The Ghost of Stunod, Blond Witch of East, Goblin, spook25000 and Friendly Wizard may be lurking somewhere near you, caching, or something. Halloween conjures veiled mirages of ghosts and goblins, and brews up unpleasant images of witches and wizards, and apparently, so does geocaching. After all, cachers calling themselves The Ghost of Stunod, Blond Witch of East, Goblin, spook25000 and Friendly Wizard may be lurking somewhere near you, caching, or something.
Usernames are widely varied among cachers; many players develop pseudonyms that shroud (or reflect) their lifestyles and fantasies. Some of them fit right in with the “spirit” of the eve of All Saints’ Day.
Consider SpookyChuck or witchiepoo. How about witchbippy and mutt? Or Spooks?
The modern conception of Halloween is a celebration with the purpose to ward off evil spirits by masking your image and environment, making it as unpleasant as possible. El Diablo, sept1c_tank, GeoWorms and Pyewacket all seem to work well here.
Then there are those monsters, the ones no one will go near, like puppymonster, CookieMonster1 and vermonsters. Milamber Dragon, Webfoot and Sassquatch are the line backers.
You’ve also got the rotten criminal element: Criminal, Johnnie Stalkers, Night Stalker and Evil Chicken, to deal with, and their counterparts, Agent N, Agent Oakie and Insp. Gadget. Blending in wherever they are needed (to see that good prevails and evil fails) are the super heroes like Zartimus, Divine and super chicken.
Would any self-respecting spirit want to mess with PumpkinEater? HankTheSaint, The Ghostbusters, or Pumpkin Princess will be on hand when things get rough.
A few more ghastly titles include Celtic Ghost, Cyber-Ghost, East Ghost, Ghost Town Gambler, Ghost who Walks, ghost-hunter, Ghostbiker, ghostbird, ghostcat78, ghostersnga, Ghosthunter, Ghostly Tribe, ghostman, ghostpirates, ghostrecon, Ghostrider, ghosttownhunter, and GhostWolf.
And of course Ghost Himself, ghost in the machine, greyghostPEI, GreyGhost ver 1.0, janghost, nc-ghost, onlineghost, Opera Ghosts, OzarkMtnGhost (Hillbilly & Little Boo), paveghost, RFGhost, riverghost, Tram Ghost and Rosco, The Ghost Riders, thegrayghosts and virtualghost could be hiding in the shadows.Some other spooky names include De Spookies, Spookie, Spookiy, Spooks, Spooky-CSI, spooky217 and SpookyAg.Goblins are scarce. In addition to Goblin, goblindust and Lucky Goblins are the only ones revealed in a "goblin" search.
If you think this whole scenario is mysterious, remember Mystery Woman, MrMystery, MysteryGang and MysteryLady.
The “Monster Mash” is an olla podrida of slimy characters. Avoid, at all cost, armyman monster, Beer Monster, cookiemonster1947, Fangmonster, Geo Monster, greenlittle monster, jagermonsters, kiwimonster, Kruemelmonster, legomonsters, Little Monster & Co., Loch Hess Monsters, Lurchmonster, MaxiMonsters, monster48, Monster P7, pocketmonster, SEAMONSTER, Seamonsters, SlackMonster, Specsaver & Mud Monster, stitchmonster and SwampMonster.
Those pesky witches are everywhere. Near any cauldron, you might find Akazswitchbacks, Blonde cacherwitch, dcrazywitch, Hippywitch, killswitch, lytteltonwitch, mapwitch, Morrighan Witch, switchdoc, teamwitchcraft, The red-haired witch, The Witch, Witch Way Scouts, Witches of East, WitchHazel or WitchHunter.
There are ample spirits, too: AmericanSpirit, aquarianspirit and GCSpiritik, OutdoorSpirits!, spirit of 76, spiriteddruid, spiritfilledfamily, Spiritnip, Team Spirit of ’76, Teamspirit, Wild, Spirit, WindSpirits and woodspirit.
Some other spooky names include De Spookies, Spookie, Spookiy, Spooks, Spooky-CSI, spooky217 and SpookyAg.
And the wizards are: AQ Wizard, cachewizardz, Cheech Wizard, FreemontWizards, GameWizard, harleywizard, MacBWizard201, MIDIWizard, PNWWizard, Tie Wizard, WAUKESHA WIZARDS, webwizardry, Wizard1 and WIZARDMASTER.
Lighted pumpkins are a symbol of Halloween; a warning for the evil spirits: Pumpkin Nuts, Pumpkin Princess, PumpkinEater, PumpkinEve, pumpkinhead, PumpkinOneA, timberlane74 & pumpkin and TinyMoon & the Pumpkin King.
Halloween is the eve of All Saints’ Day. Lest we not forget the geocaching saints: BrokenSaint, Compton All Saints Pupils, SAINT, Saint7, Sky Saint, The Tadley Saints and theSaints.
(Editor’s note: The pseudonyms in this story represent usernames of a very small sampling of geocachers. All the names are registered to the geocaching.com. website.)