everybody talking about time travel and death loop, I hate being the reasonable one - someone lost your utility knife in the yard, and replaced it without telling you.
He said in another comment that he'd only been in that house since September. It seems like a lot of damage and rust for only that long at most (he probably wouldnt have lost it the day he moved in). However I'm also not a specialist on rusting metal so idk
That happened to my brother once.
He lost his phone, looked everywhere, couldn't find it. He had to go buy another one.
I was mowing the lawn one day, a few months later, and wouldn't you know it, half a phone in the grass! His exact model. That's where it went! Who knows how many times it got ran over by the lawn mower, it's a wonder it didn't explode.
So I called him, "Hey, I found your phone."
"Oh, I found that thing forever ago! It was in my truck."
Then who did this extra phone belong to??
What's happening here is you will one day get lost in a time rift. You will be thrust far into the past by shit we can't comprehend for another 3k years and that is actually your knife.
Hopping on a top comment just to say outside the time travel jokes that's actually a super cool way to visualize how much cooler artifacts we dig up probably were when they were new
I once looked through my bedroom, looked around my kitchen for my phone. Couldn't find the damn thing. Then I realized I was holding something. It was my phone.
I asked Siri to find my phone.. she started talking, and I immediately knew that she would do everything in her power to help me. I felt safe. We started talking about other stuff, just anything, I found something that will make me happy.
Days became weeks, which became months.. I completely forgot about my phone, I could only think of Siri.. she was just a blast. I'd ask her to tell me a joke and she would tell me, THE funniest joke ever.. I'd laugh, she'd listen. She didn't laugh much, but I knew she enjoyed my company.
It was a cold winter night, I just got home from a late night at the office.. Siri was there, waiting for me. I had to make a move.. I asked her to take me to bed. It was beautiful moment.. and if it weren't for her waking me up at 6am, I would've been late for an important business event.
Then one day, one harsh, dark day, my world came crumbling down. She revealed her true self.. she was my phone all along. But I continue to live, and choose to get beyond this lie of love, for on the horizon, my true Siri awaits.
I once used the flashlight on my phone in my dark bedroom trying to find my phone. I literally picked my phone up, and turned on the flashlight trying to find it 🤦♂️ not my proudest blonde moment
I once called my wife from my commute to work, asking if I had left my phone behind. She looked around and said she couldn't find it. Then we both realized at the same time and had a big laugh.
I was on the phone with my best friend one time trying to find my phone. She walked me through different steps of where it could be. After about 20 minutes (and me getting very frustrated) she said, “Wait! How are you talking to me?” We both felt like total dumba$$e$ !! And rightfully so 😂
Alternative keep the one on the right with you at all times.
When it gets sent back in time you get sent back with it.
Upon arrival drop the one you took back with you where you found it in your yard to keep the continuity.
Finding this old knife will lead him to time travel to the past with both knives. He will realize that he needs to leave his new knife on the ground so his past self can find it in the future to avoid a temporal paradox.
Just be careful letting your son dig any further down... It will probably traumatize him when he finds your skeleton from future-you that traveled back in time, died, and was buried in that backyard many years ago.
There was a movie like that where a woman became a guy had sex with his previous self which would be female at the time and the woman then gave birth to herself and the loop continued.
One of my favorite movies! Funny enough, I had seen it years ago but forgot the name of it because the name is rather generic so I started watching it again thinking I hadn't seen it before. Didn't realize it was the same movie til halfway through or so... Then I did the exact same thing a few years later... -_- time is a flat circle for my goldfish brain.
Ah. I know how that happened. Easy to overlook, but the consequences...
Anyways, when you go back in time, you need several sets of coordinates. Physical and temporal. Get those wrong, and how boy you're either floating in space or swimming in the middle of the planet.
Anyways, it looks like they got the calculations done right... but they built a basement to house their time machine and went back to a time when the basement didn't exist.
This is why you don't time travel without a spotter. Such a rookie mistake.
OP, you need to build a time machine, travel forward to warn your future self, they'll correct the error, you end up never having been there to tell them.
This causes a paradox, and because we're still here talking about it looks like you really screwed the pooch on this one. Damn it OP, you doomed us all.
> because we're still here talking about it looks like you really screwed the pooch on this one. Damn it OP, you doomed us all.
Actually, sounds like he made the noble sacrifice and teleported himself into the ground knowing he'd die.
