Life’s full of hidden treasure! Oh, sure, that phrase works metaphorically, too, but we’re being quite literal here. If you’re curious about the world and live for the unexpected, then Bored Panda’s got a treat for you. We’ve collected some of the best photos of interesting finds that people were astonished to discover. So go on, check them out! And though far from everything glitters like gold, you’re likely to admit that most of these finds are valuable in their own right.
Remember to upvote the photos that you loved the most, dear Pandas! Got any interesting finds to share with us? Drop us a comment or a photo in the comment section at the very bottom of this list. And if you’re in the mood for some more unexpectedly awesome finds, check out our most recent earlier posts here, here, as well as here.
While we can find many unexpected things by accident, it’s also important to stay curious as we continue growing older. And that goes for all things in life, not just amateur archeology. After all, keeping that energetic spark alive makes our lives have far more quality. One thing that we value is people keeping their childlike curiosity burning bright no matter how old they might get.
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My Husband Passed Away 2 Weeks Ago And In The Garage Behind A Piece Of Paper Hanging On The Wall I Found This
In the months before his passing he was unable to talk due to his brain cancer, so finding this note from him meant the world to me and is something I will cherish forever. We were married for 24 years.
That is beautiful, and shows the power of such a simple message. We all need to be better at letting the people we love know it. I am sorry for your loss. I know your world will never be the same, but I hope there are more discoveries like this that will help remind of the 24 years you had together.
One photo in and already searching for the tissues. I’m scared for the rest of these.
That is beautiful. I hope it's taken out of the garage and framed. What a lovely hug to have forever
I Found A Baby Albino Oak In My Garden Some Years Ago And Realized That Plants Can Be Albinos Too, But They Do Not Live Long Since They Cannot Photosynthesize
They can be grafted to a stock that does photosynthesize like those lollipop cactus which are chlorophyll-less gymnocalycium on a base stock. And there are parasitic plants that lack chlorophyll.
I was going to ask if there was a way of "saving" it. It's so beautiful. Thanks for the explanation.
Load More Replies...Some things that are so beautiful must be loved and admired now because their existence is so short.
Fun fact, they can survive only if they act as a parasite and steal other plants nutrients. The green in the leaves is what makes plants photosynthesize, so it is very rare to find a large albino plant.
There are some plants that form "families" with bonded root systems - in that case, it isn't even a parasite. Not wanting to contradict you, just adding this information as I found it very interesting :)
Load More Replies...While Tearing Up Their Carpet, My In-Laws Found A Giant Monopoly Board
Time to make some giant sized Monopoly pieces, cards and giant dice, and have a game night! And this time, nobody can flip the board!
Amazing. I'd love to know the story that went with the creation of that!
I would seriously restore and keep this. To heck with carpeting!
Dude, this is awesome! You could use a real shoe, a real top hat...maybe not a real car, but you get the idea!
You could make a lot of money renting that room out to groups who want to play People Monopoly.
This was posted on Reddit 3 months ago. They can't see your comment.
Load More Replies...This was popular when I was a kid, back in the sixties and seventies, though it probably had been popular even earlier. Wonder how many of these were destroyed and how many are still hidden under other flooring?
When we stare at everything with wonder and can’t wait (!) to find or learn something new, even the biggest problems lose their sting. Instead, they’re but challenges. Challenges that you’re already thinking about how to overcome. But our modern schooling system might not be the best way to keep this sense of curiosity because it tends to take independence away from kids instead of driving them to be self-sufficient learners and daring explorers.
In a previous interview with Bored Panda, the president of the nonprofit organization Let Grow, Lenore Skenazy, shared with us that modern schooling goes against the grain when it comes to how learning and teaching happened through much of human history.
It's A Little Unnerving When You Wake Up In The Morning And Find These Right Outside Your Tent
Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska.
Must be a Lazy bear, couldn't be bothered to take the food out of the wrapper.
I would probably jump out of my skin, if that ever happens. lol.
Load More Replies...It's just as scary to be hiking in the Rockies and hear purring from above.
Or hiking in East Sooke Park and hearing NOTHING at all, shortly after seeing fresh cougar scat.
Load More Replies...It's Arctic National Park, Alaska. As Loki says "C'mon what do you expect?"
More than a "LITTLE" unnerving... Certainly enough that I'd have camp packed up in 2 minutes flat.
Splitting Firewood And Found A Piece Resembling The Sky In "The Starry Night"
Probably yes for two reasons. First, it is amazing piece of wood. Second, splitting this would be a nightmare.
Load More Replies...I think it's called burl wood. The grain pattern is created when the tree is stressed (fungus, insects, or damage to the tree). I think burl wood is pretty valuable to woodworkers.
So many decisions to make in how to use this. This is a woodworking version of a spectacular raw diamond which can either fantastically succeed or miserably fail based on the first cut. Assuming this pattern was caused by an external parasite or possibly cancer. Does anybody know for sure?
I would love to know what forces of nature causes this anomaly to occur.
387-Year-Old Shopping List Found Under The Floorboards Of A London Home
The full text reads:
"Mr Bilby, I pray p[ro]vide to be sent too morrow in ye Cart some Greenfish, The Lights from my Lady Cranfeild[es] Cham[ber] 2 dozen of Pewter spoon[es]: one greate fireshovell for ye nursery; and ye o[t]hers which were sent to be exchanged for some of a better fashion, a new frying pan together with a note of ye prises of such Commoditie for ye rest.
Your loving friend
Robert Draper
Octobre 1633
Copthall"
Wow! That is remarkable piece of history. It really made me think about our shared humanity and the progression of humans throughout the ages. Thank you for sharing.
