Message In A Bottle Found After 27 Years
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Members of the Keep La Marque Beautiful Commission in Texas came across a neat surprise as they were cleaning up more than 400 pounds of trash at Highland Bayou Park. During their Coffee & Cleanup event, the group found a bottle with a peculiar note inside and a message that dates back a whopping 27 years.
Keep La Marque Beautiful Commission member, Terry Pettijohn, told KRIV-TV, “I’m walking along the shore there, and I saw the bottle. It was buried about halfway. I said, ‘You know, I think we’ve got a note in the bottle.'”
The cardboard note within the bottle read “If you find this please call.” With two phone numbers listed and four signatures underneath, the note concluded, “If not home, leave it on answer machine. Please leave #.” Almost immediately, the group started calling the phone numbers listed, but both phone numbers were no longer in-service. Thank goodness for the internet and social media; one of the four individuals that had signed the note had a Facebook profile.
KRIV-TV reported the shock that Brian Standefer experienced when he received word that his note in the bottle had been found after so many years. “I had to do a double take on the piece of cardboard,” said Standefer. “[I thought] that’s my phone number. That’s my handwriting. That’s my signature.”
Standefer recalls a handful of details from the moment he and his pals put the message in the bottle approximately 27 years ago. He believes he and his three friends wrote the note in 1995 when he was just 10 years old. The friend group dropped the bottle approximately two miles from where the Keep La Marque Beautiful Commission came across the bottle at Highland Bayou Park.
One of the four signatures passed away nearly a year-and-a-half ago, and Standefer feels that the discovery of the bottle was no coincidence. “This gives me goosebumps. He had something to do with it, shining down, saying everything is going to be okay.”
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Sammi Reeves is the afternoon show host on 102.7 VGS. Before her radio career, she worked several jobs in the media industry, specifically involving social media and media buying. As a content creator for 102.7 VGS, Sammi writes Las Vegas content centered around local restaurants, events, and need-to-know news.