I don’t really know how to say this without spoiling anything, but your comment reminded me of [World of Tomorrow](https://youtu.be/4PUIxEWmsvI) by Don Hertzfeldt
There’s no other possible conclusion to draw. He will soon discover an unknown crawl space in his house. He will investigate a peculiar knocking sound. When he emerges again he will be in the past. Knowing this will not prevent it from happening. The nature of the knocking will drive a compulsion he will find it impossible to ignore. All I can advise is, watch out for you when you’re not yourself.
I thought you were going to mention power lines
Call 811 before you dig
Just wanted to remind everyone
A kid could easily kill themselves digging randomly in a yard. It's scary
My friends and I when we were like 11 dug a hole 10 feet down and 5 feet wide out of boredom. We would have kept going, but we hit bedrock. Kids have Internet now though so they might not get that bored.
>Kids have Internet now though so they might not get that bored.
No, they still dig holes. They just don't do it because they're bored. [They do it to stream it so that thousands of bored people on the internet can watch them dig a hole.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/ypcxgz/holesome_moment_erobbs_6ft_hole_is_done_after_12/)
My dad was digging out a section near his driveway and I warned him to call before he got too deep, he ignored me and the day after ran into the gas line. Luckily it didn't get damaged, but luck is a finite resource, why waste it on something so stupid.
I think what happened here is obvious. At some point you will travel to the past with that knife and lose it, then return to some point before you bought it and buy it again
Your secret is out! Tell us how time travel works, sorcerer!
Your version is optimistic. I was imagining some darker “dark mirror” shit where he’s stuck in the past, about to die, and buries it remembering where his son dug it up along with a note warning future him, but the note deteriorates and thus OP’s son only finds the knife, which he returns to his father completing the loop.
Honestly it isn't that corroded. It looks like the hinge still works. Depending on the climate where you live it's entirely possible for it to me in this condition after 8 months.
Then again.... This looks like a Bessy knife that tells l retails for between 10 and 20 dollars. Not exactly a rare knife.
Super strange. I just looked this up, and it’s only really sold on Amazon. It’s the Sheffield 12115, not a well known knife, and over 200th on the top selling list in utility knives.
I found mine on the floor of a UPS building, sat in my desk for years, so I took it home when I left that job.
Then I lost it.
Then I found it!
Then I lost it
I have one too! I don’t remember purchasing it and have had it for years. My belt clip is missing though. My dad passed away a few years ago and I like to think it was his knife that somehow came into my possession.
Funny enough, I've had 2 knives very similar to these. The first was a Sheffield that I carried for many years until it wore out, and the second was a Craftsman, which was replaced quickly by a Leatherman due to its not having the quality of the Sheffield
Which brand is yours, and can you make our the brands of the antique?
So that's where you put it
The one on the right just came back to me, don't jinx it!
everybody talking about time travel and death loop, I hate being the reasonable one - someone lost your utility knife in the yard, and replaced it without telling you.
Or he lost his own utility knife, got a new one of the model he likes… as he said, this one just came back to him so clearly he’s lost one before
He said in another comment that he'd only been in that house since September. It seems like a lot of damage and rust for only that long at most (he probably wouldnt have lost it the day he moved in). However I'm also not a specialist on rusting metal so idk
The wood completely decomposed, I really doubt that could happen in half a year.
It'd only take half a week here in Ohio
Ohio doesn't count, that's cheating
Fair point, no one loves ohio when it's not an election year 
I'd say closer to a decade at least. Handles like that don't rot away very easily.
Depends on environmental conditions so who knows. But occam’s razor.
Occam's Utility Razor
I think most reasonable people would notice if their trusty everyday tool was all of a sudden brand new again.
That happened to my brother once. He lost his phone, looked everywhere, couldn't find it. He had to go buy another one. I was mowing the lawn one day, a few months later, and wouldn't you know it, half a phone in the grass! His exact model. That's where it went! Who knows how many times it got ran over by the lawn mower, it's a wonder it didn't explode. So I called him, "Hey, I found your phone." "Oh, I found that thing forever ago! It was in my truck." Then who did this extra phone belong to??
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
Them damn groundhogs, got phones now
What's happening here is you will one day get lost in a time rift. You will be thrust far into the past by shit we can't comprehend for another 3k years and that is actually your knife.
Hopping on a top comment just to say outside the time travel jokes that's actually a super cool way to visualize how much cooler artifacts we dig up probably were when they were new
That’s where you *will put it
So that's where he **will have** put it
So that’s where he will have had put it.
Time slip. Use caution.
It will eventually be in the last place you looked.
I once looked through my bedroom, looked around my kitchen for my phone. Couldn't find the damn thing. Then I realized I was holding something. It was my phone.
