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The HenderWitch Project (Auckland) Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 12/30/2007
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A puzzle cache in the Henderson Valley


 
The HenderWitch Project

In 1787, in the New Zealand township of Kiwiville, a woman named Alice Headwrong was accused of luring children into her home to draw blood from them. The town found her guilty of witchcraft and banished her during a particularly harsh winter. A year later, all her accusers and half the children of the town vanished. Fears of a curse gripped the townspeople, and they abandoned KiwiVille. Thirty-eight years later, Henderson was founded on the former site of KiwiVille.

In 1825, eleven eye witnesses claimed a pale woman's hand dragged a little girl into a creek. "For thirteen days after the drowning, the creek is clogged with oily bundles of sticks."

In 1886, an eight year old was reported missing. Search parties were dispatched, one did not come back. Their bodies were found in Devil's Peak, tied and disemboweled.

Beginning in 1950, seven children were abducted near Henderson over the course of seven months. In May of 1951, an old hermit publicly proclaimed that he was "finally finished." Henderson Police investigated his secluded home in the woods, where they found the bodies of the seven children ritualistically murdered and disemboweled. The hermit confessed to the atrocity and claimed that he did it for an "old woman ghost" who lived in the woods.

In 2007, three university students doing a project on Geocaching ventured to the town to interview the locals. They vanished at the site of Devil's Peak, and 1 year later, their GPS units and some scribbles on paper were recovered. Here are the scribbles:-

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Here is the students TrackLog you download it here if you wish

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Maybe you can piece together the information and locate the HenderWitch's treasure.

Doing this cache at night could cause you to go mad....

The above co-ordinates are not the location of the cache, but are a location of a witch like looking feature on the map.

The final Co-ordinates are:-

S 36° 53.??? E 174° 34.???



FTF honours, go to FTF

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[CACHE] Gur fvqr bs gur ohevry Zbhaq, arne n Cvar Gerr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)