Yesterday I was walking with a friend on Crosby Beach, Liverpool, when I came upon a sealed plastic bottle lying on the sand with a piece of paper in it. I picked it up and saw that the paper inside was rolled and had been neatly bound with a thread complete with a bow. It was a message in a bottle!
As I undid the plastic bottle-top I wondered what might be written on the lined paper within. A confession perhaps, maybe a note to a lost love, or a dream set free. This being Crosby Beach on the mouth of the River Mersey that opens into the ice cold waters of the Irish Sea I hardly imagined it would be a note from Robinson Crusoe.
What I found inside was perplexing, and I’ll confess, somewhat disappointing. A neatly handwritten list of accidents, incident, events and deaths that the author apparently felt were suspect.
Among the items listed were “Koncordesky Accident? Paris” and “12/8/00 The Kursk Accident? DMDNT” along with “31/8/89 Princess Anne” and “The Umbrella Man 1/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3 The Radioactive Man”. But the note offered nothing more, no questions, no suppositions, nothing.
The note, which I was disappointed wasn’t an SOS from an undiscovered desert island somewhere in the Irish sea, was dated 28th of October 2008. My friend and I both looked at it and could make no sense of it, nonetheless I put the note in my pocket so I could Google it when I got back home.
As it happens, it turns out I am not the first person to find a note like this. Others have reported finding similar messages in bottles on several beaches not far from where we were. If the mysterious messenger was hoping their bottles would find far of places then they didn’t consider the tidal flow of the Irish Sea which would be unlikely to carry any such message very far.
The furthest reported finding thus far seems to be from someone who found a bottle on Magheramore Beach in County Wickow, Ireland, at the beginning of summer 2008.
So it would seem that the author of the bizarre little notes lives somewhere around Liverpool, and judging from the handwriting I doubt they’re a kid playing a prank. So what is this strange message then, what do these events have in common?
Maybe I’m supposed to become intensely interested and begin my own journey of discovery, but it’s been years since The X Files held my interest and frankly I’ve got better things to do with my time. So if the author finds this blog post (and I suspect they will in time) then I would suggest that they cast their bottles further from home, and that they write something a little less cryptic in future. Ask a question, write a web link, entice us to join the dots. Because as fun as it was finding this message in a bottle, if the message doesn’t make sense then I’m afraid you’re just a litterbug.
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Wrote the following comment on Nov 14, 2008 at 1:29 pm
How very odd. It gives you sort of a glimpse into the mind of someone who is very suspicious doesn’t it?
Wrote the following comment on Nov 14, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Fascinating–I wonder if it’s a kind of game?
Wrote the following comment on Nov 14, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Notes left behind… I once found a suicide note left on a cliff. That was freaky.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 15, 2008 at 1:56 am
While it might not read to you like an SOS Simon, I think that the person who wrote that note was indeed sending out an SOS, even if they weren’t fully aware of it.
Yes, it could be an elaborate prank, though I doubt it. I think it’s more likely that on some level the person who wrote this note is battling some kind of personal crisis hidden behind their fixation with conspiracies. It’s not at all uncommon.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 16, 2008 at 12:14 am
I -LOVE- Found magazine!
Wrote the following comment on Nov 16, 2008 at 3:23 am
hmmmm….very interesting!
Wrote the following comment on Nov 16, 2008 at 1:21 pm
You know Simon, a little girl tossed a message in a bottle into the sea at Morcombe, not at all far from where you found this bottle, and it managed to get all the way to Australia six months later.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article793173.ece
Wrote the following comment on Nov 16, 2008 at 9:30 pm
You know I’d love to believe that story Ken, but doesn’t it sound suspect to you?
Her message was replied to by some kid in Australia called “Bob”, and he didn’t post a reply address. I think this is a case of the message being sent back to the UK by someone who wanted to give a little girl a thrill.
It’s somewhere around nine and a half thousand miles from here to Australia in a straight line, and the bottle wouldn’t have travelled in a straight line by any means.
According to Oceanographer, David Griffin, of the CSRIO, its most likely route, assuming it could actually get out of the tides of the Irish Sea, would have been down to the Canary Islands, across the equator, down South America to the Drake Passage then the hopping onto the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. But he says that even if it did make that unlikely and epic journey, there is still pretty much no way it could then travel north to Perth.
