Top 10 Amazing Real-Life Messages in a Bottle Stories
858Top 10 Amazing Real-Life Messages in a Bottle Stories
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there’s nothing more creative than penning your thoughts on paper, sliding it through a bottle and flunking in the ocean. The messages could convey words of hope or regret, profess love, good or bad news, name it. Whatever is the case, the writer hopes that the addressee receives it and on time. Whether it happens as planned is left for nature to judge. Sit tight as I take you through the ten amazing real-life messages in bottle stories.
10. British soldier en route the war front
In 1999, Steve Gowan was fishing off the Essex coast in England when he found a ginger beer bottle with a screw-on stopper. He opened it and saw the message 26-year old World War I soldier Thomas Hughes wrote to his wife. It was tossed on the English Channel as the soldier left for France. The covering note implored anyone who picked it up to forward it to his wife to earn the blessings of a poor British soldier. It was signed and dated September 1914.
Hughes died two days after writing the letter, and his message never got to his wife. Part of the letter read, "put your name where it says signature and look after it well." Gowan tried to find Hughes's wife, but he discovered that she died in 1979. Fortunately, she had a daughter who was 86 years old and living in New Zealand. She was a year old when she lost her father. She received the correspondence on her mother's behalf. This is about the only memory she has of her father.
https://www.businessinsider.com/85-year-old-bottled-message-delivered-2016-6?IR=T
9. A grandson's connection
Geoff Flood and his partner were walking on Ninety Mile Beach in New Zealand in November 2012 when they noticed an unusual object floating on the beach. It was a bottle! When they opened it, they found a handwritten note dated March 17, 1936. The writer implored the finder to forward it to the address on the paper.
H.E. Hillbrick wrote the letter on special stationery and added a picture of the ship he boarded. It is believed to be the British Royal Mail ship that conveyed passengers from England to Australia. Flood discovered that the writer died in the early 1940s but managed to trace his grandson Peter, living in Perth, where he handed him the note. The young man was excited and told everyone that the bottle is the only connection he has with his grandfather. Amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vxIIDQqfCI
8. Jonathan to Mary
Matea Medak, a 23-year-old surfer, was clearing debris from a Croatian beach when he stumbled upon a broken bottle. It was at the mouth of the Neretva river in southern Adriatic. It contained a message from Jonathan, who lived in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It was written 28 years ago to a lady who he had promised to write. It read in part, "I hope we can keep in correspondence. I said I will write."
Mary would have been moved to think Jonathan had no interest in relating with her after their first meeting, given that she never received any response. The bottle traveled about 6,000 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean, ventured into the Mediterranean Sea before drifting to the Adriatic Sea. The identity of the friends and how they met remains unknown to this day.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311147/Message-bottle-thrown-Atlantic-takes-28-years--5-000-miles-away.html
7. A treasure found in Texas
Jim and Candy Duke were strolling along the Padre Island National Seashore in 2019 when they saw a glass bottle entangled with tree limbs. Surprisingly, it looked new, and when they drew closer, they saw a message instructing them to break it. The duo took it home and struggled to break it. It was a tedious task because the rubber stopper swallowed into the part of the neck, making it hard to get out.
Eventually, they opened it with the help of a neighbor's wine opener. The paper was a postcard with instructions to fill in where the bottle was retrieved and the date. It should be mailed to the Galveston Laboratory of the U.S Bureau of Commercial fisheries. Anyone who successfully heeds to the instruction gets a 50-cent reward. Between February 1962 and December 1963, the laboratory released about 7,863 similar bottles to the Gulf of Mexico, off the Texas coast. The study aimed at studying water currents and their role in young shrimp's movements from spawning grounds to the nursery. The Dukes mailed the postcard but didn't accept the reward.