All of us, at one point or another, have dreamt about finding a lost treasure box filled with excellent antique rarities that will provide us with an infinite fortune. Such wishes come and go, but some people still manage to find a real lost treasure in the most unexpected places. Of course, to each one their definition of a cache is unique, so our list includes such interesting things as ancient Viking swords, gemstones, and coins, as well as a nest of adorable baby bunnies. After all, aren't cute baby animals an unexpected treasure?
And much like with love, the most significant discoveries on our list were made when people stopped looking for them. You could spend all day dragging a metal detector across the beach, but often it is the person taking a casual stroll that happens upon the coolest stuff. At least the people on the list below would probably agree with this philosophy; each one found their own finders keepers at the most random times and in some very odd places.
Scroll down below to check out this neat list of cool things and historical finds that people happened upon while they were out and about. Don't forget to upvote your favorites on this list of interesting stuff!
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So My Friend Found A Message In A Bottle While Fishing
Too bad they blanked out the FB page. I would have loved to have seen all the places Mel has been!
Found This In The Woods While Trail Riding
You're lucky. I usually find actual poo when I go out into the woods. This is much more pleasant.
My Friend Works In Recycling. He Found A Filled Diary From 1941
Here’s what it says! (I think. Do tell if you have other suggestions!) 2 Sunday S.H.A.C. Club meeting. A good debate on next terms competition. Felt a bit bad, cold etc., so cut evening chapel and went to bed early. A prefy (prefect?) came in while I was in study asking....... about the black out. I saw to it and it was ok! Bedroom very nice too. 3 Monday Woke up in bed (not uprising) on advice of bedroom, I cut 1st lesson. Heinkle came round and took me to the sick room. Was very hungry but was only given a drink all day (blast them) Feel very empty. Evidently I have a chill. 4 Tuesday Had a very bad nights sleep, was still dreaming of meals at the Troe etc. I feel just about hollow. They seem to think that I live on thin air and drink. Oh boy! For a joint of meat. Felt a little better (except for lack of food) Had my wireless up. 5 Wednesday As usual.............breakfast. Read..........chicken for lunch............affecting my appetite.......went.......in London. 6 Thursday Woke up at 7 o’clock. Washed at 7:45 and had a pump. Listened to news. Breakfast:.......top a pepper pot. Tried to open it. No jam at all at any time. Listen to wireless mostly.
Ohhh man, I find this sort of thing SO interesting. I want to read it really badly...
I posted a lot of what it says — It’s both sad and funny!
Load More Replies...It should be published. I would love to read something like that.
I felt a twinge of sadness for the little boy who wrote, several days in a row, how hungry he was. He was probably away from home, too, at a public school.
Sounds like he was sick, so they thought it best to limit his food.
Load More Replies...While Walking On The Beach In Hawaii My Wife And I Found This Glass Ball That Had Become The Home Of Small Marine Ecosystem
Its a glass fishing float. They are tied to nets or fishing lines to keep them floating.
Have you ever thought that somewhere a huge alien is holding the earth in her hands?
This is an authentic glass fishing float. It's common name is a fish ball. There could be a stamp on the knot, which indicates where the float originated. There is a small book offered on the net which can answer your questions. These floats are becoming difficult to find as they are not manufactured anymore.
Hope you put it back where you found it. I have a feeling you did.
I was thinking the same thing! It would be said if he disturbed this little community.
Load More Replies...Thankfully My Dad Found Them Before He Started Mowing
I suspect that they are cottontails, the only rabbit species that does not burrow. Other than cottontails all rabbits nest underground. All hare species nest above ground too: it has me wondering now where cottontails are on the Lepidorae phylogenetic tree - I shall go off and be a biological nerd!
Cottontail rabbit. Born blind and with only a soft, thin coat of fur. Mothers nest in shallow holes. White spot on head disappears with age.
That's often where they're found in the spring. It's a good idea to check your lawn for little depressions before mowing especially if rabbits live in your area. Mother rabbit may cover them with some sticks or more soft grass.
Jack Rabbits are born with fur. The fur that surrounds them was pulled out by their mother's chest to make their nest warmer.
