Actually Ive found a few human skeletons before, but not while geocaching. At least 7 I think it was. It was quite a few years ago. RAND HARDIN wrote:I've read some strange encounters and adventures in the forums from cachers, but this one has to rank up there as one of the eeriest. A find like this was bound to happen - and as much venturing about as geocachers do, I'm sure, there will be other odd discoveries yet to come Rand ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Heitowit Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:59 AM To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching Makes the News Check out this link. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=72844738-37da-419d-9281-ecef2643e236 Team Tierra Buena wrote: >USC-Aiken students discover body >Web posted Saturday, February 28, 2004 at 10:59 p.m. >By Peter G. Gilchrist | South Carolina Bureau >AIKEN - Two USC-Aiken students walked into Hitchcock Woods early >Saturday morning on a high-tech treasure hunt and stumbled into a real >mystery. >Tim Meesseman and Carl Williams, both 20, were using a global >positioning system to find hidden items in an adventure game known as >geocaching. >Instead they found the remains of a skeleton. >"At first I saw a skull and then I looked and saw a few decomposing >bones next to it," Mr. Meesseman said. "We couldn't believe it." >The two were searching near Dribble Road, using the GPS to find the >longitude and latitude of the hidden cache. The coordinates are found on >a Web site, www.geocaching.com, and 28 caches are hidden in the >Aiken-Augusta area. > >"After I saw the bones, we saw a pair of Nike tennis shoes about five >feet from the skull," Mr. Meesseman said. "It looked like they were from >the 1980's or something. It had definitely been there a while." >Lt. Michael Frank, spokesman for the Aiken County Sheriff's Office, said >it is unclear how long the remains had been in the woods, but said an >autopsy and a forensic reconstruction will be done to try to identity >the person. >"Right now we don't know much. There wasn't enough information at the >scene to determine if foul play was involved," he said. "It could be >weeks before we know more." >Patrick King, of Aiken, a regular on the geocache circuit, said he'd >heard of unusual finds during hunts, but nothing like this. >"I've heard of people finding strange things like underwear, but I don't >think I've ever heard of anyone finding a body." >--From the Saturday, February 28, 2004 online edition of the Augusta >(GA) Chronicle Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so: "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!" Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail