Photos Found In Yards 100+ Miles Away: Facebook Users Seek Owners Of Debris From The Quad-State Tornado

By LEO Weekly Staff on Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 11:50 pm

Tornadoes tore through four states on Friday, Dec. 10, traveling from Arkansas to Kentucky.

Items picked up by these tornadoes seem to have traveled for over 100 miles in some instances before being dropped in fields and yards across Kentucky and Indiana.

A Facebook page has been set up to help reunite the owners of these items with their lost photos, toys and other keepsakes.

Quad State Tornado Found Items has over 45,000 members and is currently seeing over 1,000 posts a day.

It’s a remarkably efficient operation — sometimes connecting members with their lost mementos within minutes.

Here are a selection of the posts that have been made. Some are success stories, some are not — or at least not yet.

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Found in Princeton, Kentucky
The original poster has found the owner of this keepsake.
Photo via Lara Beth Wynn

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Found in Jeffersonville, Indiana
“Happy to mail it to owner.”
Photo via Lisa Carvis

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Found in Owensboro, Kentucky
Commenters believe this photo depicts past students of Reidland High School, two hours away from Owensboro.
Photo via Jason Dill

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Found in Owensboro, Kentucky
The back of the photograph says “Clay Groves 4 yr. 2006”
Photo via Wayne Lewis

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Found in Lewisport, Kentucky
Photo via Anita Lamar

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Found in Elizabeth, Indiana
A check found an hour and 45 minutes from Hartford, Kentucky, where the person who issued it was from.
Photo via Phil and Amanda Burns

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Found in Hartford, Kentucky
The original poster thinks he’s reunited this sign with its owner, located over 30 minutes away.
Photo via Luke Troutman

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Found in Symsonia, Kentucky
Adams Gin Co., where the paper in this photo is from, is located around 150 miles from Symsonia and was destroyed by this weekend’s tornadoes. A commenter claims it belongs to him. The photo has yet to be identified.
Photo via Jillian Murphy

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Found in Utica, Kentucky
The owner of this photo has been found, a mom in the hard-hit town of Mayfield, Kentucky, around two hours from Utica.
Photo via Tammy McCubbins Rice

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Found in Calhoun, Kentucky
The back of the photograph says “Groves” and “2004.”
Photo via Ann Fulkerson Howard

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Found in Bowling Green, Kentucky
”Found 12/11/21 in Bowling Green KY. Couple hours after we were hit. Located in debris in the Springhill area. I cleaned Geoffrey and hoping to find its owner.”
Photo via Brandy Lindsey

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Found in Charlestown State Park, Charlestown, Indiana
A commenter from Belton, Kentucky — over 150 miles from Charlestown, Indiana — says this is a photo of her and her brother.
Photo via Kevin Wiseheart

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Found in Paducah, Kentucky
Commenters believe this photo comes from Monette, Arkansa, almost three hours from Paducah.
Photo via Brenda Derr

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Found in Derby, Indiana
Photo via Robyn-Tod Kennedy

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Found in New Albany, Indiana
”Hi everyone, my brother found this photo in his yard today in New Albany, IN. Please let me know if anyone recognizes. Thanks!”
Photo via Tammy Jones

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Found in Brandenburg, Kentucky
”Developed at Walmart in 2013. Does anyone know this person.”
Photo via Tracy Board

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Found in Rome, Indiana
Commenters believe this photo was taken in the tornado-torn Dawson Springs, Kentucky, around two hours and over 100 miles from Rome, Indiana.
Photo via Debra Rogier

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Found in Brandenburg, Kentucky
A torn photo of the former sheriff of Muhlenberg County, Charles “Eddie” Perry, who died in 2019. “Would like to return to the family,” wrote Stephanie Pawlak Black, who found the picture on her property in Brandenburg, which is around 100 miles from Muhlenberg County.
Photo via Stephanie Pawlak Black

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Found in Princeton, Kentucky
A photograph and empty Michael Kors bag, found in a wheat field.
Photo via Owen Kyler

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Found in Bremen, Kentucky
A pink Bible with a marriage certificate. No owner found yet. “Feel free to message me and I’d be glad to return them to their rightful owners.”
Photo via Jessica Wellman

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