Strange Finds

[3 Hawks]

I’ve “found” many strange and interesting items while caching. Here are a few.

1) 4 fresh goose quills inside an alluminum foil envelope attached to a tree in the middle of a section of woods in central Racine County.
2) A man wearing no pants who appeared to be “getting in touch with himself in nature.”
3) A large stash of Hispanic pornography.
4) Multiple marijuana growing operations. The largest was only 200 feet from the edge of the Milwaukee Public School Distric Administration office and less that 300 feet from the edge of a nearby middle school. I destroyed a very small plot in a Racine County park and walked away with a brand new spade.
5) Topless female sunbathers. One on the Racine lakeshore and another in the Menomonee River Parkway.
6) A strung out crack-head who came after me and I only beat him to the relative safety of my car by 30 feet.
7) At least half-a-dozen bongs, pipes, and/or other drug smoking devices.

[marc_54140]

I remember reading on the GC forums some years ago about a similar topic.

The winner seems to have been the live grenade in a cache located near a military installation.

The finder stated he dropped everything, and bolted for home. He needed to change his pants …….

[RSplash40]

Wow..that’s messed up..and thats the nice way of putting it. My wife has heard the way I want to say it but its family here so…

I seem to have a knack for finding the elusive teenagus matingus, specially at boat landings on cold fall days.

Lots of empty’s of various liquids, A twinky, matches, lighters, urine, beer bottle tops, notes from non-cachers,

Not while caching but house hunting NE side of wausau we drove past a suitcase in the ditch, thinking the worst we stopped and kicked it open only to find a inflatable entertainment device.

[Lostby7]

@marc_54140 wrote:

I remember reading on the GC forums some years ago about a similar topic.

I think this might be the one:
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=94899

[zuma]

@CodeJunkie wrote:

I forgot one one how could I forget this one. – While doing a cache near a boat slip in Montello last summer a couple of young ladies started heading from their boat to the small woods I was in. I ducked down behind the pile of logs and they proceeded about their “business”. Eventually one of them spotted me and was extremely startled and wanted to know why I was watching them. Definately an interesting / awkward moment.

While caching in the UP with Team Honeybunnies, we were interested in the 2 gals on the side of the road lifting their tops along highway 2 to get truckers to honk their horns. Mrs Team Honeybunnies and Robin were along on that trip, and they were not as interested as Seth and I.

zuma

[Team Honeybunnies]

@zuma wrote:

@CodeJunkie wrote:

I forgot one one how could I forget this one. – While doing a cache near a boat slip in Montello last summer a couple of young ladies started heading from their boat to the small woods I was in. I ducked down behind the pile of logs and they proceeded about their “business”. Eventually one of them spotted me and was extremely startled and wanted to know why I was watching them. Definately an interesting / awkward moment.

While caching in the UP with Team Honeybunnies, we were interested in the 2 gals on the side of the road lifting their tops along highway 2 to get truckers to honk their horns. Mrs Team Honeybunnies and Robin were along on that trip, and they were not as interested as Seth and I.

zuma

I skipped that as it’s not really a caching find. That happened while we were eating across the street. Still one of those great stories to trot out though. As they peeled out after realizing they were being watched one of them shouted “Girls Gone Wild UP Style!” 😆 .

[Smashing Ground]

while i was biking with my mom on the glacial drumlin trail from london to lake mills there was naked man just laying out by the river with his beer.
he gladly put his straw hat over his crotch and waved.

[kc9gbo]

Our weirdest had to be one on the north side of LaCrosse, newly published cache and the last time we had been there the area was pretty clean. Got out of the vehicle and immediately found someones old xxx video collection (just the cases, yes I did have to check) but what was really wrong was the ahem (keeping it clean as this is a family site) toy that some lady must have left behind… then got over to the cache site and it looked like a hobo was living in the area. And to top it off, couldn’t find the cache, haven’t been back since. Did suggest a cache in trash out to the cache owner, would have done it ourselves but we had the kids with and didn’t want to expose them to that stuff.

[gkrone]

Not really a strange find, but a strange place to find it.

We were caching at Bong Recreation area and my wife spotted a camoed container sitting on a log next to the trail. She opened it up and it was a cache. I checked the coordinates for it and it was well over .3 miles from where it was supposed to be. Since we were headed in that direction anyway we took it with us and returned it to as close to it’s hiding place as we could.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

Lets see…

A vacuum cleaner, a blender, a GPS unit, A sataltite dish, A tub spout and working water valves and shower head placed on a tree, a phone, exterior globe lighting in a forrest, a pill bottle the size of a 55 gallon drum…

Oh wait, were talking about things that aren’t caches. 😯 😀

[EnergySaver]

doing a little googling … this is likely an Occult thing … I’m finding references to graves, nailing cow tongues and rooster heads into trees.

[BakRdz]

@EnergySaver wrote:

doing a little googling … this is likely an Occult thing … I’m finding references to graves, nailing cow tongues and rooster heads into trees.

This doesn’t make me feel any better. Yeesh! I’ve always been a little leery about graveyards at dusk (that’s when the dead rise from the grave you know), but now I have to worry about having a hex placed on me when geocaching! 😯

[BakRdz]

@EnergySaver wrote:

doing a little googling … this is likely an Occult thing … I’m finding references to graves, nailing cow tongues and rooster heads into trees.

Did some googling as well. Found this on a witch/pagan site.

COW TONGUE ‘HOODOO’ SPELL FOUND IN CORNFIELD
“A severed cow’s tongue with notes and a woman’s photo sewn inside was discovered Saturday inside of a box placed in a shallow hole on city open space, according to police. The package was wrapped in a black cloth and tied with a yellow cord. Once police determined it was not an explosive, an officer opened it and discovered what police believe was a severed cow’s tongue with stitching. The officer cut the plastic thread of the stitching and found a photo of a woman dressed in white and four folded notes written in Spanish with red ink. There was also a powdery substance in the tongue that officers said looked and smelled like it contained pepper.”
This is a tradtion Hoodoo spell to shut the mouth of the person at whom the spell was directed. Hoodoo is a very literal tradition of magic so it you wanted to “tie someone’s tongue” you tie a tongue. Originally, a Shut Up spell using a cow tongue was associated closely with court case magic so that those working for the prosecution couldn’t speak against the defendent. However, as a Hoodoo practitioner, I would have tied the tongue with black thread, not yellow, as well as tied the picture of the target. Likewise, I would have burned a black candle on tongue dressed with Shut Up or Tapa Boca Oil and Powder. Today, a Cow Tongue/Shut Up Spell is used for more than just court case work.

[benny7210]

@BakRdz wrote:

but now I have to worry about having a hex placed on me when geocaching! 😯

The hex only works if you took a picture of the tongue… OH wait..OMG

[-cheeto-]

@BakRdz wrote:

but now I have to worry about having a hex placed on me when geocaching! 😯

That’s what I wondered myself. What if someone is seeing geocachers visiting the cemetery and performing their voodoo magic to get rid of you.

Get out of my cemetery you!

I still think they’re feeding the crows.

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