The Ghost of Piper's Pond **Feb8** Traditional Cache
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The Ghost of Piper's Pond **Feb8**
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This is the story of a young soldier who was stationed at Fort Edward many years ago. He was a piper in the Highland Regiment, and while he was in the Windsor area, he fell in love with a young woman. Whenever he could, he would sneak away from the Fort, and meet his true love by a pond. Soon news came to the Fort that the regiment would be shipping out. The young couple immediately made plans to meet by the pond and run away together. On the night in question, the young man tried to sneak away from the fort with his bagpipes tucked under his arm. As fate would have it the sergeant of the regiment happened to catch the young piper as he was trying to leave. Fortunately the sergeant was a kind hearted soul and after much discussion, the young soldier was finally allowed to go and meet his true love. The sergeant assumed that the soldier would simply be meeting her to say his last farewell before his regiment left Windsor.
In the mean time, the delay meant that the young woman had been waiting by the pond for a very long time, and she began to believe that her lover was not coming after all. Her heart was broken, and after walking around the pond six times, she was so distraught that she decided to end her life. She wrapped heavy rocks in her long flowing dress, and then threw herself in the water.
When the young soldier arrived at the pond he did not see his lover. He circled the pond seven times after which he finally saw her face staring up at him from the water’s depths. In his anguish, he took up his bagpipes and while playing a mournful tune, he marched straight into the pond in order to be with his true love for eternity.
Legend has it, “that if you run around the pond thirteen times in a counter-clockwise direction, six times for her and seven for him, or once for every full moon in a year, the piper will rise up out of Piper’s Pond and begin to play the bagpipes”.
The coordinates above bring you to a cache that is hidden in a place that overlooks Piper’s Pond. This winter friendly cache is a small camoued water bottle containing a log book, pencil, stash note, and some themed swag including book marks and other small trade items. There is also a FTF prize of a beautiful Kilted Cacher geocoin (very collectable, but not trackable).
You can read more about the ghost of Piper’s Pond in Steve Vernon’s book: “Haunted Harbours – Ghost Stories from Old Nova Scotia”.
Thank you to Alan Dauphinee, Haliburton House Museum Superintendent, for permission to hide this cache.
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Onex pnzbhrq va gur perivpr bs n gerr.