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This Online Group Collects Images Of Historical Mementos People Randomly Found And Here’re 30 Of The Most Interesting Ones
Among all the amazing things out there in the world, the smell of wet concrete after a thunderstorm and the whiff of old paper rank at the very top for me. Couple the latter with my love of old books, documents, and all sorts of arcane papyri and you’ve got yourself a literature lover. I’ll read everything. Heck, I’ll read anything, even your cereal box. So I was pleasantly surprised after I stumbled upon the ‘Found Paper’ community over on Reddit.
A community of just over 147k members, r/FoundPaper likes to keep it simple and does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a community dedicated to documenting various pieces of paper found out in the wild. We’ve collected some of the best paper mementos as shared on the community for you to enjoy, dear Pandas, so remember to upvote your fave pics as you scroll down. Be sure to check out r/FoundPaper when you have the time and give them a follow if you like their stuff.
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#1
Sad Find Today
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#2
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
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
I didn't find anything like this in my 115 year old house, but when I redecorate I'm going to leave a message for the future owner in every room
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
When my apartment's bathroom was refinished I added a plastic bag with a local newspaper celebrating the SF Giants winning the World Series and a letter containing everything I new about the building I've lived in for 39 years. I added silica packets and sprayed the newspaper with de-acidification spray. It is above all the building's plumbing and until the wall is replaced, will remain there waiting to be discovered.
Brian Irby 4 years ago
The contributor should find Roy Steven B--- and tell him they found this note!
#3
Death Warrant For My 10th Great Grandmother Susannah North Martin, Tried And Convicted At The Salem Witch Trials
Sinkvenice 4 years ago
The Salem witch trials were horrifying and are certainly a blip in that country's history. I'm not sure why you're saying sorry though. This is a genuine question so please nobody downvote this, I'm autistic and struggle with the tone of things, *especially* with text.
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Amanita Virosa 4 years ago (edited)
I googled her she was hung. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Martin
Kinslee Hager 4 years ago
Oof I hate that people thought that innocent people were doing witchcraft its not real u cant make someone a rat
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cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
The picture is just too much blurry, we just have some parts.
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Batgirl Kitty 4 years ago
Can anybody translate and try to type what is says? I can’t make out the cursive.
The r/FoundPaper subreddit celebrated its 7th birthday a few days ago, on April 30 (congratulations!), proving that communities thrive and survive based on the quality of the content they post. And the fact that the subreddit has had so many birthdays is proof enough that it’s got quality entertainment locked down tight.
One of the ‘Found Paper’ community’s greatest strengths is how streamlined and niche its interests are. Its second strength is that it actually encourages its members to get out of the house and start their own small adventures in order to have something to post.
#4
Good Advice For Everyone!
Anne MacRae 4 years ago
Very good advice, but Gran would have benefited from a similar note from HER Grandma about the importance of punctuation.
Jessica Billings 4 years ago
This absolutely sounds like my grandmother. So blessed to still have her in my life.
Michael Sanders 4 years ago
This is very sweet. But I think her point is pretty much dead when she didn’t spell interesting correctly 😳
#5
Found On A Collected Airplane Food Tray By Flight Attendant
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
As someone who had stage 3 colorectal cancer, I find this post offensive... No I don't! Because I had a sense of humor installed at birth instead of a victim mentality. Life can be s**t, or smell like it in this case, but if you learn to laugh it can make things much more bearable. P.S. Ass cancer does not make it smell worse..... just sayin ;P
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
That's what happens if you use the Negative Ion "Healing Wand" that is full of thorium dust.
#6
“Ain’t I A Peach? Ha, Ha” In A 1895 Bible
Virgil Sanders 4 years ago
lol that was my first thought, with that "ha ha." at the end XD
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Actually, yes she is. She’s very pretty, even by today’s standards.
Kimberley Gayle Thomas 4 years ago
Makes me think of Bugs Bunny who asks "Aren't I stinker?" every once in a while.
“Photographs of found pieces of PAPER(!) with writing on them. Look for paper, make every day a scavenger hunt. Appreciate the forgotten artifacts of everyday life. Share any paper that you found (on the ground, stuck in some bushes, or between cans of soup at the store for example) and you do not know who wrote it,” the subreddit’s moderators explain what their community is all about.
#7
Found Under Windshield
monkeydog 4 years ago
The prompt uses the word historical in the sense that the found items document an event that occurred. The only difference between every day occurrences and History as you are imaging it, with a capital H, is that certain historical events are printed in textbooks and journals rather than blogs.
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Rebekah 4 years ago
OH, the smiles she must give out everyday. That's wonderful.
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Virgil Sanders 4 years ago
aw, i bet this made the day of whoever received it! ik that whenever i get a compliment, it makes me feel really good. 💜
#8
My Mother-In-Law Found A Message In A Bottle Washed Up On The Beach This Weekend. East Coast
H Edwards 4 years ago
I saw the first couple of lines and realised I'm not ready for that today
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Brunning6 4 years ago
Does everyone know what Olive Juice means? If you mouth it your lip movement looks the same as if you are saying I Love You. It is code for I Love You.
