I Found A Mysterious Box In My Backyard And It Changed My Life
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- Published on Feb 16, 2019
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This is Megan, and she would like to tell you about her journey into the past.
A short time ago Megan’s family moved into a new house. Well, it wasn't exactly new, but it was very spacious. It might've looked like an old shack with spiderwebs and ghosts in the attic but she and her parents had a plan for how to make it look great both inside and out. Among all their other ideas, they decided to turn their backyard into a beautiful garden.
While her parents were working on the inside of the house, Megan started the gardening project by doing the most important thing - creating a garden bed. She was so happy to be out there working, but after digging only a few feet into the ground her shovel suddenly hit something hard. Her heart started beating faster with anticipation. What if she’d just found a skull?
It did actually turn out to be a metal case, but there was no gold in it. Just an old watch with a near disintegrated white leather strap and Mickey Mouse on the watch-face, a round tin can with celluloid film inside, and a note.
Being careful not to harm the film, she set it aside and opened the note. It was written by someone named Darla. She wished whoever found this treasure all the best, and hoped that when it was found the world would still be a prosperous place, and people would have already figured out how to fly to the stars. She also enclosed a gift - her favorite wrist-watch. The note was dated 1958.
The note didn’t say what was on the film, so Megan was very eager to find out. She couldn't stop thinking about it, right up to the moment when she finally found a film projector available to buy online. She also spent some time studying how to play an old movie without ruining the film. This whole experience turned out to be an interesting adventure.
And so the moment finally came when Megan was able to watch the three-minute movie, which consisted of just a few scenes. She saw her new house when it was a newly-built cottage. There was a view of the street, where she recognized a few of the then much younger trees, fully grown by now. To her surprise the area looked like it hadn’t really changed much over the past 60 years. The cars, however, were totally different. The last shot was of a pretty girl smiling and waving at the camera, with their house in the background. Megan assumed it was Darla… And she wanted to know more about her. She must be over 70 years old by now, she thought.
The first thing she did was to ask all their neighbors. Unfortunately, none of them had lived there 60 years ago, so they knew nothing about Darla.
Then Megan went to the city archives. She didn’t learn much, but she did find a record about the family that lived at their address in 1958. The last name on there was at least a starting point!
Megan kept investigating and finally came across a phone number. When she called, a grown-up male voice answered the phone. She told him that she currently lived at the house where his family used to live, and asked him if he knew a Darla. “That's my grandma but she's losing her memory and for the last few years she's lived in a nursing home.”
The conversation made her feel really sad. In the film she had seen a young girl, smiling and full of life and energy, and it felt strange to realize that now she had grown old and even lost her memory. She decided to visit her anyway.
She went to the nursing home where Darla lived, and told the staff there who she was and what she had found. They didn’t object to her meeting Darla and showing her the things she had left in the box half a century ago. A nurse showed her the way to Darla’s room.
The door opened and Megan saw a nice old lady in her seventies, wrapped up in a warm checkered plaid blanket. She was confused when she saw her, for some reason deciding that she was her great-granddaughter. Megan neither contradicted nor confirmed her thoughts. She just sat close to her and showed her the case that she had dug out of the garden with all the things inside. Darla thoughtfully twirled her old wrist watch in her hands while Megan played her the video from the old celluloid that she had shot on her smartphone's camera.
Believe it or not, the old lady remembered recording it! She didn’t realize who Megan was, but she recalled with confidence her idea to leave a “time capsule” for people from the future. Megan listened to her memories about that day in particular and about life in general - what things were like 60 years before.
It was certainly an interesting experience to see how people perceived the future over half a century ago!
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Please let us know in the comments if you have also ever thought about how the world changes. Or maybe you’ve even left a time capsule of your own somewhere?
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Omg your so lucky to find a box with a note and everything! I always dig in my backyard to try to at least find a note or something from back then!
That is a great Idea I will bery it in my nanna's back yard
I will do that
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The watch might be worth some serious money tho
What happens with the garden
I'm gonna cry my grandmother if she I don't have a shield pls show this to the people I going to wait that show
I buried a time capsule and I forgot where I put it a few years ago
How many times they used this voice
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Your Megan from Drake and Josh
so good story who agrees 😍😗😙😚
I should do the same Darla did that's a GREAT idea!
60 years later "I found a time capcel in my backyard" ACTUALLY HAPPENED
I dont know why but I think wasfake
"My heart started beating fast" what if it was a rock like most cases?
This was so sweet
I picked my Nose in class
ACTUALLY HAPPENED!
Title:I found a mysterious box and it changed my life
Story:was an old lady
I'm not sure if putting the first time capsule back in was a good idea. The film might not survive another 60 years.
So nice lovely history
Wow
I like this video
I love 💕 puppy’s 🐩 and I have a puppy and bird 🐦 and 🐟
Watched youtube...
