Results: 'Tonite Is A Wonderful Time to Fall in Love' With That Guitar I Thought Was Long Gone
Published on 01/11/2019
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Myles Goodwyn of Canadian rock band April Wine played a Gibson guitar on New Year's Eve that hadn't been in his hands for 44 years. It was mailed to his Halifax home from Victoria, decades after the singer and guitarist assumed the instrument was gone for good. The guitar — a 1962 Gibson Melody Maker that was featured on April Wine's first three records, 1971's April Wine, 1972's On Record, and 1974's Live! — was thought to have been destroyed when a truck carrying the band's gear crashed in Montreal in 1974. Almost all of the equipment was ruined in the accident. Goodwyn was told his Gibson guitar was among the broken gear when, in fact, it was plucked from the wreckage and kept under wraps by one of April Wine's team. Goodwyn said he received a message through Facebook on Dec. 24 from a person in Victoria with knowledge of a chestnut guitar with yellow finishes that had Goodwyn's name engraved on the head. At first, Goodwyn was unconvinced that it was his guitar, but then the man sent Goodwyn a picture. Goodwyn said he got in touch with the owner, and bought back the guitar for an unspecified sum. It arrived in the mail on New Year's Eve in near-perfect condition. Have you ever misplaced or lost something, only to have it turn up years later?
No, I've never misplaced or lost anything
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Yes, I have and it has turned up years later
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Yes, but it turned up shortly after
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550 votes
I've lost or misplaced things, but they still have not shown up
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There was an interesting story in a survey last year about a Canadian woman from Alberta, who lost her wedding ring while gardening, only to find it 13 years later in that same garden plot, with a carrot grown around it. As odd as that might be, it's not an isolated occurrence. A German man found his lost wedding ring wrapped around a carrot, after losing it 3 years earlier and a Swedish woman also found her ring wrapped around a carrot, after it was missing for 16 years. In other lost ring stories (not carrot related), here are some unusual stories of lost rings and the strange places they end up. Have you ever heard any of these before?
In 2013 in Missouri, Sarah Darling dropped some change into homeless man Billy Ray Harris' cup. Her $4000 engagement ring accidentally went in too. Assuming he would sell it, Sarah feared the worst but still managed to track him down two days later. Billy had kept the ring and gladly gave it back. Seeing that he was a good man who was just down on his luck, Sarah and her fiance set up a fund for him which raised $180,000 in just a few months thanks to the story going viral around the world.
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Krista Berg bought a bag of dog food for her puppy Otto from her local store. When she opened it when Otto's dinnertime came around, a shiny wedding ring popped out. Krista called got in touch with the factory where the food was made but nobody had lost a ring there. In the end, it turned out to belong to an employee of the store, who was very grateful to have it back.
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reland held a general election last February, but one voter got more than she bargained for when she popped her ballot paper into the voting box – her engagement ring slipped off and fell in too! It's against the election rules to open any ballot box before it's time to count the votes, so the election officers instead tried to catch it with a ruler. Not surprisingly, that didn't work.The ringless lady had to wait until the next day when counting began and the box was opened to retrieve her ring. Luckily the counting team were well aware of what happened and set about finding the ring first before counting the votes, and the ring was returned within minutes.
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Ecologist Aleki Taumoepeau lost his rings in murky ocean water, while searching the waters of New Zealand for invasive plant species. When the ring disappeared in water ten feet deep, Aleki tossed his anchor overboard to help him mark the spot. Three months later, he returned to the location and searched for the ring –to no avail. He then returned again, over a year later, and dared to dive into the freezing waters during the area's winter season. Finally, he spotted his old anchor and then immediately saw the ring.
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In 1974, a year after Donna Claver was married, the pregnant woman set her engagement ring on the tank lid of her toilet while she put lotion on. Unfortunately, the ring slipped into the bowl. Despite Donna and husband Terry's best efforts, including unbolting the toilet and shaking it vigorously, the ring was stuck inside the hole at the bottom of the bowl and couldn't be removed. Because the couple was too poor to afford a new toilet, they eventually gave up and put the fixture back in place, expecting to never retrieve their lost ring. As the years went by, the Clavers moved out of the home and it was sold over and over, but just last year, Terry happened to be roofing a house across the street from his old home when he noticed the new owners carrying the toilet to the trash. Remembering his wife's lost ring, Terry climbed off the roof and told the gentlemen he'd be happy to throw the toilet away for them. He then took the fixture to his shop and broke it with a sledgehammer. Finally, the ring was free. Amazingly, after a little cleaning, the ring still looked brand new 36 years later.
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In 1938, an 18-year-old Jesse Mattos had lost his high school class ring when he accidentally flushed it down the toilet at work. While on the job, city worker Tony Congi found the ring and recognized the crest as the same high school from which he had graduated. Based on the few clues the ring provided, notably the graduation year 1938 and the initials JTM etched inside the band, Congi set about to hunt down the owner of the ring. After tracking down a 1938 yearbook, he determined that the only name to match the initials was Jesse T. Mattos. Congi also found a member of the 1938 graduating class still living in the area. As luck would have it, the man Congi found was Matto's best friend, who helped Congi in the last steps to reuniting ring with its owner after seventy-two years apart.
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Here's a few more lost and found stories that prove real life is often stranger than fiction. Have you ever heard any of these true stories about lost objects?
Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro's story is one of the most famous lost and found stories. Among his most prized possessions is a leather-bound journal that he carries with him at all times. It is where he sketches and writes down his ideas for future films. In this particular notebook was four years worth of ruminations that would eventually become El Labyrinth del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth). The movie almost never came to be, as Del Toro had exited a London cab one night and neglected to take his notebook with him. The cabbie found the notebook, as well as a scrap of paper with a hotel logo on it. Recognizing the logo, the cabbie returned the book and Del Toro was so excited with its return that he gave the cabbie a $900 reward.
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142 votes
Montreal residents Shoshana and Dez thought their priceless photos of New York City were gone forever after they lost their digital camera's memory card during a 2008 trip. They posted an ad on Craigslist, but nothing turned up. The couple was shocked when the memory card arrived in the mail—three years later. Kelly Sullivan, a Museum of Modern Art attendant who was working the day Shoshana and Dez visited, had noticed the tiny memory card on the museum floor. She posted the photos to ifoundyourcamera.net, where Nicole Backs, a student in British Columbia stumbled on them while idly looking through photos. Backs had recognized Shoshana as a friend of her mom's, and the card made its way back home.
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In 1999, Massachusetts resident Kim Flanders put her handbag on the roof of her car, loaded up her kids, then drove away. When she realized her error, she went back to the parking lot to look for it, but no luck. 18 years later, Dondi Mitchell decided to go fishing in Silver Lake and dredged up Flanders' bag, which had been tossed into the lake, weighted with rocks. Mitchell recognized the name on the ID as belonging to a woman whom he graduated high school with in Orange, Massachusetts (home to about 7,800 people). So Mitchell got in touch with Flanders on Facebook, and mailed the bag to her new home in Florida.
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Back in 1960, 18-year-old Bill Leech was studying French at Grenoble University when he lost his wallet at a ski resort pub. 55 years later, the old wooden bar of the pub was uprooted and moved. That's when a carpenter discovered the wallet wedged in an overlooked hole. The man told his sister about the find, and she told her English-speaking neighbor, and together they used the power of the internet to track down now-73-year-old parish council chairman Bill Leech. They offered to mail the wallet to Bill, but after uttering an extremely British "Good heavens," he decided to collect it himself while revisiting his old stomping grounds.
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85 votes
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