A Seattle Woman Finds an Urn with a Blue Ribbon on it in Goodwill with a Name on the Bottom & Has Ashes Inside. She Buys it for $3.99

A woman shopping at Goodwill discovers an urn with a blue ribbon tied around it sold under the category of "wares." On the bottom of the urn, it has a name written on it. She opens it and sees ashes inside. She decides to buy it for $3.99 from Goodwill and was trying to locate the family connected to the ashes. Goodwill has retrieved the ashes from her and has also attempted to find out if these belong to a human.

Josie Chase with the urn she purchased

One Seattle, Washington woman that has discovered a love for "thrifting" found something unusual for sale at her local Goodwill, and now is unsure what to do with the item.

Seattle Woman Finds a Blue-Ribbon Urn in Goodwill

24-year-old Josie Chase was in her local Goodwill, and looking for something very interesting among the housewares. Yahoo! reported that Josie "has been collecting vintage clothing and accessories since 2018."

Josie came across a small urn with a blue ribbon tied around it, and she "immediately identified it as a cremation urn."

She said:

"It just kind of shocked me that there was an urn there," Chase said. "So I grabbed it and felt that it had some weight to it and looked at the bottom and saw that I had a name." -Josie Chase (Source: Yahoo!)

When she looked at the bottom of the urn, there is a sticker with the name, "Toby Cava." She assumes this is the name of the person that was cremated. The picture can be seen below.

Urn with name on bottom

Next Josie did what any curious person would do. She unscrewed it and looked inside, and sure enough, found ashes. She assumes these are human ashes.

She said:

"Then, I unscrewed it and saw that there were ashes inside," Chase said. "It was just kind of shocking and struck me and I thought, ‘Who would donate this? This is sad. It must have been a mistake or someone must have misplaced it.’ So, I thought maybe I could find someone who it was connected to [and] give it back." -Josie Chase (Source: Yahoo!)

The picture of the ashes in the urn can be seen below.

Urn with ashes inside

Josie tried to speak to a Goodwill worker about the urn, but since the store was busy, it was difficult. So she decided to buy it for $3.99. The Goodwill price tag labeled it as "wares."

She said:

"I just put it in our cart and me and my partner were like, ‘Well, if we don't get it, this will maybe go to the landfill or something.' We thought we should do it service and spread the ashes somewhere nice or try to find at least a good home for it. So, we decided to buy it," -Josie Chase (Source: Yahoo!)

Josie Chase Posts a TikTok Video About the Urn

Josie posts a TikTok video showing the urn inside of Goodwill in Washington and shows the urn being opened to reveal ashes.

In captions, text in the video reads, "Who donated this person to Goodwill?"

Then the TikTok video shows the urn wrapped in brown paper and the caption reads, "The cashier wrapped him up so nicely." See the picture below.

Urn wrapped in a brown paper

The video ends by saying in captions, "Toby was only $4."

Watch the TikTok video and see for yourself. It has been viewed over 13 million times.

It isn't every day that a person finds an urn filled with ashes at Goodwill, but it does happen.

One person that commented on the TikTok video said:

"The people could have dumped the ashes while driving down the highway and it would have been more respectful than dropping them at goodwill." -User7477347178750 on TikTok

Josie replied to the comment, by saying, "Agreed."

Goodwill workers should probably look inside things while they are pricing the items in the back, just to make sure there aren't any ashes inside.

Josie now believes that it could be pet ashes based on feedback she has received on her TikTok video.

Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington Retrieved the Urn with Ashes

Fox News Digital reported that Evergreen Goodwill of Northwest Washington contacted Josie and retrieved the urn with ashes, and also commented that they believe it was an animal's ashes, and not humans, and that the urn should have never made it out onto the sales floor.

Evergreen Goodwill has also reached out to funeral homes in case these ashes might be human.

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Sources

Josie Chase on TikTok: @chasejosie. Video about urn bought in Goodwill.

Eichenberg, Gretchen. "Washington woman makes 'shocking' discovery after purchasing $3.99 urn at Goodwill." Yahoo! / Fox News Digital. 14 April 2023.

Green Energy News: Saudi Arabia Sends Blue Ammonia to Japan

 

Saudia Arabia will send Blue Ammonia to Japan

Why is Saudi Arabia sending blue ammonia to Japan?

Japan wants to be the world leader in using hydrogen as fuel without carbon emissions. Japan has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26% by the year 2030.