A Little Patch Of Clover In A Bottle
8 Year Old Girl Saga Found A Sword From The Iron Age In Lake Vidösten. Estimated To Be About 1500 Years Old, It Is The First Sword Of Its Kind To Ever Be Found In Scandinavia!
Listen, strange girls finding swords is no basis for a system of government.
Load More Replies...Found A Guinea Pig That Was Abandoned In The Woods While I Was Playing Disc Golf. She Has A New Home Now
I used to have some. Cried when I had to give them up.
Load More Replies...A guinea pig that survived hungry predators in the woods...the force is strong with that one.
How does one stumble upon a guinea pig? Too cute! Glad its saved!
The guinea pig probably associated humans with food and came running up to him when it heard his voice.
Load More Replies...That guinea pig looks pretty serious. He should use that as his passport photo
GOD bless whoever gave that sweet furbaby a home--I don't think they're meant to live in the wild.
My Nephew Found A Sea Shell With Squid Eggs Inside
This Blue Crayfish I Found In The Mountains Of West Virginia
And do you know Blue is the least natural color available in any form, either flowers, plants or animals or anything.
Load More Replies...Country roads... take me home.. to the place..I belong.. West Virginia, mountain momma.. take me home, country roads
That looks so much like a tiny ornament! The colouring is just not something my brain relates to as being biological
That's not very uncommon. My family loves the outdoors and we find them sometimes when we play in the rivers. But its still a shock to find them they are so beautiful.
This Satisfying Pebble I Found At The Beach
This is really creepy, when I was reading your comment I’m watching it right now
Load More Replies...It's a stone coaster. Look really hard and you may find the beer can nearby.
Daughter Found This Branch And Uses It As Her Magic Wand
This appears to be an example of cristation, or fasciation, where a point-shaped apical meristem becomes elongated along an axis perpendicular to the normal direction of growth. The colloquial term for the phenomenon is 'cresting'.
Yeah, I'm a biology tragic. And especially plants - I have a few cristate succulents in amongst my collection (too many plants is never enough...) so I'm familiar with the growth pattern.
Load More Replies...I would have. The Indians long ago though that unusual shaped sticks were a gift from the mother, Earth, and thought it held great magic. Maybe your daughter found a stick blessed with Natures magic! That would be a great story! Comment what you would like in this story! I might use the ideas! (I am a writer)
Quartz Found In Arkansas Is Worth $4 Million
And now the question is what to do with this monster: Earrings or ring...?
That bridezilla who received the piddling $1K ring from her fiance should be throwing a fit right about now.
Load More Replies...FYI - crystals are pretty common in Arkansas. Not this size of course, but there are several places you can go to dig for crystals (and a diamond mine too). I was just there last summer and took a day digging and came back with 3 large buckets full of crystals.
Also has the world's only public diamond mine, if you want to try that.
Load More Replies...Opened Up BBQ For The First Time This Spring And Found Some Hungry Wings
another of the most beautiful things I have seen today, I am feeling so maternal right now
Me too, probably because it that time of the month LOL
Load More Replies...There mouth to body ratio is so extraordinary, even the color contrast! they look like more of a herbivores plants!
Maybe they are those owls that half their head is beak?
Load More Replies...Thats what happens when you dont remove all the Phoenix bones from the barbacue
I Found A Transparent Leaf
Found This Old Calculator In My Great Grandmother's Attic
Showed my 67 year old engineer friend this pic. He said immediately, "Oh, that is so cool. You take the pointer and slide the things up and down to get the answers! I have one somewhere around here." Me; slaps forehead. Of course he does. He's one of those types that has EVERYTHING!
One day, people will say the same thing about our smartphones! LOL
Mechanical things are so much more interesting (generally speaking) than electronic things. Something about watching the pieces work together flawlessly.
Load More Replies...Cool! Seems like a glorified slide rule. (Slide rule can be found on Google under old nerd stuff.)
It's not really a calculator in the modern sense, more like an abacus, swinging the stylus up to the top counts to 10 and then enables you to carry a 1.
Load More Replies...wow, this brings back the memory of finding one of these at my own grandparents many years ago!
I grew up with one at my gparent's house, or maybe my great Gma's. Either my Gma has it, my dad has it, it was donated, or it was sadly trashed.
