Lost property at airports is a very common story. These are the airports with the most lost property claims filed worldwide.

1) London Heathrow Lost and Found Claims

2) Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta Airport Lost and Found Claims

3) John F Kennedy Airport Lost and Found Claims

4) Los Angeles Airport Lost and Found Claims

5) San Francisco Airport Lost and Found Claims

6) Chicago Ohare Airport Lost and Found Claims

7) Newark Airport Lost and Found Claims

8) London Gatwick Airport Lost and Found Claims

9) Dallas Fort Worth Airport Lost and Found Claims

10) Schiphol Airport Lost and Found Claims

Los Angeles Airport Police officers hand-delivered a lost wedding photo album to a family, July 30, 2015, in Modesto, California

A wedding album that was found at Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport Lost and Found and remained unclaimed for nearly a year was returned Fridat to its owners — who are expecting a baby within the week.

An Airport Police Honor Guard hand-delivered the album to the couple at their home in Modesto.

“The family was super grateful,” Airport Police Officer Rob Pedregon told City News Service. “The wife had even gotten up early and prepared them (the officers) a meal.”

Pedregon said the couple are expecting a child in about eight days. Getting their wedding album back “made the couple very happy,” he said.

The album was found Sept. 14, 2014, in the arrivals area of the terminal, Pedregon said. Continue reading →

After bumming around Hawaii for almost two years, Bogie the cat is safely at home in Michigan with his family, who had abandoned all hope of finding their beloved pet.

When a family moved from Hawaii to Detroit, Michigan, more than a year ago, they thought they had lost their cat forever.

Bogie, a Siamese cat, was supposed to move with the family, but he escaped his kennel on a United Cargo flight, nonprofit Hawaii CatFriends told KHON-TV.

Bogie was missing for 19 months before he was reconnected with the family in Michigan.

“I found Bogie about six or eight months ago,” Hawaii resident Bill Antilla said. “There’s a number of cats I manage on Ualena Street near the Honolulu airport. Bogie started showing up periodically.”

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Two bags containing money were found on the tarmac but the third was still missing.

A bag containing almost $1 million in Chinese currency has been lost by airline staff at Hong Kong airport following a flight from Auckland.

The bag, along with two others stuffed with cash, fell off a baggage trailer as it turned a corner last Friday, Chinese website Shanghaiist reported.

When the driver realised he had lost part of the precious cargo 10 minutes later, he returned to find just two of the cash bags lying on the tarmac.

Police searched overnight, but could not find the missing money, and it has been reported as a theft.

Thirteen bags, containing 4,080,500 yuan ($13.5 million) in total, were being transported from Auckland to a Bank of China branch when the million-dollar sack went missing. Continue reading →

Quilt found at Orlando International Airport

A Texas family is being reunited with a lost quilt that was found at Orlando Airport Lost and Found.

The Mantanona family lost the important quilt during a recent visit to Orlando.

The family said the quilt is made from their son Jarrett’s shirts. The boy was killed by a drunk driver in 2011.
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Bush Intercontinental Airport’s new lost and found is taking more than 1,000 calls each month from people who have left something behind in the concourse.

Judith Felan gets calls for everything you can imagine. Recently, she spent time trying to recover a young boy’s stuffed animal after his grandmother reported his frog missing.

“He was crying himself to sleep,” Felan said. “He told his grandmother he wanted to die if he didn’t find his frog.”

The boy’s grandmother even sent a photo of the frog, which hasn’t been found.

The Houston Airport lost and found System opened a new storefront in August in terminal E. It allows passengers to talk face to face with a member of the lost and found staff.
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KLM Lost and Found at Amsterdam airport just got a whole lot cuter, with the introduction of an investigative beagle.

Airline KLM has employed a cute, uniform-wearing dog to help reunite passengers with lost items that they leave behind on planes.