It’s far more likely that, like me, someone found the bottle on a nearby beach or indeed the same beach, then simply sent it to a friend in Australia or posted it from there hen they were on vacation.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 17, 2008 at 12:23 pm
You big Spoil sport Simon. Were you the kind of kid who used to tell others kids Santa wasn’t real? :)
I suppose you’re right though.
Wrote the following comment on Nov 17, 2008 at 5:41 pm
LOL, Wait a second Ken, Santa is real?
Wrote the following comment on Nov 18, 2008 at 10:18 pm
You’ve created a very interesting blog here Simon. I happened upon it by chance this afternoon while looking for something quite unrelated, but I appear to have been sucked into your online world! :-)
Wrote the following comment on Nov 25, 2008 at 6:59 am
Aren’t all blogs just nothing more than messages in a bottle?
(Ooohhh, it’s easy to by philosophical after 4 glasses of wine! Did I spell that right?)
Wrote the following comment on Nov 25, 2008 at 11:42 am
But not so easy to spell though, right? :-)
Wrote the following comment on Dec 1, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Hey I have found a bottle with the exact same letter inside but the date on the bottom of the two pieces of paper are dated 22/11/08
I thought these events were codes to explain something more than just the event, they all link to Paris and Russia hmmmmmmm.
This way of sending messages is very odd, he sounds very paranoid and cannot tell in other forms of comunication for the fear of releasing information that could be harmful.
Wrote the following comment on Dec 1, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Where did you find the bottle Davey?
Wrote the following comment on Dec 2, 2008 at 12:58 am
Maybe this guy is mentally disturbed or maybe he wants to trigger a response for someone to find out information. dunno lol all I know is it’s interestingly weird.
Well my parents found it whilst walking our dogs on Fleetwood Beach near Blackpool just washed up on the side with the ribbon tied round the bottle. I thought this is very weird so I did some research.
I’ve found out that ‘DMTNT’ means DEAD MAEN TELL NO TALES’ under the sentence ‘THE KURSK ACCIDENT’ on the enclosed letter. The Kursk accident was a Russian sub that sank with unknown reasons to why it sank.
Also he spells ‘KONCORDESKY’ ACCIDENT at the top of the letter and that was a plan the russians designed (the TU144) and some sources say France stole the idea and came out with the CONCORDE later on. BUT……the man spells it wrong it’s CONCORDESKY not spelt with a K like he puts it.
Then he quotes Concorde Accident which makes me think…. because Concorde was put out of action and stopped, because it had too many faults and maybe the Russians we involved with tampering with the planes. to make them fail so France could not take all the glory from which rightly belonged to Russia.
He lists
Concorde-Plane
Hovercraft
Bleriot-Plane
They have links with FRANCE + RUSSIA + ENGLAND
He then gives you ‘FLITE FORM AIM GRP’ A company that can check personal files and work experience of certain clients and people and he states Surnames of people ‘STEADMAN , STARNES, BATES, MCBOON……
WHY ?
Also I will leave you with this to think about
‘TRIPLE ENTENTE’
Wrote the following comment on Dec 7, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I also found the exact note in Whitehaven last monday (01/12/08) washed upon the beach but it was dated 2 says after the one above! So I have googled it and it seems they are popping up everywhere!
And more news on anybody else finding one!
Let me know by posting on here.
Here is the link to the other one
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080807162841AALjUPA
Wrote the following comment on Dec 7, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I don’t think they’re popping up as far away as the person casting them to sea might hope. Whitehaven isn’t at all far from where the bottles were thrown in the Irish Sea. If the person casting them wanted them to actually go any real distance, he should have done some research about tides. Throwing them in the Irish sea was a bit dim :-)
As for that yahoo link, thanks for that, though it is actually already listed below.
I’m sure you won’t be the last to find one of these odd messages Jase.
Wrote the following comment on Dec 7, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s just a fruitcake (Nutter) doing these letters.
All that’s in the past them events…….the future is now.
Unless we missed something vital then I close the case.
Wrote the following comment on Dec 7, 2008 at 11:49 pm
LOL! Yep Dave. I too concluded that. I tend to agree with Doug’s comment earlier (4).
“While it might not read to you like an SOS Simon, I think that the person who wrote that note was indeed sending out an SOS, even if they weren’t fully aware of it.”
Wrote the following comment on Dec 8, 2008 at 11:38 pm
I found one on Formby Beach yesterday 7/12/08 at about 1.15 pm exactly the same boiled nonsense as the others. But indulge me here……..
My guess would be that the author is a frequent traveller on one of the ships that ply there trade around the waters of Liverpool. Probably a ferry due to the frequency of the postings.