When Saudi Arabia sends blue ammonia to Japan, it is being touted as the world's first shipment of this new product that is being made in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia plans to develop a $5 billion hydrogen-based ammonia plant in its futuristic-inspired planned city of Noem. Saudi Arabia continues to diversify its energy exports as it wishes to not solely rely on oil as its sole source of income.

Blue Ammonia is 'Green Energy'

This news is important to the green energy world, as blue ammonia can be burned as a fuel in thermal power stations without any carbon dioxide byproduct as a waste. This is Japan's goal: to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Blue ammonia is considered a "feedstock" for blue hydrogen. Hydrogen created from renewable energy sources with no emissions is also known as "Green Hydrogen."

This blue ammonia is produced by Saudi Aramco by converting hydrocarbons into hydrogen and ammonia and capturing the carbon dioxide byproduct, resulting in green hydrogen.

Because Japan is so densely populated, with limited mountainous geography, the country is open to importing the blue ammonia from Saudi Arabia to gain this fuel as renewable energy.

Japan's gas industry executive, Shigeru Muraki says that Japan is "the [blue ammonia] fuel is forging ahead of alternatives, with Japan's electricity industry planning for commercialization in the next few years."

He also says: "We've been looking at liquid hydrogen, organic hydrides and ammonia...the conclusion is that ammonia - a compound comprising three atoms of hydrogen to one of nitrogen - is the 'most viable option'."

Quick Fact: At room temperature, ammonia is a poisonous gas.

Asteroid Oumuamua Could be of Alien Origins According to Scientists

'Oumuamua' Asteroid in space

Alien conspirators, here's the best theory yet. There are scientists that speculate that the elongated asteroid named 'Oumuamua' (Hawaiian) spotted in our solar system in late 2017 could very well be a scout ship from an alien race.

What made it unique was the unusually elongated shape, and being reddish in color, as it flew in a accelerated trajectory that was atypical of most asteroids. Scientists published in the November journal of Nature (article here) that this asteroid did originate from outside our solar system. This theory is compounded with the thought that it is alien in origin, with the possibility of being a scout vessel.

The authors of the Nature article believe that the Oumuamua alien asteroid is dense, possibly being high in metals, with no indication of dust on it (as most asteroids have). New estimates believe the asteroid was at least 1,300 feet long. Light reflected off of Oumuamua as it passed through our solar system at an estimated 45-60 km/s, according to C Stuart Hardwick on Quora.

Harvard Astronomy Expert Weighs in

Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard's astronomy department (an co-author of a paper on Oumuamua) said, "If Oumuamua is a lightsail, one possibility is that it was floating in interstellar space when our solar system ran into it like a ship bumping into a buoy on the surface of the ocean." Loeb is an advisor to the Breakthrough Starshot initiative designed to send a fleet of laser-powered lightsail craft mechanisms to a nearby star system. Loeb and Shmuel Bialy maintain this theory that Oumuamua could be an alien scout ship passing through our solar system.

What Powers 'Oumuamua'?

According to this article by RT.com, Oumuamua could be powered by sunlight reflected onto its surface. This is where some experts believe it is an advanced lightsail, that was either once attached to an alien ship or could be a complete ship.

What does 'Oumuamua' mean in Hawaiian?

The name Oumuamua is Hawaiian. 'Ou' means reach out for, and 'mua' means "first or in advance of" (repeated twice for emphasis. Interpreted, Oumuamua means a 'scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach humanity'.

Watch the video below from Seeker for more on this asteroid, which is still up for debate if the alien scout ship theory is true.

Do aliens have blue blood?

Great question. Humans can have blue blood.

Human with Blue Blood diagnosed with Methemoglobinemia

That is a great question. In a rare case, a 25-year old human woman went to the Emergency Room in Rhode Island, with shortness of breath, fatigue, and general weakness in her body. Doctors looked at her and she was visibly turning blue. Her condition was diagnosed with methemoglobinemia - a condition where the blood stopped carrying oxygen to the tissue. This is caused by certain medicine, such as benzocaine. Benzocaine is found in numbing medicine, often found in cold sore and tooth numbing treatments.

Patients exhibiting methemoglobinemia have blue blood, even though the oxygen levels are high.

The treatment for this condition is methylene, which is also blue in color. When this blue blood goes over 50% in the blood, it can cause major health risks, such as comas, or heart or brain conditions. When it goes over 60%, it can even cause death.