A mystery 100 years in the making was recently solved in Humboldt, Kansas. “We started trying to get into it last year,” said Amber Wheeler, Superintendent, Humboldt Schools. Humboldt superintendent Amber Wheeler says despite having newspaper coverage to go off of, this box, a time capsule from 1922, remained elusive for more than a year. “When they pulled out the little black box it was an excitement for everybody,” said Wheeler. Wheeler says they knew the capsule was somewhere around the cornerstone of the high school… but when they pulled the bricks around it last year, they came up empty. “There wasn’t anybody to ask. One hundred years ago is a long time. There was nobody to ask where they really put it, or how they had put it in there. We had one newspaper article and a whole lot of guesses,” said Wheeler. This year, they pulled the cornerstone out as part of adding on to the school. And inside of the cornerstone — was the capsule. “Who knows what’s in there, and how things have survived in the last 100 years,” said Wheeler. Monday night, they found out. “What we can see right now is that there is obviously something that was a baseball at one point in time,” said Wheeler.
Source: KSNF/KODE
