The story of a lost wallet on a flight connecting through Denver International Airport turned from despair to a restored faith in humanity after an anonymous good Samaritan returned the billfold to its owner with an extra $40.
Hunter Shamatt, 20, thought he lost his ID, debit card, $60 in cash and a signed paycheck on a Frontier Airlines flight from Omaha, Neb., to Denver on his way to his sister’s wedding in Las Vegas.
But his wallet was returned with a note reading, in part, “I rounded your cash up to an even $100 so you can celebrate getting your wallet back,” according to a Facebook post with a photo of the note.
The note was only signed with the initials “TB” and had an Omaha return address.
“After fearing the worst that everything was gone, tonight Hunter received a package in the mail with his wallet,” Hunter’s mother, Jeannie Shamatt, wrote in the post.
After a local TV news station ran a story on Shamatt’s good fortune, the mystery Samaritan came forward. Todd Brown and his wife found the wallet and returned it in a heart-warming gesture.
“(T)he world is not as grim as itap being made out to be,” Jeannie Shamatt wrote in a follow-up Facebook post.