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airplanes

Found, By a Danish Schoolboy: A Crashed WWII Plane in His Family's Field

As a joke, his father had suggested he look for it.
Sarah Laskow March 8, 2017
food

Found: A Treasure Trove of Candy Wrappers Dating Back to the Depression

They were hidden in a circulation chamber in an old Chicago theater.
Sarah Laskow March 7, 2017
animals

Found: A Turtle With 915 Coins in Its Belly

His name means "piggy bank."
Sarah Laskow March 6, 2017
It still works, too.
models

Found: A Miniature Working Model of the National Archives Vault

It had been forgotten down in the basement.
Elliot Carter March 6, 2017
EELS! ILLEGAL EELS!
crime

Found: 600,000 Illicit Eels at Heathrow Airport

They were hidden beneath shipments of other, totally legal fish.
Eric Grundhauser March 3, 2017
The cookbook.
food

Found: Recipes From 1793 for Calves' Heads and Pigs' Feet

A Georgian cookbook was hiding in an abbey's private library.
Sarah Laskow March 3, 2017
Many minerals.
geology

Found: Hundreds of Minerals That Only Exist Because of Humans

Minerals are supposed to be "naturally occurring."
Sarah Laskow March 2, 2017
These tubes represent the oldest evidence for life on Earth.
aliens

Found: Fossil Evidence of the Oldest Life on Earth

It is 3.7 BILLION years old.
Sarah Laskow March 1, 2017
Not orichalcum.
islands

Found: 47 Lumps of Orichalcum, an Ancient Alloy Attributed to Atlantis

Orichalcum!
Sarah Laskow March 1, 2017
The torcs found in the field.
news

Metal Detector Hobbyists Find Gold in a Field They Got Bored of 20 Years Earlier

The four pieces of jewelry date back to the Iron Age.
Sarah Laskow February 28, 2017
Not the actual fence.
rites and rituals

Found: Mysterious, Maze-Like Neolithic Fences

They enclosed a huge area, but for what purpose?
Sarah Laskow February 27, 2017
One of the memos found.
computers

Found: Internal Apple Computer Memos From 1979, Left at a Seattle Goodwill

A local discovered them by chance.
Sarah Laskow February 24, 2017
restaurants

Found: A Stray Chicken in a McDonald's Bathroom

A 5-year-old made the discovery.
Sarah Laskow February 23, 2017
Albert Street today—the exact location of the mosque is being withheld at the request of the current occupants.
sacred spaces

Found: The Location of London’s Oldest Mosque

It opened in 1895.
Sarah Laskow February 23, 2017
graffiti

Found: Strange Graffiti on 4 of Washington's Most Famous Monuments

It referenced the JFK assassination and the 9/11 attacks.
Sarah Laskow February 22, 2017
An artist's rendering of the worm.
news

Found: The Fossil of a Giant, Extinct, 400-Million-Year-Old Worm

It went unnoticed in a museum for years.
Erik Shilling February 21, 2017
The envelope of one of the letters.
news

Found: Love Letters a WWII Soldier Wrote to His Boyfriend

Homosexuality was illegal at the time.
Sarah Laskow February 21, 2017
Naica's crystal cave.
caves

Found: 50,000-Year-Old Microbes Hiding in the Cave of the Crystals

They are a kind of "super life."
Sarah Laskow February 20, 2017