Hi, Johanna.

Hey, Dylan.

I'm here with a piece of local news for you today.

It is about a time capsule.

I love a time capsule because they're just some wacky thing that someone comes up with and then people forget about it and some, I don't know.

Like, I just, there are these funny little these funny

little things yeah and i also find them very sweet almost sort of provincial and i mean that in a

good way they're like this extremely low tech thing that i think it says something about our human

nature that we make these things.

But the time capsule that we are talking about today is not just any time capsule.

It is the world's largest time capsule.

It's in Seward, Nebraska, which is like half an hour outside of Lincoln.

And as of this recording, mid-July, 2025, the world's largest time capsule has been opened.

What secrets from the past will it contain? What great treasures will it hold?

All right, well, I can't wait to find out what is in the world's largest time capsule.

I'm Dylan Tharis.

I'm Johanna Mayer, and this is Atlas Obscura.

We are cracking open the world's largest time capsule after this.

Thank you. largest time capsule after this. Okay, so the world's largest time capsule has been opened. What are we talking about here?

Like, time capsules come in a lot of shapes and sizes. You know, they can be a locked room. They can be a locked box.

They can be just like a little shoe box, like buried in someone's yard.

It is like a full-blown structure.

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