“It was like a voice from heaven… a sign that he is watching over his parents,” Billy Mitchell told the portal. USA Today on the bottle with a message that he found while working on the Yazoo River in Mississippi, in the United States.
The man was with other colleagues when a green bottle abandoned on a barge caught his attention. He took it in his hands and realized that it had something inside, so he decided to open it.
Despite the humidity, he managed to unfold the paper and inside he found a text with some legible words, which gave him to understand that it was a message written by a child.
Although they tried to decipher what the document said, they were unsuccessful, they only managed to identify that it was a class assignment from a little boy from the oxford countyMississippi, in 1989.
With the little data they managed to obtain, they decided to publish the finding on social networks to find the owner of the message. But they never imagined that this finding would be a source of happiness for a family.
The sender of the message
Dr. Eric Dahl was in the church when he received a call, although he never uses the phone if he is in this room, he decided to answer it because he was on duty and thought it was an emergency.
On the other end of the line, an acquaintance of Dahl was telling him about Mitchell’s company ad on social media. That was how he learned of the existence of the message written by his son, Brian Dahl, when he was eleven years old.
Brian was born in 1977 and was the doctor’s first child with his wife Melanie. In 1989, when he was 11 years old, his literature teacher had each student write his data with a personal message and drop it in a bottle into the Little Tallahatchie River.
33 years later, Brian’s bottle was found in the Yazoo River and it is, according to his father, a divine message, since his son died in 2007, at the age of 29.
“It’s amazing that it happened. It was a gift from above. We are a family of prayer and this is part of God’s providence, “said the man, according to reference ‘Lexington Herald Leader’.
The man stressed that Billy Mitchell and his companions returned his son to him, because seeing the letter was like having his son close again. So the Dahl family plans to meet up with Mitchell and the others to thank them and pick up the bottle.
“Seeing something connect people instantly is a beautiful thing, it was just like Brian to bring people together. It is a testament to what is and was,” said the North Mississippi Regional Center doctor.