Friday 23 November 2007

A found letter transcribed

"The Cold War



Trade Union Ballot Rigging??

Ken Gill MI5? Trade Union Leader

Communist Portrait Artist





1/2/85 Fliteform Aim GRP. Heathrow

Steadman Starnes Bates

Mc Boon Nov 89

Three unwise monkeys

The umbrella man

12/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3

The radioactive man

25th july 09 Bleriot France --> England

25th july 59 Hovercraft England --> France

Koncordesky Accident? Paris

Greville Wynee the man who never was?

Putin?

31/08/89 Princess Anne?

31/08/97 Princess Diana Accident? Paris

Dec 99 Putin President of Russia

25th July 00 concorde Accident? Paris

12th Aug 00 The kursk Accident?

DMTNT?

Link the facts into one cold war story"


46 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi...I was searching on the net and found your post - my parents found a bottle on a beach in Scotland last week, and it contained almost the same thing as you found! Where did you find your letter? Do you know anything about where it came from or who wrote it?

This is the one my parents found:

THE COLD WAR

Ken Gill MI5? Trade union leader
Communist portrait artist


1/2/85 Fliteform Aim grp Heathrow
Steadman Starnes Bates
McBoon Nov 89


The Umbrella Man
1/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3
The Radioactive Man

25th July 09 Bleriot France-England
25th July 59 Hovercraft England-France

____________New page_______________

Koncordesky accident? Paris


31/8/89 Princess Anne
31/8/97 Princess Diana accident? Paris


31/12/68 Koncordesky TU144
31/12/99 Putin President of Russia


25th July 00 Concorde Accident? Paris



12th Aug 00 The Kursk Accident?
D M T N T

Anonymous said...

I found one too!! How bizarre. Says pretty much the same as yours.Do you know what it means? What have you done with the letter?

Anonymous said...

I found one in Morecambe Bay, last year. Weighted down with coins and sealed air tight.

Anonymous said...

Me too in morecambe sept 09

Anonymous said...

i found one of these as well, on magheramore beach in county wickow, ireland around the start of the summer

any more info/ideas

Anonymous said...

I found one too. Crosby Beach, Merseyside. I wrote about it on my blog. See this link (includes a picture)

http://www.beforeiforget.co.uk/2008/mystery-in-a-bottle

Anonymous said...

I found a message yesterday 16th March 2009 at Flookburgh beach in the Lake District, it was tied up with a piece of cotton in a plastic bottle with near enough the same message as everyone else. the bit i find intriging is the future date of 25th of July 2009
Craig.

Pickles said...

The 25/7/09 date referes to 1909 when Louis Bleriot flew the first cross-channel flight on that day. It does not refer to some future date as Craig of Flookburgh had thought.

Anonymous said...

Found one last night(13/07/2009) pretty much the same info. dated 9/5/09. letters at the bottom read DMTNT

agentzee said...

Mine was found on fleetwood beach - glad Im not the only one lol - how very interesting!

Would love to discuss this with the author...

this is my blog btw forgot my logon lol

Anonymous said...

just found one on coulderton beach cumbria - pretty much same information - strange!

Jojo said...

I found a similar message on the beach between Pontllyfni and Dinas Dinlle in Gwynedd, Wales 20/3/10.

This one had been found previously, in Fleetwood, in February this year.
The first finder added a new note saying where it was found, and threw it back into the sea.

Anonymous said...

me and my son found one these letters on a beach in Bolton Le Sands, Morecambe on 31.05.10, the contents are pretty much the same as everybody eles, found it interesting to find out more about it when at first we didnt have a clue what it was all about!! would like to know where it all started from tho???

Anonymous said...

Hi.... i was in Haven flookborough, grange-over-sands
on the beach with my brother and his friend, and we was looking for crabs and on the way back we found a plastic bottle with a glued lid, with exactly the same message you've all been on about and the date sent was
28/04/10.

i found on the 02/06/10, mine is slightely different it doesn't say 'the umbrella man' or
'radioactve man'

'THE COLD WAR'

'ken gill MI5?' 'trade union leader
communist portrait artist' and the princess diana stuff :S it must mean something surely???? kepp everything updated

Anonymous said...

Hi, we found one of these letters yesterday in Heysham near Half moon bay (17/06/10). Although it seems to be a little different. Some of the words are underlined. This is what mine says:

Concordeski Crash Paris

31/12/68 Concordeski TU144
31/12/99 Putin President of Russia

25/7/09 Bleriot France - England
25/7/59 Hovercraft England - France
25/7/00 Concorde crash Paris

1/2/85 Fliteform Aim Group Heathrow
Steadman Starnes Bates
Mc Boon Nov 89

1/2/05 WM Gray Heysham LA3

12/6/10


As you can see this letter is very recent. Can anyone please explain to me what it actually is and what we are ment to do with them?

my email is shineylex@yahoo.co.uk

Nick Elliott said...

I've just found one on Allonby beach in Cumbria dated 10/07/10.

It reads.

