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Travelers left behind millions of items by 2025, including items as rare as a samurai sword, as expensive as diamond earrings, and as historic as a World War II flight jacket, according to a new report by Unclaimed Baggage.
Unclaimed Baggage, which bills itself as the nation’s only retailer of lost luggage, released its annual report Thursday, listing the most interesting finds in luggage that airports can’t return to passengers.
“Every year, I’m amazed at the value found in luggage and what it represents about our community,” said Bryan Owens, the company’s chief executive officer, in a statement. “After more than 55 years of recovering the lost and rejected for good, we tend to believe we’ve seen it all. But then we find something like a matching set of Samurai swords, a fully assembled robot, a jeweled Dolce & Gabbana jacket or gold-plated golf clubs, and we’re reminded why the annual ‘Found Report’ exists.”
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A pair of samurai swords and a WWII flight jacket were left behind by the travelers. (Unclaimed Cargo / Unknown)
The report said that while 99.9% of checked bags eventually make it back to their owner, “a rare minority take a detour—which ends up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Scottsboro, Alabama,” which is the location of the Unwanted Baggage store.
The top 10 finds in the company’s third annual report include a robot, a bionic knee, 10K gold teeth grills, a meteorite, a fire poi used for fire dancing, an Australian one-ounce pure gold bar, a matching set of samurai swords, a beekeeping suit, gold-plated golf clubs and a teak didgeridoo.
The top five most expensive finds include white diamond earrings worth more than $43,000, a Rolex stainless steel watch with 18k yellow gold and diamond dial worth about $35,000, a Tosca bass clarinet worth $17,500, a Balenciaga leather jacket worth $12,500 and a T5 camera worth $00 over $0000.
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The report’s “strange” findings included a taxidermy deer, a bag of frogs, a pre-World War I US military bayonet, a large stuffed goose, a sample of long bones, a bag of armadillos, a 12-pack case of sardines, a fake skeleton, a suitcase full of rat poison, and ties.
Another passenger forgot his meteorite. (Unclaimed Cargo / Unknown)
The top sports find was the signature boxing gloves of undefeated boxing champion Terence Crawford, the top fashion find was Miss North Dakota USA 2025’s national costume designed by Ryan Castillo, and the top international find was a Tibetan singing bowl.
A 1960’s Ken doll complete with carrying case was a top pop culture find, vintage cassette tapes of Elvis and Bobby Helms’ Jingle Bell Rock were top finds for music, and an 1893 commemorative coin was a top find.
A robot that can’t find its way home. (Unclaimed Cargo / Unknown)
The top historical find was the US Army Air Force A-2 flight jacket and the top technological find was the 1900s Kellogg telephone.
The company saw a trend in the luggage of travelers packing “more pop collections” like Labubus “than before, there was a “shift toward accessible luxury … without the high price tag,” more books packed, especially “The Housemaid” author Freida McFadden, and more gold traveled than they had seen “in years.”
“From 24K dice to gold-plated golf clubs, this precious metal has appeared in suitcases as a statement piece and a store of value,” the report said.
Last year, Owens told Fox News that the company recycles one-third of its materials, and gives the other third to charities.
Miss North Dakota USA 2025’s national costume designed by Ryan Castillo was a top fashion find. (Unclaimed Cargo / Unknown)
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At the time, Owens said that one of the strangest things he had ever seen was “a well-traveled, almost vintage Gucci suitcase filled with Egyptian artifacts dating back to 1500 BC.”
Owens added that airlines “put a lot of effort” into reuniting bags with their owners because “it’s more economically viable to reunite them with your bag than to sell your unwanted bags to us.”