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
1.) Throw that back where it belongs 2.) Ithaca Flower Power is a damn fine beer.
Jessica Billings 4 years ago
Who's cutting onions this early in the morning? RIP to her soulmate.
#9
Found This Passive Aggressive Customer Service Letter From 1964 In My Garage
Nicholas Kraemer 4 years ago
Uh, he's straight forward and direct. A letter sent directly to a person outlining the problem, telling them to bugger off, and including your name isn't really passive aggressive.
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KatHat 4 years ago
"Passive aggressive" is like many other phrases, co-opted and over-used in places it doesn't fit. There's nothing passive aggressive about this letter. It's clear and straightforward; it outlines the problem and gives a consequence.
Anne MacRae 4 years ago (edited)
Exactly, KatHat. Everything in the letter is the opposite of passive-aggressive. A passive-aggressive move might have been this: Mr. Bailey would have NOT mentioned his desire that the customer take his business elsewhere. Instead he’d hope Mr. Jones would eventually come back — and here’s the passive-aggressive part — but NEVER have the item or service Jones wanted until he got the message his business was unwelcome. Not foolproof, but sooo satisfying if it worked out!!
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Just think of the heights of passive aggression Mr Bailey could have achieved on social media
David L Rattigan 4 years ago
The PS is a bit PA, but for the most part it's commendably direct - the opposite of passive-aggressive.
“Love letters, doodles, interesting to-do or grocery lists, notes from the past—share your discovery with us!” the mods encourage book, paper, scavenger hunt, and adventure lovers to share their awesome finds with everyone else.
#10
Found On My Daily Walk —“Wow”
Christina Schulte 4 years ago
When my dog wants something, she does a perfect impression of a disgruntled Chewbacca.
#11
In The Library
Nikki Owens 4 years ago (edited)
I once worked at an internet café in Hawai'i. We had a few books on a shelf, people could take them, add to them, exchange them. One day a copy of "Slaughterhouse-Five" appeared, & I took it home to read. One young quiet guy who came in now & then asked my boss where it had gone, because he wanted to read it, too. So my boss told him I had the book, then asked me to return it. The following week the guy approached my boss again & asked if I was single. He said no, she's engaged to be married. Apparently the guy went away visibly heartbroken. He didn't come back for a long time, & when he finally did he had totally changed... all black clothes, long scruffy hair... I still think about that & feel bad, lol.
#12
Found In A Couch Being Re-Upholstered
JessG 4 years ago
The couch was made before 1959. The author of the note said that's when they, also, decided to reupholster it. :) indeed, it is well made
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M O'Connell 4 years ago
I can confirm that he was an Optometrist! "D. H. H. MARTIN F.S.M.C., D.Orth." I found his name through an article published in The Australasian Journal of Optometry in 1947.
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Nikki Owens 4 years ago
This actually gives me little prickles of creepiness in my spine, lol.
The moderators also highlight the fact that in order to post any photos, the paper has to be found and it has to be paper. No forgotten plastic from your garage. No granite engravings from your neighbors Tom and Jane’s farm (because you know exactly whom they belong to and, well, paper beats rock).
#13
Found In My Fortune Cookie....made Me Smile
Kennedy Johnson 4 years ago
Haha, once I got the same fortune on the same cookie. I don’t know how, but they put two of the exact same fortune in one.
Crepitus 4 years ago
I once got two fortune cookies (in a row) that both had two fortunes inside.
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#14
Paper Found Among My Late Grandmother’s Belongings Talking About The Armistice Ending Ww I
Roadkill The Brave 4 years ago
I actually have one of these. I lucked out finding it in a booth at an antique store a few years ago and gave it to my Grandpa who fought in WW2. When he passed I got it back and it's out up right now.
Roadkill The Brave 4 years ago
Well not this specific paper, the one I have was released the day after the atomic bombs were dropped and Japan surrendered.
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 4 years ago
I still have the newspaper from the day the Vietnam War was announced to be over. Someday it'll be found.
#15
"I Remember That Old Pole"
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Yeah it's these eager young poles taking away the jobs from the old ones... Circle of life I guess.
Load More Replies... Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
Telephone poles are so saturated with preservative chemicals, it is illegal in most US states to incinerate them. In many cases, they are hazardous and can not be landfilled either. In some cases, they are recycled into replacement railroad ties. other than that, ask a lineman.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Not that railroad ties are tradionally less of a health hazard, or good for burning!
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What’s more, the mods want everyone to be “courteous and friendly” toward one another, avoid being “overly annoying or bothersome,” embrace tolerance and sensitivity, as well as remove any and all sensitive personal info from the photos before posting them. Sounds simple enough and it’s the basis for the rules most larger subreddits follow. Disruptive, chaotic, and intolerant communities don’t tend to last for long on Reddit (unless they’re doing it on purpose for the sake of humor).
