Kayak only cache! This is the nineteenth cache of the "Monster Mash Trail" series that are scattered along the scenic Pocomoke River that begins in Snow Hill, MD. The Monster Mash Trail is compiled of various monsters from movies and "real" monsters. Local legends dictates that the Pocomoke Forest, which this river runs through, is extremely haunted and has a plethora of history and lore so we thought this type of theme would be perfect! This is a small, water-tight container. Please BYOP! Happy Hunting!
About the monster: The Brundlefly is a creature from the 1986 remake of the movie The Fly starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis. In the film, Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) creates two “telepods” that allow someone to be instantly transported from the first pod to the second by disintegrating matter, transmitting it across space, and reintegrating it. Although the telepods have no issues with teleporting inanimate objects, they don’t work properly with living tissue, as demonstrated when a live baboon is turned inside-out during an experiment. Brundle meets a journalist named Veronica Quaife at a party thrown by his financer and invites her come back to his apartment/laboratory for a first hand glimpse of his device. Brundle manages to convince Veronica to keep his project a secret by promising her exclusive rights to the story once he’s ready to go public with his invention. Veronica begins to document his work and a relationship between the pair begins to blossom into a full-blown romance. With this new partnership between them, Brundle becomes overwhelmed with inspiration and reprograms the telepods’ computer to cope with living creatures. Shortly afterwards, Brundle successfully teleports a baboon with no apparent side effects.
Overjoyed with his new success, Brundle plans a romantic evening for himself and Veronica, however before they can fully celebrate she abruptly leaves. Brundle drinks himself in a spiral of self-doubt and jealous, believing that Veronica has left to rekindle her relationship with her ex-lover and editor, Stathis Boran. In reality, Veronica left to confront Boran about a veiled threat, brought on by his jealousy of Brundle, to publish the story about the telepods without her consent. Distraught by her absence and fueled by his drunken state, Bundle decides to teleport himself, though he is unaware that a housefly had flown into the same telepod that he entered. Brundle emerges from the receiving pod seemingly normal and later on, he and Veronica reconcile. Shortly after his successful teleportation, Seth begins to exhibits what appear to be fantastic benefits such as increased strength, stamina, and sexual potency. He believes the teleportation process to have purified his body. However, Veronica begins to grow more concerned with his increasing mania, as well as these strange, bristly hairs growing out of a previously sustained wound. Seth becomes angry and violent towards her, insisting that the teleportation process is akin to a beneficial drug and ties to force Veronica to undergo a teleportation. When she refuses, Brundle leaves her to go hang out at a bar where he engages in an arm-wrestling match and ends up fracturing his poor opponent’s elbow. He also picks up a woman at the bar named Tawny, and takes her back to his apartment to “celebrate”. When Veronica arrives in the morning, she finds Seth attempting to force Tawny into the teleportation process and allows Tawny to escape. Consequently, Brundle becomes highly upset and angrily throws Veronica out of his apartment, dismissing her claims about his degrading health. After Veronica is gone, Brundle realizes quickly that something went horribly wrong during his teleportation when his fingernails begin to fall off. He decides to check his computer’s records and discovers that the Telepod computer, confused by the presence of two separate life forms in one pod, merged him with the housefly at the molecular-genetic level.
During the next month, Brundle begins to deteriorate rapidly, losing various body parts and becoming gradually less human in appearance. Seth eventually reaches out to Veronica, and he theorizes that he is slowly becoming a hybrid creature who is neither human nor insect. He begins to refer to his future transformation as the “Brundlefly.” Eventually Seth begins to display fly-like characteristics, such as vomiting digestive enzymes onto his food to dissolve it, and the ability to cling to walls and ceilings. Not only that, but he begins to realize that he is losing his human reason and compassion, instead being driven purely by primitive impulses that he can’t control. Brundle thinks he can dilute the fly genes in his body with human DNA, so he installs a fusion program into the Telepod computer. To her horror, Veronica learns that she is pregnant by Seth, and isn’t sure if the child was conceived before or after his fateful teleportation. After she dreams of giving birth to a giant maggot, a terrified Veronica has Stathis persuade a reluctant doctor to perform an abortion in the middle of the night. However, having learned of the pregnancy, Brundle abducts Veronica before the abortion can be completed. He pleads with her to carry the child to term since it could potentially be the last remnant of his untainted humanity but she refuses, believing that the child will be a hideous mutant. Meanwhile, Stathis breaks into Brundle’s apartment with a shotgun in an attempt to save Veronica but he is discovered by the now almost completely transformed Seth. Brundle seriously wounds Stathis by spitting his corrosive vomit onto his right foot and left arm, which dissolves both in a matter of seconds.
With Stathis incapacitated from shock, Seth reveals his plan to become the “ultimate family” by merging himself, Veronica, and the unborn baby into one being. He grabs her by the wrist and drags her towards the first telepod, but she resists and a struggle ensues where she accidentally rips off his lower jaw. This triggers his last transformation into the creature her referred to as the Brundlefly. The creature throws Veronica into the first pod, it closing and locking behind her, and steps into the second pod. As the countdown to teleportation ticks away, Stathis regains enough consciousness to crawl over to the first teleport and shoot the wires connecting her telepod to the others. An angered Brundlefly smashes through the glass of his telepod, though too late as the countdown reaches zero and he disappears. Moments later he emerges from the third telepod as a revolting heap of fused Brundlefly and the telepod with chunks of metal sticking out of its lumpy body in random directions and unable to walk. Veronica approaches the creature with the shotgun in her hands, however she finds she can’t bring herself to end the creature’s life. The pitiful hybrid of man, fly, and machine gently takes the end of the shotgun in its deformed claw and places the business end on its forehead in a silent plea for her to release him from his agony. Initially she refuses, however she takes pity on the creature and does as he asks, ending the short lifespan of the Brundlefly.
Although you won’t encounter a Brundlefly out here in the woods, there are many terrible insects that you should be wary of! So take care while poking around this area and remember to bring the bug spray!