Modern Mysteries

Mystery 'clue' discovered in a bottle washed up along the River Thames

By T.K. Randall
August 14, 2023

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) Everyone's heard stories of messages in bottles and treasure maps leading to buried riches, but for one man, the discovery of a bottle along the banks of the River Thames recently has sparked a real-life mystery, the answer to which remains tantalizingly elusive.

Chris Green had been scouring the banks of the river for valuables (a pass-time known as mudlarking) when he spotted a small container with a note inside.

The note, which was printed on laminated paper, read:

"Wide and heavy, Filling out the town, North of Freehold, I can be found."Intrigued, Green decided to post the message up on social media to ask for a second opinion.

"I have a bit of a puzzle for you today," he wrote.

"I was on the Thames last week and found this message in a bottle. It looks like some kind of cryptic clue but it's too tricky for me, so I need to call on the collective brain to try and solve this one! I could be wrong but does this have a hint of the US about it?"

"Maybe our friends across the pond can help?"

As things stand, however, nobody has been able to fully decipher the mystery.

Source: Mirror.co.uk

Tags: Bottle, Message, Thames