Message in a Bottle...

[FloridaRecycled]

You always hear about people putting a note in a bottle and throwing it in to the ocean for someone near or far to find...I'm just curious if you were to "dig" a bottle that had a note inside of it - from long ago - how totally cool that would be!?!?!

If you were to put a note in a bottle today and bury it for a "bottle collector" to find years from now...

What would you say in the note? Would it be about the bottle - about you - would you leave a map to your local landfill so they could go dig it? What?

 

[rockbot]

I have a river behind my house and my kids and I would send bottles down with our name, phone number and date. No one has every called. I guess its pretty rare for a bottle to survive the journey.

Rocky

 

[digdug]

Here is a link to a post I did a few years back about a note I found in a bottle while digging....addressed to ME! I never did find out who wrote it and placed it in my digging spot.
https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-32870/mpage-1/key-note%252Cbottle/tm.htm#32870

 

[FloridaRecycled]

ORIGINAL: digdug

Here is a link to a post I did a few years back about a note I found in a bottle while digging....addressed to ME! I never did find out who wrote it and placed it in my digging spot.
https://www.antique-bottles.net/forum/m-32870/mpage-1/key-note%252Cbottle/tm.htm#32870

So did you ever find out? Were you able to tell by the handwriting? My money would be on your wife...I would have bought some ice cold cokes - and under the moonlight looked in to her eyes and said "I love you too" - she'd of started giggling and the truth would be out! LOL

I hope you saved the note (framed it and placed it next to the bottle) - the center piece of your collection! What a sweet story!

 

[digdug]

My wife said it wasn't her and no one else has ever stepped up and confessed. One of lifes mystery.

 

[Plumbata]

A while ago, I had heard about a bottle with a suicide note being found by road construction worker when the interstate through Peoria was being revamped. I can't access the whole article but here is a snippet:

Did old whiskey bottle hold 1896 suicide note? PEORIA - Beneath the surface of a rebuilt interstate, Tim Dickinson found a mystery that has him wondering about the possible death of a man more than 100 years ago. It centers around a corked, old whiskey bottle that may contain the final words of a man "tired" of living. Dickinson, 28, a union worker from Pekin, was digging dirt last summer along Interstate 74 when he made his discovery.