WSQ Invasion of the Body Snatchers Multi-Cache
WSQ Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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You'll be visiting a quiet spot now surrounded by industrialization.
This is a multi-stage cache. At the coordinates above you will find the Dohlby gravestone. On the stone, you will find what you need to proceed to find the second set of coordinates.
The year John died = ABCD
The coordinates for your second stop are:
N 43.51.3AC W091.13.6D2
At that location you’ll find a heavy weight.
The weight = EFG
Your final stop is at:
N43.51.2E3 W091.13.62F
(Caution: Barbed wire close by)
Now for your history lesson:
"CORPSE STOLEN FROM CAMPBELL CEMETERY GRAVE," was the newspaper headline that horrified La Crosse citizens on September 30, 1932. It was the first known case of grave robbery in La Crosse.
The investigation began on September 27, 1932, when Archie Taylor, the cemetery attendant, noticed that the grave of Perry Brinstad seemed to have been tampered with. Brinstad, 70, had died earlier in the month in a local hospital and his body was interred in Campbell Cemetery.
George Ritter, Campbell Cemetery supervisor, applied for a permit to reopen the grave and was granted permission. On September 28, the grave was reopened, and it was discovered that the body was indeed missing.
The theft remains a mystery to this day. The body itself was found on October 6, twelve days after its disappearance on lower Pettibone Island. The bodysnatchers, however, were never discovered. Officials later determined that the many knife incisions in the torso had been committed by someone versed in medical science.
(Information courtesy of the La Crosse Public Library)
An honorary First-Time-Find will go to anyone who finds and posts the coordinates to Perry Brinstad’s final resting place. (If it still exists . . .)
As this is a cemetery cache please note it is NOT hidden on any grave marker or site. If there is a service going on, or folks are visiting their loved ones when you arrive please be respectful and come back at a later time. Your understanding and compassion for those folks will be appreciated.
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