Unusual greetings from the bright past: frightening finds in time capsules
Now time capsules are very often opened — cheerful messages to descendants, which were laid by enthusiastic Soviet citizens.
Although the fashion for such greetings from the "bright past" existed not only in The Soviet Union. In the XX century, this was a craze in many countries: handwritten letters addressed to people of the future, newspaper clippings, commemorative photographs and the like were put in boxes or boxes. Most often they were buried somewhere or poured with concrete in the hope that descendants would discover the "treasure".
However, sometimes, instead of solemn greetings from the past, gloomy messages are also found in the capsules. From strange prophecies to corpses: today we will tell you about the most unusual and creepy finds that were discovered in time capsules by residents of the "bright future".
"I'm dead:" a frightening letter from a ghost boy
However, this time the content of one of the messages attracted close attention. Judging by the signature, it was written by a boy named Greg Lee Youngman. However, information about him has not yet been found. There is no data about such a student in the school archive. The text looks even more strange and frightening:
The frightening message could have been a dark joke by one of the students. Local journalists tried to find the mysterious boy or those who knew him, but their search was unsuccessful.
Gloomy greetings from psychiatrists of the past
Of course, it is easy to understand the desire of psychiatrists of that time to share their experience with colleagues from the future, but in modern times such methods of treatment cause nervous tremors and only confirm the difficult path of development of psychiatry.
A time capsule in the form of a bomb caused a stir in Manhattan
In the 80s of the last century, Danceteria was one of the iconic places of New York. It featured such stars as Madonna, Billy Idol and the band Duran Duran. Entrepreneur John Argento, the former owner of the club, admitted that in 1985 he bought a dummy bomb in a New York military goods store, collected "messages to the future" from club visitors in it for three weeks, and then buried it in front of the entrance to the institution.
The police carefully examined the contents of the capsule (only letters and photographs were found inside), and then handed it over to the ex-owner of the nightclub.
"The Islamic threat and the rise of China": an Australian wrote very truthful prophecies for the sake of a joke
Greg Wilkinson wrote his message on Easter Sunday, 1995. First, he told the details of his biography and indicated the state of affairs and the cost of everyday goods at the time of writing the letter, and then moved on to predictions for the future.
According to his forecast, in the future China was to become a semi-democratic state, reach the level of a superpower and become the main partner of the United States. Interestingly, in 1995, China was inferior to many countries in terms of economy size, and now it has risen to second place in the world. Greg's predictions include the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also wrote that the growing Islamic radicalism will become a global problem that will grow into a big war, which will end only when "both sides realize that their God does not want to continue it."
Journalists managed to find Greg Wilkinson, who is now 61 years old. According to him, after writing the letter, he argued with his wife when it would be discovered. He himself was inclined to believe that the letter would be found closer to 2060, and his wife pointed to 2020.
Greetings from Auschwitz: the message of the death camp prisoners
The note, written in pencil on a label from under a bag of cement and placed in a glass bottle, contains the names and surnames of the prisoners - six Poles and one Frenchman, their personal numbers and the place - Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Auschwitz.
In 1940-1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi concentration camp, where people were killed en masse. The exact number of deaths in Auschwitz is still unknown, since before the Red Army's offensive, the Nazis destroyed all the camp's documentation, and before leaving Auschwitz, they carried out mass executions of prisoners.
It is assumed that millions of people died in the camp: some were tortured and poisoned in gas chambers, others died of hunger and as a result of medical experiments.
Peter Pan's Dead Brothers
Inside were newspapers and other junk from the 30s, several books about the adventures of Peter Pan, a membership card of the fan club of this wonderful children's fairy tale, as well as several souvenirs on the subject of Peter Pan. However, the most "striking" contents of the box were the embalmed bodies of two babies wrapped in newspaper.
The most interesting thing is that the name of Janet M. Berry was stamped on the box, which is strikingly in tune with J. M. Berry — the name of the author of everyone's favorite book. This discovery caused a great resonance, the police even conducted a DNA analysis. However, experts have not revealed any relationship between the writer and the corpses in the basement, so the origin of the "dead brothers of Peter Pan" is still a mystery.
A strange sticky find in the garden: a curse or a blessing?
Many Latin Americans believe in brucheria, a special form of magic that uses natural elements. Therefore, the Costa Rican was sure that his find was connected with some kind of magical ritual. When the owner of the house came, he told his tenant that the woman in the photo lived in this house about 15 years ago. He also suggested that she was the victim of a corruption or curse. Then they decided to immediately burn the strange find.
However, some commentators to the post on Reddit said that perhaps it was not a corruption at all. Judging by the sweet smell of the contents in the jar, it could have been honey, and the ritual itself was carried out rather for a blessing, with the aim of "sweetening the life" of the couple depicted in the photo.
Canned Paris apartment as a time capsule
The owner of the apartment, a French actress, fled from Paris at the very beginning of the Second World War and never returned there. For 70 years, she continued to pay the rent of the apartment, but she did not tell anyone about her family. Relatives found out about the abandoned housing after the death of a woman at the age of 91.
Experts described all the property in the apartment, among which many personal items were found, such as hair brushes and letters. In addition to them, other interesting objects were discovered: a life-size stuffed ostrich or Mickey Mouse. The media dubbed the unusual apartment a "time capsule".
Everything around was as if frozen — at one moment, the experts seemed to step into the past. The air was filled with dust, and there were cobwebs everywhere. The ponderous dressing table and curtains, huge mirrors all in curlicues, ornate armchairs - all this transfers not even to the beginning of the 1940s, but to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Eyes and nails in a teapot: greetings from the Japanese at Expo 70 Capsule
The first discovery of one of the world's most famous time capsules has already taken place in 2000, and the rest will take place at intervals of 100 years. In total, each capsule contains a cargo of 2,098 culturally significant objects. If two capsules from the times of modern world history survive until the planned opening date in 6970 AD, their future owners will find an extensive collection of films, seeds and microorganisms, as well as glass eyes and blackened nails of people who survived the atomic bombing of 1945 in Hiroshima.