Dr. Evil's Face Your Fears series of caches will highlight common phobias (fears) that many people have towards common everyday things or objects. Some phobias are steeped in years of conditioning and survival instinct. Some fears come from childhood experiences. Some fears are just irrational but cause anxiety and reaction nonetheless. Dr. Evil thought it would be interesting to create some caches just to see how cachers react to certain phobias. Each of the caches are designed to exploit, expose, and trigger a phobia response (assuming the cacher has that phobia). Many cachers will have no issues with these caches and some may decide to just DNF and walk away. Dr. Evil may add to the series from time to time as he gets a notion to. Good luck facing your fears!
This cache combines the phobias of Monokerophobia, also known as the fear of unicorns, and Coprophobia more commonly known as the fear of feces, crap, poop, dung... you get the picture. People with this phobia are very uncomfortable around anything depicting a unicorn. Most believe this fear is caused by a traumatic event in one's childhood that involves legendary being, or an event caused by horses. Movies portray unicorns both as good and bad beings. Folks with Coprophobia go out of their way avoid contact with feces, or anything the resembles feces, and often try to avoid seeing feces. The word comes from the Greek "kopros" meaning dung, and "phobos" meaning fear. This fear is thought to develop through negative experiences in ones past. As feces is commonly considered as messy, dirty, and stinky, it is generally something to avoid. Many with bacteriophobia (fear germs) many possess this fear as well as feces is associated with germs and bacteria. People with this fear will often avoid public restrooms, or parks where animal feces may be found or encountered. Extreme cases of Coprophobia may cause one to try and not use the restroom or go less frequently than in healthy. Extreme cases often require medication and therapy as defecation is a natural body function.
Symptoms of these phobias may include a rapid heart rate, dizziness, hot or cold flashes, chest pain or tightening of the chest, a feeling of choking, trembling, sweating, nausea, or inability to think or act rationally. For individuals with an extreme case even just talking or thinking about unicorns can trigger a response. People with this fear tend to avoid situations where birds may be encountered.
For this cache you will have to Face Your Fear. Cache is a micro container that is hidden inside some unicorn poo. Don't even ask how I got that. If the leaf litter is fresh you may have a hard time seeing this one. Getting to it will be challenging even through GZ is mostly flat. Good luck.
park hours 8 am to 1/2 hour after sunset.