The writing would appear to be consistent with right handed man of average education and excellent dexterity. Aged mid 50s he lives with an older partner who has stifled his desire to travel and explore the world. He writes the nonsense prior to travel, and flings it overboard shortly after commencing his journey. There will probably be stacks of these tributes to the police (MIAB)in the next few weeks as he is following the advice to post early for Chistmas.
As for the content, you’d get more sense from a dyslexic chinese crossword compiler (no offence guys)
Cheers
Paul
Wrote the following comment on Dec 9, 2008 at 1:01 am
Hi Paul, I have to disagree with you on this. I think the loony toon who is chucking these plastic bottles into the Mersey is doing so from a very local Liverpool beach. If he were casting them from a boat then why cast them within the mouth of the Mersey? And if he were on the ferry then his rubbish would have been discovered further down stream.
No, this plank is probably a ’scare in the community’ type who smells a bit funny and shuffles along muttering nonsense to himself.
I was dissapointed that after finding a message in a bottle, it wasn’t something more fun or at least a little bit interesting.
Wrote the following comment on Dec 18, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I found one of these messages on the saltmarsh at Greenodd, Cumbria on 17 December 2008. Doesn’t answer any qusetions, though.
Wrote the following comment on Jan 2, 2009 at 11:51 am
I have also found one of these notes in the Isle of Man. Dated 25/12/08. Other than that, same writing and underlining.
One thing that confused me was why would someone who appears to be a perfectionist use such rubbish paper. He has taken the time to remove the spiral binding, but why not buy a pad with a serrated edge?
I think it’s a load of rubbish. There is no news in the note, just things that were widely covered in the press at the time.
Wrote the following comment on Jan 12, 2009 at 7:16 pm
We found a bottle with same message on Aldingham beach Cumbria on 11th January 2009. Seems to be they are washing up around Morecambe Bay.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 18, 2009 at 9:35 pm
hi i found one of these bottles today, same hand written stuff but dated 12 02 09. I was out in morecambe bay with my dog. Has any one queried why he dates the bleriot france to england 25 07 09?
I reckon he must be a strange middle aged guy connected to the power station at heysham!
Wrote the following comment on Mar 2, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I found 3 of these bottles in Morecambe Bay on the beach at Pilling,while walking my dog. The ones i found don’t say umbrella or radioactive man or communist portrait artist. They were dated 22/2/09. Very odd
Wrote the following comment on Mar 10, 2009 at 4:28 pm
hi i have also found one of these notes washed up at bazil point Overton, 2 day 10th march, this 1 dated 28.2.09, also at the bottom says ‘1/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham La3 ????.
very odd anybody any ideas ??.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 11, 2009 at 8:16 pm
My brother recently found one of these on walney island, exactly the same, they are just conincidences written, i thought konkordsky was someone sellin the plans for concorde so MI5/6 got the plans doctored so that the plan would crash when it flew,
Whats the think about heysham radioactive man?
Also dmtnt, dead men tell no tales is just thrown in there which links to some things but most not
Wrote the following comment on Mar 12, 2009 at 1:01 pm
hi iv found another of these bottles again whislt walkin on the shore at overton 2 day, the same note as the other 1 but this time dated 23.02.09
wish this person wud giv us a clue 2 why they r doin this cos it must take quite a while 2 hand write then tie up so neatly ha !!
Wrote the following comment on Mar 12, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Sadly Sarah I think this person probably has absolutely no idea what they are doing themselves. This random littering seems like the work of a troubled mind, a person who feels that casting random rubbish into the swells of a river will somehow bring resolution to whatever crisis it is they are in.
I would suggest that the author of these strange little notes is simply a whackjob who has gone of their meds. Nothing more, nothing less.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 17, 2009 at 10:41 pm
The Morecambe Visitor newspaper have done a half page article on these bottles today. I havent found anymore, I still think the writer resides heysham area. A friend told me of a recluse who lives next to the sea by the power station, she reckons its him. Interesting how he drinks the same juice all the time, the bottles are the same lol.Karon.
Wrote the following comment on Apr 10, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Hi All
We found 3 of these bottles, all dated 8th Jan, all with the same text as the one Simon started with. We were staying at Bayliff about 3 miles south of Ulverston and could see Heysham across the bay. We were intrigued – and surprised to see there are a lot more bottles sloshing around out there!
