Hubby, baby & I found another letterbox this weekend (for my previous article on letterboxing, click here). This was part two of our previous letterbox and YOWZER, was it ever a fun one! Here's the clue:
Walk the streets of the village of Clip
In which the invisible scissors snipped,
Zigzagging throughout the days and nights
After a stranger was refused Last Rites.
Rely on the numbers, but don’t be seen,
Discover your goal across from 19.
Come to the place where the dead abide,
Look for the Haysletts side-by-side.
In the crotch of an old maple tree
Pick up the rock and the box you will see!
The Village of Clip is current-day Middleway, WV. When you go into town, the old houses are marked with the crescent moon sign of the ghost of the stranger. We drove around for a good ten minutes looking for #19 (a historical marker). It was 11:30 in the morning and we didn't see a single soul the entire time we were there. CREEPY. The entire town looked like a set location for M. Night Shyamalan ("The Village", "The Sixth Sense"). We wandered around an abandoned graveyard until I found the right headstones:
Wandering around a ghostly cemetery in the broad daylight is pretty unnerving. Can you imagine doing this letterbox at night? Hubby & I found the box (actually I FOUND THE BOX!!!), left our mark, then wandered the town until our creep curiosity was satisfied.
For those of you wondering, NO, we did not dig up the letterbox in the cemetery. It was safely nestled in a tree. Get out there & find it for yourself!
