This episode is brought to you by the Mazda CX-50. Move and Be Moved. Hey, it's me again, Kelly McEvers, co-host of the Atlas Obscura podcast. We are on the second to last day in our 12 days of wonder countdown to the holidays. If there's one thing that is often true about the holidays, it's that stuff goes wrong.

It always does.

There's just no way around it.

So today we're playing an episode about a place that exists because things went wrong.

It's the unclaimed baggage center.

When luggage gets lost during air travel, this is hopefully something that does not happen to you this holiday season,

and all options of reuniting the bag with its owner have been exhausted. It winds up here. Here's the

episode. In the late 1980s, a suitcase arrived at a warehouse in Scottsboro, Alabama.

That wasn't so unusual.

A lot of suitcases showed up at this particular warehouse.

But inside this bag was something special.

They opened the suitcase, and this troll face is staring back at them.

A four-foot-tall goblin puppet with a giant head, a huge... decades and this troll face is staring back at this.

A four-foot-tall goblin puppet with a giant head, a huge nose, and piercing blue eyes.

I'm Hoggle. Who are you?

Inside the bag was the real original Hoggle doll, this beloved character from the Jim Henson movie Labyrinth.

I get tickled every time I think about how funny and astonishing that must have been.

We were just amazed at. We have Hoggle.

I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas of Skira, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. And today, we visit the unclaimed baggage center in Scottsboro, Alabama, which bills itself as the nation's only retailer of lost luggage.

If you have ever lost a bang during air travel, it probably wound up there, alongside thousands and thousands of other bags.

And one hoggle.

And one hoggle. If you lose your luggage while traveling, you're probably going to get it back.

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