A time capsule sealed in 1969 that was set to divulge its closed book this year has mysteriously — albeit hilariously — wound up containing utterly nothing , a puzzle that has stomp the town of Derry , New Hampshire .
employee with the Derry Public Library discovered the capsule — an honest-to-god safe — contained precisely nothing when check a few weeks ahead of its schedule reveal at the three-hundredth Nutfield Anniversary Old Home Day issue in contiguous Londonderry , theNew Hampshire Union Leaderreported . There is evidently no record for what was supposed to be in the secure , though there ’s some hypothesis on its previous contents — assume there ever were any at all .
Speaking with ABC affiliateWMUR , Derry depository library film director Cara Potter order it ’s possible that the dependable contained detail relate to astronaut Alan Shepard , who was bear in Derry . However , Derry historian Paul Lindemann told the Union Leader that the safe was said to include a film Virginia reel depicting a drive term of enlistment of Derry as well as audience with the town ’s officials .
Image: WMUR
To be average , if the latter is the case , a prophylactic whose items have cryptically vanished seems well more exciting that its rumor contents .
In any event , it appears any number of individuals may have been capable to access it in the 50 class since it was sealed . WMUR cited Potter as being told that the safe was stored at a city municipal building before it was pull down and that it ’s been stored at the library ever since . Lindemann , however , secern the Union Leader that old intelligence coverage state that the good had been buried in Derry ’s MacGregor Park , but that it has more recently been stored in subroutine library ’s research room , which is reportedly lock .
“ He surmise the capsule might have been exhume during program library construction in 1989 - 1990 , ” the Union Leader reported . “ However , given the stipulation of the safe , it ’s unclear if it was ever buried . ”
Regardless , it would n’t take a genius to access whatever treasures may or may not have been inside . harmonize to the written report , the good ’s combining was clearly labeled on the back of it , meaning just about anyone with entree to it could have been able to make away with its content .
“ It could have happened at any gunpoint , ” Potter told WMUR . “ We ’ve even speculated that nothing even got put in there in the first place . We just do n’t know . ”
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