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.
Dead Man’s Oak – Location indeterminate
There’s a local legend that has been passed-down for generations in Osceola County, one that has found its way into a few ghost books, albeit with very little information, about the Dead Man’s Oak
The first version to this legend alleges that some Spaniards captured a man on a white horse in the vicinity of the Dead Man’s Oak. The man was strung up by his captors and beheaded beneath the tree for having committed a crime against the Spanish. Allegedly, a headless horseman on a white horse can still be seen at midnight roaming around this old oak tree. In some accounts the headless phantom has been accused of chasing people. The second version has a man being hanged from the oak for cattle rustling and it is his ghost that has been scaring folks. Although in this case the phantom retains his head.
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 photograph rabbits, in June?
A: Mordor = N29° 29.563' W81° 50.065'
B: Hogwarts = N29° 29.573' W81° 50.065'
C: Wyoming = N29° 29.583' W81° 50.065'