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50 Times People Found Such Unexpected Things, They Just Had To Share The Pics Online (New Pics)
Life is full of surprises. Of course, we can't pick and choose; one day they come in the form of an arrowhead in a dried up stream, the next it's a death mask under the bedroom floor. We just have to keep our eyes open. That's the only thing in our power, really.
Luckily, the subreddit r/MildlyInteresting has plenty of perfect examples that good things happen when we do. Many of its 19 million members have shared photos of unexpected finds they came across pretty much everywhere you can imagine.
Continue scrolling to check out the ones that have impressed us at Bored Panda the most and fire up our earlier publication for more astonishing discoveries.
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#2
Geologist Finds Rare Formation Inside Rock That Looks Exactly Like Cookie Monster On Sesame Street
#3
Found This On A Bench In Margate UK This Weekend
"Dedicated to - HAYDEN KAYS. Forever missed by his friends and family. - He's not dead yet. He's just become increasingly anti-social."
#4
Gifted A Bonsai Tree, Found An Egg Near The Trunk - This Little One Hatched From It Today
#5
You Never Know What You Will Find When You Pick Up A Shell At Honeymoon Beach, Florida. Little Dude Was Put Safely Back In The Water
#6
Went On A Walk, Fogged Up My Glasses, And Found This
#7
Found Amethyst Pieces In A New Gravel Driveway
#8
I Came In My Kitchen To Find A Lizard Using A Sponge As A Raft In The Sink (I Live In New Mexico)
#9
This Pixelated Leaf I Found
#10
Found This 'Veiled Lady' Mushroom On A Hike This Morning Near Seoul, South Korea
#11
Older Roman Mosaic Under A Layer Of Less Older Roman Mosaic - Found In Greece
Guy MacGregor 4 years ago
A normal day in the office. This kind of thing happen literally every day in Italy.
#12
This Little Door I Found In The Trunk Of A Tree While Walking In Lowell
#13
We Just Found Kittens In The Bushes Near Our House
#14
Found While Out Deer Hunting In The Middle Of Nowhere
#15
It Has Been Family Lore That My Grandmother Had A Pet Raccoon Named Smokey. I Didn’t Believe It Until I Found Photographic Evidence. Late 40’s Or Early 50’s
#16
Found A Tiny Greenhouse In The Woods
#17
This Caterpillar I Found
#18
This Morning I Found A Bat Sleeping In My Window... Inside The Screen
#19
This Purple Mushroom I Found
#20
Found An Unopened PS1 In My Grandfather's Attic
#21
A Cast Iron Cauldron I Found Buried In My Forest
#22
I Came Across These Theropod Tracks While Fly Fishing In Leander, Texas
Walking On Sunshine 4 years ago
Leander, Texas, now there's a name I haven't heard in forever! Outside of Austin.
#23
Old Cars Becoming The River Bank
#24
This Massive Bald Eagle Feather I Found
#25
Clam Covered Mannequin Head That Washed Up On Shore
#26
My Dog Found A Huge Bone At The Beach Today
#27
In 1945 My Great Grandmother Wrote Her Name In A Sidewalk. We Found It Again. She Is 93
#28
Megalodon Teeth I Found Diving In 90 FSW Off The Coast Of North Carolina
#29
My Mom's Purse Was Stolen In The 80s At A Hiking Trailhead. Today Someone Messenged Her That They Found It Deep In The Woods. The Leather Was All Destroyed
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
My first thought on finding something like this would be "murder victim"
#30
Surreal Moment Today. I Went To Oaks, PA "Too Many Games" Expo. Found My Gameboy From Early 2000’s
#31
A Roman Road Discovered While Excavating For A New McDonald's In Marino, Italy. They Incorporated A Glass Floor In The Restaurant After Excavations Were Complete
#32
This Strawberry I Found Is Shaped Like A Perfect Flower
#33
Woman Finds Sunken Message In Bottle From 1926 Addressed To One George Morrow, The Internet Helps Find Surviving Relatives
#34
This Giant Dandelion I Found On My Walk Today
#35
My Mom And Uncle Found A USAF Target Drone On The Beach
Spankathon 4 years ago
I would take it home and half bury it in my front garden as though it's crashed.
