Overview

• An AI-assisted reading identified the sender as Linda, dated the note to October 20, 2007, and gave the address as 5 Roslyn Crescent, Reading, England.
• Finder Malte Bayer, a marketing-agency owner from Lahr, processed enhanced images with three to four tools, including ChatGPT, over roughly two weeks.
• The analysis inferred the sender’s age at the time as about 11 to 16 based on handwriting and phrasing.
• A modeled route proposes the bottle entered the sea from the English coast or the Thames, drifted through the estuary into the North Sea, and reached southern Sylt.
• Bayer has not located the sender or independently verified the details, and an AWS expert notes that LLM outputs fill gaps probabilistically and require human checks.