#16
Prom - April 24, 1970. Found While Walking The Dog This Morning
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Reminds me of myself. And my two pretty friends. Yep, if there’s going to be ONE person whose face is caught looking weird while everyone else looks fabulous in a picture, it’d usually be me. Every. Damn. Time.
Kennedy Johnson 4 years ago
Did you find this on your walk near someone’s house? Anyway, cool picture.
Candacej Alagappan 4 years ago
HOLY CRAP!!! WTFH IS THAT SILHOUTTE IN THE BACKGROUND DOORWAY!!!
crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago
are they dressed as Disney princesses? they certainly look like they r right out of the Disney movies.
#17
Found (Under) Wallpaper
Nicholas Kramer 4 years ago
That's awesome but by time they're removing the wall paper, they probably already bought the new stuff. Plus, you told me how many rolls, but how many square feet was it?
#18
Was Told To Post Here: My Cousin Is Using This Bag Which Originally Belonged To Our Great Grandmother For Her Dance Tomorrow Night And Found A Note Which Has Been Hidden For 81 Years
Andrew 4 years ago (edited)
Yes I believe it says Cape Town. Cape Town is the second biggest city in South Africa. An amazingly beautiful part of the world. (For those who may not know)
The Library of Congress explains that how quickly paper deteriorates depends on its quality and in what environment it’s stored. Some ancient tomes and documents can actually be in far better condition than a scrap of paper that’s just a few years old.
“Paper is made of cellulose—a repeating chain of glucose molecules—derived from plant cell walls. One measure of paper quality is how long the cellulose chains, and subsequently the paper fibers, are: long-fibered paper is stronger and more flexible and durable than short-fibered paper,” the LoC points out that not all paper is created equally. If you’re going for longevity, long-fibered paper is your best bet.
#19
Found Posted On A Couple Of The Walls Around My City. Email At The Bottom Blacked Out
Douglas Turner 4 years ago
On a pretty un-scrunched piece of paper, which means they had more balls than anger. Of paper. Balls of paper.
#20
This Book From 1892 I Found Inside A Hole In The Wall In A Rental Flat
mcborge1 4 years ago (edited)
Cool, I once found a little book on learning to read sheet music printed in 1909. I found it on top of the rubbish chute at the block of flats I used to live in. It has a cover with a similar ornate style as this one, I still have it and keep it in a protective sleeve to keep it clean.
Little Panda Bear 4 years ago
That looks too neat and perfect to be a magazine. I'd treasure it.
Aunt Messy 4 years ago
It was common for publishers to sell bound copies of a year's worth of magazines.
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Anonymous 3 years ago
I have a professionally bound, very large book of every single copy of every issue of the Boston herald from 1963. it might have been a birthday gift to someone..the mystery has never been solved, but I found it in the trash next to a dumpster at an apt I used to live in.
#21
Bought An Abandoned House And Found This In The Attic
Little Panda Bear 4 years ago
Can you imagine how terrifying it would be to recieve newspapers like that during those times?
tmw 4 years ago
I have been thinking about this in light of our current pandemic. I do wonder how scary that would have been considering few people travelled outside their countries at this time (I guess excluding europe). I wonder if the people reading the headlines would have had an idea of where it was. I know they all would have known someone who was off to war, or affected by the war. so it would have been immediate to them in that sense.
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
My grandmother saved papers like this and gave them to me upon her death. It's really fascinating to read what was in the news, versus what we know now after decades....
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
The Haruna wasn't't sunk that day, merely severely damaged. It survived many of the biggest naval battles of WW2 including Midway, Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, and the Battle of the Philippine Sea before being sunk by US forces two weeks before V-E day.
Fabrice 4 years ago
Battleship Haruna was sunk at the end of the war, not at the beginning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Haruna?oldid=497252048
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
If you read the wiki mentioned above, it states the ship was erroneously reported as being sunk on Dec 11, 1941, same day US declared war on Germany/Italy. The other possible option was the Advertiser was a Sunday only paper (ergo the name - weekly ads!), so maybe they were REALLY behind on the news.
Load More Replies... Aunt Messy 4 years ago
The Americans didn't bother showing up in Europe until everything was about finished. People had been dying for YEARS, and the Yanks were busy telling the world that they thought Hitler had some good ideas. I don't know why Americans bother yammering about how "tough" they were - when nothing about the war ever touched them.
Load More Replies...Acids from the environment (like from air pollution or poor-quality enclosures) or from within the paper cut these glucose chains into shorter and shorter lengths in the presence of moisture. “This acid hydrolysis reaction produces more acids, feeding further, continued degradation.”
