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What's the oddest thing you've opened that wasn't a cache?


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The title says it all. What's the oddest thing you've opened that turned out not to be the cache?

 

I'll start: Arrived at GZ to the fence line of a small utility station. There was a length of 4" PVC, 3 feet long with caps at both ends, wired horizontally to one of the midrails of the fence. Opened it up to find a roll of paper 36" wide. what a HUGE logsheet, I thought unrilling it. It was the permit office's approval set of construction drawings for the facility. OOPS!!!

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The title says it all. What's the oddest thing you've opened that turned out not to be the cache?

 

I'll start: Arrived at GZ to the fence line of a small utility station. There was a length of 4" PVC, 3 feet long with caps at both ends, wired horizontally to one of the midrails of the fence. Opened it up to find a roll of paper 36" wide. what a HUGE logsheet, I thought unrilling it. It was the permit office's approval set of construction drawings for the facility. OOPS!!!

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Drugs, more drugs, and a light pole cache where someone replaced the contents with feminine hygiene products.

 

For caches themselves, a cache owner put a bison tube inside a regular size container full of Vaseline, lube, or something like that. I didn't have nitrile gloves with me, so had to use a stick to coax the bison tube out from that mess.

 

I've found other weird stuff, but it'll take a while for me to remember. Geocaching days have long since begun to blur together.

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A purple mushroom. The cache was "A Little Ding-E", and I couldn't find it. So I tried to work on that title. "Dingy" as in "dull, not shiny"? "Ding" as in ringing a bell? So on the third attempt, when I saw a large bell-shaped bright purple fake mushroom, I knew that was the cache! Obviously it was a shiny plastic, and it stood out so well, I wondered why I hadn't even noticed it before. I reached down and grabbed it and it was real, it disintegrated on contact, and I had a handful of bright purple mushroom juice all over my hand. Is that good to have on my skin? So I had to go wash it off.

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I actually found this stuff at a cache in my first year of caching. We came upon a Tupperware container on the edge of what appeared to be a wiccan circle. It was about thirty feet or so from the cache coordinates so we thought it was the cache and went about opening it. Well, as you can see below, it most certainly was not the cache. Rather it was a stash of different items you would see used in a Wicca ritual. Snake skin, candles, stones......We went on to find the cache soon after, but I couldn't help but wonder who put their stuff there first.

 

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Seeing this kind of stuff in the middle of the woods was a first for me, so I can thank caching for that!

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Not much change since my last report. The hermit crab was named Pepe, and I still remember that smell clearly, 8.5 years later.

1. An altoids tin, 30 feet from the micro I was searching for, that contained the remains of someone's pet hermit crab. I can still recall opening that tin. It was something that cannot be unsmelled.

 

2. An urn containing the cremated remains of someone's pet. At least I hope it was a pet!

 

3. Last weekend, I reached in a crevice between two rocks, and pulled out a used sanitary napkin. I'll be logging my DNF of that cache in due course.

 

4. A pornography stash, found while searching for the cache hidden by Magellan for a contest back in 2003.

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3 or 4 years ago we went to check on one of our caches in a small wooded area in town that had a couple of legitimate sounding DNFs. Arrived on site, and yes, the cache was gone, so we replaced it. Then I noticed a black back pack about 50 feet away next to a fence. Thinking that lady luck had finally shined her smiling face after all these years, and it might be fully loaded with unmarked $20s $50s, etc, I opened it up and looked inside. Nope. Just somebody's soiled laundry.

 

Good thing I had hand sanitizer in the truck, it was pretty nasty. :blink:

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It wasn't a container that I opened, but once I did a multi in a forest where one stage had been a plastic squirrel in a tree. At one of the next stages I discovered what I thought was a plastic frog sitting in a tree hole. I was just about to grab it when it suddenly moved! Turned out the real stage was a normal plastic container hanging from a branch of that very same tree.

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It wasn't a container that I opened, but once I did a multi in a forest where one stage had been a plastic squirrel in a tree. At one of the next stages I discovered what I thought was a plastic frog sitting in a tree hole. I was just about to grab it when it suddenly moved! Turned out the real stage was a normal plastic container hanging from a branch of that very same tree.

On a similar note, I thought I found a tricky FTF, but then I noticed the 'cache container' was breathing

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A "occupied" urn. No, we're not dumping it. the "occupied" opening is on the top side, the bottom side (as oriented in the pic) is a compartment for putting in personal effects. I whipped out the phone and took a pic before trying to stop laughing and explain it to the individual handling it. It was at GZ in a hollowed out log. Authorities seemed to care leass and it took a couple weeks before the CO disabled it, so all parties must have known it was there. cb82967b-8946-4b5d-812d-1891b6d24d41.jpg?rnd=0.852714

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A US flag neatly folded, wrapped in plastic and encased in tupperware. It was stashed in a rock crevice at a remote, scenic overlook about 30 feet from the actual cache. There must have been some significance, but I have no idea what it was

 

When a solder dies in combat he is afforded a military funeral at which his family is presented with a flag folded into a triangle. I suspect that is where this flag came from. I hope you left it where you found it.

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I found a bag of women's underwear in a rock crevice near Reno once - all styles and colors. In a nearby crevice I found a bag of adult magazines. Interesting swag they have there...

 

We found pretty much the same thing, only the women's underwear was hanging from trees. The first pair made it appear that it was removed for some reason, but then there was more, and more... A few dozen bras and panties hanging from trees, not all in one spot but spread over a good distance and not on the trail.

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