Watch: Message in a bottle found in Ontario lake after 26 years [Video]

Nov. 6 (UPI) — A message in a bottle tossed into an Ontario lake as part of a school project was found by a student at the same school 26 years later.

Makenzie Van Eyk was a fourth grade student at St. John the Baptist Catholic Elementary School in Belle River when she and her classmates threw messages in bottles into Lake St. Clair.

River Vandenberg, a current kindergarten student at the school, found the bottle while visiting the beach with his grandmother.

“This letter is coming from Makenzie Morris and I go to St John the Baptist School. I am in Grade 4 in Mr. St. Pierre’s class,” the message reads. “My letter is about water in the Great Lakes. We read a book called Paddle-to-the-Sea. It was a very good book.”

Vandenberg took the message in a bottle to his school, where a fourth grade teacher read it to a class that includes Van Eyk’s daughter, Scarlet.

“My mouth completely dropped. …