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Found: Three Dozen Giant, Mysterious Disks of Compressed Trash

They smelled.
Sarah Laskow May 17, 2017
animals

The Small Mystery of Why Bats Keep Returning to This House

“I don't understand why of all of these beautiful homes, mine is the one the bats are attracted to."
Erik Shilling May 15, 2017
Virginia & Rolf
news

Found: A 72-Year-Old Love Letter That Was Never Received

“Are you as lonesome for me as I am for you?"
Sarah Laskow May 15, 2017
islands

Found: A Giant Decomposing Sea Creature

It’s probably a whale?
Sarah Laskow May 12, 2017
A great white shark on the western cape of South Africa.
murder

Found: Three Dead Great White Sharks, Missing Their Livers

One was also missing its heart.
Sarah Laskow May 11, 2017
A young JFK.
politics

Found: A 1937 Recording of JFK as a Harvard Student

It’s the earliest known recording of him.
Sarah Laskow May 10, 2017
Paul left a note for whoever found the treasure.
maps

Found: A Treasure Buried by a Teen in 1981

After three decades, someone finally dug it up.
Sarah Laskow May 9, 2017
The wind creates a scaly formation.
wind

Found: Rare, Bizarre ‘Dragon-Skin Ice’

It's "evidence of a darker chaos," one scientist says.
Sarah Laskow May 8, 2017
weapons

Found: An 18th-Century Asian Sword Fished From a Welsh River

It's in surprisingly good condition.
Sarah Laskow May 5, 2017
Joan Blaeu, Archipelagus Orientalis sive Asiaticus
maps

Found: A Rare, 17th-Century Map of Australia

Created around 1659 by a Dutch cartographer, it's the first map to show Tasmania.
Sarah Laskow May 4, 2017
news

Found: A Giant Wave of Gas Twice the Size of the Milky Way

It's 200,000 light years across.
Sarah Laskow May 3, 2017
art

Found: Hidden Golden Toilets With a Political Message

Some puckish politico has placed them across Indiana.
Sarah Laskow May 3, 2017
money

Found: A Lost Wallet, 13 Years Later

Dean McAuley thinks it went missing on a scuba-diving trip.
Erik Shilling May 2, 2017
Marengo's skeleton, at the National Army Museum.
napoleon bonaparte

Found: The Hoof of Napoleon’s Horse, Hiding in a Cottage Drawer in England

It was in a plastic bag.
Sarah Laskow May 1, 2017
mystery

Found: Mystery Safe Unopened for 40 Years

Who leaves a mystery safe unopened??
Sarah Laskow April 28, 2017
The design of the sinks is unusually ornate.
art

Found: An Unusually Beautiful Bathroom Hidden Beneath a Factory Floor

They are nice sinks.
Sarah Laskow April 27, 2017
Lennon's sketch of the album cover.
news

John Lennon Left This Sketch Behind When He Moved House in the 1960s

Imagine finding this in your new home.
Sarah Laskow April 27, 2017
A cattle herd in India.
tunnels

Found: A Cow-Smuggling Tunnel Under a Tea Garden

Where's the beef?
Sarah Laskow April 26, 2017