Concordski Crash (underlined in red) - Paris
31/12/68 - Concordski TU 144
31/12/99 Putin (Underlined in red) President of Russia

25/07/09 Bleriot France -> England
25/7/09 Hovercraft England ->France
25/07/00 Concord Crash (Underlined in red) - Paris

1/2/85 Fliteform Aim Grp (Underlined in Red_ Heathrow
Steadman Starnes Bates
McBoon Nov 89

01/02/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3

Dated 10/7/10

Anonymous said...

My dad also found one on Allonby beach that read exactly the same as Nick Elliot's.

Anonymous said...

I found an almost identical message in a bottle nr Ulverston Cumbria this evening. 6th October 2010.Available if anyone wants to see.

Vintage Home Treasures said...

We found an almost identical message today @ Aldingham Ulverston Cumbria 6/10/2010

Anonymous said...

More than 20 of these bottles on Aldingham beach strung along the tide line on 26th Octo.

Anonymous said...

I also found two on Aldingham beach on Saturday 30th October 2010 similar notes as mentioned above

bianca said...

hi.
i found a message in a bottle very similar to yours today. 25.11.2010.
i found this at bardsea beach, ulverston, cumbria.
the date at the bottom i found intrigued by, does anyone have an idea what it means.
20.10.10

bat.

Anonymous said...

I have found a plastic bottle, sealed wih glue, on Northside Beach in CUMBRIA,with exactly he ame message dated 3/3/11

3S

Jaynice said...

I was working along the estuary on the river wyre near Staynall and found a very similar letter, this is how it read
CONCORDESKI CRASH PARIS

31/12/68 CONCORDESKI TU144
31/12/99 PUTIN PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA

25/07/09 BLERIOT FRANCE > ENGLAND
25/07/59 HOVERCRAFT ENGLAND > FRANCE
25/07/00 CONCORDESKI CRASH PARIS

01/02/85 FLITEFORM AIM GRP HEATHROW STEADMAN STARNES BATES
Mc BOON NOV 89

01/02/05 Wm GRAY HEYSHAM LA3
DATED 22/0210

emmaamaay said...

Hi, I recently came off holiday from Cumbria and I also too found the exact message in the bottle. It was in an unbranded fruit shott bottle with a green lid glued shut. When I got into it, it had a piece of thin cotton tied around it. When I opened it, it had exactly what is described in your message and I found it quite strange. I have been looking on the internet to see if anyone else has had these discoveries and you are not the only one. There was a man who had 26 of these bottles at home that he had also found near cumbria. This is a mysterious message to be found in a bottle and I do too wonder who wrote it.

emmaamaay said...

As to my previous message. This message was quite recent, it was dated 3/3/11 and I found the letter on the 12/4/11. So this message is still going around now.

Ray said...

found two of theses tonight down at aldingham beach Nr Ulverston .. the date on the ones i found are 30/04/11 .. both in the same handwriting, in the same bottles, same colour cotton and the lids glued shut

AndyfromBootle said...

What our bottle letter author needs to realise is that if you take any 365,000 newsworthy facts from the year 1900 say to the present ,then Very Strangely, on average , each item will link up to 999 others ON THE SAME DATE (but different year). Spooky isn't it. Chuck em all back intut sea.

David Acerckley said...

I know time has passed until the post, but me and my friends found yesterday a letter like yours in howth in ireland, so we don't know what happens with this letter, if anybody know something about it, please contact with me Lepero_david@hotmail.com
Thank you so much!

Anonymous said...

I found one on the Isle of Muck 21/7/11 have some nice photos of it unopened with the Isle of Rhum in the background, before I gave it to my friend's two young boys to open no penpals to be had in it though. I can see that there is no mystery to be linked together and solved but am intriged by the obsessions of a person driven to send so many! Bottles and cans clap your hands.

Anonymous said...

I found exactly the same today 2/08/11, the message was dated the 28/08/11 so only been in the sea 5 days found it at Newbiggin in between Ulverston and Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, not sure what it means or why this guy is repeatedly sending these messages in bottles, looks like he has been doing it for years! The message was rolled up to perfection and the piece of string on it too!

Jenni BB said...

Feb 2012 found a plastic bottle with green lid and same message as everyone near enough back in June 2011 at Cark shoreline. Feb 2012 found about 14 of these bottles with same message in dated around 28/9/11 28/11/11 etc, following a high tide. Time for someone somewhere to get a life!

Anonymous said...

Yesterday I found 3 bottles when I was out on ainsdale beach with my family all the same and exactly the same bottles/handwriting and the same notes inside them I do not no what to do with them and so I took them home all the same so I thought how curios so I googled them and it seems that I'm not the only one to find the bottles it says that these bottles have go the farest to Ireland and the dates on the bottom have been changing over the years and it is very mysterious I hope that we find out who is doing this

Anonymous said...

this is crazy stuff. Was all of yours written on an A5/small piece of paper cos if so they must be all from the same person.
one i found on the beach in a bottle in arnisde:
some words on mine are underlined in red too.

