We all have items that have gone missing never to be seen again, no matter how hard we try looking for them.
However, for these lucky few their long lost possessions made their way back to them in the most unexpected fashion.
In a new gallery compiled by BoredPanda people have shared the amazing ways in which they rediscovered long forgotten belongings.
Losing a wallet is always deeply distressing but thanks to the personal details inside they are easily returned – even if that’s 20 years down the line after washing up from the ocean.
In another extraordinary case of lost and found a teen who had misplaced their iPhone discovered it frozen solid in a block of ice, and once defrosted it was miraculously still functioning.
Other missing objects had actually become part of nature with various wedding rings discovered while harvesting carrots and a golf ball embed in the trunk of a tree.
After losing a textbook five years ago this student was amazed when the used copy she ordered from Amazon happened to be that very same book
These reading glasses had been missing for two years before they turned up on the underside of this car
In 1986 a man lost his ticket to see Prince live in Copenhagen and 29 years later he found the unused ticket in the back off a book
This wallet was lost 20 years ago and retrieved from a lake by a group of fishermen
A stray gold ball was found embedded on the inside of a felled tree on this golf course
This woman’s luggage was lost six years ago and was rediscovered floating down the river with a bottle of whiskey still intact
A grandfather had hung up his skates on a small tree in his younger years and completely forgotten about them, years later he came across the tree to find it like this
A father was left searching his home for his keys only to discover that his son had ‘borrowed’ them
A fisherman lost his wallet in a lake in Austria 20 years ago, only to fish it out in his net two decades later
Upon opening his disused piano, this man was delighted to discover his childhood waiting inside
This man’s ring had been missing for several years and he discovered it after lifting his computer to replace the monitor
After losing his wallet at sea 24 years earlier this man never expected that he would have it returned to him two decades on
This driver was ripping out the carpet of his car and discovered 18 years worth of lost change
This man had been searching far and wide for his missing phone in February and discovered it frozen in the driveway, after defrosting it he was shocked to find it was still functioning
When this man rediscovered his wallet from fourth grade he was astounded to find $300 in it
This woman visited Fiji 14 years ago and beame good pals with a taxi driver there, after returning yeas later she found that very same man last
After his dog passed away this man struggled to find his favourite toy, two years after his death he found it had been transformed into a mossy memorial
This man lost his wedding ring in the Atlantic ocean however, a kindhearted woman and her metal detector were able to find it four hours later
Their iPod had been missing for over a year and a half, so it came as a great surprise when this woman discovered it under the kitchen table
After buying his father a metal detector for Christmas this man was horrified when his father discovered his homemade pipe from 20 years earlier
Timothy Burrows was contacted by a man who found his wallet 14 years ago and now holds an annual drinking competition in his honour
An 82-year-old man discovered his missing wedding ring after harvesting his carrots
This pair of zip-off jeans were missing their bottoms for years, after finding them again this netizen discovered the top had rather dramatically faded
A man was delighted when the stegosaurus mug that he had lost for years was presented to him by his mum filled with eggnog on Thanksgiving
This man’s wife is a school librarian and after visiting her at work discovered the tie that he thought he had misplaced