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.
Jackie Gleason’s Tomb – Location 25.7997, -80.3823
It’s the most impressive tomb in Miami’s Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery but there are not many inscriptions on it, just the Great One’s name and on the steps his famous line “AWAY WE GO!” I expected to see a tomb in the shape of a flying saucer since Jackie was such a big UFO enthusiast. He even built a house in New York shaped like a flying saucer. Back in 1973 he claimed that his friend President Richard Nixon took him to see the preserved remains of space aliens at a secret facility on Homestead Air Force Base. According to the far-fetched story, the aliens were recovered from a crashed flying saucer back in 1953. After his death on June 24, 1987, Jackie Gleason’s huge collection of UFO books were given to the University of Miami’s library. With his extreme extraterrestrial interests, I know what you must be wondering, is Jackie Gleason really in that tomb…or was he abducted by Space Aliens?
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: Sunglasses were originally designed in China, to hide the facial expressions of folks in this profession.
A: Robocop = N29° 28.268' W81° 50.301'
B: Fire Nation warrior = N29° 28.278' W81° 50.301'
C: Judge = N29° 28.288' W81° 50.301'