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The Sealed Envelope That Waited Fifty-Eight Years Under a House
The Sealed Envelope That Waited Fifty-Eight Years Under a House
The crawl space under 14 Sutter Lane hid a pale, upright envelope with an unbroken seal and a postmark dated April 9, 1961 - dry and intact despite decades of moisture that should have ruined it. What gives: why would a sealed letter be left standing between cinder blocks for fifty-eight years, and who put it there?
In this episode, we walk through the sequence of records, townspeople, and coincidences that cluster around that envelope, following post office ledgers, municipal minutes, and the work of a local historian to ask…
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