Who are you thanking? No one posted it here. It appears to have been copied and pasted from the Smithsonian magazine. Bored Panda copy their content from other sites.
Load More Replies...Fun fact: What we read as "Y" with modern eyes is actually a letter called "thorn", no longer used, which was a short way of writing "th". So your brain is probably ready "ye" but it's still just "the" using a now-lost letter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
Thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware of this at all and I would say I'm very knowledgeable with the English language.
Load More Replies...OMG.. 387 year😳... I think... It should be preserved n keep in museum...
And don't forget a large bottle of Laudanum for my toothache Mr Bilby.
Bug bear: when people try to make something old fashioned in tv shows (something like “Ye Olde Pub” for example) and they ALWAYS pronounce it “yee”, instead of “thee”. Writing a “y”was actually a shorter way off writing a “t” and “h” together. So the pronunciation is the same as ‘the’! Thank you for coming to my ted talk 🙏🏻
Wonder if any descendants of Mr Draper—-and Mr Bilby as well!—-could be found. If a museum declines the offer of the letter, I bet there’s a Draper out there, especially if they’re a direct descendant of Robert, who would just treasure something written by their ancestor. I know I would. It would be such a connection to my family’s past, I would want to find out everything I could about my many many times great grandfather, Robert.
They certainly had a wonderful grasp of the English language and knew how to write beautifully
Probably had more time to commit to such endeavours.
Load More Replies...“In the United States, for instance, school only became compulsory a little over 100 years ago. Previously—for hundreds of thousands of years of human history—kids learned simply by watching, copying, helping, and playing. In other words, they’d hang around the adults, see how they made things like baskets and arrowheads, they’d ask questions, noodle around, and try to copy what their elders were doing,” Lenore explained.
According to Lenore, kids would pitch in and help their families and communities as soon as they were able to. “They’d help out as soon as they could—fetching things, tracking animals, whatever—and in between they’d be playing with a group of mixed-age kids. All these activities were fueled by curiosity.”
This Silver Pendant I Found Metal Detecting Is Dated 227 Years Ago Today
See, that’s the farthest thing from my mind. My first thoughts are who was she, how long did she live, who gave her the pendant, is it homemade, and does she have any direct descendants who would love to have it returned? Plus, is there an Anna—-her namesake—-in the Leonard family today?
Load More Replies...Yes it is! Does silver survive like gold? In such good condition?
Load More Replies...I instantly thought of a Jane Austin type romance. A keepsake to her young beau that was lost in a torrential storm and was never found until present day. P.S. They had a happy ending.
Found A Stargate In The Middle Of Nowhere Near Linz, Austria
The building process: https://a-b-m-m.jimdofree.com/galerie/stargate/
This Swirly Dandelion I Found
That grew in the dark. The stem is pale and the circular growth is the plant trying to find light
“You were motivated to learn what the bigger kids in your group knew, too, because they were so cool. Your entire day consisted of observing and practicing the stuff you needed to know— skills and games. If you weren’t curious, you weren’t going to enjoy life, or succeed at it,” Lenore said that curiosity really was (and, in truth, still is) more important than we give it credit for.
“One reason kids might seem less curious today is because most of their education, inside and outside of school, doesn’t require self-motivation, it requires compliance. The drive is extrinsic, not intrinsic. Kids fill out worksheets because they have to, not because these seem interesting, or have any immediate connection to the ‘real’ world,” the expert noted that obedience alone won’t raise people who are full of the joys of discovery.
Found A Starfish In One Of My Mussels
While Hiking An Isolated Jungle Trail In The Amazon, We Came Across This Post Marking The Equator
I wonder how long that has been there? I love that someone went and marked it in an area that was probably a lot more dense in its forest back then too.
That is a magical place. Did anything odd happen there?
Amazing! Just imagine workers making some monolith in the middle of nowhere.
Osperlioceras Bicarinatum Golden Pyrite. Found In France
Is that a fossil formed of pyrite, or has the pyrite naturally taken a spiral shape resembling a shell?
It's a pyrite fossil. You can find similar fossils where the tissue has been replaced by opal.
Load More Replies...Meanwhile, extracurricular activities also appear to have fallen prey to the demands for compliance instead of encouraging kids to be curious. “Learning soccer means doing the drills the coach assigns, as opposed to tagging along with the older kids and working hard to get good enough so that they’d start letting you play. The key to curiosity, then, is giving kids enough free, unstructured time for them to find something they love to do for its own sake—not for a grade, or coach.”
In other words, we need to uncover in ourselves an inner drive to go out into the world and learn and find new and fascinating things. Some of which we’ll be more than happy to share with all the Pandas on the internet.
I Found A Misprinted Penny (Front And Back)
Holy s**t that’s worth a fortune!!!!!!! What I wouldn’t give to find one..
I have never seen that before. I wonder how it got into circulation. Did you ask an expert if it is worth anything?
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=mis+struck+pennies&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.TRS1&_nkw=mis+struck+pennies&_sacat=0
Load More Replies...Perfectly Round Rock I Found At The Beach
The marble community would probably pay out the whazoo for something like this!
it reminded me of the ball inside of an old mouse that you have to painstakingly clean, once in a while. does anyone remember that?😁
I honestly thought you meant a live animal mouse. It took me wayy too long than it should've to figure out you were talking about a computer mouse! I feel like such an idiot!
Load More Replies...Picasso Pebble
You'd need to ask them that on Reddit where it was posted 3 months ago. They will not see your replies from a different website.
Load More Replies...There's a museum in Japan dedicated to stones that have faces on them, you should send it to them.