Load More Replies...Found This Rock Within A Rock On A Beach Walk
Its a type of void filling where silica laiden water or calcite laden water gets into the void of a larger body and slowly fills it up depositing the quartz or calcite. If it is hollow, you know it as a geode. If its quartz and fills the void completely its called agate. If its calcite and fills the void completely, its called a vug.
Load More Replies...It's a concrection, mineralisation inside another rock of different nature. Not uncommon but beautiful
My Dad And His Friend Found The Boot That Reese Witherspoon Threw Off A Cliff During The Filming Of The Movie "Wild"
Though it's a cool find, but on the other hand such a wrong doing from film crew to throw trash on mountain and not retrieve it back after shoot is over and polluting the mountain.
It say's on one of the news stories that it they did adhere to "leave no trace" and that they simply couldn't find it
Load More Replies...Might not be the same, there have been a large number of people trying to "recreate" the book
Since cougars don’t eat shoes, there are probably a few lying around the wilderness.
Outside of some unnecessary banging scenes Wild was a very good movie! I need to watch it again!
That sucks to hear that movie producers trash the environment and don't clean up afterwards.
I Found This Under The Floor Boards In A 1800's Era House
You know, we Germans have the longest words. It's an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. Translated literally "Egshellbrakingpointcauser". You're welcome.
although not all germans care for the use of such long words - where i am from, we call these things "Eierköpfer", which means "egg-beheader" - much more efficient (another lovely german trait ;) )
Load More Replies...Dayum - 1800's people were into some SERIOUS BDSM s**t! ;P IKpUFn8-5b...d4e7b4.gif
In spite of looking like some medieval torture device that is in fact and antique boiled egg opener. Patented as "Hartigan's Champion Egg Opener"
Google says egg-peeler...But if the husbands didn't behave I think we all know what happened.
This would be great for keeping the boyfriend in check! (just kidding, honest).
so, it's a shell remover for boiled eggs, according to the comments... maybe I need less crime and psycho series, just thinking... hahaha
my grandma used something very similar to cut open a soft boiled egg
This is actually used for breaking egg shells. Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursachers = Eggshell breaking points causer
Cool! People don't eat soft boiled eggs in a cup anymore it seems. Too bad!
I Found A 7 Leaf Clover!
My mom told me that after Chernobyl's explosion there were fields of 4 and 5 leaf clovers! She found a 6 leaves one once!
bet those weren't good luck....
Load More Replies...Try to win the lottery here in the Philippines. It's already a 1 billion pesos around 20million dollars.
Found A Fossil In The Parking Lot Of A Pet Store
Nokia!!!! And it probably still works. I had one that got throw out if my car during a major accident. It soldiered on for two years after. I loved those phones.
Looks like my first phone(not exactly a classic brick Nokia, it is with rounder edges, just like the one shown). 7 years of loyal service before I retired it. It will still work if I recharged it and put its card back in place. A friend owned a classic Nokia he accidentally dropped from the 8th floor. It was all fine. I now have a Samsung with buttons that, much like a Nokia seems absolutely waterproof and, when dropped, just disassembles, so its pieces can be put back together and it still works. That's how phones should be made, not like those garbages most people own these days. They only work properly for like 2 years(if you don't chatter them to pieces by then) and must be recharged every day or two. Just, why? Why do people even buy them?
These Condoms Are Around 60 Years Old (Found In My Basement)
Just think. Somewhere there is a 60 year old person walking around, that grew up in this house.
with more kids then he wanted because he didn't find his condomes
Load More Replies...I wonder how safe they were to begin with being packaged like that?
These were the least of their “problems” back then!
Load More Replies...Rock I Found On The Beach
Look at that, fossilized Patrick. Must be from that episode when Spongebob shrank the town :)
Its looks just like licorice flavored grandma candy. The hard stuff that lives in its own bowl.
This Piece Of Pine Sap I Found On A Pallet At Work
Yes and no - you can eat it, but likely won't enjoy the flavor. Or what happens when it digests.
Load More Replies...A Friend Found A Pink Grasshopper While Working
This is similar to albinism! The term is leucism, and it's a loss of some pigment, but not all.
