You Won't Believe The Huge Secret Hiding In This Small Nebraska Town

Harold Davisson, a local business owner and historian, wanted to be sure the year 1975 would forever be remembered...so he buried pieces of it underground in a 45-ton vault. Wanting to capture a realistic and complete snapshot of life at the time, he included more than 5,000 items that he thought would be significant to his descendants. Among them are a leisure suit, letters from local people and from people around the country, a brand-new Kawasaki motorcycle, and a brand-new Chevy Vega. Yes, there's a 1975 car in that underground vault.

When Davisson's creation was bestowed with the title of "world's largest time capsule" by the Guinness Book of World Records, a university in Georgia disputed it. Their "time capsule" was actually a crypt - a single sealed room in a campus building. But the university wouldn't drop the claim, so Davisson did the only reasonable thing: he added an enormous second piece to his time capsule to erase all question as to which was the largest. The poured-concrete pyramid was added in 1983.

Inside the big pyramid sits a beat-up 1975 car, meant to show what society does to a car in 10 years (or maybe Davisson couldn't bear to lock away another brand new car?). There are also stacks of phone books and packages put together by local people to be examined by a future generation.