“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
― A.A. Milne

When we stop searching for something, we find the best discoveries. It is something same as love.

However, even though you drag a metal detector through the beach, it is very less likely to find an unexpected treasure.

These people on the list below have found their own unique ‘gems’ at the most random times and very strange places.

You can Scroll down to check out these historical findings by people who have explored outside the world. Don’t forget to tell us what you think!

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

#2 Found This In The Woods While Trail Riding

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

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

#5 Thankfully My Dad Found Them Before He Started Mowing

#6 A Little Patch Of Clover In A Bottle

#7 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!

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

#9 This Blue Crayfish I Found In The Mountains Of West Virginia

#10 My Nephew Found A Sea Shell With Squid Eggs Inside

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

#12 This Satisfying Pebble I Found At The Beach

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

#14 I Found A Transparent Leaf

#15 Quartz Found In Arkansas Is Worth $4 Million

#16 Found This Old Calculator In My Great Grandmother’s Attic

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

#18 Found This Rock Within A Rock On A Beach Walk

#19 I Found This Under The Floor Boards In A 1800’s Era House

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

#21 Found A Fossil In The Parking Lot Of A Pet Store

#22 I Found A 7 Leaf Clover!

#23 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

#24 This Piece Of Pine Sap I Found On A Pallet At Work

#25 Found A 94-Year-Old Dollar On The Ground

#26 A Friend Found A Pink Grasshopper While Working

#27 Found An Almost Perfectly Spherical Rock At The Beach

#28 Found This Today While Weeding A Vineyard

#29 Found A Carved-Out Quarter On The Ground Showing George Washington Smoking Reefer

#30 Rock I Found On The Beach

#31 A Blue Mineral Stone Found In The Forest

#32 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

#33 I Found A Pearl In My Oyster From The Fish Market

#34 My Brother Found A Dinosaur While Digging Up His Garden

  

#35 I Broke A Rock And Found Two Kinds Of Fossils

#36 Found A Rock That Looks Like A Shark

#37 I Found Something

#38 I Found This Message In A Bottle On Floreana Island In The Galapagos

 

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

#40 I Found Lizard Eggs In My Wall

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

#42 I Found This On The Floor

#43 My Friend Found A Bullet In Her Corn

#44 I Found A Rock Shaped Like A Heart

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

#46 I Found A Child’s Time Capsule While Digging In My Yard

#47 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

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

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

 

#50 Found A Gun Buried Underneath A Friend’s House In Germany

#51 I Found Some Amethyst In A Gravel Driveway

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

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

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

#55 Found An Almost Triangular Rock In A River

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

#57 I Found A Diamond On The Floor Of My Wife’s Plastic Surgery Clinic

  

#58 This Rock I Found With Hexagonal Crystals In It

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

#60 This Headstone Found Under My Garage

#61 My Grandmother Found “Rouge” From The 1950s

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

#63 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

#64 I Found This Picture Floating In The Ocean While Snorkeling

#65 Unopened 1941 Pepsi Cola

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

#67 My Mussel Contained A Tiny Half-Eaten Crab!

#68 Newspaper From July 3, 1942, Used As Insulation In A House That Was Built Then

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

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

#71 This Seashell I Found Looks Like A Human Heart

#72 Found A $10 In The Parking Lot… Under The Ice

#73 Super Round Stone I Found On The Beach

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

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

#76 I Found A Rock That’s Almost A Perfect Cube

#77 We Found A 70+ Year Old World War II Practice Bomb

#78 I Found A Copy Of ‘Twister’ While Cleaning Up After A Tornado

#79 Found A Furby While Digging A Hole

#80 This Old Seven-Up Bottlers Flavor I Found At Grandma’s House

#81 This Salt Crystal I Found In The Tin Matches The Company Logo

#82 I Found These Small Lizard Eggs At Work Today

#83 I Found A Library Book That Has Been Consistently Taken Out For Over 80 Years

#84 I Found A Pencil That Looks Like A Cigarette On The Ground

#85 Found This Guy On The Golf Course

#86 Today I Found A Pearl Inside A Shellfish I Ate

#87 My Wife Found A Pearl In The Clam Chowder

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

#89 A Friend Of Mine Found This In The Ground

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

#91 A Decade Old Banana My Dad Found In His Ski Jacket

#92 Mini Crab Found Inside Of Mussel Shell

#93 I Found A Spooky Dead Lizard In My Cambodian Jasmine Rice

#94 I Found A Wrinkled Egg In My Store-Bought Eggs

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

#96 Almost Stepped In This Little Guy

#97 So I Was Browsing The Macs At The Apple Store When…

#98 Hehaaa

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