96 Times People Found The Most Unexpected Things

October 12, 2018


Much like with love, when we stop searching we make the best discoveries. 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 an unexpected treasure. At least the people on the list below would probably agree with this philosophy, each one found their own unique 'gems' at the most random times and in some very odd places.


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Scroll down below to check out this neat list of awesome and even historical finds that people happened upon while they were out and about. Don't forget to upvote your favs!

#1 My Dad And His Friend Found The Boot That Reese Witherspoon Threw Off A Cliff During The Filming Of The Movie "Wild"

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#2 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

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#6 Found A Travel Brochure From The World Trade Center While Cleaning Out My House

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#8 These Condoms Are Around 60 Years Old (Found In My Basement)

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#9 Found This Today While Weeding A Vineyard

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#10 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

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#12 So My Friend Found A Message In A Bottle While Fishing

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#14 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

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#16 My Friend Works In Recycling. He Found A Filled Diary From 1941

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#22 I Found A 101 Year Old Receipt For A 1915 Model A Car

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#23 My Mom Found The Ticket From Her First Beatles Concert, From 1964

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#25 My 11-Year Old Son Asked For And Received A Metal Detector For Christmas. He Took It Out On My Parent's Property, And This Was One Of The First Things He Found. It Is Not Anyone's In The Family

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#26 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

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#28 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!

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#36 A 111 Year Old Gold Note We Found Under A Couch At An Estate Cleaning

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#39 Found An Ice Cube At Work That Had A Fly Frozen In It

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#41 My Girlfriend Found An Old Ticket Stub Of Hers To The Top Of The World Trade Center Dated 08/11/01

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#42 I Found Three Four-Leaded Clovers; When I Bought Tape To Preserve Them, The Total Was $7.77

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#45 A Utility Worker Just Dug Up This Old Revolver From Under The Sidewalk

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#49 While Digging For Gold In Sewer Debris I Found A Miniature Coat Hanger

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#51 This Was Found In A Santa Rosa Neighborhood That Was Completely Burned To The Ground

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#52 My Brother Likes To Search For Shark Teeth On Beaches. This Was 6hrs Of Searching At Folly Beach Sc

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#62 My Girlfriend Found A Bottle In The Woods That Had A Terrarium Growing Naturally Inside

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#64 This Pebble I Found On The Beach Looks Like A Ghost

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#68 Found A GoPro That's Been In The Ocean For Roughly 2 Months, It Still Works

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#69 I Found A Bullet In A Tree Whilst Milling It

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#75 Daughter Found This Branch And Uses It As Her Magic Wand

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#76 While Walking On The Beach In Hawaii My Wife And I Found This Glass Ball That Had Become The Home Of Small Marine Ecosystem

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#78 Opened Up BBQ For The First Time This Spring And Found Some Hungry Wings

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#83 My Son Found A Report Card From Nearly 100 Years Ago In His Library Book

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#85 Found A Moth On My Jeep That Has The Face Of A French Bulldog

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#93 I Found A Teeny Tiny Shark Tooth In The Potomac River

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#95 My Brother Found This Life-Bulb Washed Up On An Australian Beach. It Was All Alive And It Floated

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#96 Found A Guinea Pig That Was Abandoned In The Woods While I Was Playing Disc Golf. She Has A New Home Now

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