This is actually a North American Katydid (rather than a grasshopper) and Scientific American reported a study on the pink ones. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/in-north-american-katydids-green-isne28099t-the-dominant-colour-pink-is/
Load More Replies...It was her Prom day and she wanted to look different from all, leave her alone ya all!
Hope there are pink grass for these kind of grasshoppers to live in :')
Yup! Pink Katydid! We have Green ones in Massachusetts! Lots of them, very noisy all night long mid-July to sometimes almost November! https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/photos-of-the-very-rare-pink-katydid.html
Found A 94 Year Old Dollar On The Ground
That is a silver certificate, more valuable than a dollar although the condition is rough you should try to preserve it still
When I was a cashier at a Chevron service station, every so often I’d get a younger driver that would bring in Silver Dollars to pay for gas... unknowing that they are worth more than a dollar, I’d buy them from the register at the end of my shift and still have them today- that’s been since 1996. I think I have about 30 Silver Dollars stored away.
Load More Replies...I'm betting that was in someone's jewelry box or keepsakes, and the house was robbed and this dropped. Happened to us.
Washington's just sitting there and thinking... what did I get myself into... theres no going back...
Fun fact- in that time there was a gold standard, meaning every dollar could be exchanged for it's price in gold. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/09/gold-standard.asp
Isn't it a Silver Certificate though ? I always thought it was redeemable for silver
Load More Replies...I have a $5 silver certificate someone gave me when I was working retail a couple decades ago. My boss said I could keep and and I still have it.
It's actually a silver certificate. You are supposed to be able to cash it in for $1 worth of silver.
Fisherman Found A Giant Pearl, Weighing 34kg, But Wasn't Aware The $100 Million Pearl Was So Valuable And Kept It As A Luck Charm
Probably a Giant clam, which measures 47 inches (120 cm) and weighs about 440 lb (200 kg). These can live 100 years, and make huge pearls. Still, even for a Giant clam, this pearl is huge.
Load More Replies...I think this fisherman is from the Philippines. He had no idea that it was a pearl. His wife left her leaving him with his child/children? Somehow he knew later on that it was indeed a pearl. He then went to Manila carrying it with him along with his kids and they were homeless. He went to see Jessica Soho, a famous and award winning broadcast journalist, to help him discover if it is authentic or now. His story is in KMJS giant pearl of Aklan (if im not mistaken). The story has part two as-well. Not sure if it has sub tittle though.
I don't know that I'd wanna fight with an Oyster that large XD. I wonder how old he was...
If I remember correctly, I think the fisherman kept it in a box under his bed.
Found An Almost Perfectly Spherical Rock At The Beach
Looks like granite, so probably not. Water on it's own can do amazing things.
Load More Replies...Pop Pose. A natural ball rock that will roll around and around in the water until it becomes a ball. I think I got the name wrong but they are fun to collect.
Definitely could be a cannonball. Maybe dating back to the Civil War..?
That is a cobblestone and if you got it off a US beach, it is illegal to remove them.
Found This Today While Weeding A Vineyard
Maybe raccoon. Looks like all of my raccoon skulls, but not my cat skull.
Load More Replies...Now we are really getting off the subject but I did laugh at your comment.
Load More Replies...Found A Carved-Out Quarter On The Ground Showing George Washington Smoking Reefer
I made that probably close to the date on the coin. I have made several thousand since, and they look a lot better now. No joke. www.petsalad.etsy.com
Just saw this from 5 years ago and went to your Etsy site... AMAZING..!!
Load More Replies...There are a bunch of jewelers who make stuff like this and leave it around for people to find as treasures....(I may be one of them...)
A jeweler's saw, its blade is very thin to achieve very small detail work.
Load More Replies...My Brother Found A Dinosaur While Digging Up His Garden
That's just Rex from Toy Story. He's harmless... although he did beat the evil Emperor Zurg...
Load More Replies...I Broke A Rock And Found Two Kinds Of Fossils
This is something I used to do as a kid... You could find a geode or a fossil inside! Like looking for pearls or four leaf clover...or playing the lottery!
Load More Replies...A Blue Mineral Stone Found In The Forest
A Viking Sword Dating Back Over 1,000 Years Ago Was Discovered By Reindeer Hunters At An Elevation Of 5,400 Feet, Atop A Mountain In Southern Norway
Now they have to battle with that little girl from entry #12 to see who shall rule Scandinavia!