The pooch – appropriately named Sherlock – uses its tracking skills to smell the lost item then dash through Amsterdam Schipol Airport to find the appropriate owner. Continue reading →

If you’ve flown in an airplane, then you know the drill. You take off your shoes, belt, and any other items that could set off those body scanners. More often than not, though, those items get left behind.

“If you consider about 2 million people travel everyday at airports across the country, passengers are constantly forgetting or losing items at our security check points,” said Nico Melendez, a spokesperson for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

Those items that are left behind at the Sacramento International Airport end up at the lost and found. Continue reading →

Right now we’re in the height of summer travel season, so you and your family might be heading to the airport soon.

Every now and then, something you bring on your trip is left behind at Logan.

As you might imagine the airport’s lost and found area is full of items, and some of what is left behind might surprise you.

“They come to the checkpoint they’re going somewhere they’re in a rush and they leave full suitcases,” TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said.

It’s not just suitcases, it’s everything you can think of and some things you wouldn’t even believe

“We’ve had raw food turned in. Somebody left behind half pound of raw ground beef. We’ve had a training dummy for medical students it was a lower female torso it was showing people how to deliver babies. It was a little shocking when we opened up the cabinet and that was right there,” TSA officer Tom Dasher said.

According to TSA 52,000 people make their way through the security checkpoints at Logan every day and many lose their items right in the bins.

Laptops, cell phones and multiple bags of clothes.

TSA keeps the items in the Boston airport lost and found for 30 days, after that high value items like phones laptops and jewelry are sent to TSA headquarters in Washington.

There their data is wiped and their given to other government agencies to use. Clothes are given to people in need.

“Lost and found clothing goes to homeless veterans so that’s a really nice thing” Farbstein said.

All of the lost items are tagged and the agents work hard to reconnect the owner to their lost item before the 30 days is up.

“We’ve had some people screech with joy and jump up and down, just really happy,” Dasher said.

Last month alone the TSA says 1,800 items were left at Logan. Agents say taking a second look inside in those security bins can save you a lot of time and aggravation.

Read more: http://www.whdh.com/story/26001416/logan-lost-and-found-is-full-of-surprises

A Florida rabbi who recently discovered seven tefillin sets in an unclaimed airline baggage store in Alabama was able to successfully restore most of the prayer accessories to their owners with the help of social media.

“HELP! HELP! HELP! We went to a store today in Alabama that sells unclaimed baggage from all over the world. We found Tefilin!!!” Rabbi Uri Pilichowski wrote on Facebook on July 2.

Photos the rabbi posted of the small Scripture-filled boxes, which observant Jews wrap around their arm and place on their forehead during morning prayers, were then shared on the social media site more than 1,000 times.

By the next day six of the seven owners were found, Pilichowski accounced on Facebook. Four of them live in New York, according to New York Daily News.

Pilichowski said that the Unclaimed Baggage Center was selling each pair for $45.

“I was very surprised,” Pilichowski told the Daily News on finding the pairs of tefillin. “We bought them all.”

One of the claimed sets was a family heirloom belonging to David Malka, a former chef for the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Crown Heights. Malka died of pancreatic cancer in October at the age of 58.

Before Malka passed away he gifted his cherished tefillin set to his oldest grandson Abie, who was due to celebrate his bar mitzvah. A few months later the pair went missing during a layover in Charlotte, N.C., as the family was headed to Cancun for Passover.

“At some point it was misplaced,” Yossi Malka, David’s son, said. “It was devastating. I did not want to share it with the rest of my family.”

Yossi Malka returned to Charlotte Airport Lost and Found and searched the center but to no availability.

Yossi Malka and Pilichowski met years ago at a Passover charity camp in Ukraine. When the Florida rabbi found the tefillin, which had a tag inside with the last name “Malka,” he reached out to his old friend, who now lives in Los Angeles.

“I was very, very shocked,” Yossi said about getting call. “I was excited like crazy. It’s just amazing.”