(Smile File) A 109-Year-Old Message in a Bottle Discovered on Beach

Imagine finding a note from two World War I soldiers!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Imagine finding a message in a bottle from World War One?
What one hundred and nine years later, That's what happened
on a beach they found this bottle. It was from
Malcolm Alexander Neville and William Kirk Harley. They wrote heartfelt notes,
sealed them in a bottle and tossed them into the sea.
And fast forward one hundred nine years later and the

(00:20):
bottle resurfaced on Wharton Beach in Australia while Deborah Brown
and her family were doing a beach cleanup, and when
her daughter spotted something, they picked it up and it
was the bottle. And instead of just posting a cool
photo and moving on, they actually looked into it further
and used Facebook to track down these soldier's descendants and
gave them the bottle. Wown't that crazy?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
If bottles could talk, Yes, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
One hundred and nine years later