Had Picasso found it, he would have signed it and now you'd be holding 1 million dollars in your hand.
I Found A Cyclops Moth And It Was Huge. Bigger Than Half My Hand
Moths are so important. I wish people respected them as much as butterflies. They are our important night time pollinators. Essential!
He's a grand looking speciman. (I know it's a male as he has bipectinate antenna).
I bet you've waited years to use that phrase: "bipectinate antenna". Good one.
Load More Replies...Aww, it looks so soft. Probably better not to touch those wings though.
You were very blessed to find this! They only live a few days once they become moths. Just gorgeous
We Were Digging Up Virgin Ground For A Garden And As I Was Tilling, We Found A Class Ring From 1954-1955
It only had initials and the school was closed, took me 3 months to find the owner's daughter and was happy to reunite it with her family.
That is very touching. How kind of you to go to all the effort to find who it originally belong to, and how much it meant to her daughter. You're a wonderfully nice person. Kindness. Pay it forward.
Years ago I came across a striped silk ribbon in a thrift store that was attached to a hospital and frequently sold items that had belonged to patients who passed away with no known heirs. It had a tag on it with the owner's name on it and a date from the early 1800s (I think 1804 but don't remember for sure). It was clearly a treasured item, very expensive at the time on what was then the frontier. I thought perhaps the ribbon some young woman wore on her hair when to church or on special occasions. The name was French and a fairly common one among the Huguenots that settled in NE Pennsylvania. I was able to contact the family return it to them and have always felt good about that.
Load More Replies...That is so wonderful that this memory of her mother came back to her after so many years of the ring missing and so many years after her sad passing. I imagine this lady has been utterly made up ever since.
God bless you sweetheart. Someone found my classroom in the same manner except it had been lost for a long time. And it was found in a strange place I would never have gone. Which leads me to believe that it was actually stolen in Ledo recovered. You guys are wonderful!
This Tree I Found Grows Into Itself
So, would it be purposely done by human hands, or a fluke of healed damage by animals or lightning peeling and curling a sliver of bark?
Load More Replies...Were you able to successfully dive through it? That's the only logical thing to do
I have that song in my head, but you've done a great job rewording it. kudos!
Load More Replies...Nature is so amazing, think maybe it was injured and healed its self.
I wonder why someone trained this tree into this shape. It is evident this was done by the lower joint being natural and the upper joint showing the scar of the graft.
Makes me wanna sit in it, it's a perfect reading place lol. It's ma birthday today just letting y'all know lmao
10-Carat Australian Sapphire I Found In A Creek
Gemstones are more common than people think. Identifying them is the hard part. I live near a diamond mine, and something the more successful gem-hunters do is go through the tailings other people threw out. One old man made a pretty good living just sifting through what others dismissed.
Load More Replies...They come in all sorts of colours - they're gorgeous!
Load More Replies...How'd you get that? I thought Dr Strange was supposed to protect it.
Green sapphires aren't in much demand, but the color of that is more vivid than most. It's hard to assess the clarity from the picture, but once it's cut and polished I think it could be worth a couple hundred dollars per carat.
Load More Replies...I Found This Gravestone For Someone's Beloved Dog In A Wooded Area Just Outside An Old Cemetary
How do they know it's a dog? Could be a cat, fish, kid, velociraptor, etc.
Oh yes!!! My grandma always told us about, seeing big packs of wild velociraptors on the 1880's, so sad they were killed by Godzilla, in early 1900's.
Load More Replies...I still cry over Patches, who died in 1956. She was only five months old and she was my first pup.
🎶🎵 I don't want to be buried in a Pet Sematary... 🎶🎵
Load More Replies...'Glad you figured out that was an animal. I assumed a kid with a weird nickname, which was much more disturbing.
Is no one going to acknowledge the name "PUNCH" and how awesome it is?
Like from Punch the magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(magazine) or Punch and Judy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_and_Judy)
Load More Replies...Frozen Flower I Found In Austin During The Texas Winter Storm
It had been warm enough, right up to the storm front moving in, for roses to be in bloom. Now, only a scant couple months later, the same region is suffering an extreme heat wave. And there are STILL totally unconvinced—--and unconvinceable—-climate change deniers living there.
Look At This Crazy Icicle I Found This Morning (There Is A Small Hole In The Metal Handrail)
That's pretty cool I wonder what the mechanics of ice doing that? Was it on the railing and partially melted and curled off?
This is beautiful but it makes me uncomfortable for reasons I can't articulate
This looks to be coming from the vertical portion of a vertical/horizontal (mainly) intersect. If truly from the vertical portion there has to be something providing pressure to extrude this icicle from below or possibly something providing pressure from the horizontal? Surely, hopefully...(maybe) there is a person of Scientific training or bent who can provide some input as to how or why.
Found A Steam Room And Hot Tub In My Basement, Behind A Wall During Demo
That's a desanguination tank, not a steam room/hot tub. It's used to drain the blood and possibly dismember corpses. The previous owner was likely a serial killer.
Surely it would have taken as much effort boarding that up and reducing the size of the home considerably, as it would to have simply removed it all?????
it wasn't up to code, so they boarded it up for the sale. The floor size was counted in the sqf of the house in the sale, so no loss.
Load More Replies...I sometimes dream about finding unexpected rooms in my house - this person really has.
Seabeast, I have that same dream. I love that dream!
Load More Replies...I literally have dreams about finding other rooms in my tiny apartment. Talk about living the dream.
When I dream about other rooms in my house I see it as hidden aspects of myself.