#22
Found In The Hallway Of My School
Logic and Reason 4 years ago
Here’s the original: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/father-i-crave-cheddar
#23
Garage Sale Find (1929) - About 100 Love Letters Over Two Years From A Guy In Seattle To A Girl In Aberdeen, Wa
Caroline Par 3 years ago
I'd love to have read both sides of that correspondence, then a postscript that says what ultimately happened to them
Cheryl Skina 3 years ago
I Googled the address (702 North F St) and there's a lovely house (I'm guessing it's the same house). It's nice to imagine someone getting their mail and being happy to see they've received a letter from someone they love.
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Great now i have Avi Kaplan singing Aberdeen in my head! The lyrics suits well too "Oh aberdeen,You been calling to me,Calling me to make my way back home". And yes his beard is scratching my neurons.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
Kurt Cobain’s home town. Probably so isolated back then, bc it’s isolated today.
#24
Historicfound This On The Street In Downtown Sd About 4 Years Ago When I Needed It Most. It’s Been In My Wallet Ever Since
One of the reasons why newspapers don’t last for long is because they’re printed on mechanically pulped paper, meaning the paper has got the shortest fiber length. Meanwhile, the lignin from the wood isn’t removed (as in the case of chemical pulping) and promotes acid hydrolysis, shortening the glucose chains even more.
#25
This Dollar Bill I Found In My Change
Susan Green 4 years ago
Well......that’s kind of true. Money does kind of control our lives sometimes.
Mary Peace 4 years ago
If you didn't know what it was written on, that info would make a good question in a quiz.
Jo Firth 4 years ago
I'm guessing whoever wrote that hates ironing!! Just a guess...
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Purchased Old Poetry Book At Flea Market And Found This Old Receipt For A College Poetry Class. This Receipt Has Been In This Book For 102 Years!
Miss Melanie 4 years ago
Amaaazing!sad, tho,a little that it took over 100 years for someone to get that far in the poetry book!
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
5 dollars folks. 5 dollars for an entire course. We're the systems marks, trick ass marks.
#27
This Came Out Of A Book I Was Flipping Through
Little Panda Bear 4 years ago
I'm guessing hell is referred to school...maybe?
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What’s more, it’s not just acid hydrolysis that threatens a piece of paper’s structural integrity. It can also be damaged by light (what’s known as being susceptible to photolytic degradation) and oxygen (oxidative degradation).
The poorer quality of the paper, the more light degradation affects it. Meanwhile, oxygen degrades paper in a very limited way, unless there are nitrogen oxide pollutants in the air.
#28
Found On The Floor Of A Target. Meet Carla Rose
#29
Found In My Apartment Building Lobby Today In North Dakota
Spring Fisk 4 years ago
Why the down votes? Everyone's untitled to their option
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Luna Lovegood 4 years ago
Hey it's cool if you don't believe in religion or anything- you're totally allowed to believe what you want, as long as it's not hurting anybody. However, it's still nice to respect that other have that same right and are allowed to be religious. Religion really helps a lot of people, and most religious people I've met are nice, decent people. You may have meant this s a harmless joke, but it's not a very nice thing to say
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Lillukka79 3 years ago (edited)
That's what usually happens when you actually read the bible from cover to cover.
Ayia Grace 4 years ago
My friend is an atheist and lives in SD. Says it's hysterical to see church signs half the time.
#30
"No. Not Yet." ~ Found In 1908 High School Geometry Textbook
Mihai Mara 4 years ago
I am not sure if you can find "That something" in geometry books :))))))
Crazy Dog Lady 4 years ago
For security reasons. The only thing I feel safe saying is "think fingerprints."
Load More Replies... Verena Gitterle 4 years ago
When there was a test in school the teacher gave out little slips with questions each pupil had to answer on his own.
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#31
Just Found This $1 Bill At My Parents House. When I Was 6 Years Old I Made This Bet With My Father, He Died 2 Months Later. 25 Years To The Day I Find This....had No Idea A $1 Bill Could Feel So Valuable
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
Dave Winfield hitting a 2 bagger for the win. Oldest player to do so in the WS. Watched this from right over the border.
#32
My Buddy Was Renovating His Bathroom And Found This In The Wall
Emma Love 4 years ago
Please contact him, he's only in his 50's. I NEED to know if he got in trouble. Thanks, I'll wait right here.
Lumpy Space Princess 4 years ago
They did contacted him. According to reddit, he said cool but did not remembered this. :D
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#33
Grandpa
#34
Found On My Way To Class This Morning
Avriel Schwartz 4 years ago
By Jack Prelustsky, part of the standard sixth grade poetry curriculum for years...
#35
I've Been Collecting Found Photos For Years. This Is One Of My Favourites
#36
Found Tucked Between The Pages Of A Secondhand Textbook I Bought
Wandaluzt 4 years ago
You're trying to talk to someone on a completely different site. It was posted on Reddit 4 years ago. Click the links under pictures...
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The way he’s looking at her in the last picture makes me wonder if they stayed together and got married.
