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Whatisinaname Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/1/2022
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Cache container is not at posted coordinates.

Though the person you are looking for could have been placed at the posted coordinates, he perhaps was not worthy to be intererred in such a hallowed spot.

The terrain rating is for the steep embankment you might have to negotiate.

Please place back as found or better. There is a tool that may be helpful to open the container.

Large enough for trackables, but not large swag.

A forger and swindler in the 1870’s and beyond, he married several women only to desert them along with some or most of their money, jewelry and other possessions.
He was also known for many notorious exploits of absconding with other peoples’s money as well.
He had arrived in Asheville just a week before his death from Newport News, Virginia,
after being advised that the cool mountain air might provide respite for his consumptive symptoms.

After he died presumably from pulmonary tuberculosis, he was embalmed by one of the best Asheville embalmers of the early 1900’s.
His body was not identified or claimed until later.
He was then dressed up and paraded around Asheville in a carriage to advertise the funeral parlor’s business, or purportedly propped up to play poker games.
Mostly he was stood on a pedestal in the establishment.

In order to find his whereabouts or at least a container that he might have occupied, find a word in the following list of his aliases.

It might have to be unscrambled. Once you have the word, enter it into the checker to obtain the coordinates of the cache.

Lord Beresford
Charles H. Asquith
Sidney Lascelles
Lieutenant Harry Vance Tempest

Lord Hay
Lord Douglas
Cavendish
Dudley
Sanford Douglas
Lieutenant R.B. Ar
undel
Hon. Ray Reid,
Lord Hugh Leslie Courtney,
Lieutenant Dennison,
G. Pelham Clinton ,
John Reginald Talbot,
John R. Temple
The Duke

Check your solution

FTF HONORS GO TO Slingworthy!!!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

unatvat

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)