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Dead Ringer Multi-Cache

This cache has been archived.

ohjoy!: I picked this container up yesterday. I'm slowly archiving caches that are quite a distance from home so that I don't have to maintain them.

This is still a great place to visit and there is another cache by others here.

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Hidden : 3/31/2007
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


A bit of cemetery related history from the 1500's:

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. This combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a few days. Because those who found them didn't know if they were really dead, they would be prepared for burial and laid out on the kitchen table for a few days. The family would gather around, eat, drink, and wait to see if the person would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.

In those days, England being small, local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they dug up coffins, took the bones to a bone-house, and reused the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 was found to have scratch marks on the inside.  They realized they had been burying people alive. Thus began the practice of tying a string on the wrist of the corpse, leading it through the coffin and up through the ground where it was tied to a bell.

Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus someone could be saved by the bell or be considered to be a ... dead ringer...

Whoever said History was boring?

Now on to the important matter: how to find this cache.

You will visit four grave sites, gathering information to get the coordinates for the cache.

Waypoint 1: Park at the given coordinates.  From here you will see a headstone with a cylindrical pillow.  James Webb lived until 191D.

D = ___

Waypoint 2: At these coordinates, you will be near two headstones.

2a: An immigrant, Michael Bak Rodzeni, was born on January 4, 1849 and lived until January 1C, 1910.

C = ___

2b: An unidentified wife had 2 husbands.  The first was born in 187A.  The second lived until 19F7.

A = ___
F = ___ 

Waypoint 3: Many children did not live to adulthood.  Harold, son of Robert and Lucie Bakalich lived just over a year, from February 1E, 1913 until May 2B, 1914.

E = ___
B = ___

Waypoint 4: Some now interred here lived in both the 20th and 21st centuries.  Roman Fleischman was born on January 7, 19H0 and lived until 2003.  His wife Esther lived from December G, 1913 until 2004.
G = ___
H = ___

The cache is located at:

North 47° 0A.BCD  West 122° 0E.FGH

N 47° 0 __.__ __ __  W 122° 0 __.__ __ __


 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

- arj svany vf oruvaq n gerr. Cyrnfr pbire pnershyyl.

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)