By Victoria Woollaston
PUBLISHED: 09:11 EST, 25 July 2013 | UPDATED: 09:12 EST, 25 July 2013
If you've ever lost your phone and had to ring it to locate it, spare a thought for a careless builder from Stockport.
During a job in which he had installed a new extension onto the back of a customer's house he misplaced his phone. After calling his mobile insurer to report the handset missing, he realised the lost device had in fact been been left inside one of the new wall cavities.
The customer called his firm to let him know and allowed the builder to remove the phone before cancelling his claim.
This was just one of the weird and wacky claims submitted to a mobile insurance site that also included phones left in coffins, toilets and even eaten by cows.
THE RISE OF THE ITRAVELLERMobileinsurance.co.uk sifted through past claims information to reveal the top 10 most bizarre places that mobile phones have turned up, based on claims that were made but later withdrawn by the phone owner due to the fact they had found their handset.
The builder from Stockport topped the list.
In second place was a farmer in his 50s who found his mobile phone embedded in the edge of a hay bale.
An undertaker from London reported his phone as lost, but called the next day to withdraw the claim after finding it inside a coffin.
It was a lucky find because the body was due to be buried shortly afterwards.
Other claims including a woman in Cambridge who left her phone inbetween two books in a library and a 40-year-old man from Liverpool who found his phone inside the cistern of his toilet.
A 19-year-old woman from Birmingham told mobileinsurance.co.uk that the lost phone she'd earlier reported had actually turned up in her fridge, next to the milk on the middle shelf.
A keen gardener from York has accidentally buried his phone in the flower beds of his front garden.
Despite being covered in mud and being left outside, the phone was undamaged.
Then there was the man in his early 30s found his 'lost' mobile phone in the corner of his son's hamster cage beneath the sawdust.
He explained that his son must have put it there without him noticing and it only turned up when he went to clean out the cage.
Another man found his iPhone under the bonnet of his car.
He realised he must have left it there when he was topping up his car's screen wash and drove around for days without the phone falling out.
In a more heartwarming story, a woman in Plymouth found her phone a week after reporting it on top of a petrol pump.
The phone could have been stolen but was in exactly the same place she'd left it.
Jason Brockman, Director of mobileinsurance.co.uk, commented on the news: 'If someone reports a phone as lost and later lets us know that they've found it, we always ask where the phone turned up in the end.
'It's more common than you might think, but some of these finding places are very obscure, so a few stuck out in our minds.
'Losing any item that you own is hugely frustrating and I think these case studies just go to show that you should never lose hope when something goes missing, because it literally could turn up anywhere.
Retracing your steps where lost phones are concerned is always a good idea and the case of the lady that found her phone in a petrol station, exactly where she left it, is a good example of this.
She's lucky someone didn't decide to pick it up and keep it for themselves!'
Last year the top ten craziest claims included a phone lost inside a cow, a handset blasted by fireworks and a device stolen by seagulls.
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