Do you know where by your wallet is correct now, as you examine this? I don’t. Could be on my nightstand, the tiny cubbyhole the place we retain our keys by the front doorway, perhaps the pocket of my trousers I wore very last night time. I have a toddler who enjoys fiddling with it, so could be in the bathroom for all I know. I’m reasonably positive it is not in Antarctica while. And if by some bizarre likelihood I uncovered myself at the bottom of the globe sometime and in the rush to return back north, or south, I guess, exact change down there, to heat and environmentally friendly trees I remaining my wallet there, I’d publish it off as shed permanently.

Paul Grisham, a San Diego male, possibly felt the exact way just after browsing Antarctica in 1967 and misplacing his wallet.

He was a climate tech for the Navy, and, in opposition to his will, was transported to the frozen continent. At some level he dropped his wallet behind a dresser and getting no need to have for cash or ID, he didn’t feel to seem for it. When he bought house, a married father of two, the very last detail he cared about was where his wallet ended up.

But in 2014, as the McMurdo exploration station was undergoing demolition, Grisham’s wallet was located at the rear of a bookcase. It took some executing, but eventually the wallet produced its way to a few that experienced previously figured out how to return dropped goods in Antarctica to their house owners, and they reunited Grisham with his very little leathery time capsule.

It was still stuffed with a beer ration card issued to Grisham, with 21 punches remaining. Drinks are on him.