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
Hummingbird Feather. I Had Never Found One Before, Thought It Was Neat
My Mom Found A Baby Owl On The Porch Behind The Firewood
Wife Found This At A Local Estate Sale; Suspect Emma Wasn't Happy
Very obviously fake. People...especially children didn’t use the phrase “hated every minute of it” in 1877.
I am with you on this one but I think it says 1811, and I can't find anything about since when this phrase has been in use in the English language.
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I love Emma but I kind of suspect she was born much later and made this for the fun of it.
I have been dealing antiques for years and just from the picture, it looks pretty authentic to me. If it is a fake, it is a bloody good one.
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To think that tweets had to be written that way, back then... no wonder people didn't enjoyed it like they do now, and that they only did when they had something actually important to write.
This isn't a "new" pic as the article claims. It's been in previous posts
I've been reading a fair amount of the BP posts in the last years and for me it's the first time I see it
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I would have this on my wall in a heartbeat.. what a treasure. What happened to Emma I wonder?
The time she must have put into it, despite how she felt about it.
It is called a sampler. They were usually made by young girls who used them to display their needlework skills by using a number of different stitches and yarns. They would frequently create very formal designs and patterns, usually very colourful. Much more may be found online. This one is MOST unusual, and I have NEVER encountered one like it. Whoever owns it, please enjoy and treasure it, and spare a thought for little Emma who made it. Wonderful.
I can picture Emma as she sat wondering when was she ever going to need to know this crap . Worse than algebra or any number of things that we'll be thankful we know some distant day from now. I can almost hear her handed a needle and thread to anyone who came to her with a button that fell off as she told them "Here. Knock yourself out."
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
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 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."
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.
Any chance this was oh I don't know January/February 2020, asking for a friend.
An Old Jacket Hanging In The Woods With A Bird's Nest Built In The Pocket
I Found A Tiny House Inside Of A Tree Stump
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
I live in south USA and we have tons of those here. I love when them and the green anoles are hatchlings
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
Found In The Pocket Of My Grandpa’s WW2 Bomber Jacket
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
the small coin looks a lot like the Swiss Franc 50cts coin... but it's probably not, given the rest of the items.
This Pink Grasshopper Found On Kelleys Island, Ohio
A Rock I Found On The Beach Has A Tiny Starfish Fossil In It
Found These Beautiful Colors Hiding Inside A Piece Of Wood
Found A Random Painting In The Middle Of The Woods
Elmo Toy That I Found While Hiking In Georgia
Found This In My Backyard In Ankara/Turkey. It's Red Fox Agate
I Found A Mussel With Natural Goggly Eyes
This "Bookmark" I Found In An Old Shakespeare Book Is A Voting Ticket From The Civil War
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
Those are Eisenhower silver dollars, not quarters! Quarters have Washington on them.
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
This Pearl I Found In An Oyster I Was Eating
Found This Note In My Hotel Bed Last Night... Ugh
This Shell I Found In My Sea Salt
Alligator Gar Skull I Found While Hiking Today
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
Note: this post originally had 168 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
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.
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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?
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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?
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.
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?
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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
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.
In Köln Germany it's often found bombs from the war. I loved to see all the nice stuff people found.
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.
Load More Replies... 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?
Load More Replies... 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?
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.
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?
Load More Replies... 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
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.
In Köln Germany it's often found bombs from the war. I loved to see all the nice stuff people found.