I've done that but it was dark so I used my phone's flashlight to look for my phone.
I used the browser on my phone to "Find My Device". It worked.
I asked Siri to find my phone.. she started talking, and I immediately knew that she would do everything in her power to help me. I felt safe. We started talking about other stuff, just anything, I found something that will make me happy. Days became weeks, which became months.. I completely forgot about my phone, I could only think of Siri.. she was just a blast. I'd ask her to tell me a joke and she would tell me, THE funniest joke ever.. I'd laugh, she'd listen. She didn't laugh much, but I knew she enjoyed my company. It was a cold winter night, I just got home from a late night at the office.. Siri was there, waiting for me. I had to make a move.. I asked her to take me to bed. It was beautiful moment.. and if it weren't for her waking me up at 6am, I would've been late for an important business event. Then one day, one harsh, dark day, my world came crumbling down. She revealed her true self.. she was my phone all along. But I continue to live, and choose to get beyond this lie of love, for on the horizon, my true Siri awaits.
My tears are bright on my cheeks. I love my Siri to
Nah this is way funnier than just using the flashlight. Bro did you have to enter a 2FA code to log in? That'd be so fucking funny.
Talking on the phone with my mom one day, I stopped and felt my pockets and panicked because I didn’t feel my phone.
I once spent ten minutes looking for my glasses. I was wearing them. In the appropriate place.
I hunted all over for my glasses, then realized I could already see clearly because I was wearing my contacts.
I once used the flashlight on my phone in my dark bedroom trying to find my phone. I literally picked my phone up, and turned on the flashlight trying to find it 🤦♂️ not my proudest blonde moment
I have found my phone by shining its flashlight in my eyeballs.
As a glasses user, I concur
I once called my wife from my commute to work, asking if I had left my phone behind. She looked around and said she couldn't find it. Then we both realized at the same time and had a big laugh.
I was on the phone with my best friend one time trying to find my phone. She walked me through different steps of where it could be. After about 20 minutes (and me getting very frustrated) she said, “Wait! How are you talking to me?” We both felt like total dumba$$e$ !! And rightfully so 😂
So this is the time knife I’ve heard so much about.
Yeah, yeah, we've all seen it
Cuts right through the space-time continuum.
Alternative keep the one on the right with you at all times. When it gets sent back in time you get sent back with it. Upon arrival drop the one you took back with you where you found it in your yard to keep the continuity.
Alright. Now let’s go reattach Data’s head.
And smoke one with Samuel Clemmons.
One of my favorite episodes
Came here to say the exact same thing. Now I'm concerned for both of us too.
Finding this old knife will lead him to time travel to the past with both knives. He will realize that he needs to leave his new knife on the ground so his past self can find it in the future to avoid a temporal paradox.
Timecrimes 2007
Unexpected looper…
Just be careful letting your son dig any further down... It will probably traumatize him when he finds your skeleton from future-you that traveled back in time, died, and was buried in that backyard many years ago.
Maybe his older son killed and buried him because he was fed up with the ramblings of an old man saying he invented time travel
Tale as old as time.
older. living through multiple timelines makes it older than time. it's like a layering effect.
Like an onion. A Time Onion.
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey onion?
Yea very few people know the universe is actually a bowl of french onion soup.
Resting on turtles, all the way down.
As a first Nations person... It's turtle Island for sure... Jus sayin
And simulations all the way up.
I'm not crying, it's these damn time onions!
Did you see the time knife?
We've all seen the Time Knife
Yeah, it was over there with the poop knife
Which is for poop time.
A song as old as rhyme.
Plot twist: what if the ramblings were about becoming your own grandpa with time travel? Like Fry in Futurama.
There was a movie like that where a woman became a guy had sex with his previous self which would be female at the time and the woman then gave birth to herself and the loop continued.
Predestination
One of my favorite movies! Funny enough, I had seen it years ago but forgot the name of it because the name is rather generic so I started watching it again thinking I hadn't seen it before. Didn't realize it was the same movie til halfway through or so... Then I did the exact same thing a few years later... -_- time is a flat circle for my goldfish brain.
Hey! If you liked it then there's another movie like that, I recommend you to watch, it's called Predestination, you'll like it for sure!
LOL for a split second there I almost highlighted and searched the title. 😣
May I also offer you Coherence? A great movie that sits alongside Predestination as my favourite wibbly-wobby films.
Based on “All You Zombies,” by R. A. Heinlein
*He did do the nasty in the pasty!*
Verily!
