Haunted Hunt Traditional Cache
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Haunted Hunt
You are looking for a 0.3 litre clip-lock box.
Please ensure cache is well hidden and camouflaged afterwards.
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It is time to archive most of my part of the series, the last part of the series is missing in large quantity so seems no point replacing my part, so i will be removing them as they are missing. I will keep this one
Pluckley's claim to fame has most recently been through the successful television series The Darling Buds of May, the first series being screened in 1991, and it is this, rather than the reputation as, according to The Guinness Book of Records, the most haunted village in England that is cherished by most of the residents.
Pluckley is supposed to be one of Britains most haunted villages, and is reported to have twelve (possibly thirteen or fourteen) ghosts.
Pluckley's ghosts first surfaced in print back in 1955 when Frederick Sanders wrote Pluckley Was My Playground, this tells of a Gypsy woman and Highwayman - details below:
The Highwayman - At Fright Corner (once called Frith Corner), this relates to an unknown highwayman who was reputedly ambushed by either the law or other criminals and killed with a sword, pinning him to a hollow oak tree that once stood in this area. In some accounts there was a fight between the highwayman and his attackers and in others he was hiding in the hollow tree and was pierced when a sword was pushed into the hollow. According to legend, the ghosts appear a re-enactment of the killing is repeated. There is no reported evidence to support the legend nor has anyone heard of any witnesses to have seen the ghostly re-enactment. Ghostly Highwaymen and stories of this nature can be tentatively dated to the time when Highwaymen were active in the 18th Century.
Gypsy Woman or Watercress Woman - At the crossroads bridge, the apparition of gypsy woman has been seen smoking a pipe. Apparently she used to sell watercress which she found in the stream. The reason she haunts the site is somehow she accidently burned to death. One theory about her combustion was that she was ignited some alcohol she was drinking with a spark from her pipe. Witnesses have described her as being a misty figure sat on the bridge. It should also be noted that the area around Pinnock Bridge is apparently an area where natural mists form on a regular basis.
Further details of other ghosts said to haunt Pluckley can be found on the Mysterious Britain page.
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Va gur Urqren pbirerq guerr gehax gerr.
[Please camouflage well!]
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