Blair Witch'ing Traditional Geocache

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Nomex: Hi
As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm temporarily archiving this to keep it from continually showing up in search lists. Just contact us when you have the cache repaired, [RED]and assuming it still meets the guidelines[/RED], we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Don't hesitate to email me via the link on my Profile if you have any questions. [red]Please be sure to include the cache name and GC Code, or better yet, the URL of the cache page.[/red]

Thanks for your cooperation!
Nomex
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Hidden : 9/15/2004
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:



In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a documentary and hiding a cache...

[Spooky Movie Music]


...Ten years later their cache was found over 2800 miles away in the backwoods of the UC Santa Cruz campus.

[Maniacal Laughter]

NOTE: The storyline behind this cache was selected for entertainment. As well, since geocaching is a family-oriented sport, please do not leave any items that are inappropriate. Let’s make this a fun and safe cache for everyone to enjoy! Even the old lady in the woods knows about this.

IMPORTANT CACHE INFORMATION...
  • The posted coordinates are of the general cache location - not directly of the cache ;
  • The cache will be within the general vicinity of where you end up (i.e., no need to continue down any of the trails) ;
  • The cache site can be reached from a small trail that offshoots from a fireroad ;
  • The cache container is a 10" x 7" x 3 .25" ammo box ;
  • GPS coverage may be spotty when you approach the cache - you will need to search.
RULES OF BLAIR WITCH'ING...
  1. Although this cache has a storyline theme, there is no theme on trade items ;
  2. Please log your exchanges online so people know what items are in the cache ;
  3. You may log this cache as a "find" only once, but you may visit and exchange as many times as you would like. After your first visit, just post a "note" with any exchange information ;
  4. You may log your find without exchanging an item. You are NOT required to make an exchange to log this one.

WHo, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY & BLAIR WITCH


Back in 1785 there was a woman who was accused of witchcraft in her home village of Blair, Maryland. For her sentencing she was banished from the village to survive on her own in the woods. A year later after being banished, her accusers and half of the village’s children vanish.

A town called Burkittsville was established at the site of the abandoned Blair village about forty years later. From the time Burkittsville was built to the present day there have been a series of disappearances within the general area.

In 1994, three film students decide to travel to Burkittsville to film interviews with locals about the Blair Witch legend as a class project. As part of their documentary the student traveled through the woods where the accused Blair witch of 1785 was banished. A couple of days later the students disappeared in the nearby woods.

No trace of them was found until the footage they shot was discovered under an old cabin a year later.

What the film neglects to highlight is that the three students were armed with GPS units and a strong desire to hide a cache in the woods near Blair/ Burkittsville. Their cache was forgotten about...until now.

Really?
The legend of the Blair Witch was invented by the film's writer/directors, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. Myrick and Sánchez hired three young actors (Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Joshua Leonard), explained the outline of the film's story to them, gave them advice about the characters they were to play, then turned them loose in the woods with film equipment to shoot movie footage. The actors received notes and supplies left for them and carried a Global Positioning System (GPS) device with them for tracking purposes, but they didn't know exactly what was going to happen once they embarked on their movie-making venture -- thus the film has the feel of a documentary that captures events genuinely surprising to the filmmakers.

Are you brave enough?

Available year-round Available year-round
Light hike More than 500 feet from car on trail
Bicycles permitted on fireroads Bicycles permitted on specified trails only
Equestrian Trail Horses allowed on specified trails only
A good cache for your lunchtime Lunchtime Cache
Parking Parking: Lat: 37.00.130 Long: 122.03.315 - UCSC parking rules [here]

ORIGINAL CACHE ITEMS...
  • Logbook with pen
  • Book: 101 Amazing Card Tricks
  • Boys size 2T Swim Shorts (green)
  • Bottle of Water (500 mL)
  • Sundial
  • Alaskan Angel Pin
  • Star Wars Figure -- Hammer Head
FTF has their choice of any of the above items (besides the logbook or pen...of course).

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FTF...
  • Sgt Stitches -- 9/18/2004

Have Fun!
--steve

Zenone’s "Tour de Unexplained" Series

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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