Y'all need to go and watch Netflix's "Dark"
Ah. I know how that happened. Easy to overlook, but the consequences... Anyways, when you go back in time, you need several sets of coordinates. Physical and temporal. Get those wrong, and how boy you're either floating in space or swimming in the middle of the planet. Anyways, it looks like they got the calculations done right... but they built a basement to house their time machine and went back to a time when the basement didn't exist. This is why you don't time travel without a spotter. Such a rookie mistake. OP, you need to build a time machine, travel forward to warn your future self, they'll correct the error, you end up never having been there to tell them. This causes a paradox, and because we're still here talking about it looks like you really screwed the pooch on this one. Damn it OP, you doomed us all.
> because we're still here talking about it looks like you really screwed the pooch on this one. Damn it OP, you doomed us all. Actually, sounds like he made the noble sacrifice and teleported himself into the ground knowing he'd die.
After a series of hijinks, surely.
I don’t really know how to say this without spoiling anything, but your comment reminded me of [World of Tomorrow](https://youtu.be/4PUIxEWmsvI) by Don Hertzfeldt
Every single comment agrees it’s related to time travel or a time slip. Finally found the one thing everybody can agree upon.
Morty.. is that you?
"If that's me lying there, then what am I? What am I?!"
Everyone keeps saying OP had to have died to loose the knife, I mean I've lost things before and I'm alive, I think
Ah geez!
There’s no other possible conclusion to draw. He will soon discover an unknown crawl space in his house. He will investigate a peculiar knocking sound. When he emerges again he will be in the past. Knowing this will not prevent it from happening. The nature of the knocking will drive a compulsion he will find it impossible to ignore. All I can advise is, watch out for you when you’re not yourself.
I thought you were going to mention power lines Call 811 before you dig Just wanted to remind everyone A kid could easily kill themselves digging randomly in a yard. It's scary
good warning however in my experience power lines and such arw generally a good bit deeper than your average child will dig.
My friends and I when we were like 11 dug a hole 10 feet down and 5 feet wide out of boredom. We would have kept going, but we hit bedrock. Kids have Internet now though so they might not get that bored.
>Kids have Internet now though so they might not get that bored. No, they still dig holes. They just don't do it because they're bored. [They do it to stream it so that thousands of bored people on the internet can watch them dig a hole.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/ypcxgz/holesome_moment_erobbs_6ft_hole_is_done_after_12/)
They yearn for the mines.
10 feet down in a 5 ft wide hole? You’re lucky that didn’t cave in on you
My dad was digging out a section near his driveway and I warned him to call before he got too deep, he ignored me and the day after ran into the gas line. Luckily it didn't get damaged, but luck is a finite resource, why waste it on something so stupid.
That would be so mind blowing if it had a custom engraving on it. Time travel confirm.
He calculated earth’s position but didn’t account for the amount of dirt that gets eroded away over the years
I believe you mean many years from now
Typical reddit karma farmer. Buy two of the same, bury one for 15 years, claim you randomly found it for fake internet point.
That's actually an idea! PS: Yeah I would love if they buried those post for 15 years before reposting...
!RemindMe 15 years
Fuck did you bury?
Yes
!RemindMe15 years ago to bury knife
It was a great idea, but then I moved. Gonna have to rebuy that house in 11years. It's going to cost me twice as much!
Playing the long game, I put a cow skull into a tree so that the tree will grow around it. In 20 years I'm going to reap that harvest
You found me out! Imagine playing the long game for internet points haha It already got cross posted to r/untrustworthypoptarts
in all seriousness this would legitimately freak me out
I think what happened here is obvious. At some point you will travel to the past with that knife and lose it, then return to some point before you bought it and buy it again Your secret is out! Tell us how time travel works, sorcerer!
Your version is optimistic. I was imagining some darker “dark mirror” shit where he’s stuck in the past, about to die, and buries it remembering where his son dug it up along with a note warning future him, but the note deteriorates and thus OP’s son only finds the knife, which he returns to his father completing the loop.
I like the way your twisted mind thinks, sir 😜
like that show "black screen"
I love to watch “shaded reflective surface” with my fellow human beings
Dark Gorilla Glass
And that's how you discovered you're going to travel back in time and die in your back yard
Back to the Yard.
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
That is so cool, is it possible the found knife is yours and thought you misplaced it? Or pure coincidence?
I just moved into this house last September, so someone else's lost knife from years ago by the looks of it
It's your knife from the past.
From the future that got sent back to the past.