I believe there is no such thing. All reindeers are owned and are not "free", even tho they walk free. Atleast in Finland and i would think it to be the same as the "reindeer area" covers also norway and sweden (maybe russia as well?)
Load More Replies...I Found A Pearl In My Oyster From The Fish Market
Go back and buy the lot from that person, who knows you may find more in same batch and soon can have a pearl necklace at oyster prices!
So that would be a real natural pearl, rather than a cultured pearl that was seeded. Very cool and special.
I dined with friends in a certain seaside tavern on several occasions and my sister and friend found pearls in their clamshells 4 out of the 5 times they ordered them. The record was 4 pearls in a single dish.
I get those from the Washington Fair all the time. My hubby and I have gotten one each year for 15 years. Last year was the first time we didn’t buy them. Only bc we have not done anything with them. I even have a few of what is called a “Black Pearl” they look blueish Graphic Grey in color, magnificent.
I Found Something
Me too! Often there's engravings or pictures in pocket watches that old!
Load More Replies...Beautiful! This one belonged to my great grandmother. It was a wedding gift in 1912. I believe it was made around 1909. 20181012_0...24a669.jpg
I Found This Message In A Bottle On Floreana Island In The Galapagos
The message is from 1924. I’m pretty sure this is what it says:
Hugh Craggs, Yacht St George RTYC
Any finder please enclose message bearing date, name of finder, of ship, destination, and send a postcard to
Hugh Craggs 50 Ruskin Ave Manor Park London E. 12
The part on the left says:
Buried at the foot of post office bay, post office barrel, Floreana Island, Galapagos, Aug 1st 1924
It's unlikely that he's still alive and living in the same place, but it is possible. Besides, his family could still be there. I'd send a note just to see what happens!
Load More Replies...Would love to see a follow up to this post. Has family or descendants of this person been located?
It's here - https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/50+Ruskin+Ave,+London+E12+6PJ,+UK/@51.5453829,0.0517138,3a,75y,355.8h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSvuoNm0Way_QC6VfOCAZtw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d8a64debee854b:0x446c7acf591b26!8m2!3d51.5454949!4d0.051701
It just gets better! https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/94-year-old-message-bottle-13059614
Census records might help find relatives living with him at the time. Could possibly trace descendants. Maybe hire a genealogist?
Send the postcard; it'd be very cool for whoever lives in that house to know that (and they might know Hugh's family, or even be Hugh's family)
Would love to see a follow up from the poster of this photo. Were they able to locate family of this person at all?
You should date it and send it back to the sea for the next person to discover!
Add your own letter to it also before you send it back out!
Load More Replies...My Brother Found This Life-Bulb Washed Up On An Australian Beach. It Was All Alive And It Floated
Found A Rock That Looks Like A Shark
Kinda have doubts that the rock looked like that naturally. The teeth are too straight and the detail too good
Thats a fossil of an Orthoceras who is an ancestor of the ammonite from the Middle Ordovician age
My Mom Found The Ticket From Her First Beatles Concert, From 1964
That's an awesome find! Also...why the hell do radio stations hardly ever play the Beatles? They were arguably the biggest band in the world!
$4.90 in August, 1964 is $39.90 in today's money. So, all things considered, concerts still pretty much cost the same!
$40 for floor seats?! for a popular band? that is not even close. more like $200
Load More Replies...Don't Forget, thé show had no spécial or lightning effects, real cheap to produce, were half an hour long, and they were doing two shows à day. So, this was the Bread and butter of the Beatles, they made à fortune out of it.
Brian Epstein wanted to keep ticket prices reasonable so that the average person could afford them. My ticket to the 1965 Shea Stadium concert cost $5.00.
Load More Replies...This Pebble I Found On The Beach Looks Like A Ghost
Stones with natural holes in them are called witch stones or hag tones or adder stones - amongst many other names. They are considered by many cultures to have magical properties, including the capacity to allow one to see the fey world when looking through the hole. It's deliciously appropriate that this is shaped like a ghost!
you are my new favorite person in the boredpanda comments <3
Load More Replies...I Found This On The Floor
Does that mean it is legal to take Kevin if the previous owner lost it? O.o
I think that qualifies as 'theft by finding'.
