This is the story of a 1938 Talbot-Lago T150C SS, a.k.a. “Teardrop,” one of only two models built with a race-cars engine. With chassis number 90108, the masterpiece car has a current value of over $7.6 million.

The story begins in 1967 when a self-made millionaire named Roy Leiske bought the “Teardrop” in pieces for $10,000. His aim was to restore and re-assemble the vehicle, tinkering with the car amid towering piles of machine parts.

Roy Leiske’s obsession continued for decades until, in 2001, the Talbot-Lago disappeared. The car had remained in pieces at the back of his former factory, from where it was stolen, also in parts, together with all the paperwork connected to it.

After Leiske’s death, his cousin Richard Mueller inherited the stolen car and his estate. The Teardrop could be located neither by the police nor by the FBI or Interpol. Finding the precious vehicle seemed to be a lost cause until one day, an attorney specializing in locating stolen classic cars contacted Mueller.

The name of the attorney is Joseph Ford. He never actually worked in a law firm but kept his legal license. The self-employed detective used his legal qualification to represent himself successfully in similar cases. Long story short, Ford offered Mueller to help him locate the car, take care of the legal requirements, sell it, and split the funds.

Skipping forward to 2016, when a shell corporation popped up, trying to register the now-fully-restored 1938 Talbot-Lago T150C SS in Illinois. However, somebody named Workman had purchased the car the previous year for $7 million from a European broker and refused to give up the vehicle.

While Workman is no amateur in this field, Ford’s efforts and knowledge of the law may finally pay off. The vehicle is currently being held at a high-end restoration business in Massachusetts until the Wisconsin Supreme Court arrives at a decision. Federal prosecutors have announced a five-count indictment in the case – four counts of transporting a stolen motor vehicle in international commerce.

Today, the T150 sits in limbo in the Essex shop of Russel, as Workman battles with Mueller and Ford over who will possess it. The nature of the theft remains a mystery, and not the only one when it comes to rare sports cars. And the 1938 Talbot-Lago T150C is a real masterpiece!

In certain contexts, donating your mom could simply be a euphemistic way of saying that you put your mom in a retirement home. However, as some of you may have guessed already, this isn’t the case here.

Apparently, this gentleman, for some inexplicable reason, surrendered an urn containing his mother’s ashes. We can only assume what went on between those two while the mother was still alive, but we don’t intend to pry on anyone’s private business. Hey, do you think she wrote him out of her will?

Honestly, we had no idea that there’s a factory somewhere in the world that makes fake stuffed animals. While we think it’s a noble thing to do, because this means no animals are actually hurt in the process, you still have to admit that it’s weird.

However, we’re concerned with that employee’s decision to buy the thing and keep it for 15 years. Did they also put pictures of them hunting elephants in Africa? We’re quite confused.

We never thought that we would actually have to put this into words but — why would you possibly want to bring food items to donation bins? We have nothing against bringing dried or canned goods to the food kitchen but that’s not the same as bringing a three-month-old cheesecake to a donation bin.

Why on Earth would anyone do that? We were grossed out, as was that poor employee at the donation center who had to clear it away. Oh, the humanity!

If you ever watched The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, you probably know what an Enigma Machine is. For those of you who didn’t watch it, an Enigma Machine was a device that enabled the German military to exchange encrypted messages without having to worry about the allies finding out about their plans, during WWII.

When the war ended, these machines were seized by the allies. Today, these machines can be normally spotted in war museums, mainly in Europe and the United States.

Live animals, like fresh food items, are something you shouldn’t put in a donation bin under any circumstances. Alright, we get it, this random person probably realized that taking care of a hamster isn’t easy as it may seem. While these little fluffy creatures are cute, they do require a lot of attention.

For example, you have to clean their cage twice a day unless you want your house to smell. In any case, just bring them to an animal shelter, but never to a donation center.

Finding an 80-year-old bottle of perfume inside a picnic basket makes us wonder if there’s a romantic story behind it. The cynics among you may just say that it got there by accident. If you’re a cynic yourself, we suggest you move on to the next item on this list.

For the rest of us — the hopeless romantics — just imagine that this bottle of perfume was left in the picnic basket on purpose. It was a gift from a soldier to his sweetheart who went to war but never came back.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re completely against animal cruelty. This means we don’t support the following story, but we had to share it nonetheless. So, people in the past thought that killing an animal and using its hide to make a rug was a good idea.

Somebody else thought that it was a good idea to bring that dead rug to the donation center. At least the employee’s daughter was happy because she got her goatskin rug. Humans… go figure.

