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SUSCON SCREAMER!!! Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 8/8/2004
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


Park at N41 15.341 W75 41.431. From the parking coords use the SGL access road across the street to get to the posted coords. Remember, your on PA. SGL, so WEAR ORANGE.

Please hide the container as good or better than the way you find it. There is bark in the area to cover up the large ammo can. The road you park on is filled with many tales of ghosts and legend. There used to be a narrow one lane bridge near the coords that locals called “The Black Bridge” or “The Boo Boo Bridge”. It is said that here, one of many things happened. There are many different legends to be a girl. Some believe her to be a bride left at the altar, who let out a loud scream before hanging herself at the bridge. Others believe the girl was murdered on her prom night. A third legend claims the screamer to be a mother and child said to be killed on their way to a hospital. Yet others believe it is not a girl at all, but an escaped lion from a visiting circus. The cry is still heard today, whether it is a girl, woman, or lion. It is said that if you were to point your car in the direction of the old, once standing “Black Bridge”, preferably at night, shutting off your engine, and were to beep your horn 3 times the ghost of a woman will appear. There are 18 streetlights on this road, however there are constantly 11 out, but never the same 11. In an old local newspaper my father saved, there is a story of a hunter seeing a monster. The article appeared in the Times Leader. A hunter was hunting off of Suscon Road when he heard something coming up over the hill. Then he heard another hunter in a tree stand start screaming. The hunter jumped out of the tree and started running. The hunter observed the creature with his 10 power binoculars, and described him as “Being about 6 ft. long with a long snout. It weighed about 200 pounds and was gray in color. It had webbed feet with long claws and had a huge head”. The hunter refused to take the Game Commissioner back to the site, because he was too scared. The man also said “The ground was clawed up as if 100 turkeys had gone through”. He told the officer it wasn’t a bear or a coyote, it was a “Monster”. Other hunters the officer encountered claimed the “monster” was the Suscon Screamer, a monster that came out of a bog up there 30 or 40 years ago. After an internet search, I found that in May of 1976 a family had a different encounter with an unusual creature. They were visiting a nearby lake and saw a family of four, 6ft tall, hairy animals resembling “Bigfoot”. So cachers beware, call a friend and don’t go alone.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[cache is under a fallen log against a rock covered with bark]

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)