Load More Replies...That was a Simpsons episode too! Just like Marge Simpson, it is all yours if no one else finds out!
This Morning I Found A Young Frog That Still Had Its Tail
Sweet little thing, amazing how nature makes things so independent so young and so vulnerable.
How weird it must be to be a tadpole then suddenly, one day, have your butt so much lighter.
I'd love to know the secret. I've been trying to get rid of my "I-Gained-Weight-Eating-Crap-During-Covid Butt" for 4 months now, to no avail.
Load More Replies...We have a very large "tank" aka pond on our property. It is a fount of wildlife, birds, fish, turtles, frogs, etc. I love looking at the wildlife. We have a mated pair of hawks, Blue Herons, a huge owl, coyotes, a bobcat, possums, raccoons, squirrels, lizards, and occasional other visitors like Geese, Mallards, ducks, etc.
We Tore Up Some Carpeting In Our House Expecting Concrete But Instead Found This 70’s Masterpiece
Agreed. I'd preserve it, but I would not want to live with it.
Load More Replies...Pretty sure that was the 90s. It has the rise of reality tv AND weird music... Cotton eye Joe, Informer... It wasn't all bad but at least the 70s were funky. 90s fashion was Spice Girls basically
Load More Replies...That's older than the 70's. Could be about 1920s-30s, maybe even late-Victorian asbestos tile. Bright colors weren't just a 70s thing, and checkered patterns go back centuries.
Thanks for this. Lots of assumptions just because it's colourful
Load More Replies...I would keep it haha I find it horribly amazing and it gives me mad hatter vibes
As the Mad Hatter would say, “I can’t go no lower, I’m on the floor as it is.”
Load More Replies...Found A Perfect Salt Crystal In My Sea Salt Packet
This is Maldon salt, you can see the packaging in the background. The pyramidal crystal is actually their logo, and you can find many full crystals like this in a package. Unbelievably expensive for salt, but amazing as a "finishing" salt as it melts quickly and isn't actually very salty.
I've only seen salt like this when it was under a microscope.
I don't know why this one catches my attention, but it is really cool!
My Uncle Found A Bag Of Volcano Ash From Mount St. Helens With A Note Tucked In The Back Of One Of His Cupboards
Not really. This is $24.99 on ebay: s-l1600-60...577d5f.jpg
I wouldn't recommend it. During the years following that eruption it was quite common to see cars with wiper patterns permanently etched into their windshields, from running the windshield wipers when ash and rain were coming down at the same time. It was that abrasive. I don't think you want to do that to your dentures.
Load More Replies...I had a jar of that same ash, my uncle lived in Spokane when Mt. St. Helen erupted
I have a baby food jar of it, we all collected it from our front yards in 1980…
was there when that happened, in the process of moving out of the valley. it was an amazing and terrorizing at the same time.
Found Original Homeowner In The Walls Of A Teardown
This person obviously asked or stipulated in their will to have their ashes kept inside their beloved house (you wouldn't just leave them there by accident) So it makes me very sad that it is being torn down and they don't get to be with their home. I hope that you either buried them under the new home or in the garden on the property at least so they were still on their land.
You make a lot of assumptions here. Believe it or not, people just leave the ashes of relatives they didn't care much just somewhere. Maybe the person didn't want to throw them out but didn't want to have them around either. Placing just an unpackaged bag of ashes in a plywood wall is also quite a terrible way to lay someone to "eternal" rest in his house.
Load More Replies...That's an pet crematorium. It's probably dog or cat inside. Who would ever put human ashes inside that kind of bag.
That's actually how human ashes come. In a bag just like that, inside a black box. My friend died unexpectedly and was cremated per his wishes, I'm the caretaker of his ashes until we can spread them. It's quite sad really.
Load More Replies...OK ... any spooky noises. Footsteps in the night. You had better put him back.
Found This Very Old Holy Bible In My Parents' Garage. Dated 1881. Thought Maybe You Guys Might Find It Interesting As Well
Now that's the kind of bible that used to be called the "Family Bible" and all the births, christenings, marriages, and deaths would be recorded on one of the front pages. These things can be an absolute goldmine for genealogists.
A similar style from a family Bible my sister has at home. IMG_8229-6...5ae3e4.jpg
Usually family bibles were to used record family births, deaths, marriages, and so forth. There's a lot of them out there and according to Antiques Roadshow of little monetary value. But, as pointed out by the same appraiser, that recorded information is treasured by genealogists.
It’s so sad that this kind of master craftsmanship is so hard to find these days
It's not really. These were mass-produced, poorly made and sold relatively cheaply, as it was expected that every family needed to have one. The one above is stamped and transfer-printed cardboard made to look like gilt tooled leather.
Load More Replies...This looks like a Masonic Bible (Note the all-seeing eye in the upper right hand corner). When you join the Masons, you are given an elaborate Bible. My husband joined around 2000, and even his is elaborate.
35 Rings Found On The Beach
That opal is so pretty! I love opals whey have such variety and just look so nice
Reminds me of that lovely Sparkle Horse lyric "is your jewelry still lost in the sand ...you left your rings on the shoreline so you wouldn't lose them swimming in the shallows"
Digging Through Old Boxes At 4am And Found A 200+ Page Novel That I Hand Wrote In 2009 When I Was 12 Years Old
Black Mist Chronicles sounds very interesting. revise and publish now!
Posted on Reddit. They won't see this. Click links under pictures.
Load More Replies...You must publish The Black Mist Chronicles! What is The Black Mist? What is The Alliance? Who has the moral right to answer the questions "If one has done horrid crimes, don't they deserve to be punished? Honestly not making fun of you. I think it would be fun to read if you could get it out there somehow.
