It was like a casual note to the future about three decades later.
It is rare for bottled messages to be seen by anyone, let alone their immediate family. However, that’s exactly what happened to Mackenzie Van Eyck when she dropped a note in a lake and it was read by her own daughter – After 26 years.
“I definitely wasn’t thinking about it that often, so I was pretty surprised,” Canuck explained. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Describing an impossible event.
Bottled Correspondence was part of an assignment Canuck received in 1998 in fourth grade at St. John the Baptist Catholic Elementary School in Belle River, Ontario.
He was tasked with writing about the water quality in the Great Lakes and then bottling the notes and throwing them into Lake St. Clair.
McKenzie probably forgot about the school project until this fall, when River Vandenberg, a kindergartner at the school, discovered it mail liquor While visiting the reservoir with my grandmother.
“I thought it was a map to kill a gravedigger or something, then realized after reading it that it wasn’t,” said the kindergarten student.
“This letter is coming from Mackenzie Morris and I go to St. John the Baptist School. I’m in grade 4 in Mr. St. Pierre’s class,” the message read. “My letter is about water in the Great Lakes. We read a book called Paddle-to-the-Sea. It was a very good book.”
Surprised, Vandenberg and her grandfather Mitchell drove to the elementary school, where a fourth-grade teacher read the message to the class, which included McKenzie’s daughter, Scarlett.
He couldn’t believe his ears. “My mouth is completely sore,” said the astonished child. “And everyone was like, ‘Who is he? Who is he?’ And I was like, ‘My mom.’
It was surprisingly a full-circle moment for her mother Mackenzie, who had always wondered what happened to the note.
“It was memorable to do something like that, to throw something away and think maybe someone will find it later,” he said.
Roland St. Pierre, the now retired teacher who dreamed up the assignment so many years ago, was equally impressed by this miraculous discovery.
“I had forgotten all about it, so it was a real shock,” the former teacher said. He also said that he was surprised that the note survived “for 26 years without breaking”.
While this is certainly unlikely, this is not the longest time it will take before a bottled message is found.
That honor goes to a 200-year-old message sealed in a bottle that was discovered during an archaeological dig in northern France in September.
By whom was the message written? Archaeologist P.J. ferret, Who has written that he had got the excavation done at the same place in 1825.
