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Geocaching and Spooky Caches

 Good morning everyone.  Today we'll look at my other neighbor to the South, Minnesota.  The most favorite geocache is 'The Sword In The Stone' GC27N0W.  Hidden in May, 2010, this geocache has been found 1,314 times and has picked up 813 favorite points.  The oldest geocache is 'Alvin's Phone Line'  GC9FF.  Hidden in November, 2000, this geocache has been found 914 times and has 390 favorite points.

One of the fun aspects of geocaching is the creative containers that some owners place.  Since yesterday was Halloween, I went digging through some older geocaching pictures that I have and came up with some spooky or Halloween themed geocaches that I have found.


Imagine if you will, searching for a geocache that takes you under a bridge.  You've found many geocaches under bridges before, so what's another one?  You begin checking the usual hiding places when you come across the largest spider you have ever seen.  This particular geocache was 'No trolls here!'  GC5NK5K.  I found it in 2015 and it was archived a year later when the city replaced the bridge.
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I actually found two of these glass skulls.  Both were hidden miles apart from each other.  This particular one pictured was in a wooded area in Charleswood.  I don't remember the name or GC code, but it's been archived since.  The other one I believe had something to do with Spock's Brain in the title.  Hidden near the North Perimeter, it is also archived.


It wouldn't be Halloween if there wasn't a zombie around somewhere.  'That SNOW Zombie, it's a...' GZ71MDX.  I found this one in 2017.  It's still active.  I'm not sure if the zombie itself is still there.


This one is more of a pirate themed geocache, but skulls are a part of Halloween as well.  'PIRATE'S Last Laugh?' GCKT9D.  It's one of the older geocaches in Manitoba.  I found this one in 2016 with another geocacher, Shop Crazy and his two boys.


Graveyards and headstones are also a part of Halloween.  I found this one on one my birthday geocaching blitze in 2016.  'Exhuming Ivanna' GC3W2C5.  I still get a chuckle when I see this.


It wouldn't be Halloween without a few bats.  I have found many bats as containers.  Some would say I'm just 'bat' ty about geocaching.  I believe this one I found in the Brandon area.  I don't remember the name or GC code.  Looking at the geocaching map of Brandon, I don't see any 🙂 that could possibly be it.  Safe to say, this one has been archived.

The last picture isn't a container, but it's equally as scarry to most geocachers.


WOODTICKS!!!  The one thing that gives a geocacher the creepy crawlies are woodticks.  Just the thought or actually seeing one can make your skin crawl.

There are plenty more spooky themed geocaches that I have found.  These are just a select few.  What's the scariest geocache you have found?  Mine would be the one I found in downtown Toronto, three years ago.  The coordinates took me into an alley.  There was a hole in the wall.  I shone the light from my phone in the hole and starring back at me was a big rat.  It was a plastic rat.  This was after seeing a big and very real rat the night before in front of my hotel.  I forgot to take a picture of it.

That's all for this week.  Hopefully next week I'll have an Adventure Lab to share with you.  Until then, be happy, stay safe, protect yourself and others, stay healthy, and most of all, just have fun.  Peace out.  


Tinkers is snoozing while I read my new book.


Sassy is in the bag.

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