Back when I was uninitiated to Geocaching, I spent some time with a cousin who works for the NSA. He lives on Rehmeyer's Hollow road outside of York Pennsylvania. I heard a story while I was there about an event that happened about 75 years ago.
John Blymire, aged 32, and two teenaged (14 and 18) accompolices murdered Nelson Rehmeyer, thinking that he had put a Hex on Blymire. Blymire and Rehmeyer were both practicing witches or practiced powwow (the regional term for witchcraft). Rehmeyer wouldn't surrender his hex book and a lock of hair, so he was beaten to death. The three men were apprehended and prosecuted. This was the most publicized witch trial since Salem. The 1969 book "Hex" by Arthur Lewis was inspired this series of events.
I went online to find this story to tell a new friend who lived in York and didn't know it. The first page I found was Witchhunter at Rehmeyer's Hollow and that was my introduction to geocaching. I still haven't found that cache... Must be a hex.
So why is all this in a cache? This is called a cyphertext. Beginning at the first letter of this text (the bolded "B"), count from 1 and use the code below to begin your solution. Don't include spaces or punctuation.
014 {212 186} . {233 069 545 029 130 223}
005 {187 212} . {233 211 186 001 069 003}
Now you need to translate this from Hexadecimal into Decimal form. To do that, you might use your Scientific calculator or even the Windows calculator. I'm sure there's a place or two to get help.
Now, you've got coordinates in decimal. You can enter them that way or convert them to have the final location.
Enjoy. This is the hard part. The cache is an fairly easy find. It is a plastic container dressed up in camo tape.
The clue is a test for the coordinates. Don't wait until hitting the road to check them...
