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.
Greenbriar Light Road – Location 30.0592, -81.6338
The real name for this road is just “Greenbriar Road” and it runs east of Switzerland, Florida. Yep, that’s really the name of this peaceful little hamlet in St. Johns County but don’t expect to see any Alps in this Switzerland. On Greenbriar Road there is a light that chases cars. The light looks like the headlight of a motorcycle and according to reports it seems attracted to cars. It usually follows behind a car about three hundred feet. Although the mysterious ball of light never passes a car it has been known to sit attached to the top of a vehicle until reaching a certain point on the road where it vanishes.
In 1987 the light grabbed the interest of several science experts who went there to figure out what it was. In the same year the St. Johns County Sheriff Department also investigated reports about the weird light. None of the investigations could come up with an explanation for the light. It is not an area that would normally produce swamp gas as in other cases involving ghost light phenomenon. According to folklore, the light is supposed to be the headlight of a phantom motorcyclist. There was a young motorcyclist who was racing on the road one night. He lost control of his bike and was decapitated by a guy wire supporting a telephone pole.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: This common housekeeping tool used to be mounted on wagons, and drawn from house to house.
A: Machine guns = N29° 26.390' W81° 46.117'
B: Flame throwers = N29° 26.380' W81° 46.117'
C: Vaccuum Cleaners = N29° 26.370' W81° 46.117'