New, what is it?
Found this intricately wrapped bundle deliberately tied high up in a tree. Any idea what it could be?
EDIT: To clarify, I already opened it!
For a couple of weeks, I'd been noticing this strange object hanging from a tree in my apartment complex's gated courtyard. During our annual spring clean-up in mid-May, my neighbors and I got a ladder and brought it down.
It was an envelope inside a Ziploc bag, wrapped tightly in a LOT of string.
The paper was waterlogged and mostly disintegrated, but I could make out the year "2021" on what looked like an official letter or bill.
It hadn't just been tossed up there and gotten stuck. It was deliberately tied to a branch with a knot, and was so high up that even a very tall person would have needed a proper ladder to put it there.
Has anyone come across anything like this before? Is there some significance to wrapping and hanging something like this?
Am I missing a perfectly ordinary explanation?
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Actually, before that, the Paleogene Period had to come to an end, starting the Neogene Period which brought with it the necessary environmental changes to facilitate the evolution of Ursavis Elmensis.
This makes me want to watch it now, actually.. Initially, I thought it was a joke, a spoof, too outrageous to watch unless you have time to kill.. but, I've been told it's good, too.
Should I watch it?
Then I guess it always just comes back to geocaches doesn’t it? I guess the world is just a series of those that are geocaches and those that are not….
Like how Pokémon go was supposed to get gamers to be more active, maybe this will work for stoners? Also, stoners is the single best label for geo enthusiasts who also smoke weed
I read this multiple times trying to figure out how you have enough neighbors doing drugs for you to find it profitable to sell to only them, and how that would even work. Like do you show up with a gift basket when someone new moves in, like "first one's on the house"?
And then it clicked and I realized I may be too tired to be on reddit.
Rules, schmools. After the club, go to Truffoni's, they'd say 'no sloppy steaks' but they can't STOP you from ordering a steak and a glass of water on the side!
Yeah sure lemme just label this highly conspicuous packaging with the opposite of what they think it’ll be! That’ll stop them from looking https://giphy.com/gifs/anYBNhqT2BYcg
What was the specific labeling? Was it just sloppy sharpie handwriting saying “drugs,” or was it something printed by a machine that said something more specific like “ALD-52, 750ųg”?
Same thing a friend went to raves and sold mesacline mixed with powdered strawberry nestles quick. Woke up early one morning went to have a bowl or cereal and some pink strawberry milk. Boy was that a surprise laser light show in my bathroom at 5 in the morning.
So, I don't mean to be the nay sayer here but I vote for that package being the result of unmedicated (or poorly medicated) schizophrenia.
Geo caches tend to be better concealed or constructed, and drugs tend to not be left out in the open where a curious passer by might take them down from the tree.
So much "weird" stuff that makes absolutely no sense to us makes perfect sense to the person who is off their meds and trying to prove the FBI is spying on them with magnets and ultrasonic waves.
So back like eight years ago I was on vacation in Brussels with my daughter and some random man came up and gave us this card that was covered in teeny tiny writing with all kinds of confusing statements. We kept it and puzzled over it and it was a mystery. And this year I got Reddit, and saw these posts, and now I’m like “OHHH! Schizophrenia!” Yeah. We couldn’t figure it out lol.
There was an instance where a world famous mathematician sent out these confusing and profoundly erratic packages to other noteworthy mathematicians around the world.
Finally, one of them called his house for an answer. His wife explained it didn't mean anything. The guy was just elderly and going through dementia.
Somewhere out there is someone ranting to a justice of the peace about how maritime law and the magna carta dictates that because they tied an electric bill to a tree in the town square they no longer require a drivers license to operate a vehicle.
If it's a cache, it doesn't meet the requirements to be a geocache. A geocache can't require special equipment (like a ladder) to access, or be in a dangerous place. Tied up high in a tree is not safe.
I agree it has potential, but wouldn’t someone setting a geocache with a difficulty rating that included a need for special equipment (ladder), use a container that wouldn’t water log the log book? Log your feelings.
Geocaches like this usually aren't hidden like others. When it's this high up the difficulty of getting it is usually enough. They don't want to hide something
that requires a tool to reach because people would be logging it as lost all the time and probably injuring themselves looking for it while standing on a ladder. When it's easily seen like this a catcher can just take out his extendo-pole with a hook on the end and get to business.
Source: father is addicted to geocaching and Ive been along for the ride plenty.
I'm still not sure it's a geocache but it does seem like it has moldy paper in a ziplock bag which is very cache like.
Surprised no one has said it but sometimes it can be some type of witchcraft ritual. I’ve seen some things like this, other times in a jar that’s candle waxed shut, on hiking trails where I live. They’ll put hair or some type of organic material or a picture of a person they want to “curse” along with like a dead frog with a smoked cigarette sewn into its mouth. Crazy stuff but some people really do it. I smashed one open with my hiking stick once and it had a whole family photo along with some other random stuff inside like dollar bills and sticks. Hopefully I released that family from whatever curse they were under.
If it was dollar bills with a picture of the family, that may have been a money spell. Like a kind of good prayer for the family. It's not always some evil intent like the movies
It could be witchcraft. Whether you believe in effectiveness of witchcraft or not, doesn't change the fact that a lot of people believe it's effective and do things like this.
Me too lol! I also glance at my clock to know the time in case I need to tell someone what time the body parts were there. 😭 I think I watch too much ID. Lolll
I was not prepared for leprechauns committing petty identity fraud over library fines. The oddly specific VHS requirement makes this sound like the most unhinged side quest ever, and now I need to know if the BellBurger was real.
I asked my stuffy chihuahua that says “Yo quiero Taco Bell” about the BellBurger. He says, “Yo quiero, Taco Bell,” then falls strangely silent. It must mean something.
People used to sent messages tied to balloons. Sometimes as experiments. Elementary schools would do it, too.
Just to see how far it could travel. It may have been stuck up there for a while.
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