A man discovered a 50-year-old message in a bottle while renovating his house.
Message in a bottle
Matt Streatfeild found a glass milk bottle in the walls as he completed building work on his home in New South Wales, Australia. It contained a note that had been signed by the four workers who constructed the walls back in 1974.
Streatfeild told NBN News: "You always hear the legend of messages in a bottle, but you never think you'll find one in between two walls in your own house."
He was able to track down one of the builders – 66-year-old Ron Niddrie – who was astonished by the discovery.
Niddrie said: "One of those little mementos has paid off. The fact that it was 47 years ago was even more of a shock."
Streatfeild plans to return the bottle back to where he found it when the renovations are complete and hopes somebody else can discover it in the future.
He said: "When we re-sheet this wall we're going to place the old bottle that we found from 1974 with that piece of history, and we're going to add our own.”