MnGCA

[EPMinnesota]

I'm 99.99% sure I know who it is after finding his/her cache last night. All the pieces of the puzzle fell into place.

[bflentje]

Some of us could care less. Besides, I think Sparkyfry is the mysterious spook anyway. (intentional misspelling?)

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[bflentje]

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[timewellspent]

[pfalstad]

[LucidOndine]

I think many people are blowing this a bit out of proportion. While most cachers are social people and don't care about their identity, there are plenty of cachers who don't attend events, read up @ MnGCA, and are finding your caches without logging them. This person doesn't seem to be doing anything wrong, but the creep factor seems particularly high in this case.

Time will tell, but I think this person has no ill-intent.
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[LucidOndine]

[bdpfau]

I got an email from (spuke) today that reads as follows:

Ref: Your forum post on Oct 12. Other Cache owners questioned my first logs: a simple "boo", intended to be a Casper-the-Friendly-Ghost greeting. One thought it was an insult to the quality of the cache. So I used "peekaboo" on future log entries.I can't get on the forum, maybe because I've been blocked.
(spuke)

This cacher doesn't seem to have any negative intent to me. What do you all think?

[bflentje]

[EPMinnesota]

I have received an email copy to share with you. This lays to rest this mystery.

"The Brief Existence of (spuke) - An Autobiography".
My name is (spuke), as in "Luke" or "duke" or "jukebox", but not "puke".
I rose from my moss-covered crypt in the fading days of summer with the intent of enhancing the geocaching experience by my mysterious presence.
My plan evolved in three stages:
First, in September to establish the ephemeral presence of (spuke), an unseen seeker of caches not yet published in the weekly notifications. That has been done.
Second, in September to plant a cache in the spirit of traditional Halloween observations. That has been done with "Let's Do Lunch."
Third, in November to reveal the true identity of (spuke) with a multi-stage puzzle cache which would also be of significant benefit to the Minnesota Geocaching Association and reflect favorably on the integrity of Minnesota geocachers.
But that now appears to be ill advised.
At the MnCGA annual meeting on October 16th some vandal wrote the name of "spuke" on the exterior wall of the community activities building. That graffiti was promptly removed by a more conscientious cacher the folowing day.
On October 18th I was contacted by Nicole of Groundspeak, who admonished me for posting "peekaboo" notes and leaving decoys. Her stated concern was that some geocachers thought that they were being observed by my lurking presence. (That never happened.) She also requested that I remove decoys and delete references to them. The deletions have been performed and the decoys, which I naively thought would enhance the pleasure of finding the real caches, are being removed.
Because I will not allow my continued existence to be the excuse for future vandalism at my expense and because I had no intent to deter geocachers in theit quests, I am herewith withdrawing to rest again in my mossy crypt.
Farewell.
(spuke)

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