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What was locked inside the safe was a 40-year mystery.
The combination had defeated locksmiths and befuddled former employees at the hotel it once occupied.
That was till two weeks ago.
That's when the safe was opened by an unwitting visitor to the Vermilion, Alta., museum, where the safe sits quietly in the basement.
"I had moved onto the next item on the tour when he just went down on knees and started playing with the dial," recalled Tom Kibblewhite, a longtime volunteer at the town museum.
"It couldn't have been more than two minutes, he tried the handle and the safe opened," Kibblewhite said in an interview Monday with CBC Radio's Edmonton AM. "I was in total shock. And he was too.
"I asked him if he was a professional safecracker. He said, 'No, I'm a machinist. I work in Fort McMurray.'"
The one-ton safe came from the town's old Brunswick Hotel which closed in the 1970s.
The combination had defeated locksmiths and befuddled former employees at the hotel it once occupied.
That was till two weeks ago.
That's when the safe was opened by an unwitting visitor to the Vermilion, Alta., museum, where the safe sits quietly in the basement.
"I had moved onto the next item on the tour when he just went down on knees and started playing with the dial," recalled Tom Kibblewhite, a longtime volunteer at the town museum.
"It couldn't have been more than two minutes, he tried the handle and the safe opened," Kibblewhite said in an interview Monday with CBC Radio's Edmonton AM. "I was in total shock. And he was too.
"I asked him if he was a professional safecracker. He said, 'No, I'm a machinist. I work in Fort McMurray.'"
The one-ton safe came from the town's old Brunswick Hotel which closed in the 1970s.
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