A message in a bottle was found 49 years later after a teen wrote a message that was found by two brothers in the Bahamas!
Two brothers, Clint and Evan Buffington discovered the message tucked inside a glass bottle during a recent trip they took to the Caribbean. With the help from social media, and a Boston journalist, Clint and Evan Buffington were able to locate the man who wrote the message in 1976 when he was just 14 years old!
One of the brothers; Clint, is an avid message in a bottle hunter and musician who explained, "I always think the most important thing about these messages is not how old they are or how far they've traveled - it's the people on the other side."
In the message, Peter R. Thompson had written, "I'm a ninth-grade student from Pentucket Regional Junior High School [in West Newbury]. This is a science experiment for I am in an oceanography course. Will you please send this back to the address at the bottom and say where you found it, what day and time, and how. This was launched by a Coast Guard ship in the Month of May1976."
A WCVB reporter, Emily Maher, tracked down Peter R. Thompson and found him in Leominster, Massachusetts! He explained that he did not remember writing the letter but does remember taking the Oceanography course about 5 decades ago! Peter said, "It's a miracle. It's almost 50 years later. It's a big surprise."
One of the brothers; Clint, explained how unique this experience was even despite the message being 'straight forward'. It was unique in how much it meant to the 14-year-old kid who found it in the 70s! After it's adventure around the North Atlantic, who knew it would end up on an inhabited island in the Bahamas!
During this message in a bottle's journey, time passed, and Peter R. Thompson grew up and the brothers somewhere in between that time also grew up, went to school, had children, and found a mysterious bottle in the middle of the Bahamas!
Source: People (Brian Anthony Hernandez)