#36
This Rattlesnake Was Found Bathing In The Puddle Created From A Cow Hoofprint
#37
Found An Arrowhead In A Dried Up Stream
#38
My Son Found This At Goodwill And It Really Takes Me Back
#39
I Found This Plant Growing Out Of The Concrete
#40
A Gold Bar With Mint Marks, Recovered From The Spanish Treasure Ship 'Atocha' Which Sank In 1622
#41
Found Some Old Newspapers In My Grandpa’s Basement
Laura Jackson 4 years ago
I would absolutely LOVE to have newspapers from this era. My son is a huge US history buff with WWII being his main focus. He has 2 papers framed from the Vietnam War, one from the Korean War, and 4-5 from Desert Storm where I saved those as a teenager. Something like this would just make his decade!
#42
Found This Outside. Someone's Day Will Be Ruined
#43
Friend Bought A N64 Game, Found This Inside
For those of you wondering, he was taking this game apart to use the back on his JP copy of Mario Kart so he could take it to a friend’s house with unmodded N64's. As to why he didn’t hear the pills loose shaking around, they were stuck to the sides with double-sided tape. You can see that in the image. The tape itself also looks old. He bought the game a year or so ago, but the game itself was made in the late 90s so who knows how long this has been sitting in there.
#44
We Found A Missile While Out Blueberry Picking
#45
Found An E Than Survived The Recycling Process On The Cardboard We Use At Work
#46
I Found A Pile Of Walnuts In My Car Engine
#47
My Friend Was Cleaning Out Her Grandma's Belongings And Found This Old School Kit From The 70s
#48
I Found A Diamond In My Shoe While Working Out
#49
A Plane Crash I Hiked To In North Carolina
#50
I Found A Box Of My Dads 30-35 - Year - Old Sodas There Are Probably 50 In There And I Thought It Would Be Cool To Share
#51
My Friend Found This Guy At Work
#52
So This Is A Newly Discovered Ancient City Built 3000 Years Ago. West Old Thebes, Egypt
#53
I've Found This Heart Shaped Potato In My Garden
#54
Found A Hundred And Thirty Year Old Recipe Book While Cleaning Out Grandmas House
#55
I Found Jewish Ghetto Coin From 1943
ADHORTATOR 4 years ago
"The Elder of the Jews" "Receipt over 10 Mark" from jewish ghetto in Lodz/Poland
#56
We Found War Ration Books From 1944 Inside An Old Purse In The Basement
#57
A Wildfire Ripped Through Waterton Lakes National Park In 2017. Found This Burn Pattern On A Tree There Last Month
#58
1866 Penny Found In Wall Of My Old House During Renovation
#59
A Strange Mural Found After Removing The Paint In My Aunt's New House
#60
The Note I Found In This Second-Hand Book
#61
I Found A Bird’s Nest In A Tree Trunk While Taking A Walk
#62
These Old Shaving Kits That I Found
#63
Water Levels At Lake Powell Are So Low You Can Find Old Wrecks Out Of The Water
#64
This Mushroom I Found 5 Years Ago
#65
Cleaning Out An Old Apartment And Found A 1982 Coca Cola Screwdriver Set
#66
I Found A Dollar Bill With A Rotationally Symmetric Serial Number
#67
Found Some Old Containers For Transporting Eyeballs
#68
My Sister And Brother-In-Law Moved Into A New House Today, Found This Safe In The Floor And Can't Open It. Yet
#69
Found A Piece Of Rock That Looks Like A Steak
#70
"McSpoon" That Was Banned In 1979 Turned Up In My Yard
#71
Every Vauxhall Car Built Since 2004 Have A Hidden Shark Somewhere In The Car. Found Mine In The Glove Box
#72
My Friend Works In Mines And Found A Mummified Mountain Lion
#73
Coworker Found A "Motion Picture Use" $100 On Our Construction Site
#74
I Found This Locked Suitcase In The Back Of A Storage Closet At The Hotel Where I Work. I Pried It Open And It's A Little Time Capsule
#75
Found This Rock With Odd-Shaped Hole
#76
Friend’s Family Owned A Pharmacy. They Found This In The Basement Secret Corner That Collapsed In A Flood
#77
A 130-Year-Old Crypt Found While Renovating A Church In Sc, They Put A Glass Window On It So You Could See The Face
Tobias Rieper 4 years ago
stay clear man i have seen return of the living dead and this is how it starts this isnt the year to do this
#78
My Husband Found A Pre-WWII Globe At Goodwill
#79
I Just Found 8 Four-Leaf Clovers In One Patch
#80
We Found A Death Mask Under Our Bedroom Floor. Now What?
