Left Urn in Uber Leads to Online Privacy

Do you need ashes? An urn was recently found in the back of an Uber in the Kansas City metro area and no one knows who it is, according to new report from Fox4 in Kansas City.

“I don’t know what to do with this…. Son found this urn in an Uber,” Erin Hayden posted on Facebook on Dec. 28, 2024.

Hayden writes that her son asked the Uber driver if it was his urn and was told it was not. The driver also didn’t know whose it might be because he drives a lot of people every day.

“It’s small and apparently it was loved when the blue finish was gone…does anyone know what we should do with this?” Hayden wrote. “The kid was in Overland Park when he found it but the Uber was all over KC. The kid found it Thursday.”

Uber was in Kansas City, Kansas at the time the passenger was found, but it is unclear how the Uber driver got there. And the way it was discovered (by a flashlight from a passenger) suggests it may have been there for a while.

Fox4 News in Kansas City spoke to Ty Hadenwho found the urn.

“I jumped in the Uber and just made sure we didn’t leave anything behind so we didn’t have to get Uber back,” Hayden said. “I whipped out a flashlight and found a few things, but I just grabbed them.”

Hayden said she texted her friends to make sure it wasn’t their urn. And now they don’t know what to do.

“It’s a beautiful thing, especially one that’s human,” Hayden said.

Ty Hayden is serving in the military and was stationed in Florida so he left the urn with his mother in the Kansas City area, according to Fox4. Anyone who may know who the urnyo belongs to is encouraged to get in touch Erin Hayden is on Facebook. And while her post has been shared more than 200 times, no one has come up with any ideas.

“It’s very dear, so someone has been carrying it. If it was my parent or my child or anyone, I would have wanted it back home,” Hayden told Fox4.

Hayden said he will grab the urn and keep it on the shelf “until someone says so.”