 DALE SPAUR AND A FLYING SAUCER NAMED FLOYD
A cache by PAFARMBOY Hidden: 11/17/2006
Size:  (Regular) Difficulty:  Terrain:  (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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WE ARE NOT ALONE! WE ARE NOT ALONE!
In 1976 a young Steven Spielberg created a movie entitled "Close
Encounters of the Third Kind."
A scene near the beginning is an homage to Dale Spaur's real-life
nightmare......
The Cleveland Plain
Dealer, Sunday, October
9, 1966 Pg. 8-
A:
HE CHASED A FLYING
SAUCER, NOW HIS LIFE IS SHATTERED
by John De Groot
RAVENNA (AP)--In his world of loneliness and
twisted nightmares, Dale Spaur wonders if the nightmare will ever
end. It began six months ago with
"Seven Steps to Hell" and ended with a flying saucer named
Floyd. In the predawn hours of a
gentle April morning, Portage County Sheriff's Deputy Spaur chased
a flying saucer 86 miles.
NOW THE STRANGE craft is chasing him. And he
is hiding from it, a bearded stranger peering past the limp
curtains of a tiny motel room in Solon.
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He no longer is a deputy sheriff.
His marriage is shattered.
He has lost 40 pounds.
He lives on one bowl of cereal and a
sandwich each day.
He walks three miles to an $80-a-week
painters job. His motel room costs $60 a week. The court has
ordered him to pay his wife $20 a week for the support of his two
children.
That leaves Dale Spaur exactly
nothing.
THE FLYING saucer did it.
"If I could change all that I have done in my
life," he said, "I would change just one thing. And that would be
the night we chased that damn thing. That saucer."
He spit the word out, "Saucer." An
obscenity.
"MY ENTIRE LIFE came crashing down around my
shoulders," he said. "Everything
changed. I still don't really know what happened. But suddenly, it
was as though everybody owned me. And I no longer had anything for
myself. My wife, my home, my children. They all seemed to fade
away."
Spaur's wife Daneise now is alone with her two
children. She has filed for divorce
and is working as a waitress in a bar at Ravenna.
"Something happened to Dale, but I don't know what
it was," she says. He came home that day and I never saw him more
frightened before. He acted strange, listless. He just sat around.
He was very pale."
"THEN LATER, he got real nervous. And he started to
run away. He'd just disappear for days and days. I wouldn't see
him." "Our marriage fell apart. All
sorts of people came to the house. Investigators. Reporters. They
kept him up all night. They kept after him, hounding him. They
hounded him right into the ground." "And he changed."
Then one night, Dale came home very late. He isn't
sure what happened. He walked into the living room. There were some
other people there. Things were very tense. Very confused.
HE GRABBED his wife and shook her. Hard. He kept
shaking her. It left big ugly bruises on her arms. He doesn't know
how or why...
That was the end of July. Daneise filed assault and
battery charges. Dale was jailed and turned in his badge.
A newspaper printed a story about the deputy
who chased the flying saucer being jailed for beating his
wife. When he got out of jail, Dale
ran...left town, turned his back on everything.
BUT THE SAUCER followed him, locked in his
dreams. In Ravenna, Daneise can only
say, "Dale is a lost soul. And
everything is finished for us."
In Solon, Dale said, "I have become a freak. I'm so
damn lonely. Look at me...34 years old and what do I have?
Nothing." "Who knows me? To everyone
I'm Dale Spaur, the nut who chased a flying saucer.
My father called me several weeks ago. A long time ago we had a fight. I hadn't heard from him for
years. Then he calls me."
"DO YOU THINK he called to ask how I was...To say
'I love you, son... To see if I wanted to go fishing, or
something? Hell, no. He wanted to
know if I'd seen any more flying saucers."
"I tried to go to church for help. I went to church
and the minister introduced me to the congregation. 'We have the
man who chased a flying saucer with us today,' he said."
Dale Spaur wept as he told what the flying saucer
named Floyd had done to him. He calls
it Floyd because he saw it once more while he was still working for
the sheriff's department.
THE RADIO operators knew civilians were monitoring
their broadcasts. So they agreed to use a code name if the flying
saucer was seen again. They called it Floyd...Dale Spaur's middle
name. Dale was driving east on
Interstate 80-S one night in June [1966]. He looked up. There it
was. "Floyd's here with me," he
whispered into the radio.
Then he parked the car and sat there, alone. This
time Barney Neff was not with him. Dale did not look out the
window. He lit a cigarette and stared at the floor of the cruiser.
He sat there for nearly 15 minutes...not looking outside, not
wanting to see Floyd.
WHEN HE LOOKED up, Floyd had disappeared.
Yet it still follows him. And it has ruined his
life.
THIS he believes.
What events caused Dale Spaur's life to spiral out of control?
Was he crazy, or did he see something out there? Find the cache and
you will know the rest of this incredible story. Each stage will
contain a cache that provides a part of the wild tale, as well as
coords to the next stage. I won't make you drive all 86 miles, but
you will have to follow the chase from the PA state line to the
final spot of the pursuit (about 22 miles). There are four stages
to the cache. Each stage, except stage 3 (PA'S AREA 51), is an ammo
can that will require a half-decent hike.
The first stage can be reach from 2 different parking areas, but
the directions to stage 2 are given from the posted parking coords
listed below.
PS - I wouldn't recommend driving 103 miles an hour either.
Remember......they're out there...and they're watching
you.
****New info added 5/10/08
My coords were bouncing all over the place when I replaced the
first stage of this cache. I kept it within 10 feet of the original
spot, but my GPS was showing 50 feet downstream. So instead of an
encrypted hint, I've provided the following 'letterbox'
details:
Other side of creek, tucked in under the right side of the rock
face that has big pine tree above it. A tree is leaning on the
other side of the creek towards the correct rock face.
PAFARMBOY
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