Dead Men Tell No Tales Traditional Cache
Green Oobleck: Couldn't have put it any better--Dead Men Tell No Tales, so we will never know the true culprits. I hope that the curse for disturbing the bones will not haunt them too much--maybe only for 5 generations as opposed to 10. I will try to get out there to collect the geodebris soon. It was fun while it lasted.
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No way around this one but up the hill. A micro cache, anti-camo,
and a pencil.
It is a little known fact that exactly 200 years ago when these
hills were inhabited by Native Americans and Spanish Don's that a
pirate by the name of Captain Inigo Stubbs was hanged by the neck
until dead.
The exact location of the hanging remains a mystery to this day,
but he story and the legend remains. It seems that Capatin Stubbs
(a name he earned when he lost his foot to a hungry great white
shark off the coast of Catalina) pillaged along the coast of what
is now San Diego all the way to Monterey. His victims--the Spanish
and their treasure laden ships loaded with the wealth of the Don's
who were moving to the new world and all its promise.
Captain Stubbs was a brutal leader--vicious, cruel, and greedy.
Half of his crew were natives that he enslaved and abused into
servitude--they were fearfully loyal to the sociopathic
captian.
There is very little recorded history of these attacks on the So.
Cal seas, as the Spanish were brilliant in covering up the
embarrassing boardings (especially from the British). Also, Captain
Stubbs was known for not leaving any survivors. He killed every
last man, woman, and child on board. He was the devil.
It is known that much of the treasure Stubbs and his crew amassed
is buried in these hills. Far enough from the coast to prevent
other interlopers from finding it and near enough to the love of
his life. The daughter of a local land owner and Don--Don Antonio
Lugo.
To make a long story short, Stubbs happened upon the young
Margarita as she was out on horseback with her brothers inspecting
the cattle one afternoon. Forgive the cliche, but it was destiny
when their eyes met. Beauty and the beast.
Stubbs knew he could not join the world of the wealthy land owners,
so his only choice was to kidnap the young maiden and pull her into
his world of murder and mayhem. He planned to do this on the
evening of October 23, 1806. With a band of 20 loathsome men, he
entered the Lugo estate--set on making Margarita his stolen wife.
What he found there shocked even him. Upon entering the courtyard
of the Hacienda, Stubbs and his men found themselves surrounded by
armed cowboys and pirates. Seeing the opportunity to escape, the
native pirates had warned the Lugo family of the attack--in turn,
they would be given their freedom and returned to their
families.
Captain Stubb's men were shot on sight, but Stubbs himself was
hauled into the hills by the Don's heavys. In pursuit was
Margarita, secretly yearning for a final word from her lover. The
men put the rope around stubbs neck and hung him from the nearest
tree. His neck was not broken, but he was left there to suffocate.
As his lover watched him die from behind a bush, she heard him
gasp, "I will return return to curse the dwellers of these hills.
Rue the day." As his final breath left his body, Margarita sank to
the ground sobbing. She never married and died childless and
miserable. He love and devotion given to a man who only deserved
scorn.
If you choose to search out the Captain's treasure, be aware of the
curse he left behind and the danger either real or imagined that
you face. You may not find the treasure, but something more
terrifying altogether. Although it is a cliche, remember, "Dead men
tell no tales!" ANd if the captain had his way--he would chose your
death over his own and may look to trade places with you.
Be very careful--and in your search stop to listen for the whimpers
of his lost love on the winds that blow through these hills.
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