Aaron Giles was just five years old when he lost his identity bracelet while playing in his grandfather's farm in Fairmont, Minnesota.

Now 31 and a resident of Gloucester, Massachusetts, he never thought that he could still find a childhood memento - and no small thanks to the meat cutters of Olson Locker in Fairmont.

Workers were cutting the meat of chickens that came from an Elmore farm when Brittany McDonald found the shiny object in a chicken gizzard. The band had Giles' name, address and phone number engraved on it.

"It's the strangest story that I have ever heard in the meat locker business...I've heard of livestock swallowing unusual objects, but this situation stands out," said ," said Mark Olson, McDonald's grandfather.

Giles received his old bracelet in September after Olson successfully tracked down Giles' father, Doug, now living in Arizona.

The owner was surprised at how the bracelet remained "in pretty immaculate shape."

He said has no plan of losing it again and that the recovered item will remain a family heirloom.