The Sacred Circle cache Mystery Cache
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Reported to be a pre-columbian ritual site, this spot presents more questions than answers.
Wow... the original music box was stolen by some band of douche bag gypsy dip sticks... But there is now another ammo can. And it had to be hidden even deeper.
The posted coordinates take you to the center of the mysterious Sacred Circle. Within 30 feet you will find a rock with the initials KW deeply etched into the surface.
From KW rock take a course of 314 degrees true for 37 feet, and start looking.
That's it. You should be able to find the new ammo can. Picking up these stones to look under them shouldn't be too awful hard.
Note: The rest of this is the old posting. Anything to do with the location may not fit anymore. Sorry I didn't have a fresh musical ammo can... And I guess whatever band of douches took it have the camera.
You are (were) looking for a music box ammo can hidden outside the periphery of the old Indiana Stonehenge ceremonial circle. Nothing too awful fantastic in the cache, just the usual "items of interest", though there are a couple shiny baubles for the FTF. If you start at the parking waypoint and then program in the cache coordinates you won't stray onto private property. This spot has been dated as pre-columbian and no one is sure how these rocks got here. As sept1c_tank notes on his nearby cache (GC1F5CA) these stones are composed of keokuk limestone, with the nearest natural deposits of this type of stone being down near the Ohio river. Getting these things up here must have been "interesting" (Wonder what the native american term for "pain in the butt" was?) Before the Army Corp of Engineers screwed up and tore down the nearby town of Elkinsville in anticipation of flooding from the new lake (and then Lake Monroe never got near the town!) this was a popular spot with the locals for camp outs and ghost stories. You can still see where folks scratched their names in some of the stones over a hundred years ago. Here's a couple links to learn more. Good Luck!
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(I especially reccomend the last reference which is to a movie produced locally and available at the monroe county library. If you are interested in lake monroe in general and Elkinsville this is an invaluable resource!)
Congrats to Sk1ppe77 and (I should have known) Redhawk44p for snagging this one less than 24 hours after publication! (I'll stump Redhawk yet! I hear there's this remote crater on the moon... yeah... that's it!)
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Abj na bssfrgg... ernq gur yvfgvat ntnva.