Posted on Reddit. They won't see this. Click links under pictures.
Load More Replies...https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackMistChronicles/ OP is beginning to publish the story online
Thanks for sharing! I like the first chapter. Hope they will upload the rest at some point!
Load More Replies...When I dig through my closet I sometimes find little kids' books I wrote when I was in preschool. I still like to write books. :)
Ordered Fried Oysters From A Takeout Restaurant And Found A Pearl In One
I found a pearl in an oyster at a restaurant once. I had it on a table with some shells and my dog ate it...I didn’t ‘look’ for it after that
Not much, edible oyster pearls aren't considered as commercially valuable as pearl oyster pearls.
Load More Replies...Found This Fish Was Frozen In Piece Of Ice, Texas 2021
I heard some humans were found the same way - but do to more management of the state.
Found This Arrowhead While Digging A Hole In My Backyard
Looks like your kitty found the arrow head it had been surreptitiously creating. For what? We shall never know....
A Wall Was Removed In A Victorian House We Are Working At Which Revealed An Old Cast Iron Fireplace
Don't have a picture but I also found a brick wall and fireplace behind several layers of wallpaper in my house. One in the kitchen and then right up to the second floor with a second fireplace.
I think that's more than a fireplace, I think it's an oven or a stove???
Wow lovely you should do it up and make it a feature. Get the chimney swept and use it in the winter.
It probably needs replacing. Cast iron doesn't age well when it's neglected.
Load More Replies...Our Dog Found A Pacifier
My Mom And Uncle Found An USAF Target Drone On The Beach
Missiles sometimes do that. It's in the name after all and not Hittiles
Load More Replies...Image your man cave raided by FBI. Because that's the place where such a find would go I my mind.
I don't think it's a UXB. https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2021/03/19/military-target-drone-washed-up-on-florida-beach/
Load More Replies...Those boys need to get out there and quit leaving their expensive toys all over. On 2nd thought sell it on ebay. That'll teach em!
I Found A Miniature Telephone Box On The Street
I’m so impressed that someone was so talented and generous to create this just to add a touch of whimsy to the world ⭐️
There are a few of these where I live. Lampposts, hobbit doors in tree trunks etc
Where do you live? Narnia? Invite me over someday
Load More Replies...It's so the faitie can call their neighbors in the randomly placed fairy doors around town.
I Found This Print From Where A Gray Wolf Slept In The Snow. You Can Even See Her Ribs
It's doing that optical illusion thing to me, where it looks like it's popping out instead of indented
This Fossilized Imprint Of A Fern I Found In North Dakota
Friends of ours go out west every summer to hunt for fossils. One found an entire dinosaur skull about 3 feet across.
that strip of land from there straight down south to the vast plains states is prime for fossils. There are thousands on my Grandmother's old farm - which is still reverting to earth. Hundreds of former homesteads in the entire area - all quiet and still now, except for the farm buildings sinking into the earth. They even used some of that flat shale for some of those - like the milking barn. Everything reverts back to the earth. Acres and acres of quiet and empty land as far as you can see, or imagine. It was territory that was busy and full of people and animals who lived there and procreated. It was the home of many of the old western cowboys and hoodlums. Jessie James and his brothers were in grade school with Grandma Sally.
nah, there's a fossil on the driveway at my home (no kidding!)
Found An Edge Piece In My Bag Of Goldfish
My Dad Found This Old Pamphlet Advertising Tourism To The World Trade Centre
Can I make a joke without going into the negatives
Load More Replies...So painfully sad and so painfully true can't say much more than that.
Still makes me very sad to see the New York skyline without them every time I go home to New York.
This happened 20 years ago this September. People under 30-35 may not realize the world literally stopped for a few days after this. As someone living in NYC at the time you couldn’t get out of the five boroughs as all the bridges & tunnels were closed.
Air travel was shut down too, all over the country. And trying to find out if your NYC loved ones and friends were okay was difficult.
Load More Replies...Oh, this hurts. 💔 I was 19 years old and remember every horrific moment unfolding on TV.
Yeah. One of my closest friends lost his brother that day. We worked together, and he came to work the first few days when they were still searching for survivors. (He wasn't made to work, he chose to come in to keep his mind busy). They identified his DNA the middle of October. There are no words...
Load More Replies..."The closest... To heaven" too dark to laugh. So, so, so sad. Still remember where I was and what ami was doing. Thought was a movie.
Yikes. Little did they realize how prophetic their ad campaign would be—-and not in a good way.
I Found A Book Autographed By Bill Nye At The Thrift Store
I found a copy of Salem’s Lot signed by Stephen King at a charity store. Bought it and took it home of course. It’s signed to a girl named Karen…
something tells me there's more than one Karen out there that would tell you it belongs to them
Load More Replies...I found an original book of the Hobbit in a charity shop, forgot date but original. I did not have a penny on me so went back the next day for it, it had gone of course.
Found A Nice Honeycomb Amber Brooch Today. Amber Is Quite Hard To Find, Such An Interesting Material
No, amber is not hard to find. In the Baltics you can find it laying on the beach.
Look How Large This Tree Frog I Found Is
i love how when people see something larger than normal, they instantlysay 'Australia'. it just makes my day :)
Load More Replies...Wonder how loud a tree frog this size singing would sound right there on the porch.
What does your hand tattoo say? Looks cool, but I could not quite make out what it says from image.
It is Probably "live hard" with live on the other hand. the 3 x's probably means he is a straight and a member of the masons and maybe in the medical field.
