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[quote]Speculation is rife about the contents of the three-kilo parcel, sealed and bound in 1912 by the then mayor of Sel, Johan Nygaard, who wrote on the package that it “can be opened in 2012”.Having kept it to himself for the first few years, Nygaard handed the package to council authorities for safe-keeping in the 1920s.
“We haven’t the faintest idea what’s inside,” said Kjell Voldheim, who works at the Gudbrandsdal Museum where the package is held.
“It’s going to be incredibly exciting. We have fantasized a lot about what it might contain. The council has expressed a desire for it to contain a sheaf of oil shares that could help the municipality,” he told newspaper VG.
Voldheim is one of two people who will open the package on Friday, when the century-old secret will finally be revealed.
The parcel is 40 centimetres long, 28 centimetres wide, and nine centimetres deep – its seal has never been broken.
With successive local administrations choosing to comply with Nygaard’s request, the package survived two world wars before it twice narrowly avoided being discarded during clear-out operations, once in the 1950s and again in the 1980s.
The package will be opened in Otta, the municipality’s administrative capital, at a time when the town is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Battle of Kringen.
In 1612, farmers in the picturesque Gudbrandsdal valley successfully fought off a band of Scottish mercenary soldiers as war raged between Sweden and a joint Danish-Norwegian army.
The fact that Nygaard sealed the package as the region marked the 300th anniversary of that battle could provide a clue as to what’s inside.
“It could be historical documents,” said Kjell Voldheim.
“Or maybe it’s the Blue Star diamond from the Titanic, which sank in 1912,” he joked.
The current mayor of Sel, Dag-Erik Pryhn, admitted he was thrilled at the prospect of finding out about his predecessor’s secret.
“Even the way he delivered it suggests that he himself, at that time, thought it was valuable,” Pryhn told VG.[/quote]
English: [URL]http://www.thelocal.no/page/view/town-holds-breath-over-100-year-old-package[/URL]
Norwegian: [URL]http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10060184[/URL]
Video (in Norwegian): [URL]http://www.vgtv.no/#!id=55537[/URL]
Video (with English subtitles): [URL]http://www.vgtv.no/#!id=55551[/URL]
VG will stream the opening of the package live tomorrow (24/08-12) at 6:00 pm Norwegian time
That's extremely cool. I'd love to do something like that if I was the mayor.
Open it up, Half-Life 3 is inside, then Gabe walks out and says the 100-year ARG is finally over
watch it be something like flour surrounding something that expands explosively when its opened, thus covering the entire room and its occupants in flour when its opened
Watch it be the mayor's shirt or something because it was just an elaborate plan to have his legacy live on or something. Build up hype for 100 years so they have to display it somewhere.
Obviously, it was left by Doc, which somehow managed to get to Norway.
dragon dildos
[QUOTE=TheTailor25;37372455]Obviously, it was left by Doc, which somehow managed to get to Norway.[/QUOTE]
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can't wait for them to open this
Oh man, I love things like this. A message to the future from the past, concealed until the time is right.
his antique collection of jumbo-jumbo sized horse-dong dildos
it's probably a 100 year old fart contained in a jar
"ur a faget"
"Hah, I knew you would open it charles!"
What if it is a confession to some crime he committed? Can you imagine if they open it up in front of everyone and it is a letter about how he murdered someone and got away with it.
[QUOTE=imptastick;37373119]What if it is a confession to some crime he committed? Can you imagine if they open it up in front of everyone and it is a letter about how he murdered someone and got away with it.[/QUOTE]
I don't think it was that hard to get away with anything in 1912
[QUOTE=SEKCobra;37373048]"Hah, I knew you would open it charles!"[/QUOTE]
Oh God that title.
Would be funny if it's a 3KG block of hash
[QUOTE=Ldesu;37373260]I don't think it was that hard to get away with anything in 1912[/QUOTE]
I can just imagine everyone is so excited and they open it to find a bloody knife and letter
"your gay"
Oh god! It's the 2012 just as the Mayans and the Mayor of Sel in Norway predicted!!!!1 zomfg!!
I bet inside it's a trailer for Peter Moleneux's Curiosity.
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And inside his cube there's a mystery package to be opened in 2112.
Maybe it contains a 2012 ragnarok survival kit.
It would be awesome if there were a bunch of creepy predictions, maybe he did a vague 'prediction' sketch of Curiosity in there or something. If I was going to do something like this, I'd definitely put in a prediction of what the future would be like.
Bees. Please let it be bees. 100 year old, pissed off bees.
I find it more amazing that nobody dared opening it until now.
[editline]23rd August 2012[/editline]
What time is that for est?
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;37373371]Would be funny if it's a 3KG block of hash[/QUOTE]
I was thinking that too. It would be hilarious if they open it up and the letter is like "yo u guys gotta try some HASH this shit is the BOMMBBBBBB"
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