TikToker Amy Smyth Murphy stumbled across the bottle while walking on the beach at Corson’s Inlet State Park in Ocean City. The TikToker was on an early morning beach walk on July 3. She noticed that it seemed odd.

“I noticed it because the bottle was like a really nice aqua,” she recalled. She realized that the bottle had a message inside of it. Both her nephew Jack and niece Avery were ecstatic by the discovery.

“We made a group chat,” Jack said. “Everyone was decoding it and looking things up.” Meanwhile, Avery added, “She takes out a message in a bottle with a cork and it has the message in it and I’m like, ‘Are you joking?'”

Amy decided to open the bottle and film the unveiling for TikTok. The inside of the bottle had a foul stench. “As soon as we opened it my grandma’s yelling, ‘get it out of the house’ because it smelled so bad,” laughed Jack.

Message In A Bottle

The note inside caused the TikToker to become an amateur historian. She started going through old newspapers as well a Reddit groups on old bottles. Amy believes the bottle may be from 1876.

The note inside mentions a yacht called The Neptune in Atlantic City. It also has a business card for W.G.&J. Klemm Gents’ Furnishing Goods in Philadelphia. Both helped Amy track down more info.

Source : Rare Media