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When Dan Kennedy stopped to pick up an orange bag he found out that it was heavier than he thought it would be. When he checked inside, he found it was full of cash. Kennedy said the bag was filled with smaller bags packed with currency including $50 and $100 bills. He estimated each bag contained around…

It just looked like a mutt wandering the streets. Further research found that it was a rare South African Mastiff stolen from his yard in Beaverdam, Virginia. What looked like a lonely mutt was actually a pure bred dog worth over $10,000. His owner was ecstatic to get him back. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

A report released by the Transportation Security Administration says airline passengers left behind nearly $675,000 in loose change last year, and most of it eventually went into the TSA’s account. In 2005, Congress gave the agency the ability to use forgotten money to help fund security operations.…

Bruce Rylant was returning home from a trip and stopped to get gas in Georgia. When he reached his next stop, Ryland realized his wallet was gone. In a panic, he cancelled all of his credit cards and rushed to replace the lost insurance cards and his driver’s license. The one thing, Ryland was most upset…

Caroline Rezac and her husband John were on vacation in Glacier National Park when their camera fell out of John’s pocket and disappeared down a stream. Three years later, a Montana photographer, who works for a newspaper, found the camera and suspected that the owner might be from the Lincoln area because…

A $20 couch turned out to be worth a whole lot more for a group of New York college students. They purchased the lumpy couch from a thrift store, but were shocked when they began to investigate why the sofa was so uncomfortable. The students found money in envelopes stashed in different parts of the…

A cell phone belonging to an Oklahoma man made a journey halfway around the world before he got it back. Kevin Whitney says he lost his phone when he bent over to work on a copper bottom door and it fell into a grain pit and went up the elevator. Whitney said when the phone disappeared into a bin full…

In 1967, Manhattan lawyer Ivan Schneider brought a Jaguar XKE convertible. Schneider says that car was one of the first and best looking luxury cars he ever owned, and it also the only one to be stolen. The car disappeared in March, 1968 and did not resurface until a routine export report check through…

Authorities say a Tennessee man whose car was stolen in 1974 will soon have his vehicle back. Joseph MacDonald was a college student and had gone to have dinner with some friends. When he returned, the car was gone, and he never thought he would see it again. Recently, border agents checking paperwork…

When workers at a Goodwill center in Denver, Colorado discovered an old Bible in a box filled with computer parts, they were naturally curious. When they opened the Bible and read the inscription inside, the mystery only deepened. It had been published in 1812, and had the names of the Burbidge family…

When a California man who did not have much money of his own found a bag filled with cash, he knew he had to do the right thing and turn it in to police. Joe Cornell volunteers with the Fresno Salvation Army and was working downtown when he made the find. He saw an armored truck drive by and another…

The old adage says a picture is worth a thousand words, but a picture found hidden in the collar of a stray dog only raises more questions about the animal’s past. When the two-year-old pit bull was brought into the Greenville South Carolina animal shelter, workers noticed it was wearing an unusual collar…

Cindy Herzner thought she would never see her class ring again. When she was a senior at Phoenix, Arizona’s Trevor Browne High School in 1985, she saved her money for six months to buy the ring. Six months after she bought it, she lost it. She thought it was gone for good. Twenty six years later, she…

Clarence Van Dyken remembers several things about 1959. Gas was twenty-five cents a gallon, and he earned $50 a week. That was also the year that he lost his wallet. As time passed, he never thought he would see it again, and life went on. Recently Van Dyken’s lost wallet was returned after the person…

An unemployed teacher noticed a bag in the street as she was driving home, so she stopped to see what it was. She doubted it contained anything at all, until she saw the label reading “Chase Bank.” Candice Scott said it looked like a gallon size baggie with a blue zipper on the top. She almost didn’t…

Chuck and Elicia James decided it was time for their daughter to have a dog. Their beloved Reckless had disappeared over a year and a half ago during Hurricane Sandy. The whole family had been heartbroken. “It was like losing a family member,” commented Chuck. For their daughter’s 10th birthday they…

The amazing discovery of a 1880s era Winchester rifle has authorities in Nevada stumped. During an archaeological survey in late 2014, the rifle was discovered leaning against a tree. It blended in to its surrounding so well that officials say it is possible the .40-40 rifle had been there since the…

An Australian judge has ruled that a former janitor and student can keep over $76,000 of the money he found in a bathroom he was cleaning. Chamindu Amarsinghe was speechless when he received the news because he was sure someone would come forward to claim the cash. When Amarsinghe found the cash, he…

Flight attendants often find items that air passengers have left behind. A recent survey turned up “a live parrot, a box of dried fish, a toupee, handcuffs, and a glass eye.” --Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell. The Week, September 6, 2013 p. 4 Matthew 6:19 (ESV) (19) “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures…

In Hastings, MN a man found an envelope filled with $1,000 cash. He turned it into the police anonymously, but not before helping himself to 20%. Skimming $200 from the stash, he included a note indicating that he was short on cash and really needed the $200. It is illegal to help yourself to a reward.…

Danielle Caroll lost her wedding ring at work while washing her hands with her young students. They were using “a slippery hand cleaner,” and she thinks the hand cleaner caused her ring to slip off her finger into the trash. When she realized she lost it, she searched in the trash, but it was gone. She…

Bismark Mensah, an hourly employee at the Walmart in Federal Way, Washington was helping a woman load groceries into her car. As she drove off, he noticed she had dropped an envelope. The envelope contained $20,000 in cash. Mensah, who immigrated to the United States from Ghana, flagged the woman down…

Bob Russell’s 1967 Austin Healey 3000 was stolen from his Philadelphia area apartment 42 years ago. Since then, Russell has eyed every Healey that passed him wondering if it might be his old car. Several years ago, he started checking internet sits in hopes of one day finding the long lost car. Even…

In 2013, Sarah Darling of Kansas City, Mo., dropped a donation in a homeless man’s cup; and when she did, she left something very special behind! Billy Ray Harris, 55, was sitting in his regular spot on the sidewalk when Darling dropped her donation into his cup. Until he packed up for the day, he didn’t…

A group of tourists spent hours on a Saturday night looking for a missing woman near Iceland's Eldgja canyon. The group was travelling through Iceland on a tour bus and stopped near the volcanic canyon in the southern highlands Saturday afternoon. One of the women on the bus left to change her clothes…