This is a story few would have thought possible. A letter from 1999 was discovered in a glass bottle by a river by two girls aged 8 and 13. Since then, they are investigating to find the authors of this message.
It's a story I thought was reserved for Disney movies. An unlikely story dating back to mid-August. Two girls aged 8 and 13, Eléa and Mathilde, are on holiday in Crécy-sur-Serre, near Laon (Aisne). While walking in the garden of the family's cottage, he discovers the Greenhouse, an intriguing glass bottle, by a river.
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“We were on the pontoon, waiting for the customers to return with a canoe. Mathilde said to me: 'Look what's there'”, Éléa explains to France 3 Hauts-de-France. Inside, they distinguish a message that, though aged by time, still seems legible. Éléa and Mathilde, aunt and niece, decide to break the glass to access the precious missive.
Sent 25 years ago, the letter has resurfaced
On the paper, separated into three distinct pieces, they manage to decipher, despite the mistakes, the following message: “Hello, we hope that one day someone will find this letter. This letter was sent from Madame Marie, Claudette.”
Besides this missive, the letter contains only one other piece of information, the date, 1999. No address or last name, but would-be explorers want to try to find the author and recipient of this “bottle in the river.” To facilitate their search, the family published a message on Facebook. “Help us find Marie and Claudette, who sent a bottle in 1999, so 25 years ago,” the little girls ask in particular.
“Hopefully the networks and reporting will get their way.” explains Agathe Resende, Éléa's mother, full of hope.
Éléa's father, Joaquim Resende, believes that the sudden appearance of this bottle, lost in nature for more than 20 years, would be due to variations in the water level in the river, which would explain the return to the surface of the remaining bottle, according to him, buried for several years. To the delight of its owners, if they can be found.