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Whether it's your wallet, your phone, or a special gift from a loved one, there's nothing worse than that moment you realize you've lost something important to you. You check and recheck pockets and drawers, hoping and praying that whatever is lost will somehow magically reappear, while deep down you know that it's almost certainly gone forever.
But what if it isn't? What if it turns up days, months, or even years later in the most unexpected of circumstances? The chances are slim, but as you can see from this intriguing list compiled by Bored Panda, that doesn't mean it can't happen, so if you've lost something, don't despair, because it might not be gone forever.
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#1
Went To Fiji 14 Years Ago. Became Really Close Friends With Fijian A Taxi Driver. Went Back To Europe And Lost Contact. Went Back To Fiji And Found That Very Same Man Last Week
#2
So My Dad, A Fisherman At Lake "Attersee", Austria, Just Fished Up His Old, Lost Wallet In One Of His Fishnets, After He Had Dropped It Into The Lake 20 Years Ago
#3
Found This Note On My Car After Work Yesterday. Lost My Hubcap When I Moved Across The Country. Thanks Kind Stranger!
#4
The Book This Professor Just Bought on Amazon Is the One She Lost 5 Years Ago
#5
A Woman Lost Her Wedding Ring In 1995 Found It 16 Years Later When She Was Picking Carrots
Vlad Horobet 7 years ago
At first I thought that the carrot took 16 years to grow...damn I'm a dumbass.
#6
My Dog Passed Away Two Years Ago. He Hid His Favorite Toy Before He Went And I Couldn't Find It Anywhere. Found It This Morning And It Has Turned Into A Beautiful Memorial. Big Manly Tears Were Shed
#7
So My Brother Couldn't Find His Keys This Morning And Was Late For Work... His 2-Year-Old Son Had Borrowed Them
#8
We Lost The 6th Book In The Series. After Two Months, We Finally Found It!
#9
Our Doorknob Was Stolen At A Party We Threw Last Weekend, Today It Shows Back Up With This Note
#10
My Buddy Lost His iPhone In Early February And Just Found It, Frozen Into Our Driveway. And It Still Works!
#11
My Grandpa Hung His Skates On A Small Tree When He Was Younger. He Forgot He Had Left Them There And Found Them Years Later
#12
My Father Lost His Reading Glasses About Two Years Ago. Found Them Today
#13
Opened Up My Piano. Found My Childhood Inside. Just As I Left It
#14
While Ripping The Carpet Out Of Our Miata We Found 18 Years Of Lost Change
#15
Golf Ball Lost Years Ago Found Embedded In Tree Trunk
#16
I Lost This Ring A Couple Of Years Ago... Found It When I Was About To Replace My Monitor
#17
82-Year-Old Man Just Discovered His Lost Wedding Ring In Carrot From His Own Garden
Vlad Horobet 7 years ago
Same story from the beggining? Or people should plant carrots when they lose rings?
#18
Found This Old Thing After I Thought I Lost It Years Ago... Still Fits Like A Glove
#19
So I Got My Dad A Metal Detector For Christmas , The First Thing He Finds Is An Old Pipe I Made In High School (20 Years Ago) He Is Super Exited And Has No Absolutely No Idea Of What It Is
#20
Been Contacted By A Man Who Found My Wallet At Reading 2003, Took £10 Out To Buy Cider And Held An Annual Drinking Competition In My Honour
BREAK YOUr perceptions 7 years ago
i heard about this. they do a meet up every year in this dudes honor, and he actually showed up the last time. funny as heck.
#21
My Friend Lost His Wedding Ring In The Atlantic Ocean And This Woman Found It With Her Metal Detector 4 Hours Later
#22
Remember When Zip-Offs Were All The Rage? Here's What Happens When You Find The Bottoms A Decade Later
#23
My Old Stegosaurus Coffee Mug. Had Lost It For Years Until My Mom Found It And Surprised Me With Eggnog Served In It On Thanksgiving
#24
A Good Samaritan Found The Wallet I Lost In The Ocean. 24 Years Ago
#25
My Wife Is A Middle School Librarian. I Found My Favorite Tie I Thought I Lost
#26
6 Years Ago My Ex Lost Her Luggage At The Cottage. It Was Found Floating Down The River This Weekend By My Mother. Bonus Whiskey Inside!
