Posted on 05/30/2025 1:10:53 PM PDT by MtnClimber
BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. — A tiny bottle with a message inside traveled from Hawaii in ocean currents before being washed ashore in Bradenton Beach on Sunday and found by a girl visiting from Michigan.
“It was in this tiny little glass bottle with cute little origami birds,” said Paris Hoisington, 31. “She was so surprised. Came running right towards me on the beach.”
Hoisington said it’s every kid’s dream to find a message in a bottle at the beach. Her daughter, Josie Law, 11, said at first she thought it was a piece of trash floating in the water.
“Then I saw the note inside,” she said. “I was like, let me grab this. This is cool.”
The note inside the tiny bottle reads: ‘Hello people who found this, you will be happy that you found this. Why? Cause you will know me with this number.’
Hoisington said she texted the phone number and got a response.
“’My brother and I made that when I was younger,’” she said the text read. “’We actually live in Hawaii.’ And I said, ‘You’re kidding.’”
Payton Hollenbeck, 21, said she and her younger brother Elias, tossed that message in a bottle into the ocean at Kaena Point in Oahu 8 years ago. It travelled more than 4,600 miles before reaching the Florida shoreline.
“To think of how many bodies of water it went through,” said Hoisington. “It’s truly amazing what little tiny objects can go places in the world and connect to people from each other side of the world.”
The Michigan mom said the family had already planned to release 3 bottles before returning home and hope to get a response someday.
“We left our phone number on one,” Hoisington said. “We can’t wait to see what happens.”
Hollenbeck said she’s familiar with that cycle because the only reason she threw a message in a bottle into the ocean is because she had previously found one as a kid.
That bottle travelled much farther than 4,600 miles unless it came through the Panama Canal, which I doubt. It had to come through the Strait of Magellan or across the arctic.
Someone alert Sting.
Kid from Hawaii, vacationed in Florida. My guess.
Dang!
I was hoping it was from Doug McClure send in the last scene of The Land That Time Forgot.
There’s a hundred billion of them.
Big whoop...
You are seriously black pilled lol
send = sent
Good for her the only message I ever found in a bottle was SHARKS.
Or the Red Rocker and Van Halen.
Next time, put an Apple AirTag in the bottle to trace its journey.
Thirty years ago I would believe this story, not now.
Too many hoaxers wanting the spotlight.
Traveled overland in a great circle route through Mexico and Texas.
The ignorance of journalists is exceeded only by their sloth.
😂
What about the battery replacement?
If the story were true, I’d expect the bottle to have much more marine growth on it.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine...
True that
An airtag only communicates with another apple device nearby.
Like bluetooth range.
This would definitely show us the fake trip !!
There's more to this and I don't think the bottle came from Hawaii. Wes text messaging that common 8 years ago?
I’d be more impressed if she found the bottle in Lake Michigan.
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