History Main / SuperSargassoSea

* One of the [[Wiki/SCPFoundation joke SCPs]] is the lost sock room.

--->''And like you, I'm a genius before my time''\\

[[Magazine/ForteanTimes Charles Fort]] called it the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200210203435/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Sargasso_Sea Super-Sargasso Sea]]; the dimension into which lost things go. Amelia Earhart's over at the bar. The LostColony of Roanoke is next door. USS Cyclops? In the harbor. Music/ElvisPresley? [[ElvisLives Who do you think is on stage?]] The Dead Sea Scrolls? Have a pamphlet. And everybody has all the socks they could possibly need. Just not matched ones. Sometimes, even abstract concepts can wind up here- someone's temper or their wits, or even hope.

%%zce* In ''The Lost Things Club'', the ShowWithinAShow that the titular Club creates is set here.

* ''Literature/TheKeysToTheKingdom'': The Border Sea is full of lost object from the secondary realms.
* In ''The Lost Things Club'', the ShowWithinAShow that the titular Club creates is set here.

* Creator/JKRowling's book ''The Christmas Pig'' sees a ChristmasMiracle sending a boy to one of these places so he can search for his lost stuffed pig, with the help of his ''other'' [[LivingToys stuffed pig]] and a few other [[AnimateInanimateObject lost objects]] animated by that same Christmas Miracle

* ''VideoGame/ForgottenAnne'' is set in one of these, with the added stipulation that coming there turns lost objects [[AnimateInanimateObject animate]].

[[Magazine/ForteanTimes Charles Fort]] called it the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200210203435/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Sargasso_Sea Super-Sargasso Sea]]; the dimension into which lost things go. Amelia Earhart's over at the bar. The LostColony of Roanoke is next door. USS Cyclops? In the harbor. Music/ElvisPresley? [[ElvisLives Who do you think is on stage?]] The Dead Sea Scrolls? Have a pamphlet. And everybody has all the socks they could possibly need. Just not matched ones.

* ''[[Radio/IntergalacticalMagicalRadio The Wacky Musical Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Intergalactical Magical Radio]]'' has Ronald and friends come across a planet full of lost objects (some of the items they find being ones they've misplaced themselves) during the track "The Land of Lost and Found".

* ''[[Radio/IntergalacticalMagicalRadio The Wacky Musical Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Intergalactical Magical Radio]]'' has Ronald and friends come across a planet full of lost objects during the track "The Land of Lost and Found".

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E9DeadWomansShoesWongsLostAndFoundEmporium Wong's Lost and Found Emporium]]", TheLittleShopThatWasntthereYesterday contains lost hopes, dreams, chances and attributes that people seek to regain. David Wong is searching for his compassion, Melinda for her sense of humor, Mrs. Whitford for lost time and the elderly man for the respect of his children. Each lost attribute appears in a glowing ball, which everyone except the intended recipient can see, and takes the form of a physical object or animal. The recipients must follow the instructions on the label to benefit from it.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Hundreds of years worth of hidden magic...if you need something, you need only ask.\\
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* In ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', lost objects and people from Earth often end up in the alternate world of Halkeginia. Earth technology is highly prized due to the world's low technology level.
* Charles Fort (a writer on anomalous phenomena) apparently [[TropeMaker first created]] this idea when he speculated various curious missing persons cases and lost objects might have ended up here.

* ''VideoGame/{{Submachine}}'': This is how the titular Submachine behaves, with its architecture being comprised of a mishmash of ancient ruins from multiple civilizations.

%%zce* In some of its many interpretations, ''WebOriginal/TheBackrooms'' fits comfortably into this trope.

* The 1943 animated short ''The Land of the Lost'' features two children who, with the help of a magic talking fish, find an undersea realm where all things lost at sea end up, gain sentience, and live in harmony. There the boy finds his old jackknife, who he helps become a knight as thanks for being a trusty tool.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanAndThePirates'' both the Lost Boys and the Pirates enter a group of caverns in Neverland that is indeed the Land of Lost Objects, where they even met Captain Hook's lost childhood.

* In some of it's many interpretations, ''WebOriginal/TheBackrooms'' fits comfortably into this trope.

* In some of it's many interpretations, ''WebOriginal/TheBackrooms'' fit comfortably into this trope.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', the barrier surrounding [[FantasyKitchenSink Gensokyo]] works such that it attracts things or concepts which have "become fantasy" in the outside world. While it's mainly a justification for the existence of {{youkai}}, it also attracts other things like extinct or endangered species, and yes, a bunch of lost items from the outside.

* ''Film/{{Halloweentown}} II: Kalabar's Revenge'' reveals that anything misplaced in either Halloweentown or the mortal world ends up at the house of Gort the ogre.

->He was standing in a room the size of a large cathedral, whose high windows were sending shafts of light down upon what looked like a city with towering walls, built of what Harry knew must be objects hidden by generations of Hogwarts inhabitants. There were alleyways and roads bordered by teetering piles of broken and damaged furniture, stowed away, perhaps, to hide the evidence of mishandled magic, or else hidden by castle-proud house-elves. There were thousands and thousands of books, no doubt banned or graffitied or stolen. There were winged catapults and Fanged Frisbees, some still with enough life in them to hover halfheartedly over the mountains of other forbidden items; there were chipped bottles of congealed potions, hats, jewels, cloaks; there were what looked like dragon eggshells, corked bottles whose contents still shimmered evilly, several rusting swords, and a heavy, bloodstained axe.
-->--''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''

** ''Literature/{{Pale}}'', set in the same universe as ''Pact'', introduces the Paths, which are home to things that have even been forgotten by the Abyss, including Others that predate the Seal of Solomon.

Not to be confused with ''Fanfic/WideSargassoSea'', a 1966 fanfic (but a classic nonetheless) of ''Literature/JaneEyre'' following the life of the latter's resident MadwomanInTheAttic.

-->'''Phoebe''': So, technically, I lost it here and now I've found it again. *{{beat}}* I hope this doesn't affect my virginity.

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* ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'' is a place of the lost and abandoned -- not just objects but people. A particularly interesting element of that is a shack containing the lost work of every artist who [[AuthorExistenceFailure died before creating it]], kept safe until such time that another artist can create it.