What is the strangest thing you have seen while Geocaching?

[Miata]

Just this afternoon in broad daylight I came across a couple doing the horizontal mamba at this cache. 😳

My question is what is the strangest thing you have seen while Geocaching? 😀

[marc_54140]

Mike, I think you will have to define ‘strange’. After all, I’ve gone caching with YOU!

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

Dang,

Talk about Take something, Leave something, Sign the log.

Can I log that one twice?

[Miata]

Hemi, it was more like Veni, vidi, sivi! No log signing. 😆

[lagrac]

Mercy!! I love geocaching!

Now back to the subject, the strangest thing that I’ve ever seen while out geocaching was King Boreas up at Bjornson…. now that was strange! 😕

Otherwise, when I first started caching, I was up at Ely,MN and I found a deuce that someone dropped about 4 metres from the cache. I was hoping that was not a prerequisite of caching that’s for sure

[Timberline Echoes]

We have shared some of our stories… with some of you…. the worst was when the guy drowned in the lake (At Bradley park Lake Tomahawk) and we came upong the scene where the boat was spinning in circles… we were on a bridge nearby and the scuba team came under the bridge and asked us which direction to go. Everyone was waiting for it to run out of gas so they could start the search. The cache was on the island not too far from the boat.

The other was in Superior where we stumbled on a guy way back in the woods who had been camping near the cache for nearly two weeks… was actually using the hiding place as a stool while eating… he said he was a philosopher and wrote things that no one every wants to read. He went on to say he had a “preminision that someone was coming”… “just like when his cat died”… then he went on to explain there is no such thing as time and that we really weren’t here is this dimension….. We told him a bit about geocaching… even took his picture knowing that the police may be able to use it if we were murdered… Jim did not like when the guy told us that the shortest way out was the opposite of the way we had got there… but that is not what the GPSr said….

Had one other “strange” fellow come running up to us near a cache who said his camping partner had abondoned him and had not come back to camp with supplies… would we please go 30 miles out of our way to take him somewhere so he could get food. We had ET with us and needed to get him home so did not have the time… nor really the desire to take this guy somewhere… so we gave him all the food we had and drove off… after finding the cache of course.
TE

[bnb]

It is things like TE’s experiences that make me so hesitant to geocache too far into the boonies by myself. That, and bears, of course. (Although my closest known geocaching contact with them was at Bjornson – not so out in the boonies.)

No real unusual finds for me. I have, unfortunately, encountered the impromptu outdoor toilet near a cache more than once. The weirdest experience was while geocaching in Eau Claire with zoejam (from MN) and after returning from the cache in a creepy wooded place along the river we saw a car come zooming out of where we had been. None of us had seen anyone in the woods while we had been there and it had limited access. It was scary to think that people were in there that we couldn’t/didn’t see.

[knoffer]

The weirdest thing I can think of was when I was on my way back from getting a cache and instead of walking across a busy Hwy I decided to take the river route and go under the bridge.

I get under the bridge and see an interesting looking rock wall. As I got closer I could kinda see the top of a head, then I heard barking. Eventually I got in view of the head and it was a rather unkept man and his dog. I believe he was homeless and living there.

I was carrying my usual Geocaching gear and he thought I was taking pictures. I didn’t stop to chat, we shared salutations as I passed. The worse part (for him anyways) is that it was in the middle of this last winter. I felt sorry for the guy having to live under there when it was subzero temps.

[WI_Robin]

I think I have seen a few strange things geocaching (some of the Posen hides I have found would qualify 😆 ). The strangest I think was near Rosemont. I was caching with Zuma, Jesse and my 10 year old son. We where looking for a cache, that ended up being frozen under the ice, and found this box. The box had an open top and had little colored paper flags all around the top of it. In the box was a dead chicken with a string around it’s neck, a womans shirt, some candy wrappers and a pen and some paper (no, we did not sign it just in case it was the log book). Strange thing to find in a very urban park area. I think it was that day also we found a large, fresh hole in the ice near a cache (we went on the ice near there and found the cache anyway – we just stayed as close to shore as possible!) Other strange, but no so strange things that I can remember right now have been full animal skeletons and a wrecked car in the middle of the woods. Oh yeah, we also found what looked like a hobo camp in the woods, more than once. Stranger still a “vibrating personal entertainment device” out in the woods. What it was doing there, I don’t even want to imagine! You never know what you will find geocaching!

[Team Honeybunnies]

@WI_Robin wrote:

…a “vibrating personal entertainment device”…

I don’t get it. You mean like a battery-powered hula statue? That WOULD be weird to find in the woods 😯 .

[RSplash40]

Hrmm..horizontal mamba, sounds like a favorite pastime in the valley, out on a cold enough day in decemeber with Wingnut and ccwhiz, and interrupted a younger couple in the riverside park lower parking lot. Near.. Riverwalk? cache.

[Lostby7]

I found a bong here in Ocon and a pipe in Appleton; that and foxes, coyotes, and bald eagles….which while not wierd are really cool.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

@Lostby7 wrote:

I found a bong here in Ocon and a pipe in Appleton; that and foxes, coyotes, and bald eagles….which while not wierd are really cool.

Can I have my pipe back?

OK, I also found a pipe made of aluminum foil. I can’t imagine that it was for prince albert.

While trout fishing I came across a guy who seemed to have a permanent camp site all set up near Goodman. Didn’t talk to him but I imagine it would have been quite a treat.

[LightningBugs Mum]

@bnb wrote:

I have, unfortunately, encountered the impromptu outdoor toilet near a cache more than once.

The weirdest thing about my encounter with this situation is that the cache was at a rest area! Apparently a log under some trees 200 feet from the flush toilets was more comfortable for someone.

[Team Margaritaville]

While out looking for sticks last month with Team Hemisphere Dancer ,I crested a hill to find some young kid smoking some weed and listening to his Ipod and last year while caching with Mark_”INSERT ZIPCODE HERE” we stumbled across an area that looks to have been used by Heroin addicts saw the remnants of were they had heated there juice.

NOTE to self.. maybe i shouldn’t be caching with these two..lol

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