Century Old Letter In A Bottle Found at MI Central Station
When excavating a really old building, you never know what you re going to find.
Over the last 2+ years, the Ford Motor Company has been working on renovating Michigan Central Station in Detroit. As crews work hard to fix up the building and turn it into an office workspace, they made a pretty cool discovery.
Where did the workers find that message in the bottle and what did it say?
The two workers responsible for finding the bottle were laborer Lukas Nielsen and foreman Leo Kimble. While working on a scissor lift to remove a plaster cornice from the wall, Nielsen notices the bottle and stopped Kimble from striking the wall.
A mysterious letter in a bottle was allegedly written by a 13-year-old girl who was on board the Titanic during its tragic voyage in 1912. The letter was found in a sealed bottle buried on a beach in Hopewell Rocks along the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick, Canada.
The letter was dated April 13, 1912 – the day before the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank – and was written in French by a 13-year-old girl named Mathilde Lefebvre. Translated to English, it read, “I am throwing this bottle into the sea in the middle of the Atlantic. We are due to arrive in New York in a few days. If anyone finds it, tell the Lefebvre family in Liévin.”