One of the most amazing "it's a small world" stories! (Smile File)

This "it's a small world" story spans 26 years! (Photo: Getty Images)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is one of the truly most cool full circle Smile.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
File stories we've had. As part of a class project.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Twenty six years ago, a fourth grade student named Mackenzie
Van Eike created a message in a bottle and she
threw it into a lake in Ontario, Canada. Well earlier
this month. Again, that's twenty six years ago. Okay, earlier
this month. A current kindergarten student named River Vandenberg, who
happens to attend the exact same school that Mackenzie attended
years ago, was visiting the beach with her grandma and

(00:30):
found Mackenzie's message in a bottle. Well, Scarlett was shocked
to hear the words being read by her teacher, because
when they took it back to the school, it turns
out Mackenzie's daughter, who wrote that twenty six years ago,
is in that classroom. No way where that kid found
the bottle. Wow, isn't that nuts? And she's like, that's
my mom.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's a small world story. It is grade story, and
that's why it makes our Smile File