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We’ve all dreamed of finding a lost treasure box when we were kids. As adults, finding a lost note is both a blessing and a curse, ‘cause you probably will have to lose something sometime soon to even out the karma, they say.
But this time we’re talking lost and found stuff, objects, and places with a much bigger “wowzer” factor. Imagine yourself coming across an alligator skull while hiking, or spotting a tiny perfect seashell in your salt. Some discoveries are cute and fun, while others are plain scary and mind-bending.
So fasten your seatbelts since we're off to a lost and found compilation from Bored Panda that will surely ignite your inner detective. More bizarre objects that have been lost, thrown away, washed ashore, or long forgotten in the woods can be found in our previous posts here, here, and here.
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#1
Found Photos Of My Grandmother's Cousin Hanging With His Buddy While Cleaning Out A Storage Locker
#2
Hummingbird Feather. I Had Never Found One Before, Thought It Was Neat
#3
My Mom Found A Baby Owl On The Porch Behind The Firewood
#4
Wife Found This At A Local Estate Sale; Suspect Emma Wasn't Happy
#5
This Rock I Found At The Beach When I Was Seven Is Full Of Fossilized Shells
#6
I Run Down An Old Dirt Road. Trash Is Dumped There. One Day I Stopped And Found A Box Of Money. All The Envelopes Are From Different Countries All Over The World
Mostly date from the 1700s-1900s. The oldest is a coin from 1621. I’ve got some from countries that no longer exist. I’m still researching.
According to Tate, Picasso was the originator of the found art movement. “From 1912, he began to incorporate newspapers and such things as matchboxes into his cubist collages, and to make his cubist constructions from various scavenged materials.”
Essentially, artists would modify the found objects as minimally as they could, or sometimes leave them as they were. The idea is based on repurposing an object which has not been designed for artistic purposes into a piece that’s deliberately placed in an artistic context.
#7
Remember To Sign Your Work. I Used To Really Like This Table I Rescued From A Dump Pile Two Years Ago. Just Found The Inscription. Now I Love This Table
It’s maker, T. R. Boone, was a janitor at the University of Nebraska in 1914. Thanks for the good work, Mr. Boone. You were an artist.
#8
Heart-Shaped Amethyst Geodes. Discovered Yesterday In Artigas, By The Mining Company Uruguay Minerals
#9
Mosaics Of A Roman Villa Were Found Under A Vineyard In Negrar, Italy
#10
I Found This Carved Fox Inside A Tree Stump, In A Forest Close To My Home
#11
Friend Of Mine Just Moved Into A New House. Took Off All The Heating Vents To Paint Them, And This Was Behind One Of Them
#12
So I Found A Loop Of Paper Attached To My Cat's Collar This Morning. I'll Be Sure To Send Another Note Back
Raine Soo 3 years ago
My neighbour's cat used to visit us a few times a day as well. Maxy passed away 8 years ago. I miss him lots. On a brighter note, I came home one summer day, and found four neighbourhood cats lounging on my lawn. They all had homes, but they just congregated here. A man passed by, looked at the cats, and then, looked at me. "They're not mine," I said. His reaction was "Sure, lady."
#13
My Friend Just Found This Little Statue While Digging In His Own Garden
The archeologists from the museum told him that it is probably from a grave dating back to 3-4000 years ago.
Jennifer Harris 3 years ago
Any chance this was oh I don't know January/February 2020, asking for a friend.
#14
An Old Jacket Hanging In The Woods With A Bird's Nest Built In The Pocket
#15
I Found A Tiny House Inside Of A Tree Stump
#16
We Went To The Beach To Find Shark Teeth, So When My Daughter Yelled "I Found Teeth!" This Was The Last Thing I Was Expecting
#17
I'm A Woodturner & Found A Lovely Bowl In A Vintage Store, Made By The Guy Who Inspired Me As A Kid
On closer inspection I felt the bowl was very familiar, so I flipped through the very book that inspired me, 31 years ago, & there it was!
