{"id":1398,"date":"2011-04-13T09:02:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T13:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synchrosecrets.com\/synchrosecrets\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2011-10-27T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T20:48:19","slug":"the-long-route-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"The Long Route Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1399\" href=\"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?attachment_id=1399\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1399\" title=\"postcards_main_sm\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/postcards_main_sm.jpg?resize=300%2C261&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/postcards_main_sm.jpg?resize=300%2C261&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/postcards_main_sm.jpg?resize=198%2C172&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/themysticalunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/postcards_main_sm.jpg?w=340&amp;ssl=1 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have a shelf of books published years ago by Time\/Life. They cover just about every weird and strange thing under the sun \u2013 from vanished civilizations to famous hoaxes and deceptions to unusual talents. This evening, I was paging through one called Vanishings and ran across a rather interesting story about a postcard that took seven years to arrive at its destination. We\u2019ve done several stories about lost items that return to their owners in mysterious ways. This story seems to fall in that same odd area.<\/p>\n<p>On September 22, 1918, a man named George Kemp mailed off a postcard to his young nephew, Donald Templeton, who lived in Buffalo, New York. At the time, Kemp was in the trenches in France and WWI was in its last seven weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp was killed in the final weeks of the war and the postcard to his nephew never reached the boy. Finally, 63 years after the postcard was sent, on July 6, 1981, it reached the Buffalo address.\u00a0 Kemp\u2019s relatives had moved away years before, but\u00a0 the\u00a0 current residents traced Donald Templeton to his home in Florida and forwarded the postcard. By then, Templeton was 72 years old.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s genuinely curious about this is that the postcard was covered with numerous postmarks. The first was a stamp by a military censor in Frances, postmarked in 1918, the same year it was sent. The second stamp was in 1927, the last in 1981, shortly before it was finally delivered to Templeton\u2019s former address in Buffalo. . The first and the last stamps are usual. But no one can explain what happened to the letter in 1927. The postcard disappeared once, resurfaced nine years later \u2013 long enough to get a stamp \u2013 and then vanished again for more than half a century.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a shelf of books published years ago by Time\/Life. They cover just about every weird and strange thing under the sun \u2013 from vanished civilizations to famous hoaxes and deceptions to unusual talents. 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