Load More Replies...Love reading the comments. First some comments on the frog but then his hand and tattoos totally took over. Frog went nowhere
This Brooch I Found While Metal Detecting
If you rub that stone you'll get super powers. Or die a horrible death I forget which.
I believe that's an actual stone called turquoise
Load More Replies...Wow! Is love to see it all cleaned up and polished and the stone restored.
A Humpback Whale Jaw I Found This Weekend In New England
A pair of these in a West Yorkshire small town 20 years ago, just stood up at the side of the junction, no idea if they are still there but doubt it with modern day vandles
This Piece Of Wall That Got Rounded By The Sea
It’s the best erosion I’ve ever seen in my life .
Load More Replies...Bought A Vintage Stove And Found A Newspaper From 1954 In It
I have a section of newspaper from sometime during WW2 edit: it’s the Fort Devens Digest, a military newspaper from 1942.
or a piece of Nazipaper Westdeutscher Beobachter 1941, to seal the roof.
Load More Replies...That's about $60 in today's money with inflation. Given shapewear is pretty expensive, that would be a decent price today. By comparison, it's more expensive than the sale dresses, or two pairs of sale shoes.
Load More Replies...This Old Color Pencil Box After Termites Ate All The Wood
This 129 Year Old Penny Came Out Of A Roll Today
Everyone in this thread who found pennies should give them to me for…inspection…purposes :)
Is that a native American profile on it? I know very little about coin collecting usa wise
I have a penny like that. Except it was minted in 1901. I also have a rare steal penny from WWII.
I Found A 6-Headed Daffodil Growing In My Garden
Those arent daffodils per se, they are jonquils and they grow in wee bunches like this. I have these bulbs in my garden (i prefer the more pale ones in the background, great scent!)
This Rock I Found Has A Shell Inside It And It’s Been Worn Away To A Flat Spiral In Appearance
Found A Little Piece Of History During A Hike In France: A Roman Shoe Nail
I Present Today's Seaglass Findings From A Stormy Day In The Cove. Cape Breton Island, NS, Canada
why do you have the controller you give to your little brother in the corner
I try to find seaglass whenever I go to the beach in summer, but I haven't found blue seaglass--I want to find some now! It's gorgeous in this picture.
I Found My Great Great Grandfather's WW1 Medals The Other Day
1914-15 Star : this bronze medal with a red, white and blue watered silk ribbon was awarded to those who served in any theatre of war between 5 August 1914 and 31st December 1915 (other than those who had already qualified for the 1914 Star.) It is a crowned four-pointed star with crossed swords and a wreath of oak leaves with the royal cipher at the base and a scroll across the centre inscribed 1914-15. Total number of medals awarded = 2,350,000.
Victory Medal : This yellow bronze medal with a double rainbow ribbon was awarded to all who had recieved the Star medals and most of those who had recieved the British War Medal. The standing figure of Victory holding a palm branch in her right hand appears on the obverse and on the reverse a laurel wreath contains the inscription THE GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION 1914-1919. The extended date reflects the continued fighting in India and Russia and the Peace Treaty at Versailles in June 1919. Total number of medals awarded = approx 6,000,000
Load More Replies...I can tell you what each one of those is. My great grandfather has 3 of those.
My Grandmother Lived Through WWII In Her Teenage Years, And She Found One Of Her Issues Of Life Magazine From 1941
I Found These Stacked In A Secret Drawer Left In My 1885 House
Yeah for real! because they LOST. :D
Load More Replies...My mother's grandfather was on the losing side of the US Civil War--he was a POW for a goodly part of it and, when he was released, he asked for (and received) a written pardon from the warden. He kept the pardon and a Confederate $100 bill folded up together in his pocket watch (yes, we have kept all 3: the pardon, the bill, and the watch but the story is the better part).
While Renovating An Office In DC, I Found A Stack Of Uncashed Checks Dated July-August 1910
Here in the UK, technically, cheques don't have any time limits. However, to counter the potential for fraud, banks won't usually process them after 6 months. In addition, with regard to such old cheques, I imagine the biggest issue would be whether the payee account still exists, or has funds available!
Load More Replies...I found this at CWU when I worked in their accounting department. It was a set of checks from 1971 from a bank that had long closed down.
Jack Miner Was A Hero Of Conservation Who Passed Away In 1944. I Found One Of His Bird Bands Today On The Shore Of Lake Erie In Ohio
Minutes before I picked up what I thought was a shell but turned out to be a piece of plastic. Years of picking up crap on the ground has finally paid off
Found A Grenade In The Garden, Had A Visit From The Army Bomb Disposal Unit
I found one as well. Didn't know what it was so tried breaking it open with a hammer. It was a training one. Luckily.
A lady that owns a jewelry store near me told me and my mom about the time she was digging and found a "turtle" in the ground. She stopped digging and went to do something else and then she remembered that turtles don't live underground and realized it was a grenade. She had to call someone to come get it out.
Removed A Wall Fixture That Came With The House To Repaint The Wall And Realized This Room Used To Be This Exact Color. Old Color In The Middle, New Paint On Left Edge
The room clearly knows what color it wants to be, and, dammit, it will get you to paint it correctly one way or another. =)
This Snake Sword In A Cane I Found On My Walk Today
Leave it near a walking trail and wait for it to wind up on BoredPanda -- that's one way to get rid of a murder weapon.
These Vintage Items I Found In A Mouse Nest In My Wall
You obviously had a very thirsty, curly haired mouse who played marbles and suffered from headaches.
Small Starfish With Four Arms Instead Of Five
I Found An Original 1985 Back To The Future Skateboard At The Back Of My Parents' Shed Today. Shame About The Condition But Still Great
Shame about the condition, but bear in mind that it spent some time in 1885 before coming back to 1985.
