Message found in bottle in New Brunswick begs finder to ‘let me out’

Two Irishtown, N.B., neighbours are looking for whoever penned a message in a bottle that's sat for four decades waiting to be discovered.

Are you Mike and Charlene? Maybe you were big Beatles fans back in the ’80s. Perhaps you still are.

Two Irishtown, N.B., neighbours are looking for whoever penned a message in a bottle that’s sat for four decades waiting to be discovered.

“It’s neat because there’s not too many ways and pathways, waterways that could have floated down this way. So it makes me curious where exactly it came from,” Chad Martin said.

Martin and his friend Chris Holl were out in the woods behind Holl’s property last week picking fiddleheads when they came across some green glass gleaming in the light.

“I seen a piece of glass and thought (I) better pick it up so (Martin’s) dog doesn’t get cut. And it turned out to be a big bottle,” Holl recalled.

He pulled out a note — a bit weathered and watermarked — with the words, “To the finder, let me out.”

“(And there are also) people’s names: Mike and Charlene, and then there was Paul, Linda, Ringo. So Beatles people!” Holl said.

He believes the bottle may have travelled down the Shediac River at some point, maybe during a flood.