Man Digs Up Old Key In His Backyard, Then An Expert Tells Him Not To Use It

The Journal

The first item was a leather-bound journal. Tom opened it with trembling fingers. The handwriting was elegant but urgent, as if the writer had been racing against time.

The first page read: “If you are reading this, then the key has found its way to someone. I prayed it would. — Eleanor Hargrove, 1938.”