#37
Found This 14 Year Old Ticket Stub From London, In A Used Book. I Live 5000 Miles Away In India
#38
Found On The Floor Of A Dive Bar Last Year. Now One Of My Most Prized Possessions
#39
Found This In The Kitchen At My Job
#40
This Photo Was Tucked In A Used Book I Bought 15 Years Ago, I’ve Been Using It As A Bookmark Ever Since. I Hope One Day I Find Her...
Crazy Dog Lady 4 years ago
Funny thing is....that's the exact face she'd make when you found her.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
I’ll bet you anything she smiled like that to hide braces. So glad we have Invisalign braces now, because so many people had to have them at just the wrong time in their lives—-their incredibly vulnerable teens. Who wants to be a “metal mouth” at 14 or 15?
#41
In A Vintage Hemingway
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
When you think of how much home cooking people did back then, it’s not a lot
Bianca Saville 4 years ago
In the UK people got 8 ounces of sugar per week during WW2 rationing.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
I still have a couple ration tickets from WWII that my mother ended up not using. My father was a Captain in the Army Medical Corps, stationed at Camp Murray in Tacoma, WA.
#42
Found This Letter That Traveled More Than 209 Miles From The Original Point. Took Five And A Half Years For Someone To Pick It Up, I Was Cleaning The River In Louisville Kentucky And Saw This
#43
Found This Left Behind In My Sons Room As We Were Moving Out
#44
Found This Note On My Morning Walk. Love In A Time Of Coronavirus!
#45
Found A Parrot Doodle On A Napkin
Crazy Dog Lady 4 years ago
If you sing "parrot on a napkin" to the tune of Message in A Bottle" it's will get stuck in your head and then you'll thank me!
Stella Humphrey 4 years ago
Actually, no this is just the design on the napkins at the restaurant Earls. Not a doodle.
#46
There Is A Bookstore In Cambridge, Massachusetts That Tapes Anything They Find In Used Books To The Walls Of Their Basement. It’s Reached A Point Where There Are Now Several Decades’ Worth Of Mysterious Papers Taped To The Wall. Looks Almost Like A Found Paper Museum!
#47
I Found This Doodle On The Sidewalk Over 5 Years Ago And Finally Found Somewhere To Share It! I Wish I Knew Who Drew It!
Sophia Atkinson 4 years ago
Seems like something my dad would draw but the way this drawn is not his art style
#48
Found In An Empty Classroom... I Don’t Know How To Feel About It
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
What, you’ve never seen a Legbirb before? Jeez, you a hermit or something?
#49
Published In 2017
Crazy Dog Lady 4 years ago
It was 2016 the year Trump was elected-wasn't that also the year he disbanded the pandemic response team?
Verena Gitterle 4 years ago
"Science knows how to fight an outbreak- but policy still gets in the way"
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
What happened? Was there a reason for this headline? A disease that nobody remembers? 🦠😱
#50
Message In A Bottle...
Ian Koch 4 years ago
must have been either a joke or they were hoping it would get to a certain someone.
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Serial pacifist 4 years ago
You really have to be a bitter, bitter individual when your put an effort just to insult an unknown person. This dude needs a lot of love and help.
#51
1937 Letter To Santa - Unopened. Sorry- I Can’t Do It
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
Send it to Santa, NOW! Maybe he gets the presents this year! Make Grandpa D**k happy! 😊
#52
Found Today On A Hike
Benjamin Kowal 4 years ago
This is freaky because my brothers name is Evan and mine is Benjamin, what a strange coincidence, this could be a sign of some sort. Who knows.
Monic Krugell 4 years ago
Ah Evan, thanks for keeping Benjamin company - no one deserves to eat alone!
#53
A Paper Found In A Middle School Classroom A While Back
#54
Found Attached To A Popped Balloon In My Front Yard A Few Years Ago
Susan Green 4 years ago
Oh no! I would never want to find this, it would make me cry too much. :(
#55
On My Bus This Morning
#56
Contractors Working In Our Basement Found A Package Of Letters Hidden In The Floorboards From The 1920s
M O'Connell 4 years ago
According to the original Reddit post, they're gay love letters :)
Load More Replies... Monic Krugell 4 years ago
How can you leave us with this little trinket of information without sharing more content!! What happened, why were they hidden, who wrote them?????.....
#57
Found Outside The Humane Society. Somebody Got A Cat
crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago
awwww...some kid adopted a cat. hopefully, they found everything at Walmart too.
Crazy Dog Lady 4 years ago
I used to be a detective so thought I'd translate the last sentence it says "little CAT blanket." You're welcome. Also, REI sells little cat blankets to go with their little cat tents.
#58
So My Sister Went Thrifting Recently
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
The lost pooping log of Captain Picard of the Enterprise. "Stardate 1276.45. No poop."
Jessica Billings 4 years ago
31st - Halloween and anticipation of knowing if she pooped or not is killing me.
