FOX FIRE Traditional Cache
NM PILGRIM: I thought I had this one on public land, but it looks like I didn't!
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I wanted to place this cache near the Hopewell Cemetery but couldn't find a place I liked. It on up the road on public property.
FOX FIRE CACHE
Welcome to the FoxFire CACHE. Let me take you back a few years when I was a teenager in the hills of Arkabutla, MS. I know that everybody always says that things were different back then but I have to say it too cause they were. Like the dude in the white suit said “You can’t go home again.” Actually you can go home again but please anticipate that you and your home have both changed. And you have probably changed the most.
Early one fall Saturday morning in a year long ago I planned to go up to Kelly’s Crossing on nearby Arkabutla Lake and do a little duck shooting. I could usually get a ride but this particular morning I could not. So I resorted to my basic capabilities, which is walking. I left home extra early so as to be up at the lake by sun up. I cut across some neighbors’ land from our house and up the Kelly Crossing road I go. I had on warm clothing, rubber boots and carried my trusty Stevens 12 gauge double-barreled shotgun. Actually it was my Grandfather’s trusty 12 gauge, but when I had it I guess that I thought it was mine! This is a long barreled hammer gun. A meat gun. Not one of them fancy guns that some of you city folk have. This is a meat gun that us country boys have. My brother still has this gun up in Colorado Springs.
I press on up the road that was gravel at this time. About this time was when the stars disappear and it’s the darkest part of the night. Who ever wrote that’s ‘Its darkest just before the dawn’ spoke the absolute truth. I walk over toward the South side of the road and look at the houses down the hill. Some folks already had lights on and were starting their day.
As I turned to proceed up the road I sensed motion to my left. I turned and looked. What I saw initially froze me in place. Even after all these years it still runs a chill down my back. I still try to decide that maybe I didn’t really see anything. Maybe I just imagined that I saw something. I moved to the North side of the road, loaded my 12 gauge and ducked down under the road bank. After a while I ventured a look. It was gone. Thank God!
When I looked to my left I saw what appeared to be a glowing reddish ball, bouncing along the ground and coming straight for me. It’s hard to say exactly how big it was or how close it was. But I was absolutely sure that it was coming straight at me.
I almost forgot to tell you. I was real close to the Hopewell cemetery. This scared me so much that I didn’t mention it to anybody for quite a while. I used to work for a lady [Mrs. Carlton] and we discussed all kinds of subjects. When I told her about this event she said “FoxFire.” “You saw FoxFire.” So I guess that’s what I saw. When I recently searched “FoxFire” on the Internet, I sure got a lot of hits. I wonder how many of them folks ever actually saw it?
It gives me great pleasure to place the first Geo Cache near my hometown of Arkabutla, MS.
You can go home again.
PS I couldn’t find a hiding spot near the cemetery that I liked. So its up the road a bit on public property. I did see a sign on the cemetery gate with contacts of folks who manage the cemetery. One of them is Fred Carlton. He’s the son of the lady who told me “Fox Fire.”
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