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Sierra Madre Pod (SMD-POD) Traditional Geocache

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

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Travel back to the fifties and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” with this Urban MicroCache.

I recall watching Insomniac Theatre as a kid and seeing a scene from the original “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. Body Snatcher Pods were being off-loaded from a truck right down the road in Sierra Madre! Of course now I look at those same pods and think, “Wow… those would make great caches!”

The original 1956 “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” could be seen as a metaphor for paranoia toward a harmful ideology such as socialistic Communism, the spread of an unknown virulent germ, the numbing of individuality by way of forced conformity and group-think, or the scariest of all, geocaching gone awry. It is in fact really just a story about a typical alien take-over of an entire community by means of large seed pods found in your basement, trunk or pool table.

A real Body Snatcher pod would be a bit too conspicuous, so this cache is a MicroCache. Besides, Home Depot, OSH and Lowes were out of pods. If you do find a pod, take the body, leave a treasure and log it here anyway :-) Good luck and enjoy!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Qba'g or uvtu abj

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)