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This Multi cache was originally placed for The Demon Shepherd's Birthday Bash event. This cache is in the Dunbar Wine Celler park. The coords above are for the first multi cache. There is plenty of parking at the Wine Cellar Park.
The tale of the Dutch Hollow Demon goes back many many years. Originally it didn't start until 1930, after many murders had already been committed.
Back in 1903 deep in Dunbar, there used to be an Asylum buried deep within the wilderness of Dunbar. Pretty soon after the civil war, people started inhabiting the area, population-wise around 300 or so. It was a very small town. Nonetheless people didn't like the idea about having an Asylum miles down the road, so they all got together and signed a petition stating for the Asylum to relocate elsewhere. The petition passed and anew Asylum was built which is now known as "Lorton Prison", a temporary facility until convicts are appropriately sentenced.
In Fall of 1904 the convicts were gathered and piled into the bus which was to transport them to Lorton. Somehow during the drive not too far from where they left, the driver had swerved to avoid something and the bus had started to tip and soon was rolling in a terrible collision course.
Most of the convicts were injured but had managed to escape the bus and had fled into the night woods. Later on the next morning a local police investigation had begun, and they had begun rounding up the escaped convicts. Hours turned into days, days into weeks, weeks into months. Every one was recovered after 4 months, except for 2 people, Marcus A. Wallster and Douglas J. Grifon. During the search for both men the police randomly found dead rabbits half eaten and dismembered every now and then along their search.
Finally they were to find Marcus dead himself by one of the Wine Cellar Bridges. In his hand he held a man-made hammer/knife like tool, made with a sharp rock and a pretty sturdy branch as a handle. They thought nothing and cared not of how he died, only that he was apprehended and no longer had to worry about him.
They had a name for Marcus, but later on they would realize they had named the wrong person the Dutch Hollow Demon.
Still searching for Douglas, they kept on finding dead half-eaten bunny's every-so-often while the search went on. Finally they were to name Douglas the Dutch Hollow Demon from then on.
3 Months passed by and the police had given up their search in April 7th 1905. Everybody assumed the Dutch Hollow Demon was dead by now, if not gone, so they went on with their small town lives. Come fall people started seeing dead bunny's reappearing out of the blue, and starting to fear the unseen.
As usual a bunch of kids had gone over to the Bridge one night to drink and do whatever kids their age in the 1900's did. Midnight came around within minutes and most of the kids had left, only 3 of them remained at the bridge.
Right at Midnight supposedly a bright light back from within the Bridge, where the kids were and less than a couple seconds later they were all dead. Throats slashed with that same type of tool that was found by the other Escapee Marcus. Not only were there throats slashed, but all up and down their chest's were a long slashes gutting them. To top it off the Dutch Hollow Demon hung both of the guys from a tree over hanging the bridge with a rope around their neck.
A year later after the incident was forgotten about 7 teens were left remaining right before midnight at the bridge. Thinking little of it, six remained on the bridge while 1, Adrian Hatala had remained a good distance from the bridge hoping to have enough time to escape if the same thing happened again. At midnight she witnessed only this, a dim light walking the path right before midnight, stopping right above the bridge at midnight, then disappearing at the same as a bright flash was inside the bridge. She heard the deafening sounds of horrific screams coming from inside the bridge that lasted only seconds. 5 seconds later, they were all hung from the edge of the bridge by the over hanging tree, same style as the corpses a year earlier.
Horrified she ran home, she didn't tell of everything she saw, just spattered words here and there that some of the folk put together to come up with her story. No one understood it, or even believed her. They charged her with the murder, and locked her up in the Asylum of Lorton. In 1913 the same thing happened with 9 teenagers this time.
Adrian was still locked up. They dropped her sentence, but it was too late. The insanity had finally conquered her. Even if she was released, she was too far gone to have a decent life, so she spent her remaining years in the Asylum until she finally died in 1953 of shock.
No one knows what exactly she died in shock from, but supposedly she had died in her dreams, dreaming of that one dreaded night. Perhaps the Dutch Hollow Demon had finally gotten to her.
Many more were murdered over the passing years, although less and less people are daring enough to stay till midnight.
O.k, so there's the tale. Here's the short myth. Around fall nothing happens until midnight. Right before midnight his soul (a dim light) walks the path to the bridge. When Midnight hits, his soul stops right above the bridge (dead center), and disappears, only to reappear on the bridge. From then on it's his soul which lights up the whole area, so brightly that you can't even see him. That's when he instantly kills you by slitting your throat and slashing your chest, only to hang from the tree over hanging the bridge. You can even see the rub marks that have worn away at the rock where the body's were swinging. Who ever is on the bridge ends up dead.
Now that you know not be here at night, heres the cache information. Its a multi cache with a normal tupperware main cache and all the legs leading up to it are micros. All caches are close to trails so there is not much bushwacking involved. From the parking lot to the last cache is 1.17 miles.
The contents are:
FTF and STF (second to find) Prize (info on how to 'redeme' your prizes in the in the cache)
Whistle
Coin Purse
2 towels
Crayons
Lanyard
Seeds
Dominos
Cork Screws.
Of course a log book and pen.
Enjoy!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
hints are at each cache bring decoder incase you need it except for the first cache.
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