Wrote the following comment on Apr 13, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Walking around Holme Island, Grange over Sands Saturday 11/4/09 we too found the exact same letter neatly bound with black cotton. Ours was dated 02/04/09. Can’t help with who, what or why tho! sorry
Wrote the following comment on May 22, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Hi Simon,
We are three boys from LANCASTER and hae found the same mysterious messae in a bottle dated 22-02-09 and we found it on the shore of the River Lune. Would you like us to scan it in and forward it to you to add to your blog. This is well exciting and we are really weirded out!!
This is just the kind of thing to find at the start of a school holiday so please let us know if we can solve the mystery with you.
Goerge Joe & Freddie 9, 8, and 6yrs.
Wrote the following comment on May 22, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Hi George, Joe & Freddie.
I think all the messages that people find look just about the same as one another, so no need to scan it in. However, you could try and solve this mystery while you’re on your school holiday. I know a LOT of people are really curious to find out who is writing these and what they mean. It’s a real mystery for sure! – Good luck!
Wrote the following comment on May 25, 2009 at 9:35 pm
A friend and I also came across one of his letters on the Lune Estuary, dated 22/2/09. You would normally think it’s quite a rare occasion to find a message in a bottle, well obviously not in this part of the world.
Anyone who drinks copious amounts of Tropicana is probably deluded, should we find the mystery author, I think he should be handed a hefty fine for his serial littering….
Wrote the following comment on May 27, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Hi
Found another of these bizarre notes washed up on the beach at Cleveleys dated 23/5/2009.
Has anyone ‘discovered’ the identity of the litter man??
Wrote the following comment on May 27, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Hiya Simon, We went camping to Piel Island, near Barrow-in-Furness at the weekend and found one of the bottles you have written about in your blog! We found it washed up on the beach on Saturday 23rd May and the date at the bottom of the cryptic nonsense was 20/04/09 (although the bottle didn’t look to have been in the sea that long!) Please please let me know if you find out what they are all about!?
Wrote the following comment on Jun 3, 2009 at 12:54 pm
We also found one of these bottles at blackpool north pier end again it was exciting then dissappointing but worried as one of the dates my friend pointed out is actually next month????
The date on this letter is 22/5/09
Wrote the following comment on Jun 3, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Hey Jeanette, can you tell us what was the event and date of this future happening? That way we can all see if the idiot litterbug is right.
Wrote the following comment on Jun 3, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Simon/Jeanette
I could be wrong but the event 25/07/09 isn’t referring to next month, its referring to a historical event which happened nearly 100 years ago.
25/07/09 bleriot France to England is referring to a
French aviator who completed the first flight across the English channel on the above date.
Please follow the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bl%C3%A9riot
Wrote the following comment on Jun 3, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Wow after all he maybe insane! 100 yrs and cant get the date correct! I guess he has written that many bottles its comin around again! – sounds familiar!
Wrote the following comment on Jun 3, 2009 at 8:59 pm
we are not all crazy either. i speak for simon and me. we have no explanation re these bottles, we just brought them to light so ………cease being critical
Wrote the following comment on Jun 4, 2009 at 8:57 am
Thank you for the correct date for hundred years ago, as I was being to get worried this damn bottle is keeping me awake at night. I was getting a little worried as some tragic event might have been planned for next month, not that I could do anything to save the world!! but nevertheless this weird little bottle is a great talking point. Whoever is resposible has put a lot of thought, care and attention. I guess like everyone else who has found one will wonder who, why,and what the hell is goin on. If it turns out to be just a joke then, as always I fell for it big time. I will sleep a little better knowing that no disaster will happen next month, or will I????
Wrote the following comment on Jun 4, 2009 at 9:03 am
Regarding this little bottle again does anyone understand what the letters mean at the bottom at the page DMTNT just curious!!
Wrote the following comment on Jun 4, 2009 at 10:29 am
DMTNT stands for Dead men tell no tales
Wrote the following comment on Jun 4, 2009 at 11:51 am
Sting thank you i tried all sorts of daft things thank you I am even more interested in this little bottle dead men tell no lies what does it all mean. Do u think it is just a joke? When I was little I ised to love chain letters just to see how far they would go, but this little bottle is getting me griped.
Wrote the following comment on Jun 4, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Actually, DMDT was revealed in an earlier comment. The comments here make for interesting reading so I would recommend anyone interested in the littering lunatic should read the comments here.
