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.
Old Red Eyes – Location 30.4398, -81.4378
The Kingsley plantation on St. George Island northeast of Jacksonville has a strange past and according to a legend, a wicked red-eyed spirit that has lingered around these parts for nearly two centuries. Zephaniah Kingsley established this historic plantation on St. George Island in 1813 for the purpose of growing Sea Island cotton, sugar cane, citrus, and corn. Kingsley’s labor force was comprised of sixty West African slaves. Over time Kingsley became quite wealthy and eventually owned 32,000 acres and more than 200 slaves working on four plantations.
Old Red Eyes is not the only haunting business that goes on at the Kingsley plantation, there are stories about a woman in a white dress being seen on the porch of the main house…but she only shows up in photographs. This ghost is said to be Zephaniah’s African wife, Ana. In the yard of the house, you can hear the screams of child coming from an old well. Allegedly, the child fell into the well and drowned.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: What critter is legal to own as a pet, in Australia, for magicians, but no one else?
A: Pokemon = N29° 26.274' W81° 46.479'
B: Unicorns = N29° 26.264' W81° 46.479'
C: Rabbits = N29° 26.254' W81° 46.479'