The mystery of what was locked inside an antique safe donated decades ago to a Connecticut historical society has been solved.
The one-of-a-kind treasure inside: the lock's long-lost combination.
"Like we need this now," Monroe Historical Society President Nancy Zorena joked after a volunteer locksmith opened the 450-pound safe Thursday.
The Victorian-era safe was discovered recently behind a furnace in an old building owned by the society. Speculation ran rampant in the 184-year-old town about what it might contain.
When a volunteer locksmith cracked the combination Thursday, spectators discovered a small collection of interesting but not especially valuable items inside.
In addition to the lock's combination, the safe contained four wooden tokens from Missouri that apparently were issued during the Great Depression and commemorated contributions to a fund for the needy and unemployed.
It also contained a yellowed newspaper clipping, believed to be from the 1930s, with an anonymously written poem about Jesus Christ and redemption.
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