#59
A Letter I Wrote To Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid) When I Was 12. I Gave The Envelope To My Mom To Mail But She Saved It. Now I Know Why He Never Wrote Me Back
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Maybe a good thing Mom didn’t send Ralph Macchio a letter where you said looking at him made your skin crawl. Not a good thing.
#60
Found This Cute Message Inside A Book!
#61
Me N My BF Found This Hiding In A Bench While On Our Bike Ride Today!
Luna Lovegood 4 years ago
... no it's not??? Not if you're trying to reference the Harry Potter books or movies anyways
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A Drawing I Found In My Textbook Last Year
#63
Sitting In A Waiting Room And Little Girl Probably Around 3 Or 4 Comes Up And Hands Me A Rolled Up Piece Of Paper And Says “Here” And Then Skips Away. I’ve Been Blessed
#65
Neighbor Found While Restoring Cabinets In A Frank Lloyd Wright Home
#66
At The Market
Virgil Sanders 4 years ago
i mean if you want to think about it in a "big picture" way, it'll be pretty historical in about 100 years
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#67
A Tarot Card Found In The Wall Of My 120 Year Old Apartment Building
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago (edited)
Looks more like 60’s or 70’s art plus the color processing wasn’t that great. Plus this is Rider Waite imagery and that didn’t come out until late Bel Epoch, so someone put it there.
Sar-kei Scyence 4 years ago
“....so some one put it there.” And I thought it had magically appeared, I’m so disappointed!
Load More Replies... Libby Krajcer 4 years ago
This is from a pack of Luigi Scapini (artist) tarot. I have this same pack and purchased mine brand new in a theological society bookshop 28 years ago.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Looked up the meaning of the Five of Wands tarot card. A lot depends on the position when found. I would love to know why they picked that particular and what was going on in their life, or in the building, when they left it. Anyway, here’s the link, so you can draw your own conclusions: https://www.thetarotguide.com/five-of-wands .
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Codpieces, lederhosen, short tunics and men showing off their wood. Nope, nothing homoerotic about this at all
Mihai Mara 4 years ago
I wonder what does that tarot card mean? Does it mean that the men in that house have big, strong wands and are good at using them? :)))))
#68
Found In The Pocket Of Thrift Store Pants
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
looks like the background from a Red Hot Chilli Peppers photo- One Hot Minute with Dave Navarro as the guitarist RHCP-60914...f57f13.jpg 
#69
Sad Note I Found On The Sidewalk Outside Of My House
Luna Lovegood 4 years ago
Aw man... This note reminds me a lot of me in 7th grade :( Good luck kid, things do get better!!
#70
Drawn On A Kid's Menu Someone Left At A Restaurant. No Name
Crazy Dog Lady 4 years ago
Their parents found out the kid was too old for the children's menu. :(
Ian Koch 4 years ago
older people should be able to have the children's menu as a choice of a side. we don't just turn 13 and instantly stop liking grilled cheese.
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Found This Face Down At 14th And N St Nw In Washington, Dc Today. Can We Get It To Its Owner?
#72
Found A Card My Great-Uncle Made For My Great-Grandma. He Was An Advertising Illustrator In The 1950's. Scroll Through The Pics To See The Cute Flapper Lady He Painted In The Card
#73
On My Morning Walk. Made My Heart Hurt A Little
#74
Does Found-Found Paper Count? Found This On A Street Corner In A Neighborhood
#75
Found On The Floor Of Goodwill In Boston, Ma And Couldn’t Leave It To Be Thrown Out. Remember Those Who No Longer Have Anyone To Remember Them
#76
Opened A Used Copy Of Carrie By Stephen King And This Fell Out. Seems To Be A Legitimate Bicycle Card Somehow
Arthur Waite 4 years ago
Yes! when the Americans became a republic rather than part of the Empire, some things that looked Regal, like Kings, Queens and Jacks, were replaced by Elevens, Twelves and Thirteens. Didn't catch on.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Nope! It's from a "500" deck which has 63 cards, with the '13' only in diamonds and hearts.
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 4 years ago
You should contact Mr King and share this with him. Maybe he'll write it into a story!
#77
Found This On R/Skamtebord
Logic and Reason 4 years ago
You can and possibly did make this up. It’s a Tumblr screenshot reposted to Reddit, which makes it very dubious at best.
#78
Found This At My Register When We Opened This Morning. Put It In My Wallet For Good Luck
#79
My Grandparents Both Recently Passed Away And I Claimed A Few Books Novels From Their Shelves As We Cleaned Up. This Gem Was Inside One Book, From My Grandma To My Grandpa!
#80
Inside A Copy Of Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet I Just Bought From A Thrift Store
David Gripon 4 years ago
Wow! My mom said, "Get your a** to bed or I'll give you something to cry about!!"
#81
Found On A Desk On The First Day Of School
#82
Goodwill Finds. The Front Is Even Crazier
#83
Found This At Breakfast This Morning. Thought Of Y’all Immediately
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
My nails I’m biting Crashing noise so frightening... Thunder and lightning ...
