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.
The Huguenot Cemetery – Location 29.8982, -81.3142
The Huguenot Cemetery in St Augustine is the most haunted cemetery in the city. Reports include wispy ghosts seen in the trees, orbs of lights floating among the stones, or a transparent young girl in a white dress who appears sometimes between midnight and 2 a.m. on top of the City Gates. According to the story, during the yellow fever epidemic the body of a 14-year old girl in a white dress was dumped at the City Gates. No one ever claimed her and she was buried in the Huguenot Cemetery. But the best ghost tale is that of old Judge John B. Stickney.
Following the Civil War, Judge Stickney moved from Massachusetts to St. Augustine where at different times served as a States Attorney and District Attorney. But to local Southerners he was just another big shot, politicking, carpetbagger taking advantage of the Reconstruction period.He died in 1882, was buried here, and was dug up in 1903, to be moved to Washington D. C. Undertaker George Wells was hired to dig up the Judge and prepare his remains for the trip to Washington. A big crowd gathered around to gawk as Wells got the casket out of the ground and flipped open the lid. During the process, some town drunks stole his gold teeth, and, as the story goes, Judge Stickney can be seen searching for them.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: In which US state is it technically illegal to curse, in front of a corpse?
A: Mordor = N29° 28.526' W81° 51.576'
B: Hogwarts = N29° 28.526' W81° 51.586'
C: Texas = N29° 28.526' W81° 51.596'