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But what in the further nobody has USB ports
Zen
now this is a believable story
Cool now I wanna do this!
that was such a cute story! want to go find a metal box for my own timecapsule
Totally have done this! I bought a small time capsule kit and left a note, a cassette of my singing, and a few other trinkets I do not recall. It's buried up against the house house I grew up in, right outside the bathroom window. Hopefully one day somone one will come across it.
I did that but i wrote a note and it show direction to my old stuff like my broken phone to show how phones looked in my days the notes lead to the top of my closet but that was two years ago so i hope they find it😀😀
I'm in girl guides cape Town and recently we made a time capsule and hopefully all the hopes and dreams in there can happen
I remember making a time capsule when I was 7 and 11 at two different houses but I can't remember where I buried it
I watched the video
ACTUALLY HAPPENED
I accidentally disliked and found out there is exactly 4499 dislikes on this vid and when I disliked it hit 4500😺 just want to say😺😺
Have a great day🤙👏😎😎😇😇
I have left a time capsule with my freinds, it was cards of a populer game it was called mobile legends
Wow I can not what you found a box in the backyard wow so cool
They love using this voice😅
I love it though😘
Amelie?
Yep I found that green box that you made! >:) 2054
60 years?
Oof oOF
i found ur box
This has nothing with the video but do you know BTS ?
BTW nice vid
Ppl already knew we can go to stars and mar in the future ???oh my
She should put darla old stuff too in there so they can see it time by time.
Every comments ending up with AcTuAlLy hAppEnEd are getting on my nerves aye stop we got it. Their videos are interesting so comment something smarter please thank you
I buried my pet hamster in a shoe box when it sadly died but now I feel like that was a bad idea because now I’m afraid later someone will find it, open it and then get traumatized 🥴
what about the backyard ?
I love listening to other peoples stories , it makes me want to share mine
Also that think that her shovel hit could be a rock :}
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After all the Horror films i have seen about finding an old film somewhere. I would not dare watch it.
Hi I love your storys
this is such a interesting story! plus i’m so sorry to say this but usb will likely blank in 60 years
once i slept in my bed
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I HATE YOUR VIDS
No but my brother and sister and three cousins did bury a time capsule in my grandfather's garden
This is cool!
At first when i saw the tin can and the mickey mouse watch i thought walt disney owned the house ._.
But ut was actually a girl named darla
Did you plant the flowers yet
I doubt a elder would ever be on a nursing home or loose their memory and use a blancket at her sixties or early seventies.
:))) I left a sort of time capsule somewhere, but, girl, look: if you put electronics into the ground, they are likely to degmanetise so your message will be forever lost. If your story is true, Darla's movie might be still working, because it's basic technology from 60 years ago and let's say it's plausible, but a stick and a smartwatch will not resist. Put a written note for safety reasons in there, if you really wanna do this thing or do the video and put the stick somewhere safe, not underground.
This is very interesting I will do it too
Oooo she uses Samsung
This is an AWESOME story!!
i will share my story.
i stepped on a lego, and manage to live.
I heva a story
if u live in 1958 ur not 70 ur 50 something
Most interesting inspiring story
Who watching in 2032
Hi I will leave a note for my future self I will be graduating high school then I will open that note and remember my old self
A time capsule is a great idea! I’m going to make a time capsule too! I’m putting in one of my favorite toys, two horse figures, (because I love horses) a glass giraffe that my brother and I dig up when we were little, and also a quarter, just Incase money changes, it would be cool to see what it was like a while back. I’m also putting in a note.
Awesome
This voice sounds a lot like the voice i always hear............
,What if in the future they don't use USB
I'm talking to you Appel
Holy it's like a children's adventure from a movie!?
I love the story
They are trying to put a town I think and it is on a mars ?
I am playing to
WHO PUTS AN EXPENSIVE SMART WATCH IN A BOX IN THE GROUND?!
Did anyone saw the jeans, **hole** in jeans ?
04:34
How old are you? You have so much freedom
This voice is so used
british ascent?
why why is there so many Megan's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😓😓
That’s cute
I dont know why but her weak and british voice makes me mad
Six seconds in I’m sooo in the mood for her VOICE! Love it 😍
I FOUND MEGANS BOX THE HOUSE LOOKED FAMILIAR!!?!?!!?
How many times has this voice been used
What's a Capshule?
Megen you sound a lot like judy
Nobody :
Literally nobody :
Internet :
*_imma make this go viral_*
Omg this is so cool ☺
Just lovely
I opens the video expecting her name to be like Katy or Anna but it was my name I was shook🤷♀️😂
Edit: now I’m even further into the video and the note was Freon darla, my track coaches name is darla
HOW DOES FINDING A BOX CHANGE SOMEONES LIFE
Wowwww