Load More Replies...My Friend Found A Bullet In Her Corn
I said it once and I'll say it again, nothing good happens the a corn field.
Should we be concerned as to why there's a bullet in the corn in the first place
Perhaps near there, there was a burried body as well. Nobody knows.
maybe we could ask the corn if they heard anything?! Perhaps they had their ears open!
Load More Replies...I Found A Child’s Time Capsule While Digging In My Yard
I bet that kid got in trouble for taking grandma's sewing kit without asking.
That's exactly what I was thinking! It looks like a geocache that got water exposure.
Load More Replies...lol I had that snake in green, it was super long, but after a few years it only had a few pieces. I was ok with it if it was torn in pieces, once put together, it was really scary haha
And it's all in the indestructible butter cookie tin (which never seems to have cookies in it... usually sewing items)!
I Found Lizard Eggs In My Wall
The electric plug looks quite surprised and may be a bit horrified too though!
I know I'd be surprised and horrified to find lizard eggs inside me!
Load More Replies...When I was in Elementary school (eons ago) I found some of those in the crevices of a brick wall in the schoolyard. I took them home, lined a matchbox with cotton and placed the tiny eggs in there. Took care of them for weeks hoping I would be able to hatch them and get myself some pet lizards ("lagartixa", in Portuguese). It didn't happen... :´(
When i was young i found lizard eggs.. i thought that they were beads and i was very fond of making necklaces.. i took one egg and threw it to see how it bounces (and came to know that beads can't bounce :p).. the next thing which happened was very horrific ... Bead splashed and an ugly looking monster creature crawled out of it... I was soo horrified ran away .. and never visited that place again
I Found A Rock Shaped Like A Heart
my sister once had a boneless chicken wing shaped like a human heart...
My Brother Likes To Search For Shark Teeth On Beaches. This Was 6hrs Of Searching At Folly Beach Sc
I think they are shark teeth fossils, these are pretty common to find. Some sharks lose 35.000 teeth in their lives. So, you can imagine how many teeth wash up the beaches.
Load More Replies...They are more fossilized than the actual teeth themselves. It's common to find them along beaches because sharks loose lot of teeth in their lifetime.
I went to folly beach and my fambsearch for hours and I found 1, out of everyone there :(
Found A Travel Brochure From The World Trade Center While Cleaning Out My House
How eerily sad. Those poor souls, making me tear up thinking about it
There's a joke about actually going to heaven here, but I'm not that much of a d**k. Oh, wait...
Totally stole your joke before seeing it. Makes me feel like Amy Schumer.
Load More Replies...Two Guys From Boston Set Off On An Expedition To Find The Black Box Of Eastern Flight 980 That Crashed Into The Andes Killing Everyone Onboard 31 Years Ago. They Found It
As per title of the post - Unexpected thing people found, it was not unexpected, they went to search for it.. Duh BP!
On 7 February 2017, the NTSB released a statement, according to which what had been found was not the cockpit flight recorder, "but rather the rack that had fixed it on to the plane — and [a] promising spool of tape turned out to be 'an 18-minute recording of the Trial by Treehouse episode of the television series I Spy, dubbed in Spanish'."
Good article to read. It was hard work. https://www.outsideonline.com/2126426/what-happened-eastern-airlines-flight-980
i hope sometime we will learn what the black box tells us about this crash. BTW..ignore Ladies an Gentlemen's comment--ladies and gentlemen they are NOT
Sorry to disappoint people but this sadly turned out to be not quite true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_980#Discovery_of_flight_recorder_remnants
Inform yourself...they didn't find the black box, but only some metal components turned to be an old tape of a tv show... https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/PR20170207.aspx
It wasn't the black box and the tape they found was from tv show dubbed in spanish.
I Found Some Amethyst In A Gravel Driveway
Best part is that it's a dark purple!!!! Just to let anyone know if your unsure, the darker and richer purples sell for a higher price other than the pale lilacs and so
It was awesome to read the explanations that some commenters were able to make. They made the whole post even more interesting!
