The Mississippians Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 5/14/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The walk is approximately 1/10 of a mile on easy terrain except for the last 200 ft which may contain sticker bushes, logs and some mud in the wet months. The path is fairly obvious from car to cache with hardpacked soil on most of the hike.

My father purchased this land from the executor of the Bonnie Rhodes estate in the early 80's He planned on using the farm as a source of fill material for a bid he won to build the approaches for a new bridge that you will see here. Later he decided that it was a nice area with a lot of history and decided to build the house you'll also see. Ms. Rhodes home is no longer here but it used to set in front of the large Hackberry tree at the top of the hill. Locals have told stories that Ms Rhodes and her husband decided to dig a root cellar behind the house and during their excavation started finding slabs of stone buried just a few feet down. When they peeled back the slabs, human remains, pots and other items were discovered and they decided to just fill the area back in and not disturb any more than they already had. When my father started the excavation in this area for the bridge approach he started finding broken pottery, animal bones, arrowheads and other such things. Murray State University got wind of this and shut the bridge project down for two years so that they could do a site survey of the area and learn more about the people who used to live here. The survey concluded that the people were referred to as "The Mississipians" They normally lived in the main river valleys throughout the Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers from about 1250-1350 A.D. but can date back as far as 900A.D. The pond located at this site used to be a grown up slough that always contained water. The survey states that the Mississippians most likely packed baskets of dirt out of the slough to create the hill that my families house now sits on. The existing house has a few features of the old Rhodes house inside. We used one of the 12x12 hand hewn timbers that used to support the Rhodes house as a fireplace mantle. Several jars of square handmade nails were also collected and I believe a few were actually driven into some of the lumber that they used when building the house in 1987. The most interesting part of growing up in that house was some of the "hauntings" that still go on today. I've never been one to believe in ghosts or really anything that cannot be explained scientifically but I personally have listened to the piano play in the wee hours of the morning (and its not a player piano) My friends and I watched doors slam right in front of our eyes and these are doors that could not move on their own due to the carpet slightly rubbing the bottom of the frame...they had to be pushed with some force to get them to even move. My friend stayed in our guest room when we were younger and he came and asked me who that indian looking guy was standing outside his window last night and he had no knowledge of anything that I've just described here to put that into his head. If anything strange ever happens in the house my father and mother both just chock it up to their native american guests. I hope you enjoy my first attempt at hiding a cache. Keep your eyes to the ground at both areas because you can still find broken pottery and arrowheads strewn around. Both my parents know about this cache and won't bug you but if you see them out they may have some more stories they can tell you. Lots of locals like to fish in the pond so if you want you can bring your pole.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ubyybj onfr

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)


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