Category Archives: Joke

1987 Message In A Bottle Mystery: “Please, help us…We tried to sail away…”

26 Friday May 2017

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A Bizarre 1987 Message in a Bottle Mystery Emerges From California Pond

Well, this is a weird one! A 1987 message in a bottle mystery from a small lake in California.

Enviro-crusader and “litter picker” Paul Southworth (I am a fan!) was recently out cleaning trash from Arastradero Lake in California–it’s nestled in the San Francisco Bay area. Woo hoo!

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Paul with his trusty litter grabber and bags of junk from litterpicking the O&W Rail Trail in Kerhonkson, NY.

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Incredible Message In A Bottle from 1967 Found Inside Concrete Slab in Australia

08 Monday May 2017

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Incredible Message in a Bottle Recovered from Concrete Slab

When you hear message in a bottle, I bet you think ocean. I know I do. After all, the most famous message in a bottle stories revolve around the sea… But every know and then, a truly incredible message in a bottle turns up on dry land.

The Police Message in a Bottle Cover

A&M Records cover for The Police’s single, Message in a Bottle.

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The Mystery of the Beautiful Terrorist (Mystery Message #4)

27 Monday Feb 2012

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We’ve had several beautiful days here in Lexington recently, and there’s nothing that makes me eager for adventure like a sunny day.

So…

The message started out looking like this:
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An Old Message in an Old Coke Bottle

02 Saturday Jul 2011

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Ye Olde Timey Coke Bottle

Thanks again to Devon Patton from LEX18 News who interviewed me yesterday.  We spent 2 hours talking and deciphering messages, but of course air time is limited and this post provides a bit more detail about what we found.
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