June 15, 2025

A 75 Year Old Message In A Bottle

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories from around the world. In Poland, a love letter from 1959 was discovered by two boys, sparking a search for its origins. In Texas, a prom was organized for a high school senior recovering from back surgery. Zookeepers successfully hand-reared an endangered northern rockhopper penguin chick named Noisy. In North Carolina, Marine rescuers cleared over 1.5 pounds of barnacles from a stranded green sea turtle. Lastly, in Norway, a man woke up to find a cargo ship had run aground in his yard, narrowly missing his house. The episode also includes information on how to listen to the program without interruptions.

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Kalaroga Shark media either I'm Jenny Mack of five news

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stories in Poland, A mysterious love letter and a bottle

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from nineteen fifty nine is washed up on the shores

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of the Baltic Sea. Social media users are trying to

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figure out who wrote this thing. Two ten year old

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boys discover the bottle when they were walking around abandoned

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World War two forts in Poland that I love doing

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the show because the Devil's always then details, Here's what

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we know. The letter was written by a woman named Ressia.

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She penned the letter to her beloved Bunny and wrote

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about how she's spending her time apart from Bunny by

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attending a summer course. The letter reads, my dear, I'm

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a terrible egoist. I only write about myself, but it

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is you I think about all the time. Theory is

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online about who Rossia and Bunny might be. One users

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thinks an intriguing story. These people might still be alive.

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Maybe someone knows they're great parent's history, or one of

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the people involved once spoke of a youthful love that

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matches the story. So let me know if you know

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who Bunny is. In Texas, a high school senior, was

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going to miss her prom. She had gone under surgery

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for a back injury she sustained during a trampoline accident

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at the Woodlands Medical Center in Shenandoah, Texas. A prom

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was organized by Trauma Survivorship coordinator Melanie. The senior Ella

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has to wear a brace twenty four to seven while

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recovering from surgery to insert rods and screws to stabilize

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her back. She told people the celebration was like a

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God sent I felt like I was surrounded by angels.

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The nurses at the ICU unit helped her get glammed

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up for the night, helped her style her hair. She

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even got special permission to briefly remove her back brace

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so she could wear her prom dress and pose for photos.

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She says, it's hard to stand there and feel beautiful

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with this brace on because it's really ugly. When I

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was allowed to take it off, it gave me a

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sense of like, Okay, this is how God meant it

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to be. You do look beautiful. Seems like she's doing okay,

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She told people. Every doctor and nurse that I see

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now is I actually surprised at how much mobility I

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have and how good I'm doing. I'm so grateful to

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be here. Good luck to you, young lady. Meanwhile, zoo

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keepers have hand reared an endangered penguin chick after it

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hatched as part of a breeding program. It's a northern

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rock hopper penguin. It has been named Noisy. I love

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that name so much. Apparently, Noisy chirps whenever the humans

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are near. There had been a low survival rate of

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previous eggs, so the zookeepers placed this egg in an

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incubator and left the parents with a dummy egg. Zookeepers

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fed Noisy a milkshake that replicates the regurgitated food produced

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by penguin parents. One of the keepers said is wild

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populations sadly declined by more than fifty seven percent in

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the last twenty seven years. We're one of only seven

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zeos in Europe to care for this rare subspecies, so

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we're monitoring our tiny hatchling around the clock to give

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it the best chance possible. In North Carolina, marine rescuers

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said they removed more than one point five pounds of

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barnacles and other organisms that were on a stranded green

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sea turtle. The team there had responded to a call

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about a stranded juvenile turtle. They brought it to the

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Sea Turtle Assistance and Rehab Center at the North Carolina Aquarium.

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The rehab team gave the turtle an exam began to

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clean her up. She was covered in barnacles, algae, and

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other sea creatures, about a pound and a half. In

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a social media post, they said, safe in the hands

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of the aquarium, the green turtle is already looking much

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more active and on the way to recovery. If you

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A man in Norway was walking up by his neighbor

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in the early morning. All Right, dude, what it's so early?

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What do you want? Hey, there's a cargo ship in

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your yard. Johann said he was asleep when his neighbor

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jost rang his doorbell and called his phone to learn

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him that a cargo ship had run aground in his yard.

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Johann told the local news if the ship had hit

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the rocky outcrop right next to it, it would have

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lifted up and hit the house hard. It only missed

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by a few meters. Jostine, the neighbors said he had

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woken up a few minutes earlier to the sound of

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the boat approaching. He ran outside and attempted to sound

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the alarm. The shipping company is investigating what caused it,

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and they said, at present time we do not know

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what caused the incident, and awaiting the conclusion of the

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ongoing investigation by the relevant authorities, we're currently assessing the

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damage to the ship. An initial investigation indicates the officer

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who was responsible for steering the ship may have fallen asleep.

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Oh no, that is not good at all. Those are

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your five good news stories, or at least four good

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news stories. Not if you were at the wheel, all right,

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have a good day.