- Traditional
- GCBEGT4
- by golwischer
- Location:
- Bavaria, Germany
- N 50° 00.838’ E 009° 15.210’
This Halloween, deep in the Bavarian forest, an eye-catching geocache is waiting for its next visitor.
A quiet walk through the woods takes a creepy turn at our Geocache of the Week, Halloween im Finsterwald das magische Auge (GCBEGT4), where the search for one smiley might leave you wondering who saw whom first.
By day, the walk through the forest seems peaceful enough. But with Halloween just around the corner, the surprise waiting at GZ makes this the perfect setting for a delightfully creepy cache outing.
Follow your coordinates deeper into the woods until something distinctly unnatural breaks up the scenery. Among the trees stands a large black cabinet, an unsettling presence.
The cabinet is closed, ominous, and rather suspicious-looking. One detail on the cabinet’s front immediately catches your eye: a small, round ball nestled into a socket. A closer look reveals a button, and curiosity quickly gets the better of you. Before you can think twice, you press it.
Whatever you were expecting to find in the middle of a quiet Bavarian forest, it probably wasn’t this. Open the cabinet to come face-to-face with its resident: a skeletal prisoner dressed in black-and-white stripes, gripping the bars of its tiny cell while glowing red eyes stare back at its newest visitor.
Video by lordmorpheus777.
Somewhere around those cell bars waits the geocache with its log sheet, but earning this find means getting past its undead guardian first. Brave the stare, investigate around the cell, and claim the container that proves you conquered one seriously creatively creepy cache.
GCBEGT4 grew out of a long-running Halloween tradition for the golwischer team. Each year, they pair their Halloween Event with special themed caches and challenge themselves to make the next creation even more memorable than the last. That friendly pressure to outdo previous years ultimately sparked the idea for this eerie prisoner in the woods.
Would you be brave enough to uncover the secret that lurks within?
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