Sarah Hyde was walking along Bathtub Beach, Florida when she came across a peculiar object in the sand.
She was looking for sand dollars (a type of shell) when she found a glass rum bottle – which she found contained a piece of damp folded paper. She opened the bottle, let the paper dry, and try to read the anonymous sender's letter.
She says she expected the content of the letter to be the ramblings of a teenager, but when she looked closely, Sarah realized that the letter wasn't even in English! Written entirely in Spanish, she couldn't understand a single word on the delicate piece of paper.
She reached out to friends on Instagram by posting an image of the bottle, asking if anyone could help her translate the message. That's when a friend offered to read the message.
This friend revealed how heartfelt the letter really is. More like a prayer, its writer is asking for someone's family to make it safely to the United Sates.
Part of the letter reads, "I am writing to you through means of this letter with love and a lot of faith because you are the only one in the world that can help me with what I'm about to ask."
It also says, "Help me bring [something] to the land on the other side."
Sarah wants to believe the family mentioned in the letter managed to survive the seas. And now she's looking for answers, hoping to discover where the message came from. The letter lists several names, which may be clues as to who the sender is, and who he or she is praying for.
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