How often has this happened to you?

[armygreenx]

Today while doing the Un-Zipped Mail series in Lenaway county i found an unpublished cache 10 feet away from one of the mail series caches. Luckily the cache owners name was in the container so i was able to contact him. Hopefully he will respond because he will likely need to move it and then i won't know what cache i got the first to find on.

That is the second time i have found a cache accidentally but the first time i have ever found a virgin log. Has something similar ever happened to you? Share your stories!

[McCombRef]

I found a true letter box once about 40 feet from a cache. I thought that the coordinates were off a little, but I did find the actual cache. I checked later to see if the letter box was a hybrid, but it wasn't listed on GC.com.

[yogi57]

I found a letterbox while looking for a place to hide a cache.

[TeamMina]

We've found a couple of ltbx's in the area, solely by accident.

We've found a cache before it got published once, well, Mina did.
We did get to help them get it published, as it was there first hide.

We also signed a cache log last summer, and the cache was officially published just last week.
Think we hafta go back & sign it again, for it to be official.

[TheBearclaws]

I once located a place to put a cache then did a writeup and submittal. When I returned to place the container I was shocked to find another container located exactly where mine was planned. I took it home and was able to figure out who it belonged to, later I returned it to mdwalsh.

Another time I was checking out a location for a placement and suddenly had a well camoflaged container right in front of my eyes. If you have trouble figuring out puzzles, this method works pretty well for a certain hard one of cheeches.

[cheechgang]

I once placed a container in a hole in a tree only to find another container there. It turned out it had been placed by Good Dog but he hadn't remembered to publish it.

We also have unintentionally found at least a dozen Letterboxes along the way.

Even more odd, I once found a pile of horizontal sticks and there was no cache.

I also looked under a light post shroud once and there was no cache.

[armygreenx]

I once placed a container in a hole in a tree only to find another container there. It turned out it had been placed by Good Dog but he hadn't remembered to publish it.

We also have unintentionally found at least a dozen Letterboxes along the way.

Even more odd, I once found a pile of horizontal sticks and there was no cache.

I also looked under a light post shroud once and there was no cache.

Strange i thought for sure all light posts had a cache under them from either geocaching.com or another gps cache hiding site. Surely it was muggled. You should report it as such.

[roadkill103]

I have found a letterbox once near where the cache should have been. I didn't find the cache. I also didn't know it was a letterbox till much later in my caching career.

I also have found a couple of caches after stopping and getting out and search nearby guardrails. I find myself searching guardrails all the time without a GPS.

[OnDHunt]

I am amazed everytime I find a cache.....published or not!

[WildWonz]

I found a cache while waiting for my girlfriend at the Doctors office. Her dog and I waited in the car and I decided to take her for a walk around the parking lot and spotted a trail heading toward I-475 and thought I would check it out and stumbled upon a cache. So I signed it and looked it up to log it once I got home.