As children, we tend to romanticize things and believe everything we see in the movies — like releasing a message in a bottle into the ocean and expecting it to be returned after a couple decades.
Unfortunately, I'm still waiting for the message I sent into the sea as a child to come back to me.
One woman who has been much luckier in this department is Miranda Moss Chavez. According to CBS News, she has been reunited with a bottle she tossed into the ocean in 1988.
While this isn't the first time someone has been reunited with their message in a bottle after many years, it's always exciting that such an old tradition can still exist.
In fact, New York Magazine claims the first message in a bottle can be traced back to 310 BC.
On October 14, 2017, Linda Shouse Humphries took to Facebook after finding a message in a bottle. She was determined to track down its owner.
She wrote:
David made a remarkable discovery while we were doing a beach sweep on Sapelo Island this morning. He found this message in a bottle tossed from Edisto, SC….29 years ago! We have a current name and city for the now 37 year-old sender, but any phone #’s we’ve found were dead ends. Will keep trying. Anyone with a Columbia, SC directory is welcome to contact me.
Linda was eventually able to contact the message in a bottle's true owner, who made a similar post when she found out:
The most amazing thing just happened!! I received a message on Facebook where Linda Shouse Humphries found a message in a bottle that I put in the Ocean at Edisto Beach on September 26, 1988. I was 8 years old!!! She found it on Sapelo Island, GA and is sending it to me!! So cool!
The note itself written on September 26, 1988 read:
Hello My name Is Miranda Dawn Moss I am 8 years old. I am in third grade at Foster Park Union S.C. My home address is Rt 5 box 449A I came to Edisto Beach for a weekend.
There is one part that faded over 29 years that I believe mentioned Miranda’s birthday.
She ends the note asking whoever finds the message to "rite to me," and provides her address.
The message in a bottle was found on Sapelo Island, Georgia, and Linda was very excited to share some swag with Miranda along with the letter.
The thoughtful package included a map of Sapelo Island so that Miranda will know exactly where she goes if she ever visits.
Moreover, Linda included very detailed information about exactly where the message in a bottle was found.
In truth, it wasn't exactly around the corner from where Miranda originally set it into the ocean.
It would take at least a three-hour drive from point A to point B!
This is the Edisto beach where Miranda first parted with her bottle containing an adorable message.
Over the next 29 or so years, the bottle ended up here on Sapelo Island in Georgia. I sure wouldn't mind spending 29 years here.
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