Who hasn't dreamt about finding a message in a bottle! It is an exciting way of getting to know a completely random stranger who you probably would never have met otherwise. It would be even more exciting if that stranger happens to be from a completely different century!
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| The bottle and the postcard from 1913, Source |
Earlier in March this year, a fisherman pulled up an old brown glass bottle from the Baltic Sea. As it happens that bottle was carrying a message from 1913, written by one called Richard Platz from Germany. Researchers managed to track down his granddaughter who actually had never met her grandfather as he died in 1946, at an age of 54 years. It is a very touching story that the granddaughter got to know her grandfather from when he was in his early twenties, and in a completely unique way too.
Unfortunately the time underwater has caused the writing to fade on the postcard, and not much can be deciphered. With over a hundred years in the sea, this message in a bottle has been classified to be the oldest of its kind in the world. It is amazing to think that the act of a bored 21-year -old will now end up in the newest edition of Guinness World Records book.
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