#18
My Wife Found This Tiny Skink In Our Garden, Some Much-Needed Brightness On A Grey, Smoky Day
Tisha Breaux 3 years ago
I live in south USA and we have tons of those here. I love when them and the green anoles are hatchlings
#19
Group Of Baby Easter Bunnies I Found While Walking My Dog On Easter Sunday (Can For Reference)
#20
While Showing My 3-Year-Old My Game Boy, I Discovered A Picture Of My Best Friend From 1999
#21
I Found A Book Called "The Ancient Thirst To Read". It's Actually A Flask
#22
This Morning I Found By Far The Smallest Frog I Have Ever Seen In My Entire Life
#23
This Incredible Carrot Hand Was Found While Digging Juice Carrots At Our Farm Today
#24
Found 83 Gold Coins At The Bottom Of A Coal Container After Renovating The House
#25
Found These Green Army Men Doing Yoga At A Place We're Renting
#26
Real Talk I Think I Just Found A Shell With An Ancient Language On It
#27
Found In The Pocket Of My Grandpa’s WW2 Bomber Jacket
#28
I Went Diving With My Metal Detector In A Private Lake And Was Able To Return Multiple Valuables To Their Owners, Including A $5000 Wedding Ring That Was Lost For Almost 5 Years
#29
Today While Sorting Through My Grandma’s Attic, I Happened To Discover My Great-Great-Grandfather’s Italian Passport And A Ticket To America Exactly 100 Years Later
#30
This Origami Grasshopper My Friend Found On A Tram In Japan
#31
Found A 100-Year-Old Time Capsule In My Backyard
Rattle Battlesnake 3 years ago
the small coin looks a lot like the Swiss Franc 50cts coin... but it's probably not, given the rest of the items.
#32
This Pink Grasshopper Found On Kelleys Island, Ohio
#33
A Rock I Found On The Beach Has A Tiny Starfish Fossil In It
#34
Found These Beautiful Colors Hiding Inside A Piece Of Wood
#35
Found A Random Painting In The Middle Of The Woods
#36
Elmo Toy That I Found While Hiking In Georgia
#37
Found This In My Backyard In Ankara/Turkey. It's Red Fox Agate
#38
I Found A Mussel With Natural Goggly Eyes
#39
This "Bookmark" I Found In An Old Shakespeare Book Is A Voting Ticket From The Civil War
#40
I Opened A Ventilation Cavity In A Wall And Found Old Love Letters Bound In String
#41
Found This In The Crawl Space Above My Bedroom
Stephanie Did It 3 years ago
Those are Eisenhower silver dollars, not quarters! Quarters have Washington on them.
#42
This Guy Found 73 Frisbees In A Pond While He Was Looking For His Own
#43
I Found A Door, And Nothing Else, On An Abandoned Beach
#44
This Pearl I Found In An Oyster I Was Eating
#45
Found This Note In My Hotel Bed Last Night... Ugh
#46
This Shell I Found In My Sea Salt
#47
Alligator Gar Skull I Found While Hiking Today
#48
Found An Old Beer Bottle In The Mountains With A Mini Eco System Inside
#49
I Found A Old Journal In The Woods Wrapped In Yarn With 3 Vials Of Blood In The Knot
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What's the most unexpected thing you've ever found?
Ozacoter 3 years ago
When I was a kid I found an old coin with a David’s star on it. I thought that it was not valuable but kept it anyway. Some years ago my partner saw it and convinced me to clean it with cola. It has a date. It’s a moorish coin from the 13th century.
Lexi Mitchell 3 years ago
For future reference, you want to do a very minimal amount of cleaning of coins. Collectors prefer the patina and grime. Soap and water is preferable if you want to get it clean enough to see what it actually is.
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Seabeast 3 years ago
Apart from a $5 found at the bottom of a lake I was swimming across, I've never found anything cool.
Bunzilla 3 years ago
like a paper dollar? how did it not disintegrate in the water?
