad you could swear it was a fresh kill. While caching alone I came upon a dead small deer.... just surprised me. But the woods people had to be the scariest!!!!!!

December 28, 2005

I found a broken washing machine once. it looked like it had been out there for a while too.

1.1k · December 28, 2005

Here's an example of someone finding something interesting in the woods and then placing the cache:

GCPARY

:rolleyes:

December 29, 2005

I was caching in the Pine Barrens region of NJ one winter several years ago when I heard shouting and shots. This injured Russian dude came running past me. Later, I saw these two italian guys cussing at each other in a van.

I have no idea what they were doing. I wonder what happened to that Russian guy?

December 29, 2005

I was caching in the Pine Barrens region of NJ one winter several years ago when I heard shouting and shots. This injured Russian dude came running past me. Later, I saw these two italian guys cussing at each other in a van.

I have no idea what they were doing. I wonder what happened to that Russian guy?

"Mix it with the relish!" LOL-- :antenna:

December 30, 2005

A brand new professional two way walkie talkie radio and a motorcycle helmet. Apparently, someone tried to hop a high fence and dropped the radio and the helmet (didn't they notice???). Whoever the stuff belonged to probably didn't want to admit that they hopped a fence (in a restricted area, mind you) in search of a cache. So after two weeks of advertising, I sold the lot for a tidy sum. It was the most profitable cache I ever went after! -BK

January 1, 2006

I found a broken washing machine once. it looked like it had been out there for a while too.

You mean you tried it out!?

January 2, 2006

On our way back out from finding a couple caches on a suburban trail, my partner noticed a green folder with papers in it lying next to the road. We retrieved it and discovered it full of social security statements and bills for someone in a nearby community. Well, that's odd. Without much looking we found a phone number, called, and left a message. Then went on to a nearby cache. While looking there, the owner of the folder called back.

On Christmas Eve, his car window was smashed and his backpack was stolen. They did some damage with his credit card -- and apparently dumped the rest of the contents at this out-of-the-way trailhead. He was very happy to hear we had found the folder.

We wondered if there might be something else of his back there. So, back to where we found it. And, sure enough, there was a case with two dental bridges. (We much prefer to find false teeth than real human teeth, if we have to pick.) We called him back, and, yes, they were his -- and he was ecstatic that we had found them. The teeth and paperwork have been reunited with their owner.

January 12, 2006

A recent trek into the woods and a mis-written set of coordinates caused me to happen upon a rusty can at the base of a tree. Being inquisitive, I researched further, and found the durn thing was full of coins (mostly pennies). Looks like it had been there a while, so I put it in the boot and brought it home for drying and cleaning ... oh, yeah, I fnally found the cache too.

January 20, 2006

GCM096

got a bit of a laugh out of this find :lol:

January 20, 2006

I found this the other day. Still not sure what the deal was, but since I didn't have a hard-hat, I didn't hang around to find out.

January 20, 2006

The mose intriguing thing I came across was an old style truck, abondoned about 3km up a trail that would be considered 'walking only'. No idea how it got there.

Parked Truck

1.1k · January 21, 2006

Let's see in less than 7 days I have found the following:

3 Machetes and a file

A homeless person's campsite:

and some animal bones:

January 22, 2006

Found this is an old pipe by a cache. Mask was being used to smoke illegals. <_<

January 22, 2006

At one cache I attempted I found a backpack that had been full of medical supplies scattered across aroadside picnic area.There was a purse and ID as well.Went to the local police station and took the officers to the location to retrive the articles.Needles to say I had to return a later dat for the cache.

January 22, 2006

Twice In Omaha I have found sex toys, somebody is having fun in the parks!

Big Tom

January 23, 2006

They're not called the Cornhuskers for nothing.

January 23, 2006

dogdoins Posted on Jan 22 2006, 06:03 PM
They're not called the Cornhuskers for nothing.

LOL Thanks I just blew soda out my nose!

Big Tom

January 30, 2006

just 2 days ago in brooks park in westviginia we found a cache at the base of a 20 foot tree with a possum bout 6 feet over the cache sitting on a limb as a sentry..we posted a picture of it there,'',park entreance cache''

Edited January 30, 2006 by team lagonda

January 31, 2006

I was doing a tour in the Cederberg and saw this cache coming up on my GPS. There was a path pointing in the correct direction and I decided to give it a try. After coming across this house I decided againt searcing around too much. I rather turned around. Wonder why? Check out my log for pictures....

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...11-8e00440982fa

January 31, 2006

This past Saturday while caching in the Pine Barrens in central NJ, we came upon some bones. Not unusual in the pines since Whitetail deer are more numerous than pine cones down there, but this was no deer. I am a geeky biologist, so I knew that the vertebrae and femur head we found were that of a grazing hoofed animal, but they were very large. I mean, REALLY large. :grin:

It was a partial skeleton a horse. In the middle of the pine barrens. I can only imagine the story behind that. Was someone out there riding and met up with an unfortunate accident? Did someone drag a carcass out there because it's illegal to bury dead animals in the state? Who knows. It had been out there for several years, and most of it had apparently been carted off by scavengers.

Edited January 31, 2006 by Sue Gremlin

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