🕰️ Her message stayed hidden for 46 years—until one family peeled back the wallpaper 😳💬 What started as a simple renovation turned into a real-life time capsule. A haunting poem from 1975 asked: “What is it like there, in the future?” What they did next brought the original author—now 62—back to her childhood room for the first time in decades 😢✨ See the full story and what she wrote — in this article 👇📜
Earlier this year, the Murphy family moved into a new home in Lancashire, England. While fixing up the place, they made an unexpected discovery—one that connected them to someone from decades ago. Now read the story of what happened.
Carl Murphy, the father of the family, was renovating his daughter’s bedroom when something unusual caught their eye. As they removed the old wallpaper, his daughter noticed some writing on the wall—done by hand, with a pen. Curious, they took a closer look and realized it was a short poem.
The message read:
“I am here, you are there, separated only by time. What is it like there, in the future? Or am I the past?
The only answer is: you are my future, I am your past. Have a good day. 1975, Eileen Walmsley.”
Carl found the message fascinating and wanted to learn more about the person who wrote it. He noticed that the last name in the message matched the name of the previous homeowners. So, he shared a photo of the poem on Facebook, hoping someone might recognize it. Before long, a woman reached out, saying she used to know Eileen and would try to contact her.
Not long after, Carl heard directly from Eileen herself. She had changed her last name to Palmer and was thrilled to know her message had been found and that people were touched by it. She explained that she had moved into that house as a young child, just four years old, along with her brother and parents. The room where the poem was written belonged to her and her younger sister.
When Eileen turned eighteen, she left for college but often came back to visit her parents. Sadly, her father passed away in 2017, and her mother followed a year later. After that, she hadn’t been back to the house—until the Murphys found her words and reached out.
She told Carl that she had written the message when she was about 14 or 15. Back then, she was a dreamy teenager who liked thinking about time travel and the way people from different times might connect. While helping with home repairs one day, she felt the need to leave something behind—something for the future. That’s how her little poem was born.
Eileen is now 62, but thanks to this surprising discovery by the Murphy family, she got to relive a special memory and revisit the room where she spent part of her childhood—46 years ago.
