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Woman discovers world's oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while walking along Jersey Shore - complete with fascinating handwritten message

DAILYMAIL.COM
By BETHAN SEXTON
24 July 2024

A greetings card designer stumbled upon what is believed to be the world's oldest message in a bottle while walking along the Jersey Shore.

Amy Smyth Murphy, 49, was strolling along a beach at Corson’s State Inlet in Ocean City when she spotted an unusual looking bottle at the water's edge.

'I just thought, "This is so peculiar. What is this?''' Smyth Murphy told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

After some research, she managed to determine that the message in a bottle likely dates back as far as 1876 - which would make it the oldest artefact of its kind.

Most intriguing was a barely legible, handwritten note found inside the bottle which reads: 'Yacht Neptune off Atlantic City, New Jersey. Aug. 6 - 76.'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13669531/woman-discovers-worlds-oldest-message-bottle-jersey-shore.html

mountaineer:
I thought for sure it would say, "EPsTEin did NOt KiLL HImSeLF."

Smokin Joe:
Drink more ovaltine...

berdie:
I would have thought it would have said "HELP ME!!!"

Gefn:
was it from Snooki?

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