Mystery time warp

About five years ago, when we were still living in LA, and long before this blog or Number 3 existed, our friend's the Wolfkill's came to visit us. Right before they were about to leave, they discovered that they had lost their cell phone. The phone was right on the carpet minutes before, and we spent about a perplexed hour turning the house upside down, looking for the cell phone. At that time, Stitch was just under 2 years of age, and we thought he may have taken the phone, so we spent a great deal of time trying to coax the location out of him. Unfortunately, we never found it, and our friend got a new phone.
Just this weekend, we found number 3 playing with a cellular phone in the car. Both the GC and I wondered where this phone came from, but didn't get a chance to look at it carefully. Stitch said #3 found it in the car. Perplexed, it sat in the back of my mind until today, when it suddenly occurred to me that it must belong to our friend. I took a picture and emailed them, and believe it or not, after 5 years, moving 4 times, hundreds of car washes and searches through the car for random stuff, the phone is found. I still think some strange time warp happened, since we have been through all the stuff in the house and in the car multiple times in the last 5 years. And it just appears in the hands of number 3.