For a period of about five months, on several different occasions I would find a pack of Marlboro Light 100’s, each with eleven cigarettes still inside, and each also with a yellow lighter.
I found one on a bench in the middle of my town, one off the side of the highway on the way up to the mountain communities, one walking on a road on the way home, one in the middle of a city down the hill, one in front of a McDonalds in the ashtray, and one on the shore of a lake I was fishing at.
Reported.
There was this one time I found a zombie thread. Gave me a fright!
Is a zombie thread necessarily a Bad Thing?
I found a dead snake suspended in a spiderweb.
I found a smell that cost me $400 worth of clothes as I had to replace my entire wardrobe. This was about a month ago. I don’t know what exactly the smell was or where it came from but I found out the hard way that it didn’t wash out. In fact, when I put the pants that picked up the smell in the laundry it spread so that EVERYTHING in the washer ended up smelling like burnt mold. This was about a month ago, which was good timing as I shrunk out of all my clothes and needed new stuff anyway, but for a couple of weeks I had no choice but to smell like that as I replaced my wardrobe since I couldn’t let the smelly stuff come in contact with the clean stuff.
A piece of very porous light pumice lava about the size of a softball, about like this one in appearance and color. There’s nothing particularly unusual about it in and of itself, but I found it in the woods of my family farm. While I’m sure there were volcanoes and such there millions or billions of years ago I find it highly unlikely one little piece of pumice would somehow manage to remain on the ground for a billion years until I wandered by.
Best guess: for some reason it was in possession of one of the hunters who illegally poached on our land and it fell out of a sack or car. Failing that, perhaps a dog for some reason drug it off from somewhere. (This was nowhere near a road where it could fall off a truck or whatever.)
Also in the woods I found, when I was a kid, what I was convinced was a small (chicken-egg sized) hollow iron cannonball from perhaps DeSoto or Jackson (both of whom are believed to have marched through the general area our farm was in). I was disappointed to learn it’s a natural occurrence called concretion (though it does have some scratched markings on it that indicate it may have belonged to an Indian- they used them as paintpots).
I had hoped to have a video or picture to link to- there used to be some online but they’re all dead links now- but 2 years ago my sister had the ultimate “strange found item”- a shipwreck.
She was walking on a state owned long expanse of undeveloped beach in Alabama a day or two after a bad storm and noticed what looked like driftwood- but a lot of it. She thought she’d see if there was enough to make a bench. Other people wandered along and soon all started digging around with their hands and it was evident- this was the hull of a ship. No pics, but an article on the find.
Turns out that historians and archaeologists knew it was there- it had been uncovered before when a lot of sand was swept out by a storm. This time it was moreso than usual. It’s not positively identified, but it’s believed to be a blockade runner that ran ashore during the Civil War, either dodging the blockade or perhaps caught in a storm- and beached and burned 30 miles from Mobile. (It’s specifically believed to be a schooner called Monticello because there’s a record of it beaching and burning after an exchange with the blockade, but there have been shipwrecks on that beach from the 16th century to way into the 20th century [major rum running port during Prohibition for instance] so it’s not certain.)
A bit more of it was exposed over the next few days and news spread, which unfortunately brought a lot of souvenir hunters as word spread (my sister saw a guy go in with a metal detector and various tools and pull out an iron stake), then over the next few days it covered back up. It’d be great to uncover it as there’s no telling what’s on there (if anything), but according to experts interviewed on the local news (video used to be online but no more) it would be just ungodly expensive and very probably yield (especially if it burned) nothing more interesting historically than old lumber and metal.
Found a giant remote controller and no receptive unit with it in an attic crawlspace after the family before us moved out. I think it was for a heli; it’s probably still in my room at the parents’. It looked pretty high quality for a remote controller, so I didn’t toss it.
When I was a kid, I was helping my neighbor dig a new garden. We found several dozen iron pellets. They were all about the size of a gum ball. One of my teachers had a museum contact and his guess was that they were railroad related. There were some tracks about a mile or so from my house.
Whenever I make a shopping list, I add, somewhere in the middle, “Anal Lube,” and leave it in the store. Hopefully, one of you will find one. 
Why, yes, I’m 12, why do you ask?
Joe
Note that it appears to be the 4th time (at least) that it has been brought back from oblivion.
“Why!” WHAM! “Won’t!” WHACK! “You!” SLICE! “Stay!” BLAM! “Dead!” <gurgle>
All that said, jolly good idea for a thread.
Zombie. Closed.