“I am not making this up,” she said at the start of her video. “I literally do not care how many people comment and say, ‘oh my god this was staged.’ Hey, hold on one second.”
Valencia explains to her viewers that she went to Goodwill earlier that day and purchased a set of nightstands. As she flips her camera to show off the purchase, she said, “My heart’s a little trembly, this is, like, really cool.”
According to the TikToker, the nightstands were still filled with the previous owner’s belongings, so she cleared them out. It was during this cleaning process that she found the surprising note.
Valencia grabbed the note which, at this point in the video, is now sitting on top of the nightstand. She made a point to show that it is “crumpled” and “dirty,” as proof that the note is old.
When she unfolded the note, she said, “[The note] legit says, ‘Carlie’s home number and mom’s cell phone number.’” What’s shocking about this, Valencia said, is the fact that both the cell phone number and the home phone number written on the paper match both her mother’s cell phone number and her family’s former landline number.
“My youngest sister’s name is Carlie and that’s our home phone number,” she said to the camera. “We have not had a home phone probably in, like, 10-15 years. What are the chances of that?”
Valencia further investigated the nightstand only to discover more notebooks, writing materials, etc. from the previous owner, who was one of her younger sister’s childhood friends.
It’s obvious Valencia was excited by the discovery; however, one commenter didn’t find the whole experience so unlikely.
“Do you live and thrift in the area you grew up,” the skeptical commenter asked.
“I live in San Diego,” Valencia responded. “Grew up in San Diego. If it was a smaller town I could see your point. The chances are still wild.”
When the commenter expressed further doubt, Valencia responded again, saying: “For perspective, 3.3 million people live in San Diego county. The chance is slim.”
Others, however, found the discovery just as incredible as Valencia did.
“What are the ODDS,” said one. “I love when the universe works out like this.”
“THIS GAVE ME GOOSEBUMPS,” said another.
In the comments section, Valencia claimed that she did film other parts of the story, but had to take them down for privacy reasons.
“Unfortunately, I had to delete the other parts,” she said. “People were crazy investigators and zoomed and found info and started post[ing] names of people. To respect the previous owners [sic] privacy, I have removed those videos.”
She did eventually pieced together the previous owner’s name and messaged her on Facebook. That video can still be found on her page.