Concordeski Crash Paris



31/12/68 Concordeski TU144
31/12/99 Putin President of Russia



25/7/09 Bleirot France - England
25/7/59 Hovercraft - France
25/7/00 Concorde Crash Paris


__________New Page__________




1/2/85 Fliteform Aim GRP Heathrow
Steadman Starnes Bates
Mc Boon Nov 89





1/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3






28/9/11

Anonymous said...

this is crazy stuff. Was all of yours written on an A5/small piece of paper cos if so they must be all from the same person.
one i found on the beach in a bottle in arnisde:
some words on mine are underlined in red too.

Concordeski Crash Paris



31/12/68 Concordeski TU144
31/12/99 Putin President of Russia



25/7/09 Bleirot France - England
25/7/59 Hovercraft - France
25/7/00 Concorde Crash Paris


__________New Page__________




1/2/85 Fliteform Aim GRP Heathrow
Steadman Starnes Bates
Mc Boon Nov 89





1/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3






28/9/11

popodom1 said...
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Anonymous said...

this is crazy stuff. Was all of yours written on an A5/small piece of paper cos if so they must be all from the same person.
one i found on the beach in a bottle in arnisde:
some words on mine are underlined in red too.

Concordeski Crash Paris



31/12/68 Concordeski TU144
31/12/99 Putin President of Russia



25/7/09 Bleirot France - England
25/7/59 Hovercraft - France
25/7/00 Concorde Crash Paris


__________New Page__________




1/2/85 Fliteform Aim GRP Heathrow
Steadman Starnes Bates
Mc Boon Nov 89





1/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3






28/9/11

Anonymous said...

this is crazy stuff. Was all of yours written on an A5/small piece of paper cos if so they must be all from the same person.
one i found on the beach in a bottle in arnisde:
some words on mine are underlined in red too.

Concordeski Crash Paris



31/12/68 Concordeski TU144
31/12/99 Putin President of Russia



25/7/09 Bleirot France - England
25/7/59 Hovercraft - France
25/7/00 Concorde Crash Paris


__________New Page__________




1/2/85 Fliteform Aim GRP Heathrow
Steadman Starnes Bates
Mc Boon Nov 89





1/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3






28/9/11

Anonymous said...

this is crazy stuff. Was all of yours written on an A5/small piece of paper cos if so they must be all from the same person.
one i found on the beach in a bottle in arnisde:
some words on mine are underlined in red too.

Concordeski Crash Paris



31/12/68 Concordeski TU144
31/12/99 Putin President of Russia



25/7/09 Bleirot France - England
25/7/59 Hovercraft - France
25/7/00 Concorde Crash Paris


__________New Page__________




1/2/85 Fliteform Aim GRP Heathrow
Steadman Starnes Bates
Mc Boon Nov 89





1/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3






28/9/11

Anonymous said...

this is crazy stuff. Was all of yours written on an A5/small piece of paper cos if so they must be all from the same person.
one i found on the beach in a bottle in arnisde:
some words on mine are underlined in red too.

Concordeski Crash Paris



31/12/68 Concordeski TU144
31/12/99 Putin President of Russia



25/7/09 Bleirot France - England
25/7/59 Hovercraft - France
25/7/00 Concorde Crash Paris


__________New Page__________




1/2/85 Fliteform Aim GRP Heathrow
Steadman Starnes Bates
Mc Boon Nov 89





1/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3






28/9/11

Anonymous said...

this is crazy stuff. Was all of yours written on an A5/small piece of paper cos if so they must be all from the same person.
one i found on the beach in a bottle in arnisde:
some words on mine are underlined in red too.

Concordeski Crash Paris



31/12/68 Concordeski TU144
31/12/99 Putin President of Russia



25/7/09 Bleirot France - England
25/7/59 Hovercraft - France
25/7/00 Concorde Crash Paris


__________New Page__________




1/2/85 Fliteform Aim GRP Heathrow
Steadman Starnes Bates
Mc Boon Nov 89





1/2/05 Wm Gray Heysham LA3






28/9/11

popodom1 said...
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Anonymous said...

Just found 23 along the beach at south end of walney island , was with the kids who were really excited by it . This guy must have plenty of time on his hands and has been doing it for years .

andy said...

Kids just found a bottle with the same paper and writing morecambe

Samsammiad said...

Found one today 9th May 2020, Isle of Whithorn, Scotland.

Amazed to have fallen down this complete rabbit hole, finding that this is actually a ‘thing’!

So odd and bizarre.

The message found today has been a bit different it seems to all the others found before that have been mentioned here!

Only 1 side of paper as follows (all in capital letters though) with certain words underlined.

www Mr W Gray
21 Draycombe Crt
Morecambe LA3 1NH
England

Concordeski crash Paris
[green underlined]

31/12/68 Concordeski
31/12/99 Putin [green underlined]

25/7/09 Bleriot France —> England
25/7/59 Hovercraft England —> France
25/7/00 Concorde Crash Paris
[green underlined]

For your £1000 Reward
[red underlined]

Contact The Editor
The Guardian
90 York Way
London N1 9GU

Samsammiad said...

Duh it’s 2021 now! Can’t edit.