Vlad Horobet 7 years ago
When I was younger I thought that buying a 15 years whiskey then keeping it another 5 in the shelf makes it 20 years old whiskey. So wrong. It's still 15 years old. Only the wooden barrels give the whiskey it's age, not the time it spends in the bottles.
#27
After 1 And 1/2 Years I Found My Long Lost Ipod Under The Kitchen Table
#28
Just Found My Lost Wallet From Fourth Grade With Over 300 Dollars In It, I Expected Something More Like 20
Vlad Horobet 7 years ago
300 dollars in the fourth grade? You won the lottery back then or you are the son of Bill Gates?
#29
In 1986 My Friend Bought A Ticket To See Prince Live In Copenhagen, He Lost It And Couldn't Go. 29 Years Later He Finds The Unused Ticket In The Back Off A Book
#30
I Finally Found My Long Lost Mitch Hedberg Autograph. For Those Unable To Decipher It, It Says "Fuck You Now I'm Late"
#31
Woman Got An Extra Carrot With Her Diamond Ring When It Was Found In Her Vegetable Patch 13 Years After She Lost It
#32
N64 I Thought Was Lost In A House Fire I Had Years Ago... Found It In Storage At Moms House
#33
Left A Toy In My Grandparents Tree As A Kid, The Tree Grew Around It
#34
Throwing Out An Old Couch I Found A Necklace I Lost 2 Years Ago From Mom
#35
My Mom Lost A Very Special Earring Overseas While Visiting Relatives Two Months Ago. We Searched For Days When It Went Missing. Today We Found It
#36
My Step Moms Gift To My Dad: His Original Gun That He Used When He Had Fallen In The Line Of Duty. It has Been Stolen, Pawned, Sold To Multiple People, And Lost For Years. Finally Got Back To The Rightful Owner
Sarah Lennie 7 years ago
I had many precious things stolen when my home was burgled 3 years ago; stories like this give me a little hope.
#37
Dad Lost His Wallet In A Lake 20 Years Ago, Someone Found It Today While Fishing
Vlad Horobet 7 years ago
I bet his dad was a correctional officer at York County Prison. Don't ask me how I know that. Magic.
#38
Fifteen Years Ago, My Dad Lost His Wedding Ring And Assumed That Someone Took It. Today, He Was Planting Bamboo And Found Something Shiny In The Dirt
#39
A Few Months Ago, I Lost My Favourite False Lashes While Exceptionally Drunk At A Party. Today I Found Them Pressed Between The Pages Of A Notebook I Keep In My Purse. Blackout Drunk Me Is Such A Sweetie
#40
My Mom's Class Ring Was Lost 34 Years Ago In A River In VA. Now It's Been Returned To Her In TN!
#41
Woman's Purse Lost In Lake 25 Years Ago Found By Boy While Fishing
logical fallacy 7 years ago
Weird how the objects look relatively modern and the pictures decomposed like they're from the 1900's.
#42
I Lost Small Screw About 2 Years Ago When I Disassembled My Nexus 5 Smartphone. Today Mom Found It While Cleaning The House
#43
I Thought I Had Lost My Wallet By Leaving It On The Roof Of My Car... Two Hours Later I Learned It Could Do A Trick
Vlad Horobet 7 years ago
He knew it was a good idea to carry a magnet in the wallet. In the eventuality he'll forget it on the roof of the car one day.
#44
Found My Wedding Ring Tonight. In The Garden. 2 Years After I Lost It
#45
Friend Lost His Wrench, Then Found It After Firing Up The Car
#46
Found 2 Lost Rings, And A Couple That Was Looking For Them. Enjoyed Happiness Of The Owners And A Cold Beer
#47
When You Forget You Left This With Your Parents Years Ago When You Moved Out And Find It When You Visit
#48
Found This At My Moms House - Tree (Now Dead) Grew Around A Lost Action Figure
#49
When I Lost This Under My Grandparents' Deck 15 Years Ago, I Never Expected To See It Again. Imagine My Surprise When Grandpa Found It Last Week!
#50
While Visiting My Parents' Place I Found My Turkish Meerschaum Pipe That I Thought I Lost Over 4 Years Ago. Today Was A Good Day
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What do you think ?
Sophie G 7 years ago
if carrots and magpies ever join forces then the world of shiny things is never gonna be the same
Sondre Strøm Linde 7 years ago
This could just be called: Lost and found wedding rings (and a couple of other things.)
