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Mystery Penpal: US Girl’s 2017 Message in a Bottle Answered by Anonymous Irish Beachcomber

04 Wednesday Apr 2018

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2017 Message in a Bottle Answered by Anonymous Irish Beachcomber

I love this story! It’s so mysterious! Check it out: An American girl named Catherine went to the beach on January 2nd, 2017, with her dad and her sister. There, she sent a message in a bottle in celebration of the new year and wishing the finder happiness, according to the Donegal Daily. Then, presumably, they all hopped in the car and drove home, and that was it. Flash forward to March 2018, when they received a lovely but mysterious letter in the mail from the bottle’s anonymous finder in County Donegal. That’s right: Anonymous! Usually it’s the SENDER who is hard to find–but in this case, the person who FOUND the message in a bottle remains a mystery! Catherine’s 2017 message in a bottle thus managed the strange feat of being found by someone who she cannot find. Continue reading →

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Irish Sisters Send Twin Messages in Bottles, Both Found Days Apart in UK

12 Saturday Aug 2017

Posted by in Adventure, Friendship, message in a bottle, plastic, Pollution

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Two Irish Sisters, Two Messages in Bottles

There are a few kinds of message in a bottle stories I am a sucker for. Near the top of the list are those involving kiddos, and those highlighting the plastic pollution plague in our ocean. This story does both!

Rachel and Olivia, 12 and 9 respectively, each sent a message in a bottle while on a family outing in Brittas Bay, Ireland, near Arklow, according to BBC Wales.

Irish Sisters photo from Shemazing.net. Olivia's bottle was found in Aberystwyth.

Rachel, left, and Olivia, right. Photo: Mythen Family / Shemazing.net

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