{"id":36154,"date":"2016-08-18T09:47:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/?p=36154"},"modified":"2016-08-18T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T19:46:20","slug":"the-secret-whitelist-geocache-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-secret-whitelist-geocache-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Whitelist \u2014 Geocache of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mystery Cache<\/dt>\n
GC69Q0D<\/a><\/dd>\n
by El abnorgollums724<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Difficulty:<\/dt>\n
4.5<\/dd>\n
Terrain:<\/dt>\n
2.5<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Location:<\/dt>\n
Switzerland<\/dd>\n
N 47\u00b0 22.913 E 008\u00b0 51.881<\/dd>\n
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“The Secret Whitelist” is a well-crafted, highly entertaining dramatic comedy\u00a0short film and mystery cache.<\/p>\n

The clues that will lead you to\u00a0its final location\u00a0are hidden within the film,\u00a0created by and starring the cache owners: El Tornado, abnorMali, sven724 & die-gollums.<\/p>\n

When the film opens, geocachers have been\u00a0disappearing\u00a0under mysterious circumstances left and right, and the frantic and frightened Thomas Upper finds himself next in line.\u00a0He suspects the criminal organization, the Muggles, who target geocachers and geocaches, are behind it all. The police are no help.<\/p>\n

Upper knows he must be added to the Whitelist, a list of geocachers who’ve paid protection money to the Muggles in exchange for being left alone. He appeals to David \u00d6seler\u2014a disheveled, rookie detective who loves his drink\u2014who agrees to take the case. “My first case!” he says. “And maybe my last.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

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Detective \u00d6seler listens intently as Upper describes the situation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The detective calls an associate of his, and a meeting is set up. After an exchange of the secret code (“A crocodile is like this: the greener it is, the more swim…” and “In the winter, it’s colder than outside…”) they get down to business.<\/p>\n

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\u00d6seler meets a strange stranger in an underground parking lot (even stranger!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The detective’s associate shows\u00a0him which tools\u00a0he’ll need to locate the secret Whitelist. He warns the detective, “The Muggles are more hostile\u00a0than ever.”<\/p>\n

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The secret contact shows Oseler what he’ll need to find the Whitelist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And after that,\u00a0the viewer is told to slip into the role of the Detective, and begin the hunt for the Whitelist! The viewer has all the same tools and clues at their disposal as the detective…that is, if they paid attention!<\/p>\n

In the seven months since being published, the cache has earned 94 favorite points (a 90% favorite rating).<\/p>\n

The team that created this cache were elated\u00a0by the response from the community. “Wir wollten etwas ganz spezielles auf die Beine stellen. Wir waren \u00fcberzeugt, dass dieser MultiMystery bei der Community gut ankommen wird. Dass dieser so einen Hype ausl\u00f6sen w\u00fcrde, hat uns doch \u00fcberrascht.” [We set out\u00a0to create\u00a0something truly unique. We were shocked at the incredibly positive response from the community. The fact that it generated such a hype really surprised us.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

The cache owners had this to say to the geocaching community: “Als erstes m\u00f6chten wir uns bei der Community bedanken, f\u00fcr die positiven Feedbacks und die tollen langen Logs, die geschrieben wurden.\u00a0Danke auch an alle Cacheowner f\u00fcr die unz\u00e4hligen tollen Caches die wir besuchten und die wir noch besuchen d\u00fcrfen.\u00a0Passt auf die Muggels auf!” [First of all, we want to thank the Community for the positive feedback we’ve received and all the great\u00a0logs that have been written. Thanks also to all the cache owners out there for countless amazing geocaches that we visited, and that we may still visit. Watch out for the Muggles!<\/em>]<\/p>\n

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Mystery Cache GC69Q0D by El abnorgollums724 Difficulty: 4.5 Terrain: 2.5 Location: Switzerland N 47\u00b0 22.913 E 008\u00b0 51.881 “The Secret Whitelist” is a well-crafted, highly entertaining dramatic comedy\u00a0short film and mystery cache. The clues that will lead you to\u00a0its final location\u00a0are hidden within the film,\u00a0created by and starring the cache owners: El Tornado, abnorMali, sven724…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":36178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[125,127],"series":[],"class_list":["post-36154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-geocache-of-the-week","tag-gotw"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/d3mo08i005h0zn.cloudfront.net\/blog\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-17-at-3.26.21-PM.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/inside-geocaching-hq-podcast","embedCode":"

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