#81
Came Across This Spine And Pelvic Bone Hanging From A Tree Limb During My Hike Yesterday
#82
This Gravestone I Found In The Woods
#83
Chrome Blue Wasp I Found In My Backyard
#84
Found A Dinosaur Footprint On Our Hike In Utah
Rick Hoppenbrouwer 4 years ago
If you go to the Capitol you can find lots of Dinosaur prints on the floor. Just follow Mitch McConnell.
#85
Found This In Garbage. This Is A Postcard That Is About 100 Years Old, With Mark That Originates In A Country Which Existed For 2 Years. I Find This Very Interesting
Mazer 4 years ago
Too bad the stamp isn’t in better condition. I looked it up, here is some more info on your stamp - The Chain Breakers (verigari) refers to a few series of postage, dues, provisionals and newspaper stamps issued in the Yugoslav Kingdom (SHS) from 1919 to 1920. They're wildly popular among many collectors in Slovenia since most were printed in Ljubljana (some in Vienna as well), for use in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia & Hercegovina. The common varieties have no appreciable value, but various variations, errors, shades etc sell for fairly hefty fees.
#86
This Silver Pin I Found Metal Detecting Is Called A Luckenbooth Brooch. Scottish Tradition But Likely Traded With Native Americans 300 Years Ago
#87
I Found This Leaf With Only Its 'Veins' Remaining
#88
Found This Thing On The Bottom Of My Pool
#89
I Found A Letter From Richard Nixon From 1955 In My Grandfathers Stuff In Guatemala
#90
When Ripping Out My Ceiling Drywall I Found A Report Card From 1957 A Kid Must Have Hid Up There. Someone Failed The 8th Grade
#91
Megalodon Tooth I Found In A Dirty Florida Creek
#92
Jar Of Ash From Mountain St Helen. Found In My Sister-In-Law's Garage
#93
I Found This In My Basement. I'm Pretty Sure It's A Spider, But I Don't Know How He Got Like That
#94
Found This 1829 Silver Half-Dime In The Woods. Nickels Weren’t Invented Yet
#95
This Long And Rectangular River Rock I Found
#96
Bought A "Brand New" Jacket Online. Found This Inside The Pocket
#97
A Family Member Found This In His Father’s Things He Saved From The War
#98
Found Out Why The Roomba Quit Working
#99
Found Over 30 Vapes And A Bunch Of Other Trash While Diving With My Best Friend
#100
I Found A Stack Of 10 Uncirculated Australian $1 Notes. These Were Discontinued By 1984
Grant Barke 4 years ago
Holy s**t. In 1995 I bought a secondhand book that had an envelope containing $11 dollars of uncirculated Australian $1 notes too. Still have them. 20211214_2...d5-png.jpg 
#101
This Flat Fire Extinguisher I Found
#102
A Pay Stub We Found While Renovating Our Home
#103
Found A Check From 1879 For $105 In My Dresser That I Inherited From My Grandfather
#104
Woke Up This Morning To Find An Interesting (Natural) Ice Sculpture In The Garden
#105
Ball Of Salt That I Took Out Of The Dead Sea
#106
I Found A Bomb While On A Hike
Jyri Hakola 4 years ago
A dud mortar shell. Did you lost your track or how did you end up to a military shooting range ??
