Monica Reed

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Message in a bottle!

Have you ever released a balloon with a note attached and got something back from a complete stranger that found it?  A Kentucky man put a message in a bottle when he was a kid.  It eventually made its way back to him 37 years later.

That man’s name is Troy Heller, and at 10 years old he took a trip to Florida. One day, he wrote a message, put it in a bottle and threw it into the Atlantic Ocean near Vero Beach Florida.

He wrote a short message, asking anyone who finds it to call or write him, stuffed it in the bottle and hoped for the best!

Heller never thought his message he stuffed in a bottle in 1985 would return to him, nearly 38 years later.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Nicole, the Carrmax family said they came across the bottle after it washed up in Sebastian, Florida, about 13 miles north of Vero Beach.

The Carrmax family ended up tracking him down in Kentucky!  The internet is a wonderous thing!

(Video courtesy of WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando)

Heller said got a text message asking if this is Troy Heller, and then he got a picture. And the picture was the letter he had written all those years ago!  Heller said as soon as he saw the message, he remembered writing it.

The Carrmax family said they were excited to find Troy, the man who wrote the letter.

They all said they were surprised that the bottle stayed intact for decades.

 

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