PATIENT # 267 - DALE

Goal: Travel from cache to cache in search of BRAAAAINS.  Visit Geocaching events.  Spread the plague.  Please take photos!

Meet Dale, patient # 267 in our ongoing study of the spread of the zombie plague via geocaching.  Dale was a professional ghost hunter who had a successful podcast in which he detailed his most recent ghost hunts, and he was a much sought after presenter for speaking engagements on topics involving the paranormal.  Dale created and invented devices to capture images, sounds, and other evidence of the presence of ghosts.  Images of Dale show that he had hair that looked like he just rolled out of bed, but our research has revealed that Dale actually spent hours every morning trying to achieve that look.  Dale wanted to share his ghost experiences with as many people as possible, so he hid geocaches at locations that he believed were haunted.  Dale had a group of friends who loved to both geocache and ghost hunt simultaneously.  Together they particularly loved nighttime caches, virtual caches, caches at memorials and monuments, cemetery caches, and caches placed in abandoned ruins.

We believe that Dale contracted the zombie plague from Lena, patient # 9 in our study of the spread of the zombie plague.  Lena and Dale both attended a nighttime geocaching tour led by Dale’s friend Christopher, patient # 264.  Christopher was a Park Ranger stationed at the monuments in Washington, D.C., and he also had an interest in paranormal ghost activity. Christopher’s nighttime geocaching tour went to the many virtual and earthcaches around the National Mall, such as at the WWI Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, the Roosevelt Memorial, and the Jefferson Memorial.  In email correspondence between Dale and Christopher, we learned that Dale was excited to go to the virtual and earthcaches at the memorials, and he planned on having a podcast about the tour and was going to speak about it at an upcoming paranormal event.  Pictures attached to the logs for the tour reveal that for the earthcaches, Christopher passed around a magnifying glass so geocachers could get an up close look at the marble of the monuments to identify the type of marble and the impurities that existed within the stone.  Lena noted in her logs that while she wasn’t feeling well, she loved getting an up-close look at the marble and she loved the haunted feeling of the nighttime virtual geocaches.  Log pictures of Dale show him looking through the magnifying glass while holding a recorder to capture ghost voices.  While it is unclear whether Dale ever captured evidence of the dead during the tour, we do know that within a few days of his contact with Lena on this tour, Dale joined the ranks of the undead. 

This travel bug is part of a larger study to take a closer look at how the zombie plague might propagate if the primary vector for spreading the disease was geocaching.  Please visit the following website for further details, and a visualization of how the disease has propagated thus far based on the movement and discovery of this and other infected Zombie travel bugs:

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