#84
Found It In The Pocket Of A Denim Jacket I Bought In A Thrift Store
#85
Found This Entire Jar Of Paper Behind A Trash Can
Crazy Dog Lady 4 years ago
That's probably why she immediately threw it away.
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#86
“Ways To Be Cool”
Birgit M 4 years ago
It also says „Ambercroombie“. Maybe it‘s a way cooler business branch we don‘t know?
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#87
Found In A Hampton Inn, Littleton Nh. Thank You For The Poem
#88
Gender Poem
#89
Found In Borough Market, London In 2016, Liked It So Much I Framed It. Anyone Know The Artist?
#90
Jay, Please
#91
The Simpsons From Memory: Found In A Library Book
#92
I Wonder If Sam Paid The Man...
#93
Lisa’s Research Game Is On Point
#94
I Found This In A Bible While Cleaning The Rooms At The Hotel I Work At. I Left It Exactly Where It Was. I Have No Idea What It Is
#95
I Work At Goodwill And Thought I Was Hallucinating When I Found This In The Donation Box
#96
Found Hanging On A Walking Trail
#97
Found In A Goodwill Sitting All By Itself :( On The Back It Says June ‘94
#98
My Friend’s Uncle Is Moving Out. Found This In A Box
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
man, that hits hard, and this is not sarcasm. I hope there was something in that book other than blank pages.
#99
In A Van In A Junk Yard
Crazy Dog Lady 4 years ago
This is why you should never throw away old tires-they never get over it.
#100
Found Someone’s Grocery List. I Approve
David Gripon 4 years ago
I thought the second word was "scratch", which would have dramatically changed the tone of that note.
#101
Disheartening Cards Against Humanity Remnant Found During Hurricane Cleanup In The Bahamas
#103
Found This Stuck To A Minibar Menu In A Cheap Hotel On Khao San Road In Thailand A Few Years Ago. I Like To Think They Had Just Met And Spent Their First Night Together, And It Didn't Go Well
#104
Found My To-Do List On My Run
#105
A Staff Member At Home Depot Was Drawing This When We Went To Go Buy Some Major Appliances
#106
Found This While Converting A School Bus. Some Jokes Are Eternal
Kennedy Johnson 4 years ago
Well, it depends. Sometimes at my house we try to put signs on each other, but it’s never kick me. It’s something like tickle me.
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Found Someone Else’s Image Of A Paper And Figured It Was Worth Sharing
#109
Found This On The Street Today
#110
This Sign Flew At Me On A Windy Day In Austin Tx
#112
The Right To Enjoy Beautiful Things
#113
Found In My School's Library
#115
10 Dollars I Got A Few Months Ago
Mieke Fabry 4 years ago
i'm reading about this and starting to believe this is true... I feel sorry for JFK...Wish I had a timemachine to figure it out :)
Logic and Reason 4 years ago
There’s nothing to figure out. The conspiracy theory is just a conspiracy theory.
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Overseen At College A Few Semesters Ago
#117
Outside An Abandoned Building In Harlem, NY
#118
Found While Walking Home Yesterday
#119
I Found A Danny Devito On The Back It Says “You’ve Found A Lucky Danny Pick Him Up And You’ll Have Great Luck.”
#120
The Real Question This Holiday Season...
#121
Passively Amazing
#122
Found This On My Car A Few Years Back. (My Vanity Plate Says “Iparty”)
#123
Found This Post It In My Desk Drawer Along With Several Others With Sketches And Doodles. Quite Poetic
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
It is a popular phrase intended to sound uneducated.
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I Would Love To Know The Context Of This Note. I Found It In My Front Yard, Must Have Blown In From A Neighbor
#125
Not Sure If Slides Count. Found These On My Morning Walk Today
M O'Connell 4 years ago
I found a slide on the sidewalk once. It was a picture of the Shriners marching in a parade.
#128
Found During A Hotel Remodel. Curious How This Ended Up
#130
Found A Gun Safety Packet In The Baseboard Of A Closet Of A House We Wrecked
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
In civilized countries: "Safe cycling for boys and girls." "When a boy or a girl wants a bicycle" "10 commandments of road safety"
Arthur Waite 4 years ago
Why not give in to reality and teach what they need to know, and want to learn about? Before the accident?
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#131
Found In My Dad's Old Car. Would Have Been The Last Time He Voted
#132
Found At An Elementary School, Sounds Like A Party I Want To Go To. Who Doesn't Love Uno And Taquitos
#133
Technically, Found Paper. Lying On The Ground While Getting Gas This Morning
#135
Message In A Bottle Found Washed Ashore On A Beach Near Me In Cornwall. “I Am The Only Man Alive Who Knows Who Killed Jfk”
Wade Love 4 years ago
This was NOT sent from the Floriday Quays, because there they spell it Keys. It was send from somewhere that Quay is more common, and where they don't know that Quay, Cay, and Key are all pronounced the same and mean the same thing for some fool reason. https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2018/04/cay-key-quay.html
#138
Found In Handle Of 2006 Honda Pilot. Little Olivia Left A Note With Instructions To Call When Found. Top Is Front, Bottom Is Back
Wandaluzt 4 years ago
Why are you trying to ask a person who posted this on Reddit 2 years ago a question on a completely different website?