#107
This Almost Perfectly Egg-Shaped Stone I Found In My Garden
#108
This 7-Leaf Clover I Just Found
#109
I’m Going To Need A Loan To Pay The Late Fees For This Tape I Found In My Basement
#110
Found My Dad's Old Phone
Mimi La Souris 4 years ago (edited)
loool love it ! it reminds me of when we were biting the end of the antenna before answering
#111
My Sister Got A Mini Starfish In Her Mussels
#112
Found A Newspaper From 1998 And A Phone From The Same Era Left Alone On A Bench
#113
I Found My Doppelganger. On A Thrifted T-Shirt, 2,700 Miles Away
#114
A Triumph Motor Stuck In A Tree I Found While Walking
#115
Found In A Crystal Shop In Sedona, AZ
#116
New House Find, Do You Think It’ll Play Crysis? It Doesn’t Seem To Have Any Problems Playing Rust
#117
Pocket Watch Found Amongst My Late Husband's Things
#118
I Found A Pile Of Snail Shells In My Car Engine
#119
Looked Through A Patch Of Clovers Before Mowing The Lawn, I Found 16 Four-Leaf Clovers
#120
A Pay Phone! In The Middle Of Muir Woods, San Francisco Bay Area
#121
Today I Found An Unexploded WWII Bomb
#122
Found Some Unopened Pokémon Cards From 20 Years Ago While Going Through My Grandparents Stuff
#123
Found This Cool Moss Covered Shoe In The Woods
#124
This 1890-91 Colt 45 I Found Digging In My Yard
#125
My Mum Found This Bird Skull In Our Plant Pot
#126
I Found Plane Wreckage While Hiking In A State Park This Weekend
#127
These Spring Shoes I Found At A Thrift Store Many Years Ago
#128
I Found A Frozen Snake
#129
I Found This Perfectly Mummyfied/Dried Frog On A Hike
#130
Found This Steel Plate In My Papa John's
#131
Found In An Old Book
From the 1940s. Not sure if they’re paycheques, or what, but $8.92 doesn’t seem like a lot these days!
The weirdest thing (besides the fact that they survived this long) is, they’re from Nebraska, and here I am on the east coast of Canada!
#132
I Found A Weirdly Bent Banana
Patti Vance 4 years ago
they could use it for one of those peronie's disease commercials that have been hitting the airwaves recently
#133
Found My Kid's Watch He Lost 3 Months Ago
#134
I Found This Stick And It Looks Like A Katana In The Shadows
#135
I Stumbled Across This Car That’s Painted Half Black And Half White
#136
This Useless Staircase I Found In The Wild
#137
The Birds By My House Line Their Nests With Fur From My Great Pyrenees
#138
Cleaned Out My Closet And Found My Unopened Star Wars Trilogy VHS That I Bought In 1995
#139
Remodeling My 1918 Home And Found This Battery In The Wall
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Absolutely keep that! Antique radio (and self-winding clock) collectors love having period-accurate cell canisters. They'll pull the innards out and replace it with a modern equivalent.
#140
We Found A Bud Inside A Bag Of Yarn We Bought At The Thrift Store
#141
My Girlfriend Found This Rock That Looks Like A Moustache
#142
I Found An Exactly 23-Year-Old Newspaper Sitting On A Park Bench Yesterday
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Damn time travellers, dropping their newspapers and stealing our jobs
#143
Grandfather’s Odds And Ends Tin Full Of Vintage Packages (And Hardware)
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Oooh, authentic GEM clips. They invented the modern paperclip shape we know and love.
#144
A Receipt Found In A Book From 1992. Not A Vegetable In Sight
#146
Found An Overdue Rental At My Mom's House From 1994
Imogene Cargeaux 4 years ago
Dude. I have a copy of Dazed & Confused that I never returned to blockbuster on VHS! My pops just passed away last September and I've been sorting through his house. He was a collector and saved all of our s**t from when we were younger (brothers n I) and I just came across a couple giant bins of VHS' and this was one of them. I guess I got too dazed & confused and forgot to return it too.
