A woman’s message in a bottle received a reply 31 years after she sent it from the coast of Scotland when she was 12 years old.
Alaina Beresford told the BBC that while she didn’t remember writing the message itself, she recalled that the letter, which asked the finder to write back detailing their name, hobbies, and place of residence, was sent in a Moray Cup bottle.
Beresford, now 42, told the site that her teacher’s husband had dropped the message in the ocean while working as a fisherman in 1994. “According to my message, I had done it as part of a project on water,” she said.
While we’ll never know what adventures the bottle experienced in the intervening three decades, it would eventually cross the North Sea and wash up on-shore hundreds of miles away in a different country.
The message was sent inside a Moray cup bottle.
Delayed response
In a serendipitous turn of events, Beresford, having moved back to the original address where her parents still lived, discovered a postcard addressed to her in 2025, sent from Pia Brodtmann in Norway.
Brodtmann explained that they were from Germany and were currently in northern Norway as a beach-cleaning volunteer. “On the front of the postcard, you can see our workboat Nemo and our sailboat Fonn, where we live,” the response continued.
They then unknowingly revealed that they hadn’t even been born when Beresford wrote her original message in a bottle. “P.S. I am 27 years old and I like rock climbing and sailing a lot!”
In a modern twist, Beresford explained how she was able to find Brodtmann on social media, who sent a picture of the original letter. “Pia and I have been keeping in touch and hopefully we will continue to do so,” she said.
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