The Message in a Bottle: Words Across a Century

<p>A bottle found on a beach in Germany turned out to have been thrown into the sea more than a hundred years earlier — the oldest message in a bottle ever recovered, arriving a century after the man who wrote it had died. August Mercer traces the strange history of the message in a bottle: a scientific instrument, a castaway's prayer, a drowning sailor's last word, and one of the purest expressions of the human need to reach a stranger we will never meet. </p><p>This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget. Follow for a new story every day. </p><p>A Dark Whisper Studios production.</p><p>#history #truehistory #truestory #truestories</p>