Troy Heller of Mount Washington, Kentucky was ten years old when in 1985 during a trip to Vero Beach, Florida, he did something he had never done before. He put a message in an old Pepsi glass bottle and threw it into the Atlantic Ocean. He never imagined that the message in a bottle would find its way back to him…
On Nov. 13, three days after Hurricane Nicole swept through Florida, Heller’s bottled message washed up in the small town of Sebastian, just 13 miles north of the pier where Heller left the bottle 37 years ago when he was 10. threw water. Two teachers have found the debris washed up on the beach by the tropical storm.
The teachers bottled the message to the Carrmax family, who were walking nearby with their two young daughters, Kylie and Emmy. When they got home, they smashed the bottle and got Heller’s message. At the time, he had written a Louisville address next to his name and the phrase “P.S. Anyone who finds this, call me or write me”.
Using Heller’s old phone number and address, the Carrmax family googled the Internet and eventually found a clue in Mount Washington. They first tried calling him and then texted him, which also included a photo of his message. “When I saw it, I remembered writing the message,” says the surprised Heller (pictured above).
The message is now framed on the wall
Overwhelmed that the bottle remained intact for so long, the 47-year-old said: “I’m just surprised it didn’t break.” The Carrmax family posted a video of the message in a bottle on TikTok, then decided to return the original letter to Heller.
It is now framed and hangs on the wall in his home in Mount Washington. “It’s just great that he found his way back.”
Source: Krone
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