The 2009 dramatic film '' Knowing '' involves a time capsule being placed in the ground by an elementary school in 1959 . After staring into the sun , a girl begins to hear voices and later begins to frantically write an incoherent set of numbers down onto a page that she is supposed to be writing a letter to a student in the future with . The capsule is sealed and opened in 2009 where the character John Koestler realizes that the list of numbers correlates to the dates and death tolls of major disasters , such as the September 11 attacks , the Lockerbie bombing , and other events resulting in mass death which occurred after the time capsule was buried , after his son Caleb Koestler receives the letter and brings it home
Lockerbie bombing
Pan Am Flight 103
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