Several philosophers in the past have said that people can have better lives if they find themselves and realise their true potential. However, a man in Turkey’s Inegöl spent hours literally “searching for himself”.

Little did he know, the 50-year-old Beyhan Mutlu that he was about to lead the officials on a wild goose chase when he was enjoying a few drinks with his friends in the city. Matlu, in his inebriated state, wandered off into the woods near the area. When he did not return for a while, his worried friends went to the police to report him as missing.

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According to Firstpost, the police lodged a missing persons report and launched a search operation to find Mutlu. The police gathered a group and decided to search the area where the man was last seen.

The group searched the woods for a while, but they did not find the man. Later, when they called out his name, Mutlu answered from within the search group.

Under the influence of alcohol, Mutlu had joined the search party and walked along it, under the belief that the efforts were going on to find somebody else in the area. It is also said that the 50-year-old spent quite a while “searching for himself” in a literal manner.

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According to Vaziyet, a Turkish news outlet, Mutlu was later escorted back to his home.

This is not the only strange case about a missing person or object that has gained eyeballs on social media.

Just a few days ago, a gravestone in the United States, that had been missing for almost 150 years, was recovered from a house, where it was being used for making fudge.