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"I was just blown away." Paul Grisham's wallet was missing for so long at the bottom of the world he forgot all about it.

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA At their home in San Carlos on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in San Diego, Calif., Paul Grisham and his wife Carole Salazar look over his wallet and the items that were inside when he lost the wallet back 1968. Back in 1968, Navy Lt. JG Paul Grisham spent a year stationed in Antarctica as a meteorologist. When he returned to California after 13 months on "The Ice," as he calls it, his wallet had disappeared. A couple weeks ago, his wallet was found in a building being torn down at McMurdo Station, Antarctica and recently returned back to him. (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The Sa...

US man's wallet found behind McMurdo Station locker in New Zealand territory.

Paul Grisham lost the wallet in the late 1960s down on 'The Ice.' It was found in 2014, but years of detective work was needed to find its owner.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Paul Grisham’s wallet was missing for so long at the bottom of the world he forgot all about it. Fifty-three years later, the 91-year-old San Diego man has the billfold back along with mementos of his 13-month assignment as a Navy meteorologist on Antarctica in the 1960s. “I was just blown away,” Grisham told The San Diego Union-Tribune after the wallet was returned on Saturday. “There was a long series of people involved who tracked me