Urn Left in Uber Leads to Online Mystery

Are you missing some ashes? An urn was recently discovered in the back of an Uber in the Kansas City metro area and nobody can quite figure out who it might belong to, according to a new report from Fox4 in Kansas City.

“I don’t know what to do with this…. Son found this urn in a Uber,” Erin Hayden wrote on Facebook on Dec. 28, 2024.

Hayden writes that her son asked the Uber driver if it was his urn and he confirmed it wasn’t. The driver also didn’t seem to know whose it could be since he drives so many people each day.

“It’s tiny and obviously been loved as the blue finish is rubbing off… does anyone know what we should do with this?” Hayden wrote. “Son was in Overland Park when he found it but Uber had been all over KC. Son found it Thursday.”

The Uber was in Kansas City, Kansas at the time the urn was discovered by the passenger but it’s unclear how far the Uber driver had been traveling. And the way it was discovered (with a flashlight by a passenger) suggests it could’ve been there for some time.

Fox4 News in Kansas City spoke with Ty Haden, who actually found the urn.

“I hopped out of the Uber and just to make sure we didn’t leave anything so we didn’t have to have the Uber come back,” Hayden said. “I whipped on the flashlight and found a couple of items, but I just I grabbed them up.”

Hayden said he messaged his friends to make sure it wasn’t their urn. And he has no idea what to do about it now.

“It’s a pretty big item, especially it’s probably sentimental to somebody,” Hayden said.

Ty Hayden is serving in the military and stationed in Florida so he left the urn with his mother back in the Kansas City area, according to Fox4. Anyone who may know who the urn belongs to is encouraged to contact Erin Hayden on Facebook. And while her post has been shared over 200 times, nobody has come forward yet with any ideas.

“It’s well-loved, so someone’s been carrying it around. If it was my parent or my child or whoever it would be, I would want to have it back home,” Hayden told Fox4.

Hayden said they’ll hold onto the urn and keep it on the shelf “until somebody claims it.”