Welcome to the Farewell to Finder’s Fest geo-art, brought to you by the Forest Minions! This series celebrates weird and unusual things throughout the Sunshine State. Please do not go to the posted locations. Rather, solve the challenging quiz found at the bottom of each page, for the final location. For the letterbox caches, please leave the stamp in the cache. They are not trade items. For the discerning traveler, we’ve included the GPS coordinates for these bizarre locations, when we were able to establish them.
Sunland Mental Hospital – Location 30.4602, -84.2446
Ever since it closed in 1987 this old five-story hospital on Phillips Road in Tallahassee has been a hotbed for local myths and ghost stories. First opened in 1952 as the W. T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospital it was closed in 1968 when a treatment for TB was discovered. It re-opened under the name Sunland Hospital as a 400-bed facility to treat mental patients many of whom were children. Sunland was one of the first places to use electro-shock treatments on patients suffering from seizures. There are several rumors of how lobotomies were performed and a deep, dark pit where the deranged patients were put for days at a time.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: What critter has logged flights in excess of the height of Mt Everest?
A: Hippopotamus = N29° 28.329' W81° 50.438'
B: Earth worm = N29° 28.319' W81° 50.438'
C: Bumblebee = N29° 28.309' W81° 50.438'