I Just Found A Marriage Certificate From 1841 In My House In The Attic
Toutes mes félicitations ! (Mieux vaut tard que jamais...lol)
Found This Tiny Mushroom Growing Out Of A Sweet Gum Ball
Telegram Abbreviations Found In My Great Grandpa’s Notebook
If we always had to pay each letter, we would read a lot less b***t
We Found A Little Bat In The House
https://batworld.org/rabies-info/#:~:text=Facts%20about%20Bats%20and%20Rabies%201%20All%20bats,health%20agencies%20often%20sensationalize%20bats%20and%20rabies.%20 Please read!!!
An 18 Karat Gold Ring I Found At My Late Grandmother's House - No Idea Anything About It. But A Beautiful Ring So I Thought I Would Share
100 Years Ago Someone Lost Their Coin Purse
how would you infer that from this photo, exactly? they're in someone's hand, they've clearly been moved from their original position
Load More Replies...I Found A 5 Leaf Clover
When I lived in east London, I took care of the garden in an old row house, and 4, 5, 6, and even 7-leaf clovers were COMMON. It was so weird. I would be weeding and would pull up 4-leaf clovers 20 times in an hour, and often find others with more leaves. The first couple of times I was so excited but it became commonplace. I've never seen that anywhere else.
Some Old Russian Pepsi That I Found
Found A Rock That Looks Like An Alligator
In the original reddit post they determined it was not a fossil by licking it haha. I think it's a garden statue
Load More Replies...Found An Ancient Ruin On A Hike
I Found This Heart-Shaped River Rock Today
This Weird Lemon That Grew On Our Lemon Tree
🎶I wonder how I wonder why, yesterday you told me bout the blue blue sky....but all that I can see, is a freaky lemon from the tree 🎶
Sing! Da, dadadada deedada, da dee dee da!
Load More Replies...🎶Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet, but the fruit of the poor lemon is a wormy, wormy freak🎶
This Praying Mantis Exoskeleton I Found Stuck To The Side Of My Car
I Found A "Treasure" From The 90s In A Garage
I'm Redoing My Kitchen And The Old Owners Put A Wall Over An Exterior Door
More unusually, you didn't notice a door on the exterior of your house that didn't go anywhere?
I want to know what's behind it! Please, otherwise I can't sleep anymore! :)
Okay, it goes to the outside, like it says. There, hope you can sleep now
Load More Replies...WW2 Badge Found In Ocean
This Deteriorating Combination Lock I Found At The Beach
This Old Skeleton Key I Found With My Metal Detector
Recently I've been seeing "skeleton" used to describe any old key. Skeleton keys are specific types of keys that open many different locks. Not all antique-looking keys are skeleton keys.
Agreed! This is a key designed to open a lever-style lock. Also, it appears to be a blank key as it has never been cut.
Load More Replies...when we first moved into our house bulit in 19 55 i think we found a key like that it didnt go to any doors
I Found An Old Whiskey Jar With A Fern Growing In It On A Walk Out In The Woods Today
I Found An Old Newspaper From 1934 Under The Floorboards Of My London House
The Daily Express are probably reprinting many of those stories today, given how they seem to work now...
In The Process Of Demolishing The Bathroom Of Our Newly-Bought House And This Message Was Behind The Mirror
Nice. When renovating an old house I once found a pentagram and a Baphomet (very skillfully) painted behind a bookcase.
Knowing some people, you’re lucky. Others would have used red paint and added dripping things and written something creepy so it would look like blood.
The Underpayment Used Last Time My Floor Was Replaced
The Allies smashed at Nazis, but I prefer to follow the exploits of SUPERMAN!
Watch those tiles. They are likely asbestos, and should be removed very carefully, or just covered up by the new flooring.
I Found This Bee With My Metal Detector
Old Bottle From Ruehl Bros. Brewery In Chicago I Found Behind A Wall During Our Demo In Our Master Bedroom. According To Google, Brewery Existed From 1915-1926
Man Finds An Enormous Moth. About The Size Of A Rat At A School Construction Site In Australia
Renovating My 101-Year-Old House And Found This Behind The Drywall
I've always wondered how people fail to notice hidden rooms, surely you can tell there's"missing" space?
This Bone I Found On A Walk
It's too bad there's no sense of scale. It could also be elk or moose.
Load More Replies...Found My Old Cell Phone With Optional Clip-On Chatboard For "Easy" Texting
This doesn't compute in my head. I remember cell phones like that, but I don't remember texting being a thing until 5-10 years later. Was this an updated add-on?
They keyboard was an add I did not have, but I had the same phone and it was definitely an early text era phone. You hit the 2 button once for A, twice for B, and three times for C. We did not send long texts back then.
Load More Replies...My husband had an Ericson like that. Nov '99 he was in a car accident. He was hospitalized for a few days, car was a total write off, phone was working 100%
Found A Wheelchair In A Cave While Visiting Tennessee
There is so much more information needed for this story. Namely, where is the wheelchair user?
There's now a person sitting in a cave asking who took his 'caving' wheelchair...
I Found A Metal Bat Symbol In My Yard
This Beautiful Salt Crystal That Formed Inside My Instant Ramen's Sauce Packet
This Really Tiny Arrowhead My Dad Found A While Back
I Found The Fibonacci Sequence Under Carpet Tiles At Work
I don't know which is more impressive: that someone drew it, that others left it there, or that you recognised what it was!
or the fact it's not a Fibonacci *sequence* as such =D
Load More Replies...Found A Bible In An Antique Store. When Opened, It Flipped To Antique Pressed 4 Leaf Clovers
I feel like something special happened the moment that person put the clovers there. Just some reason that made them do it.
