A woman searches the Internet for answers after finding a message in a bottle in Texas.
Laurie Levermann Coker was walking her dogs on a beach on South Padre Island, Texas, when she found the bottle washed up on shore.
“I’ve never found one, and I’ve been here almost five and a half, six years,” Coker said. FOX Weather.
“I’ve been walking up and down this beach, two miles a day for an hour or more, and I’m picking up a lot of things.”
She opened the bottle and read a short note: ‘By Angela (23) and Emily (24) from Keewaydin Island. Sent on 06/15/2024.’
Having never heard of Keewaydin Island, Coker looked it up online and discovered it was an island off the coast of Southwest Florida that is only accessible by boat.
The glass bottle traveled about 1,000 miles in the Gulf of Mexico, from Florida to Texas, or was carried to the Atlantic Ocean by the Gulf Stream.
Taking the bottle home, Coker has researched the item online and recently spread her desire to meet Emily or Angela through an Instagram account. after.
Laurie Levermann Coker found a message in a bottle while walking her dogs on a beach in South Padre Island, Texas
Coker has started using the Internet to find out who the previous bottle finders are
“I left it on my counter, and it was so funny because I was in my kitchen, I was like, ‘What the hell is that smell?'” Coker revealed to FOX Weather.
“And it turned out the barnacles were dying. It really stinks.’
After doing some research, Coker eventually created a social media post aimed at locals who might have more information.
“On South Padre Island, there are different pages where tourists can come and ask questions or locals can talk to each other and things like that,” she said.
“I posted it there, and then I thought, maybe Naples has something like that, right?”
Coker received backlash on a separate social media post, with a former student of hers claiming she was “going to put it on TikTok.”
Nearly two weeks later, Cocker has still not heard from anyone about the women mentioned in the message.
Even if she doesn’t hear back, Cocker says she’ll eventually take a boat out on the water and throw the bottle back into the sea.
Coker plans to take a boat and throw the bottle back into the sea
Pictured: South Padre Island, where Cocker found the message in a bottle
‘Hopefully someone else will find it. And I mean, it could just end up on my beach, or it could end up about 6 miles down the beach,” Coker said.
“Or it could end up in North Padre. I have no idea where it’s going,” the beach walker added.
Coker isn’t the only person from the Lonestar State who found a message in a bottle this year.
Texas resident Markus Hogue and his 12-year-old son Gabriel found a message in a bottle on June 1 while visiting Padre Island National Seashore.
“My son was looking for something to get his mom and his girlfriend, and I happened to walk across it,” Hogue said. USA TODAY.
Hogue added that he assumed it was trash before realizing it was a message in a bottle.
According to Hogue, the message, which was written in Spanish, read: “I’m sending you this message so you know how much Mom and Dad love you. I love you daughter, never forget that.’
A woman named Smyth Murphy discovered the world’s oldest message in a bottle from 1876 while visiting the Jersey Shore a month later.
In addition to Coker, Markus Hogue and his 12-year-old son Gabriel found a message in a bottle while visiting Padre Island National Seashore
The bottle had a note on it that read, “Yacht Neptune off Atlantic City, New Jersey.” August 6 – 76.’
She also found a business card for WG & J Klemm, a Pennsylvania-based company run by William and John Klemm until 1881.