Nuuksion Metsäsissit of Finland has been credited with using
1:20,000 maps to perform coordinate-based location hunting since
the early 1980s, predating the advent of present-day Geocaching by
nearly two decades. What is not widely known is that another group
of men, the Rosicrucians, had been actively hiding and
seeking materiel among themselves using a similar system nearly
four centuries earlier. It is not known at this time how
this secret society was able to achieve this considerable feat
given the scope of human knowledge of the day, but it is the
prevailing opinion among scholars of this period that the
Rosicrucians had devised a novel system built on ancient Ptolemaic
principles that combined both periodic alchemy and celestial
navigation.
The text below is a scan of an original manuscript page
discovered in the papers of my grandfather at the University of
Pennsylvania after his untimely death in 1967. Believed to be
Rosicrucian in origin, this document was among several that were
willed to my mother, who graciously allowed me to inspect and copy
them. The text is in the author's own handwriting, and upon
close inspection reveals the coordinates to what I believe is the
earliest cache in North America. I personally visited this cache
nearly three weeks ago. Needless to say, it has been dormant for
some time. I am left to assume that had the original hiders
maintained a system of ledgers to account for and track this cache,
they would have likely archived it many years ago.
When I arrived at the site, I found the cache to be intact and
well-preserved, though wholly unsuitable for the modern cache game.
Both the original inner and outer cache enclosures (as well as the
contents) have therefore been removed and carefully preserved, and
will undergo further examination and study at Penn in the coming
months. I have replaced the original with a more robust 30-caliber
ammunition container that I am certain will prove to be sturdy and
weather-resistant.
Both the coordinates and name of the cache (found on both the
original cache log as well as at the top of the manuscript page)
are the same as in the original. Please be careful after visiting
the cache that you replace and camoflage it just as found.
WARNING: The cache location is only accessible from 6:00am until
10:00pm.
Congratulations to EZMATE for claiming the
FTF Trophy TB