After 26 years, a woman’s message in a bottle was found – and it ended up in the hands of her own daughter!
You have – Everyone knows it: As a child you write a letter, put it in a bottle and throw it into a body of water. But the likelihood that someone will find the message in a bottle is low – but not for a woman You have!
Mackenzie Van Eyk (second from right) with her two children and retired teacher Roland St. Pierre (left). © Screenshot/Facebook/Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board
In 1998, when Makenzie Van Eyk was in fourth grade, she participated in a school project. She was asked to write a note about water quality in large lakes by putting it in a bottle and throwing it into a lake in Windsor, Canada.
How the school reported that almost three decades later, a child attending the same institution found the message in a bottle while walking with his grandmother at the lake in question.
“This letter is from Makenzie Morris and I attend St. John the Baptist School. I am in fourth grade with Mr. St. Pierre,” the message read. The child was amazed and took the letter to school to show a teacher.
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When she read the note to the current fourth grade class, a little girl could hardly believe her ears.
Makenzie Van Eyk received her message in a bottle back 26 years later
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Makenzie Van Eyk threw her message in a bottle into Lake St. Clair in 1998. © Handout / NASA / USGS, Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit / AFP
“My jaw dropped and everyone was like, ‘Who is that? Who is that?’ And I said, ‘My mother,'” little Scarlet said in surprise.
This came full circle for Makenzie. She had wondered all these years what happened to the letter.
“It was impressive to do something like that and throw it away with the thought that maybe someone would find it,” said the mother. But she certainly didn’t expect that it would be her own daughter.
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Roland St. Pierre, the now-retired teacher who dreamed up this task all those years ago, was equally touched by the miraculous discovery.
He added that he was surprised that the message in a bottle survived a full 26 years without falling apart.
