Strangest Objects Recently Discovered

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[ZombieCraft-dsbm]

I love when he says, back in 2019, it sounds like it was years ago

[mspicer]

While walking her dog near the Thames River about 25-30 years ago, my mom found a fossilized fish. She kept it as a novelty, and left it to me when she died. I took it to the local university, Western Ontario, to the Natural Science department to try to find out some more about it. I met with one of the professors who was a little surprised to see the specimen I had. Turns out the fish was endemic to South America about 40-million years ago. I donated it to them, and now it's on display in the main hall when you come into the Nat-Sci building.

I also got a "mystery box" when my grandmother died, and in that box was a few souvenirs she had bought when travelling the world, and another box. The 2nd box contained a manuscript with messy handwriting on its green cover, and a hoard of First Nations pottery and flint arrowheads and tools. The manuscript had been written by a man named Wilfred Jury, who was a prominent local archeologist way back in the day. I remembered there was a museum named after him, and bundled everything up and went there. The first things I showed the museum people (after explaining why I was there), were the pottery shards and flint artifacts. They were nearly speechless, but remarked on the quality of the workmanship. They all went completely silent when the manuscript came out, long thought lost to time. The guy that seemed to be in charge said "we don't have much of a budget for acquisitions" without taking his eyes of the manuscript. I replied "you don't need one, this is where this belongs". All of it is now on permanent display, with my name on the card under 'Donated by', though the museum has since changed its name.

As to how my grandmother wound up with it in the first place... she was the local librarian for 50 years, and helped Mr Jury with his research. The artifacts and (signed) manuscript were a thank you for her work.

[elizabethgaspodnetich]

The coolest thing I ever found was about 40 years ago. I was out on a horse camping trip, that means just me and my horse, and I found the remains of an old wagon road that kinda wound around this hill. I was looking down into the crevice of the bottom of the hill and I could see something shinny down there. It was about 75 ft or so to the bottom. I secured my horse and slid down the hill. I found an old wagon wreck! It was totally undisturbed too. It was pulled by two horses/mules and their bones were still in the harness. There was all kinds of stuff there, cooking pots, clothes, boots and much more. I didn't really have time to dig around there and always thought I would come back to it, just never could find the time, life just took much out of my day. I always wished i had had a camera with me because that was so cool.

[bensfractals]

"This video was sponsored by raid shadow lege-"
*skip skip skip skip skip*

[juliaaaUwU]

No one:
Literally Every Youtuber:”and our sponsor for today is Raid Shadow Legends”

[mushu]

For all who skipped the shadow legends part🙋

[MrNocturnalEmission]

I can’t help but imagine this dude always putting up this voice even in everyday conversations.

[OAwesomeO]

The weirdest thing I discovered was a tree miles into a national forest, with a few names and a date carved into it. The tree wasnt on a trail so the odds of finding it were pretty low but what makes it a truly bizarre discovery was the fact that the carvings were made forty years ago on the exact day I found it.... to this day I think about that find

[benlemire]

I took up metal detecting as a weight loss program. I have been going for just over a year and have quite a few odd, and valuable things, , it's nearly turning into a hoard now, but the best find was a few weeks before moving to a different sate. I had been driving by a place that obviously been a home at one time because of a (about 100 yards long) tree lined driveway. after 4 hours of finding almost nothing but a couple broken toy cars, bailing wire, and shredded wind chime I was on my way out and found a 28.5 pound paint can of silver dimes ranging from 1900 to 1964. over 5000 after counting and organizing. I have pictures.

[craigdavid]

BE AMAZED: "Hindu prayer artifacts in the river in the "
Me: Hey! I remember the 80's :D
BE AMAZED: "It was 40 yrs ago".
Me: Grim realization sets in that I'm now officially an old fart :/

[angelwhispers]

3:40 to skip ad

Dodecahedrons in the Roman time were a multi-use multi-purpose tool that basically every household had at least one. Surveyors also tended to carry a lot of them. I was always taught that they are a surveyor's instrument so that when they have to replace their tools they can take the damaged tool and line it up to one of the holes so that when they have made a new handle for their tool they can match it back to the circle that was first determined to be accurate from the broken one. And then always have a perfect fit putting their new tool handle back on.
One version of the dodecahedron was certainly used for knitting. But most of the big heavy ones we find today but I was always taught were nothing but survey instruments. Romans used surveying pain quite a bit and a dodecahedron could be tossed into a boggy or swampy area with the surveying chain on it to get a reasonably accurate measurement in areas that would be unwise or unrealistic to send a person

[NoelMcGinnis]

I grew up as an Army brat at Ft. Bragg, NC. When my dad and I were digging for worms for a fishing trip, we struck metal. It turned out to be a perfectly oiled and preserved M-60 machine gun. It had gone missing from an armory some 25 years earlier. Naturally we returned it (after firing it off a few times). 😂

[larryjohnson]

I grew up in Vermont and in middle school we had an awesome history teacher who took us on a bunch of day trips to interesting places in our local area. The coolest/weirdest one was a spot in a town called Castleton, where someone bought a piece of land and while excavating for a basement found it was all clean yellow sand exactly like you’d find on a beach. As he got deeper he found some huge bones and realized it was a whale fossil, apparently before Vermont had its green mountains part of it was what they called an “inland sea” if I remember correctly.

[garryhamblin]

In regard to the Dragon Stone, I know someone who found one of those and remarkably it was shaped like a turtle shell. We all thought it was a petrified turtle shell. It was pretty large too. I hope he still has it. It looks cool. I wish it were mine.

[jmedlin]

every time the narrator attempts to make a joke, a small part of me dies inside

[michaelpettersson]

I get the impression that ancient people occasionally placed wierd stuff for future generations to find in order to troll them.

[charlescabatian]

The only strange thing here is will read's head 00:33

[hanstheprussian]

22:26 love the meme i wasn't expecting it and it came out of nowhere and I cried laughing

[OGSontar]

You've got to wonder if an archeologist thousands of years from now digging up one of our towns would think our everyday items were part of a ritual of some sort, magical or otherwise.

[Gtb]

The thumbnail:dino egg

The people in 2021: "softly" don't.