Wrote the following comment on Jun 4, 2009 at 12:25 pm
sorry i must have missed it but thank u
Wrote the following comment on Jun 4, 2009 at 1:06 pm
No problem Jeanette :-)
I rather think this mystery and the comments will run and run. Personally I hope we can find the guy and like someone has said before, I hope he gets an ASBO or something for littering!
Wrote the following comment on Jun 4, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I think ur right it will run and run, still be interesting what the motive is, maybe we will never find out. The only good thing is it is getting people talkin. I hope everyone is as niggled as me or I just dont get out much to find the little bottle so annoying.
Wrote the following comment on Jun 4, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I have read everyones comments properly when I first came on ur website I think I was dumfounded that other people have found so many, and I wasnt really interested what people were saying but now ive read them properly,
I think I am more confussed, but sad if it turns out to be a whackhead, as most people think the person involved is a nutter. I need to get out more!!
Wrote the following comment on Jun 4, 2009 at 6:13 pm
taken away from the damn bottle just visting all your pages, ur quite a funny man. I laughed at the wind problem, smelly moo omg how embarring, imagine being on that plane and getting off because of bad wind lol lol thanks for your pages a great laugh at ur pics ur a bit of a guy here n there everywhere u could be the bottle planter!!!!
Wrote the following comment on Jun 14, 2009 at 11:28 pm
My son and i have also found a bottle dated 29/10/08 on Penrhyn Bay beach in North Wales. Having read the comments, nobody seems to have suggested that they may have been written at the same time, except the dates change on each letter/list. Has anyone made a count of how many bottles have been found to date ?
All very confusing and mysterious and rather disapointing especially for my 7 year old son, who thought it may have been a treasure map or possible penpal from somewhere a little more exotic than Lancashire/Cumbria.
Wrote the following comment on Jun 23, 2009 at 9:29 pm
My OH came home tonight with one of these little bottles. Discription of letter same as all the after Christmas messages. Dated 12/04/09 so it took a wee while to get here.
It was found at Saint Cooeys Wells in Portaferry, County Down Northern Ireland.
Am going to google the conspirarcy sites as this person obviously likes to write and wants people to read the message.
I have an inkling that he/she wants heard.
Who ever is responsible probably reads these comments regulary and has a good laugh about it! Or he/she is pissed off coz nobody has sussed the clues?
Wrote the following comment on Jul 24, 2009 at 11:22 pm
I have found an identical mysterious message in a little plastic bottle with a green lid in Glenluce, Scotland.
I kind of dissmissed it as a plain old message in a bottle, not that its not fun actually finding one! It seems like a run of the mill juice bottle, it was tied with a raggy grey thread.
It seems that my message doesnt have as much information as other bottles, missing the ‘communist paintings’and umbrella and radioactive man. although i swear writing is missing, as i remember noticing communist paintings when i first found it….hmmm.
Wrote the following comment on Aug 1, 2009 at 6:23 pm
hi ive found three of these bottles by the river wyre near Poulton le Fylde the first one had 5 pound note in it wrapped around a tube of pennies with a note the second one disappointed me because it didnt have any money in it the first one i found last year and is dated 30/5/08 then i found the second one wich was a litlle bit different and the third one was dated 21/6/09 and i found it in a small bottle rolled up and it was tied in black cotton. The first one mentions the Unwise Monkeys, At a time of Universal deceit never ask questions Orwell, The great game is the only game we’re all players and victims. It was very strange!
has anybody else found money in theres?
Wrote the following comment on Sep 23, 2009 at 12:40 am
I think whoever is doing this should get a blog up! For anyone who’s been sat researching the content of these bottles then check out wkjo.com it doesnt have any bearing on the letter but it will make you think about some other big subjects of the last decade.
We are having the wool pulled over our eyes – perhaps not in the way the letter writer is trying to alert us to.
So my message in a bottle is just … Who Killed John O’Neill?
Wrote the following comment on Sep 24, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Hi Simon,
Well i went to heysham beach today and i threw the bottle back into the sea as the tide was going out! I just didnt want it sitting on my shelf anymore. What do you think?, maybe the radioactive man in heysham might just find it. We should all just chuck them back!
regards, karon x
Wrote the following comment on Sep 24, 2009 at 4:59 pm
@ K Hall – I tossed the one I found in the bin. Best place for it I thought :-)
@ Agent Zee – I was tempted to mark your comment as spam because the website you mention has nothing to do with the subject at hand, plus your filthwerks.com email address seemed very spammy to me. However, I guess a post like this attracts the crackpots, so I took out the links and published the comment.
