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Published 08:32 14 Aug 2026 GMT
A mysterious assortment of cars appeared at a US airport, a mystery that baffled the workers there.
The relatively small Springfield-Branson National Airport doesn't have a large parking lot, instead its in proportion to the few flights that actually leave.
Yet one day, airport officials were stunned to find 25 cars had been left there, seemingly abandoned.
But the mystery as the why the cars were there - and who they belonged to - only deepened when authorities tried to locate the owners.
There was seemingly no rhyme or reason why the 25 cars were abandoned in the car park of the Missouri airport.
In fact, officials only became aware of the abandoned vehicles after they decided to re-paint the lines of the long-term stay car park, so they had no idea how long they'd been left there for.
Then, the work started to try and locate the owners of the missing cars, with police using their license plates and tags to track them.
That's when the most bizarre finding in the mystery reared its head.
After the discovery of the mystery cars, the authorities then set to work trying to trace them back to their owners through their license plates and tags.
But one discovery made the mystery even more confusing than it was before.
Kent Boyd, Public Information and Marketing Manager for the airport, revealed that the authorities did manage to track down one of the owners of the vehicles - but they had sadly passed away.
"We were able to trace [the plates back]," Boyd explained. "And we found an obituary for the registered owner."
Boyd went on to explain that the deceased owner's family were made aware that the car was still at the airport, but there's been no movement since then.
"We contacted the estate and asked if they can please come get this car," he said. "They still haven’t."
In fact, through fact-finding, it was discovered that most of the abandoned cars had been stuck in the airport for three years, with no-one realizing or noticing until now.
Boyd is sure that the cars will be moved from the location, but the authorities are in no hurry to have them towed away just yet.
"I don’t know what that timeline is," he admitted. "You don’t want to tow them or get them off the property too early because you know sure as heck as soon as you do that, somebody will show up looking for it."
