Igor the Impossible Party Animal
Warning: Long strands of barbed wire run along stone walls in this area. The cache is hidden where there is a wide gap in the wire. See Photos for wire locations.
Yet another impossible creature has been spotted in the Nasoba Valley and once again scientists are baffled!
This latest discovery was made by Madison Sinclair*, an Acting Adjunct Instructor of Biology at Miskatonic University. While collecting algae samples from a pond in Littleton, MA, Ms. Sinclair was startled by what she believed to be a small reptile. She managed to snap a picture of the unexpected organism before it disappeared (see photos).
Ms. Sinclair later shared the image of the creature (which she dubbed “Igor”) with colleagues who reached a startling conclusion. Igor was a living breathing Dimorphidon, a genus of pterosaurs which had gone extinct 190 million years ago!
The press and public demanded answers but the scientific community could provide no explanation for Igor’s fantastically improbable existence.
Predictably, local booze sponge and “Transdimensionalist” Bobby Doyle caused a stir by declaring that Igor was in fact a being from the “parallel pocket dimension of Par Tay.” In response to queries from his gullible followers regarding Igor’s intentions, Doyle replied “Dude popped in to pound some Earth brewskis and get his groove on cause that's how Partayians roll.”
Doyle's ridiculous claims have gone viral online and #IgorParTay is trending. Yet more proof that we are a civilization in terminal decline.
Your mission: find Igor. Your stretch goal is to determine whether Igor is a dinosaur, an extradimensional being or something else entirely.
*Trivial side note: The doe-eyed Ms. Sinclair briefly became a social media sensation after appearing in a series of lively interviews sporting a pith helmet adorned with wildflowers (see Photos**). However, her attempts to monetize her #pithygirl image met with a little success.
Also, Madison Sinclair it's not to be confused with Madyson Synclare “The Nashoba Valley’s Premier VIP Companion.”
**Just for fun, I used an AI image generator to create a picture of the fictional Ms. Sinclair being interviewed about her discovery. The results convinced me that we may be only a generation away from artificial intelligence creating an alternative reality which we big brain primates will struggle to distinguish from the actual physical world. I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
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Please be nice to nature.
Also, please note the location and orientation of the cache container before you retrieve it and put it back just as you found it.
Thank you for your consideration.
For maps and more information on Smith Conservation Land: https://littletonconservationtrust.org/property/smith-conservation-land/
Permission to hide geocaches on Littleton conservation land was granted by the Conservation Trust of Littleton, MA. https://littletonconservationtrust.org/
Special thanks to Littleton Conservation Trustee Dustin Neild.
A gift from Hrothgar, the self-styled sovereign of the Nashoba Valley!