A retired Michigan autoworker looked at a Facebook message after midnight from a stranger: Did you lose your wallet years ago?

"If so," a Minnesota man wrote, "it was in the engine bay of a car."

Richard Guilford couldn't believe what he was reading on his phone — a decade-old mystery was remarkably solved.

Guilford's tri-fold leather wallet — stuffed with $15 US, a driver's licence, work ID, gift cards worth $275 and lottery tickets - had turned up under the hood of a car in a repair shop in Lake Crystal, Minn.

The old wallet of Richard Guilford is seen as he speaks during an interview Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Petersburg, Mich. (Ryan Sun/The Associated Press)

A Christmas gift from Guilford's sons was suddenly a family treasure again. "Big Red," as he was affectionately known at

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