The girl and her mother reached out to the note’s original sender and found out that it came all the way from Hawaii A girl found a message in a bottle while vacationing with her family — and the ...

When Makenzie Van Eyk was in fourth grade in 1998, she tossed a message in a bottle in a lake as part of a school assignment. She figured she’d never see it again. Van Eyk, who lives in small town in ...

Jodi Thomas dropped the bottle off the coast of Provincetown in August 2022. Last month, a history teacher found it 3,349 miles away Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...

BALDWIN, Mich. — A few weeks ago, Tammy Bailey and her husband were clearing out branches on their property near Baldwin. Down by the Baldwin River edge, upstream from where it meets the Pere ...

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese school girl's note in a bottle dropped into the ocean five years ago has been found washed up on Hawaii's shores. Petty Officer Jon Moore ...