A Windsor, York County woman who found a 25-year-old message in a bottle along the Susquehanna River is determined to find the person who sent it.
Jen Dettinger and her fiance Dustin Koontz were taking a walk along the Susquehanna River with their daughter Monday when they noticed an interesting-looking glass bottle.
“I was just joking and told him, ‘Hey babe, here’s a message in a bottle!'” Dettinger said. “And he said, ‘no way!'”
The letter inside was dated January 7, 1988 and read in part:
“To the finder of this bottle, if you want to know why I did this, my math teacher wanted me to try it […] Call on April 28, 1988 […] Your friend, Bambi Caffery.”
“My first thought was, is like, where, how far away, where did she throw it in at?” Koontz said.
FOX43 found several different phone numbers for a Bambi Caffery in South Carolina, but when Dettinger called them, she didn’t have any luck. Still, she’s going to keep trying.
“It is pretty neat,” Dettinger said. “I don’t know. I think she would like to be told that it was found. I would.”
Internet searches for Bambi Caffery show she lived in Binghamton, NY at some point.
Recent addresses we found for her are in the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina area.