A French man stumbled upon a handwritten message in a bottle that washed up on the beach on the western shores of the country — 26 years after the bottle was tossed into the sea by a Massachusetts fifth grader.
“It’s crazy to think it took that long for someone to find it,” Carol Archambeault, an English teacher in the Sandwich, Massachusetts, public school district told Fox News Digital.
“The bottle is so old, I can see why people are so interested in it,” she added.
“So I’m familiar with the family,” Archambeault said. “I definitely knew as soon as they said it was Ben Lyons.”
Hemmila’s students’ messages have provided pop-ups of excitement over the years, according to Archambeault.
The message written by Lyons says, in part: “Please return. Where did you find the bottle?” (Brandy Clifford, Oakridge School, Sandwich, Massachusetts)
“It’s been a really long time since one has been found,” Archambeault said.
“Obviously a bunch would wash up on Cape Cod,” she added.
“I know that we had several in France, so obviously something in the currents must lead that way. And I’m pretty sure we had one returned from Greenland. So, they’ve traveled really far and the people that find them are so gracious to reach out and write back.”
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Gretchen Eichenberg is a contributing reporter for Fox News Digital.
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