A man has cracked open a time capsule he and his brother buried 24 years ago.
The contents of said capsule appear to be a throwback to the 2000s, with plenty of items guaranteed to make you feel nostalgic for the turn of the century. Father Dylan Schrader, a pastor, took to Twitter/X with images of his silver parcel and cracked into it in a thread on the social media app.
Before he had even opened the package, there was some confusion by how it had been wrapped. But Father Schrader has since explained why he and his brother dropped off items in a Crayola-themed tin.
He wrote: “Context: Amid the millennium craze of late 1999, @Crayola_Capital offered a simple time capsule.
“My brother and I both made one on the verge of the new year. I originally had the idea of burying it somewhere, but for whatever reason that never happened.”
Admitting he had “thought about just throwing it out or cracking it open,” Father Schrader persevered and waited until the last day of 2024 to unravel the cellotaped top and see what he and his brother had placed inside.
He pulled out a slate of fascinating items including an AIDs flier, an alcohol and drugs pamphlet and a half-finished personal information book. Elsehwere were floppy discs, polaroid photos of the pastor’s childhood home and a casette.
Other close ups revealed classic items which screamed “2000s”. Father Schrader wrote: “Pokémon advertisement, Windows key from a keyboard, and Living Faith devotional booklet.” A note to the future was also included in the package.
Father Schrader had written: “I write to those who can’t write back. What is the future like? Is it 1984, Brave New World, or happy? The future. To the future, from an age of free speech, religion, and rampid capitalism. To you I send the message of God, of love, and of peace. And so, as I fill this capsule, I say to sall of us today, yesterday, tomorrow. Peace out!”
Another item in the canister was a casette tape with an “introduction” listed, with the pastor’s handwriting on the sticker. Father Schrader wrote: “Apparently I recorded a message and some music? I’ll also have to try to find some way to access these disks, if they still work.”
He has since managed to get the tape working and revealed it was mainly references to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a poetry reading and an Alanis Morissette song.
Father Schrader added: “I was able to play the tape. It starts with reading from a Calvin and Hobbes strip, continues with references to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a poem (?) by me (?), musings on the future, and then into a song by Alanis Morissette.”