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Indiana Spirit Quest #434: Hidden Bethel Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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EDITED 4-24-2009


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“INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST”

The Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just over a year and a half, the quest has grown to over four hundred thirty caches hidden in over forty Indiana counties, and Ohio and Michigan and the hiders have grown to over twenty cacher teams, most of which of which are comprised of Dogs and their Humans. Over 900 cacher teams have logged over 11,100 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).


Photos by Lead Dog

INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST #434

"This Bethel's Hidden"

Welcome to Bethel Cemetery in Seward Township, Kosciusko County.You can see the foundation walls of the old church here, next to the road. This old burial ground is due west of Yellow Creek Lake and has interments dating from the 1861 to 1918 period.

There are about 50 or so souls buried here, and you will note that many of the monuments have been knocked over, and not by the wind or shifting sands...

Don't go to the coordinates listed above. The coordinates of the cache are: West eighty-five degrees Fifty Seven point omega mu gamma minutes and North Forty-one degrees six point sigma xi minutes.

Beth·el (bthl, bthl )
A town of ancient Palestine north of Jerusalem. It is now a major archaeological site.

beth·el (bthl)n.
1. A hallowed or holy place.
2. a. A chapel for seafarers.
b. Chiefly British A Nonconformist chapel, especially a Baptist or Methodist one.

Hebrew bêt 'l, house of God : bayit, house; see byt in Semitic roots + 'l, God; see l in Semitic roots.


DESOLATION HILL


VANDALISM

FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE!!

The cache container is very small It is a black plastic peanut butter jar sans peanut butter. BYOP. You MUST sign the log to claim a Smilie. If you cache at night, or don't sign the log, or reveal the additional hint in your log, or don't fulfill any additional requirements, your find log will be deleted without notice... The cache is not located near a grave... If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground. As always, please be respectful of our pioneer dead and our beloved Veterans, and cache in, trash out. XXX

None genuine without this official SixDogTeam seal. Digital photographs taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2006 by RikSu Outfitters with Kodak equipment, unless otherwise noted.

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"Indiana Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of GEOISQ*: SixDogTeam (Earthdog Patrick, Lead Dog, Wheel Dog) Kodiak Kid, THE SHADOW, Team Shydog, Rupert2, ~Mystery Dog~, Team Tigger International, bbSurveyors, Dover Duo, Los Xile, Prairie Partners, WilliamsFamGC, Bean Blossom Gang, Team Itchy & Scratchy, Wishbone 86, krisNjoe, Stacy Keibler, Bikinibottomfeeders, Awsome Ev and the 501 Gang. If you are interested in spreading the Quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US, email SixDogTeam.

*Grand Exalted Order of the Indiana Spirit Quest

** THIS IS A GENUINE INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST CACHE**

41.06.2599/85.57.843

YOU ARE SUBJECT TO ARREST IF FOUND IN A CEMETERY AT NIGHT IN INDIANA IN MOST ALL JURISDICTIONS.

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This cache is being maintained by BUDDAMAN

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

vagurthggre

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)