The Tin, the Bracelet, and the Phone Number That Waited 26 Years

Adoption Reunion Stories · Oct 15, 2026 · 23m · transcript

The Tin, the Bracelet, and the Phone Number That Waited 26 Years

Fear that someone is still out there waiting: a phone number sat inside a tartan tin for twenty-six years until a golden retriever named Biscuit unearthed it beneath a sweetgum root on March 1, 2019 - the newborn hospital bracelet inside still showed four letters, W-A-L-S. Who placed the tin, why it was hidden on private land, and what that final phone call would do remained unanswered until someone finally dialed it.

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the morning Connie Wells found the tin on the eastern…