Lisa Presley 7 years ago
Rings on carrots, wallets in bodies of water, toys in trees. I can now find ALL the things!
Debra Starr Moon 7 years ago
I used to keep all my "good jewelry" in an old wallet on the top shelf of my closet instead of my jewelry box for "safe keeping" in case I got robbed. One night I woke up out of a dead sleep and realized I had just taken all my old purses and wallets to the local goodwill after a major whole-house cleaning. One of my wedding rings (didn't fit at the time), all my mother's diamond jewelry she left me when she passed, everything of value was in that wallet. I scoured the goodwill warehouse, searched e-bay endlessly for any of my pieces, and was genuinely hysterical for many months knowing I'd never be able to replace them for their emotional value alone. Then I stumbled upon them one day in a "safe place" I don't even remember stashing them while in the midst of my cleaning. Many tears of joy were shed. Needless to say, I now have a safe deposit box at my bank for more prudent "safe keeping".
Rusty Gates 7 years ago
I was at the beach and stuck my hand in the wave. My wedding ring slipped off my finger when I pulled my hand out. As the wave was going back out I literally shoved both hands into the sand and came up with my ring! It still amazes me when I think about it. That was in 1974.
Josefine Andersen 6 years ago
I lost my sims 3 supernatural and seasons 3 years ago in the same weekend . Indad only just got Them in birthday gift .and had only just installed . I actually knew where one of Them was it was some how fallen out of the disk holder and was inside my pc, no one belive me not even the store .cause that could not happen ,Well i just got my pc back from repair guess what followed my sims 3 supernatural . Ofcourse i already bought a new one so i gave it to a friend
Angelina Farmer 7 years ago
Imagine all the lost things that could have been found sooner if people just cleaned under their couches/chairs, rearranged the dining room furniture, took their car to a mechanic, cleaned under things and emptied their bags or purses completely before storing them. All the other lost things were pretty awesome. Also: when you are going to be around a large body of water or a river, leave your valuables in the car or someplace where they are unlikely to fall out into the water.
Sophie G 7 years ago
if carrots and magpies ever join forces then the world of shiny things is never gonna be the same
Sondre Strøm Linde 7 years ago
This could just be called: Lost and found wedding rings (and a couple of other things.)
Lisa Presley 7 years ago
Rings on carrots, wallets in bodies of water, toys in trees. I can now find ALL the things!
Debra Starr Moon 7 years ago
I used to keep all my "good jewelry" in an old wallet on the top shelf of my closet instead of my jewelry box for "safe keeping" in case I got robbed. One night I woke up out of a dead sleep and realized I had just taken all my old purses and wallets to the local goodwill after a major whole-house cleaning. One of my wedding rings (didn't fit at the time), all my mother's diamond jewelry she left me when she passed, everything of value was in that wallet. I scoured the goodwill warehouse, searched e-bay endlessly for any of my pieces, and was genuinely hysterical for many months knowing I'd never be able to replace them for their emotional value alone. Then I stumbled upon them one day in a "safe place" I don't even remember stashing them while in the midst of my cleaning. Many tears of joy were shed. Needless to say, I now have a safe deposit box at my bank for more prudent "safe keeping".
Rusty Gates 7 years ago
I was at the beach and stuck my hand in the wave. My wedding ring slipped off my finger when I pulled my hand out. As the wave was going back out I literally shoved both hands into the sand and came up with my ring! It still amazes me when I think about it. That was in 1974.
Josefine Andersen 6 years ago
I lost my sims 3 supernatural and seasons 3 years ago in the same weekend . Indad only just got Them in birthday gift .and had only just installed . I actually knew where one of Them was it was some how fallen out of the disk holder and was inside my pc, no one belive me not even the store .cause that could not happen ,Well i just got my pc back from repair guess what followed my sims 3 supernatural . Ofcourse i already bought a new one so i gave it to a friend
Angelina Farmer 7 years ago
Imagine all the lost things that could have been found sooner if people just cleaned under their couches/chairs, rearranged the dining room furniture, took their car to a mechanic, cleaned under things and emptied their bags or purses completely before storing them. All the other lost things were pretty awesome. Also: when you are going to be around a large body of water or a river, leave your valuables in the car or someplace where they are unlikely to fall out into the water.
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