30 Wild Discoveries by Randos Who Were Out Bumbling Around Like the Rest of Us
Start ripping open your walls. You might find an entire lost city
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After seeing the cool stuff that these people stumbled upon, you’ll want to get out there and find some cool stuff of your own. But then it wouldn’t really be considered “random,” would it? By trying, you’d instantly become an amateur archaeologist, and any findings would end up on a whole different list. Just keep living life. Do you. You’ll no-doubt trip over a Stegomastodon skull one of these days.
![AN ARGENTINIAN MAN OUT WALKING ON HIS FARM FOUND A 10,000-YEAR-OLD SHELL. CRACKED.COM »OCA Jose Antonio Nievas was out walking by a stream when he spotted a meter-long shell that belonged to a glyptodont, a prehistoric animal similar to a large armadillo. His wife says that when he reported to his family that he'd seen what he figured was a dinosaur shell, they all laughed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/6/1037566.jpg)
![AN AUSTRIAN MAN DIGGING IN THE DIRT FOUND A LITERAL TREASURE. CRACKED.COM The man was trying to expand his backyard pond when he dug up more than 200 pieces of 650-year-old jewelry. Не tossed the mud-crusted baubles into a box in his basement, and it wasn't until he saw jewels shining through the dried dirt that he realized they might be worth something.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/5/1037565.jpg)
![A GREEK FARMER PARKED HIS VEHICLE UNDER A TREE, AND IT ALMOST SANK INTO A HIDDEN TOMB. CRACKED.COM Не was able to back it out before it sank into the ground, but when he did, he noticed the suspicious-looking hole. It turned out to be a perfectly undisturbed 3,400-year-old Late Minoan tomb containing a pair of coffins.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/4/1037564.jpg)
![A German couple discovered a Perfect Mummy while they were hiking in the Alps. The couple thought they'd stumbled across a dead hiker. They might have, but he'd begun his hike in 3300 В.С. CRACKED.COM http://veww.iceman.it/en/node/233](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/2/1037562.jpg)
![A 3000-year-old SARCOPHAGUS was hidden in the walls of a British man's home. The man's relatives had no idea it was there. It was discovered by an auctioneer who was sorting through the house after the man died. Photo Willingsam Auctions CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/3/1037563.jpg)
![A book culleeds dealer bought A or uncilled solor crilled Nobody 8ad do Book Can Decipher in Italy, in 1912. The codex, named after Wilfrid Voynich, was carbon dated to the 1400s. It contains depictions of plants that don't match any known species, and is written in a language experts still cannot translate. - Photo Wikimedia Commons http://phys.org/news/2011-02-experts-age:htmi/ GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/1/1037561.jpg)
![A 1927 pilot spotted these Wheel Patterns in the Sand from Syria to Saudi Arabia. There are hundreds of them, up to 230 feet in diameter, and they're visible from Google Earth. The pilot asked the local Bedouin tribesmen about the formations, and they said the circles were the works of the old men. Scientists haven't been able to come up with a better explanation, yet. Image: Google Maps APAAME CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/6/0/1037560.jpg)
![A GERMAN STUDENT FOUND A 17TH-CENTURY PAINTING INSIDE A COUCH FROM A FLEA MARKET. CRACKED.COM The student purchased the pull-out sofa for about $215. When she unfolded it, she found Preparation to Escape to Egypt, a 400-year-old Venetian oil painting which later sold at auction for $27,630. And probably a few handfuls of change.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/5/1037545.jpg)
![A CHINESE BOY LOOKING FOR A NUTCRACKER FOUND A DINOSAUR NEST. CRACKED.COM Ten-year-old Zhang Yangzhe was wandering around near the Dong River trying to find something hard enough to crack open his walnut. Не stumbled upon a fossilized egg that was laid 66 million years ago by a Cretaceous-era dinosaur. Presumably someone intervened before he found something even harder to crack that open.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/4/1037554.jpg)
![A COUPLE RENOVATING THEIR HOUSE FOUND A CACHE OF VAN GOGH'S PAPERS STASHED UNDER CRACKED.COM THE FLOORBOARDS. UNION ASSURANCE OFFICE, A.D. 1714, Ala loved is Clak 1 FIRE и No. 81, Coenhill, E.C.: & 70, Baker Street, London. for - - - - - UPS - PENNY POCKET BOO OOK - THE - LIMBLARIE - - EVO - - - - - FRAN by - : - - - - ecit to - - - POYTER work - - 199 - - - - here TRAFF CO - No. 512522 The 2 5 Diy of March 1875 PRAYERS&HYMNS RECEIVED of Mr. Loyer](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/0/1037550.jpg)
![CONSTRUCTION WORKERS DIGGING A SEWER FOUND AN ANCIENT TEMPLE. CRACKED.COM The workers were drilling a sewage drain in an Egyptian city when they unearthed a 2,200-year-old temple from the era of King Ptolemy IV. Archeologists found walls decorated with carvings of the Egyptian fertility god Hapi, which seems like a pretty on-the-nose name.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/1/1037551.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM A CALIFORNIA WOMAN BOUGHT A JACKSON POLLOCK PAINTING FOR $5 AT A THRIFT STORE. A forensic art specialist helped determine 10625 38.4 W that the painting Teri Horton purchased is THE UNITED -280m W COL an original work by the artist also known - - ISEN 9 as Jack the Dripper. DOLLAR Its estimated value: anywhere from $10 million to $50 million.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/1/1037541.jpg)
