50 Times People Found The Most Unexpected Things (New Pics)
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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Found Photos Of My Grandmother's Cousin Hanging With His Buddy While Cleaning Out A Storage Locker
Wow, so cool. Time surely must have been a relative thing hanging around him.
Hummingbird Feather. I Had Never Found One Before, Thought It Was Neat
We usually think of lost and found objects as some random stuff nobody really knows what to do with. Unless their owners are found, there’s little utility to them. But did you know that "found objects," also known by the French term "objet trouvé," have been a source of inspiration to many modern and contemporary artists?
Art made from found (or sometimes bought) objects was especially popular in the early and mid-20th century with the works of Marchel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Henry Moore. You have probably seen Duchamp’s infamous sculpture titled “Fountain” (1917) which was basically an upturned urinal placed in a gallery space. No wonder it shocked the conservative art world at the time.
Wife Found This At A Local Estate Sale; Suspect Emma Wasn't Happy
This Rock I Found At The Beach When I Was Seven Is Full Of Fossilized Shells
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.
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.
Heart-Shaped Amethyst Geodes. Discovered Yesterday In Artigas, By The Mining Company Uruguay Minerals
Mosaics Of A Roman Villa Were Found Under A Vineyard In Negrar, Italy
Fascinating! Absolutely fascinating. To discover how things once were and see the craftsmanship of that time period. It's just fascinating to me.
I Found This Carved Fox Inside A Tree Stump, In A Forest Close To My Home
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
So I Found A Loop Of Paper Attached To My Cat's Collar This Morning. I'll Be Sure To Send Another Note Back
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.
An Old Jacket Hanging In The Woods With A Bird's Nest Built In The Pocket
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
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!
My Wife Found This Tiny Skink In Our Garden, Some Much-Needed Brightness On A Grey, Smoky Day
Group Of Baby Easter Bunnies I Found While Walking My Dog On Easter Sunday (Can For Reference)
While Showing My 3-Year-Old My Game Boy, I Discovered A Picture Of My Best Friend From 1999
I Found A Book Called "The Ancient Thirst To Read". It's Actually A Flask
This Morning I Found By Far The Smallest Frog I Have Ever Seen In My Entire Life
This Incredible Carrot Hand Was Found While Digging Juice Carrots At Our Farm Today
Found 83 Gold Coins At The Bottom Of A Coal Container After Renovating The House
Found These Green Army Men Doing Yoga At A Place We're Renting
Real Talk I Think I Just Found A Shell With An Ancient Language On It
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
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
This Origami Grasshopper My Friend Found On A Tram In Japan
Found A 100-Year-Old Time Capsule In My Backyard
A Rock I Found On The Beach Has A Tiny Starfish Fossil In It
Found These Beautiful Colors Hiding Inside A Piece Of Wood
Elmo Toy That I Found While Hiking In Georgia
Found This In My Backyard In Ankara/Turkey. It's Red Fox Agate
This "Bookmark" I Found In An Old Shakespeare Book Is A Voting Ticket From The Civil War
I recognize none of those names that were running for president at that time. 🤨
I Opened A Ventilation Cavity In A Wall And Found Old Love Letters Bound In String
Found This In The Crawl Space Above My Bedroom
This Guy Found 73 Frisbees In A Pond While He Was Looking For His Own
I Found A Door, And Nothing Else, On An Abandoned Beach
Found This Note In My Hotel Bed Last Night... Ugh
Found An Old Beer Bottle In The Mountains With A Mini Eco System Inside
I Found A Old Journal In The Woods Wrapped In Yarn With 3 Vials Of Blood In The Knot
This Very Old Bottle Of Cocaine We Found In My Pharmacy
Small fluffy crystals may be habit forming! Goes for all small and fluffy things though
When I was a teenager in the early '80s, I discovered my mom had kept a small glass bottle of paregoric which she would put on our gums when we were teething infants. Paregoric is liquid opium.
My father was a Pharmacist. When he bought the old Britcher & Bender drug store in Gettysburg, PA where we lived (and I was born), he found a load of old bottles like this, man6 of them also sealed with the substances inside. He had them in his display case in back. He graduated from pharmacy school in 1940, back before a lot of medications came ready made, meaning he was taught how to prepare prescriptions from scrap; pills, capsules, syrups, ointments, and salves. He said you had to pay strict attention and be VERY precise doing that, or you could overdose or kill someone.
Pharmacists still learn that, it's a big part of their training. I did an internship in a pharmacy in 2000. They made salves daily, since dermatologists were often very specific about the ingredients. They would also do their own salves to sell them, lip balm for example. Sometimes customers came in and asked for very antiquated herbal mixtures or extracts and they would make that to order. They also made tablets, for example when a doctor prescribed a dosage that wasn't possible with the available tablets. The pharmacist just took them out of the blister, ground them up in a hand mortar, calculated and weighed the amount of lactose to thin it down. It was still very basic hands-on work. I had to put the empty halves of the capsules in the device used to press them, which was a very tiring thing to do. It wasn't an old family pharmacy, but a newer business owned by a very young pharmacist. It was in Germany, though, where at that time pharmacy chains where almost unheard of.
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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime keeps statistics on the price of illicit drugs, apparently 7g of coke would cost $1183 (in 2010 dollars)
That may be a street price for 7g of coke in 2010, but pharmaceutical cocaine, which is pure, would be 20x those prices. Pharmaceutical cocaine has no additives like baby laxatives or other adulterants that are always found in street coke. You could take these 7g and press it to 10-40 grams of street coke using other materials or turn it into crack, and while it wouldn't be as potent, it would be enough for someone to get zipped on.
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You could buy syringes full of morphine from the Sears catalog.
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Not that long actually...this might actually BE poisonous!
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Please don't take any or you might get a small fluffy crystal addiction.
My thing is that it's actually labeled as "Poison". So why are people taking this stuff again?
"HYDROXYCLORI…" isn't that the stuff Stupid Trump said he was taking for Covid?
I uh... I mean, you're not even like, tempted? Sealed like that the stuff probably wouldn't degrade, and can't go bad or anything... can it?
Only a miracle bottle of cocaine could get through the 80s without being emptied.
from it's original creation in 1885 until it was finally removed in 1929. what a great marketing method: get your users addicted - literally.
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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.
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.
I love this whole list.
Apart from a $5 found at the bottom of a lake I was swimming across, I've never found anything cool.
like a paper dollar? how did it not disintegrate in the water?
I'm not sure about anybody else, but American bills are made out of cotton and linen
I dont think paper money is actually paper. i think its cloth of some kind, or plastic
Abhainn ?
Canadian bills are made of mylar.
okay thanks that makes more sense
And I can't find my car keys.
But someone will, 100 years from now.
John Laughlin lol
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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?
Like albino organisms, maybe?
I'd also like to know
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.
This entire list made me smile and even giggle. Love it!
Surprising number of valuable looking rings found by divers. Lost by swimmers or thrown by angry girlfriends/wives?
Lost during sunscreen or suntan oil application maybe?
the other day i found a calendar from 1959 in a family cookbook
Any interesting appointments written on it?
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I loved this!!
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
One of my favorite posts ever
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I love this.
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.