A resident of Wellington, New Zealand, bought a heart-shaped paperweight and discovered five years later that it was an urn containing someone’s ashes, reports The Chronicle.
In 2015, Jessica Roberts bought a trinket at a garage sale for one New Zealand dollar (52 rubles).
On the evening of Monday, December 14, Roberts saw a trash can on the Internet that strongly resembled her paperweight.
“I didn’t touch it that evening and thought about it all night. On Tuesday morning, December 15, I woke up and thought: I’ll open it just to see,” she said.
Inside, the woman found a bag of ashes, which did not have any identification marks or inscriptions. Since there was little ash inside, Roberts believes it could have been distributed among several urns.
The woman decided to find the owner of the ashes. She posted a post on Facebook asking if someone could identify the urn. Its publication attracted the attention of users, but no one volunteered to take the trash can. The New Zealander does not remember in which house she bought it.
Roberts does not know if anyone is looking for the urn, and in general, whether it is human or animal remains. But some beliefs do not allow her to get rid of this item, because it may mean a lot to someone.
“If I can return it to whoever owns it, it will be the best reward for me,” she said. The New Zealand woman noted that if no one takes the urn, she will keep it out of respect for the ashes.
Previously it was reported that a user of the Reddit website told how her mother-in-law stole from her son’s ashes. The husband allowed his mother-in-law to make beads with the grandson’s ashes for himself, her, him and his brother.