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SKH - IT Mystery Cache

Hidden : 1/17/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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SKH - IT

The cache is not located at the above listed coordinates. You must first figure out the REAL coordinates to “SKH - It”. Please be aware of our slithery friends and watch for muggles. We understand most will not walk but park and grab so please use caution when stopping along the roads. We have placed most where parking is easily available. Oh and practice C.I.T.O. if you can.

It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows the exploits of seven children as they are terrorized by the eponymous inter-dimensional predatory life-form that exploits the fears and phobias of its victims in order to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "It" primarily appears in the form of "Pennywise the Dancing Clown"" a.k.a. "Bob Gray", described by characters who see It as resembling a combination of Bozo, Clarabell and Ronald McDonald, in order to attract its preferred prey of young children. The novel is told through narratives alternating between two time periods and is largely told in the third-person omniscient mode. It deals with themes which would eventually become King staples: the power of memory, childhood trauma and the ugliness lurking behind a façade of traditional small-town values. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1987, and received nominations for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards that same year. Publishers Weekly listed It as the best-selling book in America in 1986.

38 32.ABC

A. 1715–171(A): It awoke.

B. 187(B)–1879: It awoke, then went back into hibernation after a group of lumberjacks were found murdered near the Kenduskeag.

C. 19(C)9–1930: It awoke when a group of Derry citizens gunned down a group of gangsters known as the Bradley Gang. This may be an allusion to the real life Brady Gang, who were shot to death in a spectacular gun battle on the streets of Bangor in 1937. It returned to hibernation when the Maine Legion of White Decency, a Northern counterpart to the Ku Klux Klan, burned down an African-American army nightclub called "The Black Spot." One survivor, Dick Hallorann, appeared in King's earlier novel, The Shining.

121 13.DEF

D. 17(D)0–17(D)3: It awoke and started a three-year reign of terror that culminated with the disappearance of over three hundred settlers from Derry Township, much like the Roanoke Island mystery.

E. 190(E)–1906: It awoke when It rampaged through the woods near Derry, incinerating them. Then It came upon a lumberjack named Claude Heroux, who was hiding in the woods at the time, and drove him to murder a number of men in a bar with an axe. Heroux was promptly pursued by a mob of townsfolk and hanged. It returned to hibernation when the Kitchener Ironworks exploded, killing one hundred and eight people, eighty-eight of them children engaged in an Easter egg hunt.

F. 19(F)7–19(F)8: It awoke during a great storm which flooded part of the city, and murdered George Denbrough. It then met its match when the Losers forced It to return to an early hibernation when wounded by the young Bill Denbrough in the first Ritual of Chüd.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

qba'g or nsenvq gb ernpu va...be fubhyq lbh?

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)