This is one more weird thing that we don’t get. Somebody found a taxidermied frog sitting in a tiny chair. A taxidermic, for your information, is the “art” of stuffing real-life, dead animals. Apparently, people have a thing with taking frogs, stuffing them, and then creating all kinds of crazy “artworks” with them.

So, someone chanced upon a frog sitting in a tiny chair. Just another day in the office, you see. That person actually mailed it to their friend, as a gift. We will say it again — people are weird.

Donating your old suitcase sounds like a reasonable thing to do. They served you well on your various trips around the globe (assuming you took those) or in your cross-country journeys, and now, it’s time to pass them on. What you shouldn’t do, however, is leave used needles in them.

We seriously hope nothing happened to the person who chanced upon spotting them. Used needles could carry dangerous diseases. Next time, maybe use a pair of gloves or wear an entire hazmat suit for extra safety.

They say that Victorian times were the coolest in England. Just think about all those fancily dressed ladies and gentlemen going about their daily businesses. Men used to wear top hats and monocles, women wore petticoat dresses and everyone seemed to be so genteel.

No surprise this guy’s mom wanted to keep this piece of Victorian undergarment to herself. While we definitely find it amusing, we are pretty certain, however, that we know what Queen Victoria would say about it — “We are not amused!”

You better sit down before you start reading this. No, nobody (as far as we know) has ever put a corpse in a donation bin, but the next thing you are about to read would probably be the closest to it — a lock of hair, attached to a death certificate.

Quite shocking, isn’t it? This item honestly made us squirm in our seats. We wonder if the lock of hair did belong to the person whose name was on the certificate. On second thought, we don’t want to know.

This is just exasperating. People should be prohibited from donating half-used items that aren’t really worth the effort spent on getting them in the first place. Anyone can get candles if they need to because they aren’t that expensive.

Why would they bother going to a charity shop to get half-used candles for half a price? We want to make a silly little joke here since the occasion merits it — if you get half-used candles, does it mean that your room will only be half-lit?

Apparently, it’s actually a real thing. People donate their old journals to charity shops. The thought of someone else reading our most private thoughts makes us cringe, but we don’t judge, of course. Actually, if a journal can’t be traced back to the person who wrote it, this might make the whole thing more tolerable.

In any case, we are kinda curious to find out what was written in some of these journals. What unrequited loves, miseries, and woes were neatly recorded only to be read by someone else? Drama, please!

This is hilarious, especially if our guess is true. We bet that the person behind these letters is an old lady living with 25 cats in a dilapidated house at the edge of town. Who else would bother writing letters to the town council and then also thank them for doing what they were asked for?

Actually, who sends physical letters these days anyway? What year are we living in? 1955? You do have to admit, however, that old-fashioned letters work better than emails, so it seems at least.

For those of you who didn’t get a chance to finish high school for various reasons (we don’t judge!), there seems to be an easy solution to this problem. Just go to the nearest thrift shop and pick a high school diploma that is to your liking.

We’re kidding, but this is definitely one of those extremely unusual items that people are likely to find in a thrift store. Why would you want to get your high school diploma anyway if your high school days are over?

Snakes are definitely not the first animal that comes to mind when you think of pets. Some people, however, would disagree as they do keep snakes as pets in their houses. The problem usually begins when you can’t find your pet snake. Just imagine the frightening realization that your little slippery friend is nowhere to be found.

Something similar happened to this guy who couldn’t find his snake and donated his couch. Looks like his snake was hibernating when the coach was donated. At least this didn’t happen in someone else’s house.

This is more comic than weird. Sometimes, we miss opportunities simply because they don’t present themselves as such. Looks like this is what happened to this someone’s grandfather who chanced upon a vase that belonged to the famous Spanish artist Picasso.

Picasso’s works of art are sold today for millions of dollars, because you can’t really argue about someone’s taste in art — and what would appear as an “ugly vase” for one person would be worth millions to another, apparently.

In our series of morbid items, this one beats all the previous ones that we mentioned, and could easily make its way into a detective story. A human skull washes up in a charity store one day and no one knows to whom it belongs.

The workers then alert the police who link the skull to an active murder investigation. This is really as creepy as it gets because sometimes reality beats fiction. And who said that working for a charity can’t be exciting?

Old uniforms, especially those that belonged to armed forces of other nations, aren’t something you’d normally expect to find in a donation bin. Finding a pair of uniforms that belonged to a member of a paramilitary organization is even weirder.

The SS stands for Schutzstaffel, “protection organization” in German. Members of the SS were responsible for the many atrocities committed during WWII. The person who brought them must have obtained them in Europe — maybe even during the war.

This poor person found a pee wee baseball league plaque with their name and photo on it. Judging by their reaction, it seems like they didn’t remember being photographed (or perhaps even giving their consent) for their photo to feature in the plaque. When they tried obtaining it, it was too late.