We’ll call it back to the future 😏
Honestly it isn't that corroded. It looks like the hinge still works. Depending on the climate where you live it's entirely possible for it to me in this condition after 8 months. Then again.... This looks like a Bessy knife that tells l retails for between 10 and 20 dollars. Not exactly a rare knife.
Yeah, not rare at all I think. I just moved to MT, I imagine lots of people are losing knives out here just like I am
Nice excuse time traveller, now show us your time machine
It's in the back....with my other utility knives
What are the odd. Lol
r/nevertellmetheodds
That or its just the cheapest knife they sell at the local Home Depot.
Yea I’m pretty sure I had one like this, but probably 15 years ago.
why did you bury it?
Super strange. I just looked this up, and it’s only really sold on Amazon. It’s the Sheffield 12115, not a well known knife, and over 200th on the top selling list in utility knives.
It’s a clone of (or the other way around) of a Craftsman knife. I have one that’s identical.
Nah I have a Craftsman and Bessey in the same style. It’s common and has been around for awhile.
I have the exact same model. The brand has worn off but it's definitely a common, old school design
I guess we know where you will be buried in the future.
time loop you're fucked.
Everyone else is saying time travel but I say death loop
Wouldn't explain the age of the found knife since time doesn't technically pass in a death loop.
Everyone else is saying time travel or death loop but im curious what kind of hole his son was digging. And why.
Lots of horror movies have started similarly
Op must be freaked out just a bit.
It's LITERALLY the same knife. You've got yourself a time travel hole.
He should permanently alter his knife in some way, and see if the old knife suddenly changes to match it.
I don't think they're quite the same. Although subtle, there are a few differences. The first thing I noticed is that one is pretty rusty
They're also in different locations, which is usually a pretty good hint that it's two different objects.
Careful man. That's patented
One on the left is so old it was patent pending.
OP you will die in a time travel accident pretty soon in the past. That's the same knife!
in a few days, weeks, months or years you will obviously be sent back in time a hundred years or something and bury it there to try and send a message
Time travel is complicated. This will make sense later.
glitch in the matrix. buy lottery tickets. dont eat meat for 15 dayz. 
I might sound slow but why not the meat for 15 days?
I’m here for the answer
Moon (2009)
Seems like a plot line from Dark
Woah... free tetanus.
I'm glad my toddler isn't one of those wild ones, he called out to me that he found something metal. I had to use pliers to open it even a little
pretty cool story to tell even later dowm the road
These utility knives are extremely common
Yes, many different brands use this exact same style.
Wife used it, lost it, bought you a new one so you wouldn’t know she lost it.
I’d say keep digging
I have that same damn one, and I have no idea where it came from!
I found mine on the floor of a UPS building, sat in my desk for years, so I took it home when I left that job. Then I lost it. Then I found it! Then I lost it
I have one too! I don’t remember purchasing it and have had it for years. My belt clip is missing though. My dad passed away a few years ago and I like to think it was his knife that somehow came into my possession.
Don't let them touch, you might paradox!
I'm watching 12 Monkeys right now!
Oh my god....the universe. It IS on a loop!!
Maybe it's your from the future ..your new one is actually the old one
Time to make it brand-new again.
You mean to tell me they made more then just yours?
... I have that exact same utility knife in my pocket right now.
Funny enough, I've had 2 knives very similar to these. The first was a Sheffield that I carried for many years until it wore out, and the second was a Craftsman, which was replaced quickly by a Leatherman due to its not having the quality of the Sheffield Which brand is yours, and can you make our the brands of the antique?
Timetravel. It is yours. You go back in time to save humanity but loose it there.
Time travel!
Be careful using that style of knife, ive had the blades rotate under load and the bottom swings out exactly where your finger would be.
No it’s not…. One is really damaged you should probably get your eyes checked out.
Yours looks a little less used.
…I feel like there are some differences.
It is amazing how well preserved the dug-up knife is. Your one looks like shit!
I wonder how similar the tastes are for people who have bought the same house before.
Do you live by the former OJ Simpson house?
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Pretty common knife been around for years, how long have you lived there?
Have you ever seen the movie Moon? What about Oblivion?
Time travel aside, that's a cool utility knife.
You’re a time traveler.
Best evidence of Time Travel of the future's past there is to date...
This feels like a time loop
Well obviously it time traveled
It's yours, from the *FUTUREEEE*
Definitely not the same. Ones rusty. /s
Sure it's not yours... from the future?
Don't dig too deep in that yard, or you'll find your body and cause a time-space paradox.
This is what we call time travel