#147
We're Cleaning Out My Late Stepmom's Storage Unit And Found Some Crayons From Before I Was Born
#148
Found This Old Memory Module At Work Today
#149
Found A Doll’s Head While Diving In An Adirondack Lake. Left It In The Freezer To Surprise The Next Visitors To Our Timeshare
#150
Old 3ds Found With Erosion And Barnacles Found While Diving
#151
Approximately 167 - Year - Old Garlic I Found Under The Floor Of My Half-Timbered House
#152
Things I Find In Printers As A Printer Technician
#153
I Found $10 While Scooping Sludge At My Wastewater Treatment Plant
#154
Found On Beach In Seaside, Oregon
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
I love collecting these while walking streams fly fishing. My favorite find was a toothbrush holder that was given away as a promotion in 1881. Holds my bobbins.
#156
There Were (Literally) Whole Grains In My Son’s Cheerios
#157
Cleaning Out My Parents Basement And I Found Bottles Of Water They Saved During Y2K
#158
This 70-Year-Old Japanese Picture I Found At A Estate Sale
#159
I Found An Unopened Can Of Beer From 1954 At A Job Today
#160
Dentures Found Inside An Abandoned Asylum
#161
Found A WWII Nazi Spoon At Goodwill
#162
Was Flipping Through A Review Book In The Condo We’re Renting And Came Across This Drawing
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
"This is Baby from Baby Driver. Baby Driver is one of my favourite movies and i totally recommend watching it if you get the chance. I've watched it more times than i can count. I actually brought a copy of Baby Driver with me on this vacation. I was watching it when i started it, the drawing i mean. I posted this on my art account on Instagram."
#163
Found Another Crotal (Or Scrotal) Bell
#164
My Friend Found This Paystub From 1949 For A Machinist. $1.17/Hour, 2021 Inflation: $13.13/Hour
#165
Found An Original Glass Bottle Of Crystal Pepsi, With Foam Label, While Cleaning Out My Mother-In-Law's Place
My Name Is Mars 4 years ago
Crystal Pepsi was an abomination. Even as a kid I wouldn't touch that stuff 😂😂😂
#166
This Oddly Shaped Rock I Found At A Lake
#167
Found A Four-Leaf Clover In An Old Book Of Poetry From 1889
#168
Dug Up A Very Old Orange Crush Can In My Garden Yesterday
#169
A Rock My Brother And I Found That Looks Like It Was Struck By Lightning
#170
This Weirdly Shaped Strawberry I Found In My Garden Today
#172
A Bottle Of 1970s Aftershave, Found Buried In My Backyard
#174
Found This Little Old Globe That Has The USSR
#175
Found Some Weimar Hyper-Inflation Banknotes While Going Through An Old Trunk
#176
Finding This Japanese Condiment Jar Washed Up On The Oregon Coast
Mazer 4 years ago
The waves bring Japanese things to the PNW all the time. Glass net floats were once common. A woman began picking up all the trash which she then made art from (lots of Olympic stamped water bottles). I suspect even more things will begin to show up from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
#177
Found A Lil Wasp Nest
#178
Found Lizard Milk For The First Time In Years
My Name Is Mars 4 years ago
My son loved SOBE as a younger child. He's nearly 18 now and misses it so much.
#179
This Tiny Pickle I Found At The Bottom Of The Jar
#180
I Was Cleaning And Found This Ancient Relic Under My TV Stand
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ADumpsterFire 4 years ago
When i was a kid i picked up a HUGE conch shell, so excited about it's size and the condition it was in. I was shocked when a long spine came out of the tip towards me! I dropped it thankfully avoiding the spine and waded/ran/ swam away. It hadn't occurred to me the reason such a big shell was in such good condition was that it still had a resident protecting it. Oops
Hunter Drent 4 years ago
That sounds like a cone snail, if so you a lucky to be alive! Those things are incredibly venomous.
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ADumpsterFire 4 years ago
When i was a kid i picked up a HUGE conch shell, so excited about it's size and the condition it was in. I was shocked when a long spine came out of the tip towards me! I dropped it thankfully avoiding the spine and waded/ran/ swam away. It hadn't occurred to me the reason such a big shell was in such good condition was that it still had a resident protecting it. Oops
Hunter Drent 4 years ago
That sounds like a cone snail, if so you a lucky to be alive! Those things are incredibly venomous.
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