A team of investigators fans out across the United States each week, chasing down objects that ordinary people dig up in their own backyards. Found treats every discovery as a potential clue to a bigger, half-forgotten story.
What is Found about?
Each episode opens with an ordinary discovery — a buried tool, a strange fragment, an object nobody in the household can explain — and follows the specialists as they trace it back through archives, oral history, and forensic testing. Found moves at the pace of real research: dead ends, revised theories, and the occasional discovery that reshapes how a community understands its own past. The series leans on interviews with the people who made the find as much as the experts called in to explain it, keeping the human reaction central to every investigation.
About the cast
Shanola Hampton and Mark-Paul Gosselaar lead the ensemble of hosts and specialists, joined across the season by Brett Dalton, Gabrielle Walsh, Arlen Escarpeta, Karan Oberoi, Sterling Jones and Kelli Williams, each bringing a different investigative lens to the objects under review.
Context & significance
Produced in the United States, Found sits within a wave of documentary programming built around amateur discovery rather than staged competition — the appeal is procedural rather than dramatic, closer to a field investigation than a treasure hunt. Its hour-length episodes, running around 40 minutes each, give the research time to breathe rather than rushing to a reveal. The format also travels well outside the country of origin: the objects change from region to region, but the underlying pull — a stranger's ordinary find turning out to matter — reads the same anywhere a viewer happens to be watching from.
Watching Found on Ktime
Found streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Farsi subtitles, so viewers can follow every step of the investigation in their own language. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the show's page itself is open to read without one.