Mystery still surrounds the discovery of a man's mummified body as children played a game of hide and seek.
They found the unknown man, who was dressed in Victorian-style clothing, inside a metal cylinder in Liverpool, Merseyside.
The grim discovery was made in 1945 by children who used the cylinder as a bench and to play on, Liverpool Echo reports.
No one knows how long the cylinder was there - but in 1941 Germans bombed the street with the 6.5 feet-long cylinder among the rubble.
It wasn't until 1945 that a group of children were playing hide and seek and made the grim discovery.
A boy named Tommy Lawless saw a mummified foot poking out of the cylinder before alerting police, according to records from the time.
A pathologist at the time is reported to have estimated the man was aged between 30 and 50-years-old, but no formal identification has ever taken place.
Dr J.B. Firth, a forensic expert, believed the man died sometime after 1885 - prompting more questions than answers.
The man was found wearing a collar and a white shirt, but there were no cufflinks or collar studs.
A signet ring with a green stone with a red spot and a bunch of badly corroded keys were also found.
No money was found on the body.
However, the man was found with diaries and papers, including account sheets relating to TC Williams and Company, Leeds Street, Liverpool.
A postcard dates July 3, 1885, and a receipt bearing the name TC Williams was also found.
It was noted that TC Williams was a paint manufacturer in Liverpool.
Police said they could not find any record of Mr Williams being buried and that it "could not be" the remains of TC Williams' son who was born in 1859.
The coroner at the time said it was impossible to determine the cause of death but had "no reason to doubt" the man had crawled into the cylinder.
A newspaper report at the time said the man had died years before the war.
It speculated it could have been a man named Flood - who had been missing since the blitz.
