In 1976, a town in the United States buried a time capsule with a marijuana cigarette, a garter, and contraceptives: they have opened it and will leave another one for 2076

“How many times have we asked ourselves what we would be like if we lived in past decades, or what future society would say about us? For years, mankind has tried to play with those questions by leaving clues on earth. One of them, the most famous of all: leaving objects from the era in a time capsule.

In Warren, Vermont (United States), its residents decided in 1976 that it would be a good idea to leave objects in a box that represented the society of the time, precisely in a year when the bicentennial of the United States Declaration of Independence was being commemorated. Together they chose three items that reflected the residents’ DNA, and the objects were, to say the least, peculiar: a marijuana cigarette, a garter, and contraceptives.

Although they may seem like three diverse items, each of them holds a special meaning. The marijuana cigarette referred to young people’s defiance of the norms of that time. As for the garter, it reflects how the town understood gender and romantic or human relationships. Meanwhile, the box of contraceptives alluded to the evolution of and awareness about reproductive health. In fact, right in the ’70s there was a significant debate about them in the nation.

“What will Warren residents put in the time capsule for 2076?”

The citizens of this American town gathered to open the box and discover its unexpected contents, and that same day they decided they would prepare another one for the residents of Warren in 2076, as reported by The Valley Reporter. That time capsule will remain locked and buried beneath the town’s ground for half a century.

However, what has not been disclosed has been its contents, so that the generation of 2076 will be the one to reveal the mystery and discover whether, like those of 2026, they see that, in reality, past and future are not so different or, on the contrary, find unexpected objects and nothing familiar.