This six-year-old’s message in a bottle sent from London was found in Denmark (Picture: Twitter/TideLineArt)

There’s something incredibly romantic about a message in a bottle.

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It signifies a time where there was no phones and there was a slim chance of it ever returning back to you.

Not in this day and age – as this six-year-old has found out.

Found this message in a bottle on the beach this morning. Anybody knowing Freddy Marr, 6 years old, from London? Geplaatst door Carsten Hornecker op Dinsdag 2 augustus 2016

When Freddy Marr innocently released the bottle in the sea, he definitely didn’t expect it to wash up on the shores of Denmark.


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But it did.

The bottle was discovered by Carsten Hornecker as he walked along the coast of Udsholt Strand in Denmark.

Wanting to tell the boy that his bottle had been found, Hornecker shared a picture of the bottle on Facebook last Tuesday, which has since gone viral.

Six degrees of separation… who knows Freddy Marr from London https://t.co/u1q8DcutBx — Graham Hill (@GrahamHill) August 4, 2016

This is awesome! #messageinabottle Anyone know Freddy Marr age 6? https://t.co/sG5yp1zA0U — matt hope (@MattHope_) August 4, 2016

hello Brit friends, RT please? Help find Freddy Marr, age 6, of London, who put a message in a bottle! https://t.co/MpPjZfr3RR — Maryn McKenna (@marynmck) August 4, 2016

The internet duly came together to spread the word of Freddy’s message in the hope that he would be found.



And, thankfully, it seems Freddy’s family have been tracked down.

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UPDATE-Thankyou to our Lostbox community. A friend of Freddy's family spotted our post❤️Anybody know FREDDY MARR, 6… Posted by Lostbox on Thursday, August 4, 2016

In a twist to the message-in-a-bottle experience, a Facebook page for lost and found items posted an update saying they had managed to track down the sender of the note.

Lostbox wrote that a friend of Freddy’s family had spotted their post and got in touch with them.

Aww, we can’t wait till he finds out.

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