Did this even happen? Was it part of a dream? What if this was a message from the other side? This gave us the creeps. It’s like finding a letter signed under your name, but noticing that the date hasn’t happened yet.

Finding a fully functional industrial infrared laser is something that’s definitely on our wishlist (not really). What we actually mean here is that this is so random. In any case, this laser has the “charming ability” to cause permanent blindness.

No wonder that the contact person from the company that manufactured it offered money to get it off the streets. At least this wasn’t a nuclear device that went missing and turned up at some random thrift shop, right?

We thought that we were already clear about not putting fresh food products in the donation bin. Looks like someone ignored our request. This is even worse than the cheesecake we mentioned earlier. Who would in their right mind put goat milk in the donation bin?

Were you hoping that it would turn into gourd by the time someone picked it up? We really pity the person who had to clean it after it, apparently, it was spilled all over the floor.

The French Revolution called — they want their guillotine back. We were joking, but Marry Auntouanet wasn’t, so it seems. We’re pushing the envelope here, perhaps even a little too much. This fake guillotine (of the kind that’s used in magic shows) was donated for some reason.

Also, unless you’re a professional magician, why would you keep that thing in the first place? We’re kinda curious about its dimensions and wonder if it had fake blood on it too.

Wait for it to sink. Got it? No? Why would a deaf person need a special bible? They’re not blind, just deaf. No, you don’t need to speak louder Carolle, use sign language. In any case, we find it hilariously stupid.

Not the act of donation itself, but the fact that someone in the world was dumb enough to print a “special” bible for the deaf, written in Braille. Looks like they entirely missed the point there.

In case you were wondering what a fluke 561 is — just as we were — let’s begin by saying that this isn’t some super-secret laser weapon that was stolen from Area 51, despite its cool name. It’s a (super cool nonetheless) laser thermometer.

Too bad we can’t say the same thing about the person who donated it, however. Even though this means that we wouldn’t be able to tell you this story. In any case, this is clearly a dumb reason to donate such a cool item.

Ammunition and weapons sometimes get stolen or lost. This becomes a real problem if they are accidentally forgotten among items that are donated to Goodwill. Luckily, no one got injured in this incident because, apparently, this mortar shell was empty. This means that it had no actual fuse at its tip.

We wonder how it got to the person who donated it in the first place. Did they just keep it as a souvenir from their days in the military?

Sometimes, items that are donated to charity come in an almost pristine condition. This was (almost) the case with this item. It could have been a perfect tent, except that someone accidentally (we hope!) forgot their… feces-filled underwear.

This extremely gross incident proves that there is no limit to the crazy (and disgusting) things people can do sometimes. We wish not to contemplate the various reasons that brought someone to such a low that made them use their underwear as toilet paper.

Admit it, you coveted a Louis Vitton bag at least once in your life. It’s alright, we did too. This Reddit user confessed that they almost got what they wanted (for their sister-in-law), as their mother worked for Goodwill. The only catch was that this Louis Vuitton bag had a scary surprise in it — five human teeth.

We always knew that people who buy designers clothes usually hide a few skeletons in their clothes. We suggest you check if any of those skeletons have five missing teeth by any chance.

Think of the following three items — old leather work gloves, blood-stained clothes, and big dark sunglasses. What’s the first association that comes to mind? An unsolved murder investigation? No? That’s our educated guess.

The only misleading thing here is that these three items were found in a grocery bag. This could be an attempt to create an alibi. We don’t buy that (got it?), but we pity the person who had to sort these items. Somebody call Sherlock Holmes.

Keeping a potpourri in your room sounds like a good idea, especially if you get it at a cheap price from a charity shop. This potpourri, however, seems to be more of the explosive type.

We don’t know who designed this particular potpourri warmer, but they clearly didn’t do a basic course in physics or chemistry. Even without having a basic background in science, however, they should have known better. Unfortunately, it seems like (the absence of) common sense was the problem in this case.

For those of you who didn’t grow up reading some of Sir Walter Scott’s works, we would just say that they’re really worth it. This 19th-century Scottish writer and historian is renowned for his extensive historical knowledge and amazing literary talent.

No wonder then that an original version of his work is something we thought was worth mentioning in our article. This is the moment to confess that we envy the Reddit user who got them for $30.

We know you are disappointed to find out that this item isn’t about someone finding an actual life-size replica of the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings. This item is actually about something much weirder. This Reddit user’s mom who works for Goodwill brought them a glass eye.

You know, something you would use if you lost one of your eyes (heaven forbid!). We assume, however, that this particular glass eye was indeed in previous use. For this Reddit user’s sake, we hope that he drenched it in bleach before touching it.

