Boy Reels In Purse From Lake While Fishing, Finds A Familiar Face Inside

[Music] but before we start please make sure to subscribe to m r tv and hit the bell so you never miss any upload from us also leave a like right now a boy reels in purse from lake while fishing finds a familiar face inside when the men of his family invited him on a daytime fishing trip 11 year old brodie brooks felt over the moon with excitement however little did he know that the daytime excursion would soon spiral into an adventure the young boy would never forget all thanks to one mysterious purse when he headed out to the lake with his new fishing rod brooks thought he might pull out a fish for dinner instead he managed to reel in an extraordinary discovery a purse that seemed to have been underwater for decades still when the brooks family opened the bag they could never have expected to find a photo featuring a familiar face in the middle of july 2017 eleven-year-old brody brooks had one of the most exciting birthdays of his life not only did the young man receive a brand new fishing rod but his uncles and extended family promised to bring him along on a fishing trip like any good fisherman brooks could only think about one thing leading up to the trip catching a big fish of course at the time no one in the family expected the fishing trip to include anything out of the ordinary while the beautiful day started off normally brooks would soon make the biggest catch of his life except it wasn't a fish the fishing trip occurred at a beautiful lake lake hartwell seen below in anderson county the heart of south carolina armed with their rods patience and great companionship brooks and his family set up their fishing rods and eased into the morning soon enough it had become one of the most beautiful days any of the fishermen had seen in quite some time as the fishing party set up along the lake brooks could not wait to cast a line in with his box fresh ugly stick fishing rod despite what the name might suggest it was actually a very nice fishing pole before long the young boy already had the ropes down as fishing groups so often do they spent the morning bantering and telling jokes waiting for the first bite of the day more than anything else they all felt excited to see brooks catch his first fish with his new rod the young boy felt the same way but the first few hours passed without so much as a nibble throughout the morning ben myers 39 a relative of brooks took on the job of watching over the young boy as he made his way through the morning along the way he also taught the young boy how to bait and cast out his new fishing rod then out of nowhere brooks seemed to catch something you can imagine the look of surprise on meyer's face when young brooks yelled that something was tugging at his line after all the young boy had just started still a big believer in beginner's luck myers began helping his young relative to pull in whatever he had found meanwhile as he reeled it in brooks felt unsure he had snagged a big fish on the end of his line especially since he pulled the line quite violently in fact the rod started to bend so much that the 11 year old worry built up inside him i just gotten a brand new ugly stick so when the line started pulling so vigorously i was worried i might break the rod he explained thankfully it did not however as brooks pulled his catch from the water they realized it was no fish as the young man continued to pull his catch from the water with the help of his uncle ben myers the rest of his family quickly surrounded him clearly excited unfortunately as the uncle and nephew finally managed to pull the catch from the water it became clear it was not a fish instead it looked like a strange square object fearing his new rod would break brooks dove into the water and pulled what looked to be a bag from the lake back on the shore the young boy immediately realized he had stumbled upon something quite unusual and unique even if it wasn't a fish at first brooks recalled later that the 11 year old felt a little disappointed that he had not actually caught a large fish after all as it was his first time fishing he had felt sure that he had snagged a fish given the way the rod bobbed of course brooks had never suffered the defeat of reeling in trash something all fishermen must go through however brooks quickly overcame these feelings the more he examined his strange new find although he had no idea where the purse had come from the young boy knew it must belong to someone no one throws a full bag into a lake for no reason as brooks looked over and poked at the purse he felt sure given the water damage in mud it had been down there for some time but outside of that myers and brooks could not say precisely how long it had been in the water even though it was covered in mud the zipper seemed intact and no water leaked from the bag it seemed that whatever was inside had probably remained intact for a moment brooks and his uncle debated opening the purse it wasn't theirs after all still soon enough they realized to return the pocketbook to its proper home they would need to open it up and look at the contents and one object in the bag would catch meyer's eye right away as stated almost all fishermen have to deal with the disappointment of snagging some trash every once in a while from seaweed to plastic bottles there's quite a bit of junk that one can catch with a fishing hook however believe it or not in all of his years fishing myers had never found anything more exciting than rusty cans still there's always a first time for everything we might catch a can or something like that but as far as a woman's purse that's the first for me myers told the media later on i've been fishing on this lake all my life and that's the first time i saw something be caught like this still while ben myers had never pulled up anything more interesting than fish and cans from the lake he had heard tales of other fishermen reeling in treasure so the minute his young nephew pulled the purse out of the lake myers knew they might have something interesting on their hands i told him you ain't got no fish you got treasure meyers recalled to abc news in fact it was meyer's upbeat attitude that helped brooks change his disappointed tune after all it's not every day you find a treasure on the lake soon enough the uncle and nephew were playing detective with the items in the bag fortunately for the previous owner the bag had been zipped up when it fell into the water thankfully despite the years underwater the purse's contents remained in pretty good condition even the exterior of the bag did not look as bad as myers expected it to given it had stayed 30 feet deep in lake hartwell for years as brooks and myers opened the bag up and went through its contents they discovered more about the purse's owner it included old dated photos and although a few faces were staring back at them no one in brook's family knew any of the members of the images not at first anyway while the men could not place the items at first the muddy purse contained plenty of evidence about the owner brooks and myers