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.
El Chupacabra – Location indeterminate
This bizarre creature is an import to Florida in the past decade. The chupacabra actually made its debut on the world’s weird list in 1975 after a series of farm animal killings in Puerto Rica. Rural villagers came forth with claims that an unidentified creature was killing their animals in the early morning hours by biting their necks. Whatever it was left strange puncture-like wounds on its victims that were inconsistent with any known species. Witnesses reported hearing screeching noises and flapping sounds like made by the wings of a large bird. Eye-witnesses who claimed they had actually seen the creature, generally described it as an unknown animal about three or four feet tall, gray in color, over-sized head with big oval eyes and a mouth full of teeth.
The rash of unexplained killings was first centered around Orocovis in the mountainous interior of Puerto Rica where the mutilated remains of sheep, cows, goats, dogs, chickens, and other animals were being found almost daily over a period of two months. One account has two-hundred cows being killed by the mysterious entity. In a high number of allegations involving mutilated goats, people claimed the creature had literally “sucked the insides out of its victims through the eye-sockets” leaving only carcasses of skin and bones. Since the bizarre beast was lacking a name, locals dubbed it “the goat sucker,” or as translated in Spanish, “el chupacabra.”
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: Every minute, the average person sheds X number of dead skin cells.
A: 1 = N29° 29.374' W81° 49.089'
B: 42 = N29° 29.364' W81° 49.089'
C: 30,000 = N29° 29.354' W81° 49.089'