I recently cleared out the crawl space in my father's attic after he passed away. I found a box with carpet pad remnants in it. At the bottom of the box, was a newspaper from 1942! My father was only 10 years old. He didn't buy the house until 1970. That box had been there for a very long time!
Back in the late 80's I shared an old Victorian home in Atlanta with three friends. A large portion of the basement was walled off. We just had to explore it though. We found an old roulette wheel, a craps table, two steamer cases filled with women's boudoir clothes, and a box filled with bottles that looked and smelled like they had some sort of alcohol in them. One of my roommates and I did some research on the home and learned that it had been a speakeasy, gambling house and brothel during Prohibition. We also found a carpet bag that had all sorts of men's toiletries. One item in there was a small tin that had some sort of greasy gel in it. the name on the front said "Green's Hair Food for Men". There was also a comb and mirror set in the bag.
I was contacted through ancestry.com by a man whose son-in-law owns a used car lot in NH and found my uncle’s prayer book while cleaning out a recent acquisition for sale. Knowing his father-in-law is a WWII buff, he gave it to him, and the FIL tracked down my uncle’s name--and then me--on Ancestry. He sent it to me in NJ, and I gave it to my cousin in NY. Now he’s got a great memento of his dad’s service, and our grandmother, who gave it to him. book-5bc4a...13f2c1.jpg
I made a post about my uncle's prayer book from WWII being found in a used car, but now it's deleted, and I can't add it back! WTH, BoredPanda??
It is there I just read it along with the photo's
Load More Replies...IT WAS AMAZING. OUR STREET IS BUSY. PEDESTRIANS AND TRAFFIC. WE HAD RAIN THAT NITE. THE DIVIDER WAS NOT DESTROYED. WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK AND STRETCHED OUT. NO ONE HAD STEPPED ON IT AND I HAD WALKED THAT ROUTE THREE TIMES THAT DAY AND DID NOT SEE IT. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MESS AND DESTROYED. IT HAPPENED INTERESTING OR NOT. I WAS IN AWE. I ADMIT I HAVE TERRIBLE EYESITE BUT REALLY.
Load More Replies...It was awesome to read the explanations that some commenters were able to make. They made the whole post even more interesting!
I recently cleared out the crawl space in my father's attic after he passed away. I found a box with carpet pad remnants in it. At the bottom of the box, was a newspaper from 1942! My father was only 10 years old. He didn't buy the house until 1970. That box had been there for a very long time!
Back in the late 80's I shared an old Victorian home in Atlanta with three friends. A large portion of the basement was walled off. We just had to explore it though. We found an old roulette wheel, a craps table, two steamer cases filled with women's boudoir clothes, and a box filled with bottles that looked and smelled like they had some sort of alcohol in them. One of my roommates and I did some research on the home and learned that it had been a speakeasy, gambling house and brothel during Prohibition. We also found a carpet bag that had all sorts of men's toiletries. One item in there was a small tin that had some sort of greasy gel in it. the name on the front said "Green's Hair Food for Men". There was also a comb and mirror set in the bag.
I was contacted through ancestry.com by a man whose son-in-law owns a used car lot in NH and found my uncle’s prayer book while cleaning out a recent acquisition for sale. Knowing his father-in-law is a WWII buff, he gave it to him, and the FIL tracked down my uncle’s name--and then me--on Ancestry. He sent it to me in NJ, and I gave it to my cousin in NY. Now he’s got a great memento of his dad’s service, and our grandmother, who gave it to him. book-5bc4a...13f2c1.jpg
I made a post about my uncle's prayer book from WWII being found in a used car, but now it's deleted, and I can't add it back! WTH, BoredPanda??
It is there I just read it along with the photo's
Load More Replies...IT WAS AMAZING. OUR STREET IS BUSY. PEDESTRIANS AND TRAFFIC. WE HAD RAIN THAT NITE. THE DIVIDER WAS NOT DESTROYED. WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK AND STRETCHED OUT. NO ONE HAD STEPPED ON IT AND I HAD WALKED THAT ROUTE THREE TIMES THAT DAY AND DID NOT SEE IT. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MESS AND DESTROYED. IT HAPPENED INTERESTING OR NOT. I WAS IN AWE. I ADMIT I HAVE TERRIBLE EYESITE BUT REALLY.
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