XF - Darkness Falls Mystery Cache
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I left a well camo'd clue for you at the posted coordinates. This
cache is for those who like a challenge. For safety, please do not
hunt this cache in the dark. If you move anything please replace it
as found or better. Please post a picture of yourself and your GPSr
in your log. I hope you like the cache and enjoy the hunt. -
Langly
The origins of the bioluminescent wood mites are not entirely
known. In 1994, FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder suggested that the
insects could have spawned from ancient insect larvae or eggs of a
species otherwise extinct, thousands or perhaps even millions of
years old, and had lain dormant since then within a specific
Douglas fir tree after having been deposited during a period of
volcanic activity. Mulder had earlier postulated at least two
theories that had been deemed unlikely. In 1934, a WPA crew from
the Schiff-Immergut Lumber Company vanished without a trace from an
area in Olympic National Forest. None of these men were ever found
or heard from again. It was later believed, however, that they had
been killed by the wood mites. In 1994, a team of thirty loggers
similarly disappeared when radio communication with the men was cut
off. The loggers seemed aware of the threat that the wood mites
posed to them. It was ultimately believed that all thirty of these
men, like the WPA crew before them, had been victims of the wood
mites. Loggers Dyer and Perkins certainly had a terrifying
encounter with the wood mites and it is likely that they both
perished due to the insects. Doug Spinney, a so-called
"monkeywrencher", later suggested the possibility that the mites
had been unleashed when the loggers had cut down the Douglas fir
tree in which the insects had been lying dormant. Spinney also
claimed to have witnessed the death of his friend, Steven Teague,
right after the Douglas fir tree had been cut down and that the
team of thirty loggers had disappeared about the same time. An
attempt to investigate the disappearance of the loggers was made
when two officials working for the Federal Forest Service were sent
into the forest, but all contact with them was also lost.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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