03 Monday Apr 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, Travel
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Mystery message solved!
Can you tell I’m excited?
RAY FROM PHILLY HAS BEEN FOUND! And guess what? He’s awesome.
Y’all, when I found this message in a bottle, I thought it was a hopeless case. The bottle was falling apart, and the writing was so faded I couldn’t see anything. I was bummed.
10 Friday Mar 2017
Posted in Flaschenpost, Germany, message in a bottle, Mystery Message
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Austria, Flaschenpost, Germany, Hermosa Beach, Jirko, message in a bottle, R. & Lo. Lenz, Switzerland
Y’all have helped me solve some incredible mysteries. Like the 46 year old note from “Donkeyman” Jimmy Robertson, and the 7 year old message in a bottle from Sabine of Dusseldorf, Germany. Couldn’t have solved those without your help! Well, I need your help again. We’re gonna solve a “cold case” this time–a message in a bottle found by Stefanie Padilla on Hermosa Beach, CA, in 2013. In fact, she found EIGHT messages inside one bottle, all from German-speaking folks. In German, a message in a bottle is called a “Flaschenpost,” which just means “bottle mail”. Isn’t that great?
Believe it or not, Stefanie discovered the Flaschenpost as it floated to shore! Can you believe it? Here’s the bottle, on it’s way in: Continue reading
22 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News
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Bernd Igwerks, donkeyman, Edinburgh, found, Germany, Inspiration, James Dunbar Edinburgh, James Robertson, Jimmy Robertson, message in a bottle, News, Norderney, Scotland
Well it was a long hard search, but we did it! We found “Donkeyman” James Robertson who sent a message in a bottle 46 years ago!
The story about James Robertson’s message broke in early January when Bernd Igwerks found the half-century old bottled note washed ashore on the small German island of Norderney.
Bernd Igwerks, with the 46 Year Old Message in a Bottle He Found. Photo courtesy: Nomo Online / nomo-norderney.de
I knew right away that there had to be special story behind this bottle–and a special person. Turns out Continue reading
18 Saturday Feb 2017
Posted in Adventure, archives of the sea, hoax, Mystery Message, News, ocean currents, Science, Uncategorized
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archives of the sea, castaway, hoax, Inspiration, Long Island Sound, message in a bottle, New York Times, News, North Atlantic Current, Norwegian Current, shipwreck, SS Crathie, SS Elbe, The North Sea
On January 30th, 1895, a German steamship called Elbe was in the North Sea, making her way from Bremerhaven to New York carrying 354 passengers.
SS Elbe
In the predawn hours of January 31st, she was accidentally rammed by Continue reading
27 Friday Jan 2017
Posted in Adventure, Friendship, Love, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, Romance
One day in 2013, a young woman named Jess and her dog were walking along the beach on the UK’s east coast.
Suddenly, something caught her eye Continue reading
21 Saturday Jan 2017
Posted in archives of the sea, Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News
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Bernd Igwerks, donkeyman, Edinburgh, Flaschenpost, Help, Inspiration, James Robertson, message in a bottle, Mystery, Norderney
My friends, we have a mystery to solve!
On January 12th, 2017, Nomo Online published a brief article–just a wee little paragraph–about a man named Bernd Igwerks who had just found a message in a bottle sent in 1970.
Bernd Igwerks, with the 46 Year Old Message in a Bottle He Found. Photo courtesy: Nomo Online / nomo-norderney.de
Whoa. That caught my eye! As best I could tell, they Continue reading