Wrote the following comment on Oct 16, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Only this morning i discovered one of these bottles on Morcombe sands, and after only a few hours of trawling the internet, believe i may have got someway into solving this mystery. “The Umbrella Man” may well refer to a short story written by the author Roald Dahl. The story documents the activties of a con-man who steals umbrella in pubs then sells them on, only to go back and use then money to get himself more umbrellas. Maybe this is relevant or not, i don’t know.
Wm Gray may refer to William M. Gray, a Meteorologist who has worked for the US air force, but he has no connections to Heysham, and after studying the local Heysham newspaper archives, nothing major occurred on the 1st of February 2005. I have numerous other leads that i’m following up that i will get back to you with if they produce anything interesting.
Wrote the following comment on Oct 25, 2009 at 10:26 pm
jake and rob found one of these letters on newbiggin beach, ulverston, cumbria, same writing same underlining same layout as the picture of that one at the top. does anyone have any answers to why they have been writen??? from sammy
Wrote the following comment on Nov 17, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Just to let you know we found another mysterious message in a bottle in Cumbria on 2nd Nov 09, same info, same writing. My 4 yr old found the bottle and we eagerly awaiting getting it back so we could prize the letter out, what a disappointment!
Wrote the following comment on Dec 2, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Today 2nd dec, three bottles found , aldingham shore by the church. All going in the bin, how many have been made? and Why?
Wrote the following comment on Dec 6, 2009 at 1:44 pm
my freind found 3 bottles on aldingham on the 3 dec i would like to no how many bottles av been found altogether someone must av a lot of time on there hands as they are all hand written
Wrote the following comment on Dec 26, 2009 at 9:39 pm
I also found one today on the North Shore beach in Llandudno (N.Wales).
Very intrigued to find outwhat this is all about!
Wrote the following comment on Jan 14, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Hi, I found two of these messages, one just on the sand and the other in a bottle, on Rampside beach near Barrow-in-Furness. The final date on them was 12-01-10, quite a while after the others were found. We decided at school that he is saying that all these events were not accidents, but happened to stop people ‘telling tales’. I suppose thats fairly obvious though!
..All very bizarre.
Wrote the following comment on Feb 11, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Today while walking the dogs on foulney island, barrow i came across a clear plastic bottle with a note in it, On closer inspection it revealed the following neatly hand written..
Page 1
Concordeski accident ? paris
31/12/68 concordeski TU144
31,12/99 putin president of russa
25/7/59 bleriot france – england
25/7/59 hovercraft england – france
25/7/00 concorde accident ?
Page 2
Ken gill MI5 Trade union leader
1/2/85 flighteform aim grp heathrow
steadman starnes bates
mc boon nov 89
1/2/05 Wm gray heysham LA3
Dated 2/2/2010
All very bizzare i think too… ????
Wrote the following comment on Feb 28, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I also found a mysterious plastic bottle with the handwritten message. I found it yesterday ( 27th Feb 2010 ) on Cockerham sands. I couldnt wait to get home and read the contents. I couldnt get the tightly closed lid off and had to cut the top off with a knife at home. I like most of you are confused at the contents, but at least we know we are not the only one who found it. Would love the author to get in touch and put me out of my misery !!
Wrote the following comment on Mar 14, 2010 at 8:41 pm
I found one today at Half Moon Bay, Heysham. Only dated from Friday 12th March so he must live fairly close by. I must admit to being just a little excited to get home and cut it open, he’d glued this one shut!
Wrote the following comment on Mar 15, 2010 at 12:51 pm
how many of these have been sent out????
Must have taken ages.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 15, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Dan, the troubled soul that is making all these bottled ‘messages’ did not make them all on one day. He is making them constantly, and is clearly a sad and probably lonely person. It might be interesting, but there’s no romance in this story. As has been said before, this person is very probably a troubled individual with poor social skills. The ‘messages’ are garbled nonsensical scrawls that amount to little more than litter.
Wrote the following comment on Mar 16, 2010 at 4:16 pm
hi i picked up one of these bottles on the beach near caernarfon bay yesterday morning walking my dog 15/03/2010 . having read the message that was bound in black cotton in a neat bow in a bottle with the lid glued tight shut i have to admit i was some what disapointed with the message i found once i had managed to smash the top of the lid off with two handy rocks close by . i have some thoughts on this from what i read which i will post soon on your website if thats k with you .??