While the volume of airline passengers – and the bags they check – is soaring, the rate of mishandled baggage is declining, according to a 2025 SITA Baggage IT Insights report.

New technology, including compact Bluetooth trackers such as Apple AirTags, is helping airlines reunited passengers with mishandled bags.

But bags still end up lost.

In the United States, the folks at Unclaimed Baggage, a retail center in Scottsboro, Alabama, end up with a lot those lost bags. And they’ve just released their third-annual “Found Report,” highlighting some of the more odd and offbeat items found inside those bags.

According to the 2026 ‘Found Report,’ the most common items found in what Unclaimed Baggage refers to as “orphaned” luggage is t-shirts; they found more than 200,000 in 2025. Next up is, you guessed it, pants (128,000+), followed by jewelry (more than 57,000 pieces), mobile phones (more than 51,000) and shoes (more than 48,000).

The Found Report has multiple lists of items found in bags, including pop culture items, sports memorabilia and musical, historical, and tech finds.

There’s also a list of some of the weirder items discovered in unclaimed bags, including a taxidermy deer form, purses made of frogs and armadillos, a giant stuffed goose and a suitcase full of rat poisen.