The Day Three Alien Fossils Vanished from My Studio—And Landed in Switzerland

What Really Happened on the Afternoon of June 12th 2024?

There’s a timestamp burned into my memory—14:45, June 12th, 2024. I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. Just checking in on my online shop, the way you might glance out the window, not expecting much to change. And then it happened.

A sudden chime.

Three items in the cart.

Checkout complete.

Paid. Done. Just like that.

No questions. No back-and-forth. No second guessing. Someone—from Lucerne, Switzerland—had just ordered three of my Galactic Fossils. These were steel objects I had imagined as ancient remains from another world. I had crafted them slowly, plate by plate, like exoplanetary archeology. And now they were gone. Shipped out. Adopted.

This was one of the very first sales on my site, vonhauerland.com, and it wasn’t just a transaction—it felt like a transmission. A signal received.

How Did He Even Find Them?

Later I exchanged a few emails with the buyer—a kind, curious person who had stumbled upon my work through Reddit. Of all places. He’d been drawn to the strange idea: alien fossils, layered like CT scans, speculative artifacts that don’t belong to any museum—yet somehow belong on your desk or in your living room.

And that’s exactly where they went. Into someone’s world. Someone who got it.

One Year Later, It Still Feels Unreal

Now, exactly a year later, I look back at that day and I’m still trying to process it. Not because of the money. But because it worked. This thing I had made—this strange, quiet idea—had been noticed. And not in a loud, viral kind of way. More like a whisper across a border. Germany to Switzerland. Reddit to Lucerne. Imagination to reality.

Why It Still Matters

I’ve kept building this world—through my sculptures, through Reddit, and through the idea that you can own something that looks like it came from a crashed alien probe or a buried temple on a forgotten moon.

You don’t need to be rich. You don’t need to believe in science fiction. You just need to be curious. That’s what Galactic Fossils are really for. They’re small. They’re strange. They wait. And sometimes, they vanish into the hands of someone who understands them without needing an explanation.

So… What Will Happen on June 12th This Year?

Who knows?

Maybe nothing.

Maybe something.

Maybe this time you find something you didn’t expect.

Explore Galactic Fossils at vonhauerland.com.

They’re not just objects.

They’re messages.

From another place. Maybe even from you.