Dolls can be a creepy thing. We are not talking about those cute little dolls that you buy for your children (if you have any, we don’t recommend having them, personally), but the creepy ones that you find in dumpsters — used up and old dolls.

Someone, so it seems, was in the habit of collecting headless dolls. This reminded us of Chucky from Child’s Play. We seriously hope that the person who found the dolls didn’t suffer from nightmares afterward.

Frankly, we never understood the concept of snowblowers. This machine supposedly moves snow from one place to another. But, that does this really solve the problem?

There’s still snow — it’s just on the side of the road, so we can understand why this person wished to donate it. However, you have to admit that it’s a rather random thing to donate. Also, if it’s rusty, wouldn’t it be better to just sell it to a scrap yard?

This is ridiculously revolting; we have to admit. Selling half-used toothpaste? Just when we thought that things couldn’t get any worse (just read through this article and you’ll see what we’re talking about here).

This also makes us wonder what kind of person donates a tube of half-used toothpaste. What happened? You suddenly decided that you no longer wish to brush your teeth in the morning? People don’t just stop using toothpaste — unless they stop brushing their teeth altogether. That’s another unresolved mystery.

We have heard too many stories about people buying things at thrift stores or at Goodwill and finding cash hidden in them. This story takes it to a whole new level, though. This Reddit user shares the fact that they found two blank signed checks, along with a bank book.

They didn’t do anything with them because they seemed to be from the ‘80s. We just find the entire affair confusing. Why would anyone sign a blank check and just leave it somewhere?

The following will make you raise an eyebrow, or two. Someone painted Tupac and Bob Marley as cowboys riding through the Wild West while escaping a hot pursuit (on horses!). While this sounds like a scene from someone’s dream and obviously never happened in reality (or did it?), we find it really awesome.

We want to shout out to the anonymous master who painted it. We’ve never seen the painting, but we are certain they did a good job there.

While this isn’t exactly a weird item that was found in a charity, we still wanted it here because it brings us good memories of bygone days (can you believe the ‘80s were over four decades ago?!).

We’re surprised that this Reddit user was actually able to turn this Mac on. On second thought actually, this makes sense. Apple computers were built to last (we’ve nothing against Microsoft though!). Oh, the ‘80s.

This item easily gets a spot in our top ten weirdest items that people found at Goodwill. First, We are quite curious to know if this book actually exists (it does, doesn’t it?) and second, we want to meet the author.

We heard their writing style is purrific. It’s obvious that this shirt is part of their marketing campaign, no? What could be a better way to promote a book if not by wearing a shirt with a picture of it?

A story about finding a bunch of old tech at a thrift store isn’t something that would normally attract our attention — unless it’s government tech that could still be used to tap into government computer systems because somebody didn’t bother to change the configuration settings.

They did a really sloppy job at maintaining information security. In fact, this story reminds us of the iconic 1983 movie WarGames, starring Mattew Broderick. Luckily, we detected no change in the DEFCON level, and all the routers were accounted for.

Looks like someone who went out of prison couldn’t part with their prisoner’s uniform, or else why would they keep it? Actually, it’s likely that we have an inmate on the run. We seriously hope this person called 911 as soon as they realized it.

Regardless, it’s funny to think of them bowling while wearing that jumpsuit. We wonder if that can get them arrested or at least taken in for some serious questioning at the local precinct.

If you think that things can’t get any lower than discovering a pair of dirty underwear in a donated tent, then you better hold on tight. This Goodwill worker had the unfortunate pleasure of discovering a box full of dead rats.

Yes, you’ve read correctly — dead rats. While it’s possible that the careless owner of the box simply didn’t know (or care) about its contents, we still feel bad for the poor employee.

It’s quite possible that this item was snatched straight from some medical library, otherwise, we have no clue as to why one would want to possibly keep it in the first place.

What’s even more disturbing is that the title suggests that this book offers a colored and possibly graphic visualization of “intestinal parasites.” You know, stomach bugs. We bet that if you read through the entire piece you wouldn’t be able to fall asleep at night.

We don’t know if what this Reddit user posted is true, but if it is, this is by far the coolest item on our list here. While it does sound a little specious we have to admit, it’s possible that this may be the case after all.

Maybe they were doing some maintenance work up there and changed their old “remote power control unit” (we have no idea what’s that), which they later put in a donation bin.

Well, technically, the donated item was dirty underwear with a bacon-like waist garter, but we couldn’t resist the temptation of not giving it up in the title.

A little more shocking than the other items on this list, dirty underwear probably makes the top 10. Why would somebody on G-d’s green Earth put dirty underwear in a donation bin?