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This Is The Best I Got, Homies. Found In A Tjmax Parking Lot
Josette Bergeron 4 years ago
This is from Grey's Anatomy Season 1. Meredith says it to Derek when she finds out he has a wife.
#140
Found In A Goodwill
#143
Fergie
Sophia Atkinson 4 years ago
When she was kid she played Sally Brown in some of the peanuts specials
#144
Found In The Playground During Recess. One Of My 5th Graders Is Going Home Broken Hearted
#146
Along My Bike Route
Not A Panda 4 years ago
It's weird you're getting downvoted. Nonconsensual contact is nonconsensual contact, whether it's hair sniffing (which is weirdo central) or grabbing body parts.
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Zophra 4 years ago (edited)
My husband can spackle drywall like a professional. I cannot. I have tried and tried - I end up with lumps, uneven coats, need to sand too much, can't "feather it out." I was given the attic crawlspace to help finish the attic. There is a note written in pencil in the far back where I had to scrunch in to spackle. "Please forgive the terrible spackle job in here. This was the one area I was allowed to do..."
Bow, I’m a Slytherin 4 years ago
Me and my friend once wrote a note and attached a jigsaw puzzle piece we found to it. We put it in a ziplock bag and tied it to a lamppost - I hope that person found their jigsaw piece.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
My fave was buying a used book and someone had left a twenty in it as a bookmark. It was so old (book and bookmark) that the pic on it wasn't Jackson but Grover Cleveland!
A Head 4 years ago
A couple things I've found: 1. In high school, I was wiring some speakers in our living room and went into the crawl space beneath it and found a 6-pack of Black Label beer that must have been left there by the construction crew, and a catalogue from a local ski shop dated 1950, or so (this was 1988). The beer bottles were so old that you could break them by flicking them with your finger. 2. I was living in an apartment with really high ceilings, but the bathroom had a drop ceiling for some reason. One day I popped a tile to look up there and I found a plastic back containing a blonde wig, high heel shoes, some women's underwear, and two *really* sketchy porno tapes (yes, I checked them out - and very quickly turned them off).
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
I love making bookmarks out of thick cardboard paper and putting them in library books I read. I got the idea long, long ago when I found one that someone else had left in a book and I thought how nice that was. A bit of paper and a bit of beautiful gift wrap, maybe, stuck together with a braided string on the top. It was such a small thing but was a feeling of "community" I guess. I've probably made over 500 bookmarks in various libraries or even in leaving books to be "found". (https://www.bookcrossing.com) Things like this might make someone's day, and it's so fun (and free!)
Zophra 4 years ago (edited)
My husband can spackle drywall like a professional. I cannot. I have tried and tried - I end up with lumps, uneven coats, need to sand too much, can't "feather it out." I was given the attic crawlspace to help finish the attic. There is a note written in pencil in the far back where I had to scrunch in to spackle. "Please forgive the terrible spackle job in here. This was the one area I was allowed to do..."
Bow, I’m a Slytherin 4 years ago
Me and my friend once wrote a note and attached a jigsaw puzzle piece we found to it. We put it in a ziplock bag and tied it to a lamppost - I hope that person found their jigsaw piece.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
My fave was buying a used book and someone had left a twenty in it as a bookmark. It was so old (book and bookmark) that the pic on it wasn't Jackson but Grover Cleveland!
A Head 4 years ago
A couple things I've found: 1. In high school, I was wiring some speakers in our living room and went into the crawl space beneath it and found a 6-pack of Black Label beer that must have been left there by the construction crew, and a catalogue from a local ski shop dated 1950, or so (this was 1988). The beer bottles were so old that you could break them by flicking them with your finger. 2. I was living in an apartment with really high ceilings, but the bathroom had a drop ceiling for some reason. One day I popped a tile to look up there and I found a plastic back containing a blonde wig, high heel shoes, some women's underwear, and two *really* sketchy porno tapes (yes, I checked them out - and very quickly turned them off).
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
I love making bookmarks out of thick cardboard paper and putting them in library books I read. I got the idea long, long ago when I found one that someone else had left in a book and I thought how nice that was. A bit of paper and a bit of beautiful gift wrap, maybe, stuck together with a braided string on the top. It was such a small thing but was a feeling of "community" I guess. I've probably made over 500 bookmarks in various libraries or even in leaving books to be "found". (https://www.bookcrossing.com) Things like this might make someone's day, and it's so fun (and free!)
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