Well my dear fellow the year has once more turned and the darkness has drawn itself close to this circle of firelight we call life. Thence do I once more take down that well thumbed volume from atop it’s high shelf and begin to read.
For those who have sat with me before know what is to come but for those who are joining me for the first time need to read read, or listen to the correct ghostly tale and then answer the questions below:
Mr Wraxall left for Scandinavia in the summer of ABCD
The Pantechnicon fire which destroyed so much of Mr Wraxall’s work occurred in the early E0?
Dahlenberg’s engraving of the Råbäck Manor House was done in 16FG
What years did the correspondence between Sophia Albertina in Stockholm and her married cousin
Ulrica Leonora at Råbäck take place? In the years 170H-1J
Which entry was made by Mr Wraxall describing a “man in long black cloak, broad-leafed hat, very old-fashioned.” K6
You can if you dare find the cache here :
N 51 13.E (F+J) (K+C) W 002 13. D (A*B) (H+G)
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
The cache is large enough to take most small travel bugs and geocoins.
May you have a merry time in finding this one.
Congratulations to dannyboy489 on being the first to find this cache and for having such a wonderfully spooky time getting there.
If you’ve enjoyed this puzzle then why not have a go at the rest of the puzzles in my annual M.R. James Christmas series:
2022 - Mr Dennistoun’s Discovery
2021 - The Dancing Advocate
2020 - Madam, will you walk?
2019 - Mr Garrett's Quest
2018 - Mrs Mothersole's hiding place
2017 - Mr Wraxall’s Last Expedition
2016 - Quis Est Iste Qui Venit
2015 - Penetrans ad interiora Mortis
2014 - Mr Britnell's Troublesome Object
2013 - The Abbot of Lufford's Christmas Box