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Aileen 3 years ago
Seeing the bright purple and pink grasshoppers (as well as the purple roly poly) makes me wonder how something like that is possible. My best guess would be a genetic mutation of some kind?
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
I bought my house in western Massachusetts in 1997. My daughter found an old railroad tie, some railroad track hardware, and a pile of bricks of a color native to this area. That's how we discovered that our property was a brickyard back in the day. After that, it was a campground...we found the old metal sign identifying it. Also, we have a large brook running through our front yard. She discovered that someone in the early part of the 20th Century built up the banks of the brook using layers of glass bottles interspersed with layers of soil. Odd, old bottles keep turning up from time to time, including a milk bottle for a 100yo local dairy.
Rose the Cook 3 years ago
Surprising number of valuable looking rings found by divers. Lost by swimmers or thrown by angry girlfriends/wives?
Helen Haley 3 years ago
Lost during sunscreen or suntan oil application maybe?
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Unaffected 3 years ago (edited)
I used to hike a lot with my parents when I was a kid.We hiked through Yugoslav mountains where some big WWII battles occured.One of them was Zelengora where I found a German soldier helmet .It ended up in my hometown museum
MinecraftandYoutubeisgreat 3 years ago
I once found amazing sand sculptures on a beach in NC two years ago while on vacation. On the last day there, we looked at them for the final time, it looked like either the tide came it, it rained, or some kids came, but they all were wrecked, i know they don't last forever but I felt bad because it looked like they took forever.
Luisa Vasconcelos 3 years ago
In Köln Germany it's often found bombs from the war. I loved to see all the nice stuff people found.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
When I was a kid I found an old coin with a David’s star on it. I thought that it was not valuable but kept it anyway. Some years ago my partner saw it and convinced me to clean it with cola. It has a date. It’s a moorish coin from the 13th century.
Lexi Mitchell 3 years ago
For future reference, you want to do a very minimal amount of cleaning of coins. Collectors prefer the patina and grime. Soap and water is preferable if you want to get it clean enough to see what it actually is.
Load More Replies... Seabeast 3 years ago
Apart from a $5 found at the bottom of a lake I was swimming across, I've never found anything cool.
Bunzilla 3 years ago
like a paper dollar? how did it not disintegrate in the water?
Load More Replies... Aileen 3 years ago
Seeing the bright purple and pink grasshoppers (as well as the purple roly poly) makes me wonder how something like that is possible. My best guess would be a genetic mutation of some kind?
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
I bought my house in western Massachusetts in 1997. My daughter found an old railroad tie, some railroad track hardware, and a pile of bricks of a color native to this area. That's how we discovered that our property was a brickyard back in the day. After that, it was a campground...we found the old metal sign identifying it. Also, we have a large brook running through our front yard. She discovered that someone in the early part of the 20th Century built up the banks of the brook using layers of glass bottles interspersed with layers of soil. Odd, old bottles keep turning up from time to time, including a milk bottle for a 100yo local dairy.
Rose the Cook 3 years ago
Surprising number of valuable looking rings found by divers. Lost by swimmers or thrown by angry girlfriends/wives?
Helen Haley 3 years ago
Lost during sunscreen or suntan oil application maybe?
Load More Replies... Unaffected 3 years ago (edited)
I used to hike a lot with my parents when I was a kid.We hiked through Yugoslav mountains where some big WWII battles occured.One of them was Zelengora where I found a German soldier helmet .It ended up in my hometown museum
MinecraftandYoutubeisgreat 3 years ago
I once found amazing sand sculptures on a beach in NC two years ago while on vacation. On the last day there, we looked at them for the final time, it looked like either the tide came it, it rained, or some kids came, but they all were wrecked, i know they don't last forever but I felt bad because it looked like they took forever.
Luisa Vasconcelos 3 years ago
In Köln Germany it's often found bombs from the war. I loved to see all the nice stuff people found.
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