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The Phantoms of Texas #3: Taylor Cemetery Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

West Texas Reviewer: Cache Owner (CO) has not responded, so the cache is being archived to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking new cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace this cache sometime in the future (not to exceed 15 days from the date of this entry), just contact me (by e-mail), and assuming it still meets the current Guidelines, I will consider unarchiving this cache.

Please be advised this is not a guarantee that this geocache will be unarchived. Many factors will go into my decision. The most important of which is how you responded to geocachers who tried to communicate with you regarding the problem(s) with this geocache hide and how you communicated with me, the West Texas Reviewer.

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Hidden : 8/31/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Today I went on a quest for the fabled and possibly apocryphal Taylor Cemetery, which legend has it is to be found in the remote depths of Caldwell County. My search took me down an unpaved a semi-secret country lane, along which could be seen several bunker-style rural redoubts. This goat path also doubled as an oilfield services road.

I had pulled over to get my bearings, since two out of three of my maps claimed I had driven off the edge of the world and into an uncharted blank space. Suddenly, there was a rattling at my passenger door. I looked over to see a weather-beaten drifter-type who had attached to his belt a Crocodile Dundee-style "That's not a knife, THIS is a knife" murder-death-kill weapon. Naturally I had no choice but to roll down the window to see what he wanted. He angrily demanded to know what I was drinking and then accused me of being Davey. The key thing, though, is that he didn't know where the cemetery was. I never did find it, but was able to later determine when I looped back around that this guy is apparently living inside an abandoned an empty oil storage tank. I was probably right on the verge of "Jeepers Creepers" or "Wrong Turn" territory, but my failure to be a nubile twenty-something girl was likely what saved me.

I suspect that I actually almost DID find the spot. If you go all the way down this unnamed road, you'll reach a spot where there's a closed gate to the left, an open entrance through the fence straight ahead, and a closed gate to the right labeled "Camp Bethany". I believe the cemetery, if it extant, and at least one of my sources believes it is, is as little as 200 feet off to the left. However, while I was parked at this spot, considering my options, the dude that lives just down the slope drove up and suggested warily in a "Get the hell out of here" kind of way that access to the cemetery is via Oil Field Road to the south...which proved to be non-true.

At any rate, there are enough red flags here that I would be cautious in exploring past this point. And since the cache is nowhere near the purported location of this possibly-mythical graveyard, you can turn right back around here and head back to the main road without further incident.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ghor va n ghor, gnxr gur svefg evtug.

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)