A 30-Year-Old Beer Stash Found In A Library’s Mystery Section

Usually, when one finds a secret section in any place, they can expect something good. Well, this one is a good find, it’s just not what those mystery novels are about. A Washington state’s library mystery section (yes, it was found where the mystery novels were stored) was found to contain a stash of beer and chewing gum from the 1980s, as UPI detailed: 

The Walla Walla Public Library said employees have been performing renovations at the facility during the COVID-19 shutdown, and they recently removed a corner panel from the shelf housing the mystery book section and found a disintegrated paper bag containing five unopened cans of Hamm's beer and an opened back of Godzilla Heads gum.

Library officials said their research determined Godzilla Heads gum dates from the 1980s and the Hamm's beer cans don't include health warnings that were required from 1988 on, leading staff to believe the snack stash is more than 30 years old.

"It looked like somebody had just stashed it there and maybe thought they could get it later ... but there was no way to get it out," library director Erin Wells told CNN. "There were probably six beers that they bought and there was only five that we found so they might not have been thinking straight when they did it."

The City of Walla Walla said the "artifacts" were transferred "to another city facility."

"The abandoned relics now reside in the Sudbury Landfill," the city said.

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