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Messages in bottles uncork a mystery
MESSAGES in bottles listing a number of conspiracy theories and events including air disasters and deaths are being washed up in Morecambe Bay.
Two bottles were found by Sarah Phillips at Basil Point in Overton last week, others have been found all over the north west coast and even as far as Ireland.
The messages, written on A5 paper, are identical except for the date on the bottom, and are rolled up neatly in a scroll and tied with cotton.
The lists appear to be in the same handwriting and are merely repeated from bottle to bottle, with the date at the bottom being changed.
Sarah, who lives on Church Park in Overton, was walking her dog on the beach last Thursday, March 12, when she found the bottles.
She said: "I'm curious as to what sort of person is doing this, who the person is, and why they are doing it!
"According to an internet blog about these bottles, set up by a man called Simon Jones, the bottles have been appearing since 2008."
The papers inside the bottles most recently found detail events such as the Koncorde-sky (sic) accident, Paris, in which a Soviet TU144 aeroplane (usually dubbed Concordski) crashed at the Paris air show in June 1973, killing its crew of six and nine civilians on the ground.
They also list:
* 31/8/89 – Princess Anne – on whom no significant information can be easily found;
* 31/8/97 – the date Princess Diana's body was flown back to the UK after she was killed in a car crash in Paris;
* 31/12/99 – when the so-called 'millennium bug' was supposed to kick in, meaning no computers would work and Britain would come to a standstill;
* 25/07/09 – Bleriot France to England – referring to the Bleriot mass microlight Channel crossing on that date;
* 25/7/59 – Hovercraft from England to France, no information is easily available;
* 25/7/00 – Concorde accident Paris – Concorde crashed minutes after take-off from Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris killing 113 people;
* 12/8/00 – the date of the Kursk submarine disaster which killed 20 people;
* Ken Gill M15 – Gill was leader of union TASS. It was alleged that M15 broke into his South London home to bug the room where crucial discussions about an amalgamation with another engineering workers union were taking place.
* 1/2/85 – Fliteform AIM Group, Heathrow – Fliteform of Heathrow would be undertaking work in conjunction with sister AIM group to supply aviation components.
* 1/2/05 – The Umbrella Man, Wm Gray, Heysham, the radioactive man – no information is readily available but 'The Umbrella Man' may refer to a man who was assassinated in London with the poisoned tip of an umbrella.
Similar messages in bottles have previously been found on beaches at Crosby and Formby near Liverpool; Magheramore in County Wicklow, Ireland; Fleetwood; Aldingham, Green-odd, Whitehaven and Walney in Cumbria; the Isle of Man; at Morecambe Bay and at Pilling.
You can log on to www.beforeiforget.co.uk/2008/mystery-in-a-bottle for more information.
* Email us at visitor@lmnews.co.uk if you are the author or you know who is writing the notes in these bottles and dropping them into the sea, and why.
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