![AN EGYPTIAN MAN DIGGING IN HIS YARD FOUND A SECRET PASSAGE TO THE GREAT PYRAMID. CRACKED.COM The man came across a corridor made of stone blocks while doing some amateur (illegal) excavation. Officials determined that the corridor was the Pyramid of Khufu's legendary causeway, which archeologists had been trying to find for decades. So he's definitely cursed now.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/9/1037559.jpg)
![AN INCREDIBLY RARE CHESS PIECE WAS FOUND IN A DRAWER IN SCOTLAND. CRACKED.COM The medieval chess piece, one of the long-lost Lewis Chessmen, had been gathering dust in a drawer for 55 years before the family thought to have it assessed. Apparently their grandfather had purchased it in 1964 for £5, and had no idea of its cultural importance. Or its million-dollar value.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/8/1037538.jpg)
![A KID PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK LITERALLY STUMBLED OVER A STEGOMASTODON SKULL. CRACKED.COM Nine-year-old Jude Sparks tripped over the 1.2-million-year-old fossil while looking for a good place to hide from his brothers during a hike in Las Cruces, New Mexico. While running, he kicked the tusk and face-planted next to the jawbone of what he figured was a giant elephant.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/4/1037544.jpg)
![Stone balls CRACKED.COM Okay, they might not sound so sinister. But these Costa Rican balls weigh up to 16 tons, and there are no good theories on who made them or why.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/8/1037558.jpg)
![2000-year-old battery CRACKED.COM People thought this artifact was just a pot. It turned out to be a working battery, more than a millennium before batteries were supposedly invented. No one has any idea what it was for.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/2/1037542.jpg)
![A king's severed head CRACKED.COM The head of King Henri IV of France turned up in some guy's attic. Seems a tax collector bought it years ago, stored it there, then forgot about it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/7/1037547.jpg)
![Dead Germans 5 CRACKED.COM No one expected to find 21 Germans killed in WWI all together in this underground shelter. With them was a goat, and the less questions asked about that, the better.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/3/1037543.jpg)
![Smallpox scabs GRACKED.COM A librarian opened a book from 1888 and fround an envelope inside with smallpox scabs. Scientists were excited that they might harbor the live virus. The librarian was less pleased.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/6/1037546.jpg)
![A whole city CRACKED.COM A Turkish man knocked down a wall in his home and uncovered a tunnel to a massive city called Derinkuyu. We know not what happened next to the man, so we must assume he died horribly.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/2/1037552.jpg)
![Oozing walls CRACKED.COM A home inspector failed to spot a colony of 60,000 bees. The bees soon left, but their honey remained, and it squeezed its way through the walls and coated the home from the inside.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/8/1037548.jpg)
![This damn bird claw CRACKED.COM Cavers were exploring Mt. Owen in New Zealand. They stumbled on the startlingly fleshy remains of a 3,000-year-old Moa, a flightless bird twice the height of a human being.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/7/1037557.jpg)
![As city workers were digging a trench for a fiber optic cable at the Hollister Airport dog park, they found an active WWII practice bomb. DISARMED 9/10/18 MCSO CH The Jerry Gabe Municipal Dog Park located in California was once a former Navy base in the 1940s, so it is believed to host more bombs and fuel tanks underground. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/9/1037549.jpg)
![During a renovation, a Hungarian couple accidentally uncovered 6300 Nazi documents behind a wall in their apartment. I Adatszolgáltatási ív I Statist المغربية E f i F . I I - M. E NZ. rendelether. E y i 1 1 F I A - I | E for I I E I I this works 7 orda د Australia 20 Piron than r I Zs 31.268 utca 168. helyra|zi szão I f | I háror I 6 These documents were a census to keep track of Jews before moving them into death camps during the Holocaust. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/6/1037556.jpg)
![A 2017 Argentine police raid on an art collector's home found a secret room with Nazi relics. - FF The room had toys, statues, medical devices and more, all probably owned by top Nazi party members. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/5/1037555.jpg)
![While playing Pokemon Go, instead of a Pikachu... Bass Pro Shop This woman found a dead body under a Wyoming bridge. COUNTY CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/9/1037539.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM In 2011, miners in Alberta, Canada, found a huge nodosaur fossil. It was so undamaged, it could have been walking around a couple of weeks ago.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/4/0/1037540.jpg)
![Two Filipino fishermen returning home for the day noticed a drifting partially submerged yacht. CRACKED COM They would then discover that its captain was still on board, as a mummy. How long he had been dead was impossible to determine, since conditions at sea could have mummified him within weeks.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/7/1037537.jpg)
![A family in Auburn, PA was trying to insulate their home but upon tearing down the wall, dozens of animal carcasses spilled out. - The Resimated Yearty Operating Des $41 Includes mg&Tray The corpses were wrapped in newspapers from 1930s and 1940s. The family is certain that there are more hiding in their walls but have run out of money trying to get them out. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/5/3/1037553.jpg)