"With God all things are possible" but a couple of four-leaf clovers can't hurt.
Can god please re-grow a limb from an amputee? Amputees are still waiting. Such a bulls-hit claim.
Load More Replies...Sea Urchin Skeleton I Found At The Beach
Old Submarine I Stumbled Upon Outside Stockholm, Sweden
Easy enough to just walk over the borders from Norway or Finland into Sweden, no need for a sub for that 😂
Load More Replies...Got A Roof Inspection, They Found A Bullet In My Shingles. My House Is In A Highly Populated Suburban Area. It’s Right Above Our Master Bedroom
I used to work in a shop that sold bootleg liquor under the table in the 1920s. Cleaning the windows by the ceiling, you could make out three very old bullet holes.
Shoot into the air, and it has to fall somewhere, and actually hard enough to kill someone unlucky enough to be hit!
A Shard Of Porcelain I Found Diving On A Wreck
Beautiful, I love these even the small pieces, you find loads in gardens of old houses, the older houses, the more pieces.
I Found A Teeny Tiny Conch Shell In My Pack Of Decorative Rocks
Found 25 $2 Bills While Cleaning My Closet
we used to get 2 dollar bills all the time from a guy my mom used to work with
Found A Penny From 1864 When Cleaning Out My Wood Stove
This Nike That We Found While Hiking
It looks like the "eco friendly shoes everyones talking about" from the ad 😂
I Found This Rock On A Beach, With A Hole In It, With A Star Inside The Hole
My understanding is that it's an ancient flower, a crinoid, which fossilized and then eroded faster than the rock. And I believe the star is from its internal tubing. Some people were discussing it on Reddit. My memory may be a little off on the details but I think that's the gist of it.
Load More Replies...Found A Baby Snapping Turtle Walking Across My Driveway
I Found This Rock With A Perfect Hole In It
This Big Old Padlock I Found At Work
Found Sea Shell In My Sea Salt
This Friggin Huge Strawberry I Found Today
This Rock I Found Looks Like A Speech Bubble
I Found A Paystub From 1948 Being Used As A Bookmark In A Cookbook
50 dollars in 194? for 31 hours of work. That is almost $700 today. Not bad. This is why you Unionize.
Mom Cleaned Out Her Pantry Cabinet And Found Four Generations Of Wyler’s Beef Cubes. Oldest One Expired 2/14/1989
Original Dr Pepper That Was Buried In The Garden, The Soda Turned Clear
The soda probably dripped out and the bottle later filled up with rainwater is my guess...
While Cleaning Out The Storage Room At My New Job Today, I Found A Newspaper From 1893
Found A Stingray Barb While At Work
Found A Skull In The Forest
Not with those incisors. It's definitely a carnivore/omnivore.
Load More Replies...Found A Mutated Daisy
I Found A Nickel That Is 116 Years Old
Found A Pay Phone Today. Haven't Seen One Since I Was A Kid
This Perfectly Cylinder Shaped Rock I Found At A Local Beach
Could be a piece of sea glass. Put a flashlight up to it to see if it has transparency through it.
My Dog Found A Badger Skull In The Garden
Came Upon A Christmas Tree While Walking In The Forest
Moved A Pot And Found A Slug Laying Eggs
I Found My Dad’s 7th Grade Report Card From 1948
That's some serious improvement from 7 weeks to the next two terms.
It also makes the teacher look good, to turn around a weak student ;)
Load More Replies...They misspelled "perseverance." Whoever designed the report cards gets a W for spelling!
My Father Found These Old USSR Military Hats That His Grandfather Gave Him When He Went To Russia Right At The Time Of The USSR's Collapse
Found An Old Key While Renovating My 100-Year-Old House
Now you can access the tiny hidden door behind the furnace! Bwaahaaahaaa
Today I Found A Tiny Shell In My Sea Salt
Found A Pearl In My Oyster
This Boot I Found In The Woods Is Covered In Moss
How do these odd boots exist? Do hikers regularly go home with only one boot on?
Found These Mcdonalds Gift Certificates From 2001 (Top) And 1998 (Bottom) While Cleaning My Room
I Found A Burger King Kids Club Cup From 1996
I Found A Toilet Seat Guitar At A Pawn Shop
man.. that dean in the back !
Load More Replies...I used to live next door to this guy that made those. He was pretty famous. We lived in Mill Valley, CA
Found A Cheez-It Family Today
1977 McDonald's Christmas Trash Found In The Wall Of Our House
This Fully Intact Pepsi Bottle From The 1930s I Found While Bottle Digging Today
Found This Battery At The Beach That Collected Minerals And Debris At The Ends
I'm not sure I'd handle that with my bare hands. That looks like substantial corrosion to me.
What's the risk? Is it toxic? I know I give all my old batteries back and never put them in the trash - I just know that they’re harmful. But what exactly happens?
Load More Replies...Found The Can On The Left Today Where I Live On The Beach. Found Online That This Design Is From 1959
Shows how long they take to not degrade when people are lazy and don't recycle!
Found This McDonald's Cup In The Ice I Was Skating On
Sorry to say I don't think this is very uncommon. It's called pollution.
Been in McDonalds once, 25 years ago, Horrible, undrinkable coffee, never been in since
I actually found a shell with my friend's name on it, then I gave it to my friend. One of my coolest finds ever.
I actually found a shell with my friend's name on it, then I gave it to my friend. One of my coolest finds ever.
