U-Haul Trailer Mysteriously Returns After 14 Years Of Being Missing

We see the stories all the time of long-overdue library books showing back up at their respective library. This is like the same thing, but it's a U-Haul trailer that disappeared 14 years ago and randomly showed back up without a note or anything from whoever had it this whole time.

Mitchell Gasser who works at the U-Haul office in Pulaski/Cortlandville, Idaho, came into work and saw a trailer that looked out of place. The outside was beaten up, the banners looked very aged, and it was just clear that it had seen some stuff.

Trying to figure out what was going on, he opened the trailer to find a bit of a mess inside, but no identifying pieces to piece the puzzle together. On the outside, he saw there was no license plate.

It's been missing for just over 14 years. If it was rented, the person who returned it would owe around $165,000.

U-Haul said they started investigating the missing trailer again recently, so the timing of the return is pretty suspect on its own.

U-Haul did say they aren't pursuing the fees that would be associated with such a long absence, and they even said they aren't pressing charges - they're just happy the trailer is back.

Apparently, they have trailers disappear often and the one thing that never happens is a return. This one is the outlier, because it didn't just return, it returned 14 years later.

Unlike now, if one of the trailers goes missing, there wasn't as much GPS tracking on the equipment back then. So if this happened with a modern trailer, it'd be found in a matter of days.

The destiny of the trailer, which obviously has had a life well-lived, is for the scrap yard.