quickly discovered two tubes of lipstick and gift cards so old that some of the stores that sold them were long out of business at the bottom of the purse the two men even found a teasing comb presumably to get the owner's hair to the optimum height that certainly made myers think the bag had been in the lake since the 80s or 90s quite a long time meanwhile the purse also contained photographs meaning she lost it before smartphones became a common occurrence hopefully the photos would help brooks and myers locate the purse's owner as the uncle and nephew continued looking through the bag they only found themselves with more questions those of course included what had happened to the bag and how long exactly it had been at the bottom of the lake brooks and myers also had to wonder why the bag had ended up at the bottom of the lake in the first place cosmetic and monetary items aside the pocketbook also included a lot of photos of people which almost certainly meant something to the owner some items like a driving permit indicated where the owner lived but had become too destroyed to be useful soon enough brooks and myers realized they would need to take a closer look in order to find the owner after looking at the other object from the underwater purse brooks and myers carefully started going through the sodden photographs some of the photographs were just too damaged to see the faces in them however despite the water damage a few images managed to survive the trip in the lake and as meyer started scrutinizing the photos he saw a face that made him do a double take although myers could not possibly believe it he felt sure he knew one of the women in the photos whether it was just a coincidence or fate myers was positive he had attended school with the woman in question many years ago the more he looked at the picture the less myers could believe what he was looking at astounded by the fact that his nephew had reeled in a purse to bring with it it seemed impossible to the man that he knew the owner later everyone on the trip would recall just how strange the entire experience of finding the bag felt but myers was sure it belonged to an old friend of the family she's a friend of the family i went to school with her nephew but i hadn't seen her in 10 years myers later told abc news while myers recognized the woman from his childhood he struggled to further place her or recall her name then after a few minutes of contemplation myers finally remembered after he saw the face of a woman he knew myers knew he had to reach out right away in fact the man pulled out his cell phone right there and started calling anyone who might still be in contact with the woman meanwhile others began taking more photos with their phones in case the bad had been taken in a criminal act eventually myers contacted the woman in question as you might imagine she felt quite stunned to receive the call at first she even thought that myers was a prank caller and considered hanging up however when he started telling her very specific details of her lost purse 49 year old april bolt knew that the call was real as it turned out 49 year old april bolt was the owner of the purse as you can imagine she felt incredibly excited to reunite with her long last bag i couldn't believe it i was lost for words you never think you'd see it again bolt told abc news clearly still overwhelmed even days after the incident just as myers had predicted bolt lost her purse in the early 90s that meant the bag had remained underwater for 27 years surprisingly everyone including bolt felt astounded by the great shape the purse remained in not only that but the fact that myers could not only see the photos but that he also remembered bolt is nothing short of a miracle of course brooks and meyers desperately wanted to know how the purse had ended up underwater so bolt told them that she had lost her precarious purse during a cookout at a marina close to lake hartwell in 1992. she and her family had spent the day on a boat as her parents owned a condo nearby eventually they parked the boat at the dock and grilled some burgers in the evening bolt left her purse on the boat but when she returned she found her purse missing while the uncle and nephew first thought the purse had simply gone overboard bolts soon filled them in on the strange circumstance of his disappearance because bolt also remembered something very interesting about that day you see both remember seeing two fishermen that she had never seen before as she walked off the boat then later when she returned not only was her purse gone but so were the two fishermen so it seemed only logical to bolt that they had taken it even today bolt sticks to this theory relaying it to abc news recently we were on the boat and my parents had a condo there and we were grilling burgers and we parked the boat on the slip there were two guys there fishing and i hate to accuse anybody but when we got back i was like my pocketbook is gone and the loss was not easy on the young woman when bolt received the call that her purse had been found she remembered how emotional the loss made her i was crying at the time she recalled it wasn't a whole lot of cash maybe like 60 dollars but a woman fits her whole life in her purse it was devastating back in 1992 bold found it hard to fathom replacing not only her cash but all of her cards which as you probably know is a stressful process even worse bolt also realized that some items she could not ever replace my favorite lipstick was in there and the color was discontinued she explained now bolt can wear her favorite shade one last time if she doesn't mind the lake smell too much lipstick aside back in 1992 both felt most upset about losing something that meant much more than any material object you see among the photos in the purse were photos of her first son as a baby now after so many years of never believing she would see them again bolt has her pictures back my son is 26 now but he was 15 months old then and i had all his photos that were professionally taken in my wallet they were water damaged but you can make him out bolt explained as you can see it was impossible to put a price on photos taken almost three decades earlier even with the water damage both feels over the moon about recovering the photos when myers was asked about the turn of events on the day he remained shocked and speechless as to what had transpired myers told abc news that it was pretty wild you fish up a purse for one then you actually know whose it was he continued before losing the worse meanwhile bolt said that the bag's recovery from a depth of 30 feet after a quarter of a century gone meant the world to her of course eleven-year-old brody brooks still wishes he had caught a fish instead though returning a prized possession to someone certainly makes for a better first catch memory with his brand new rod following the discovery however bolt is still trying to figure out why the universe wanted her to have her purse back she also wonders why the men did not merely throw the bag back into the boat but bolt doesn't have to worry about that anymore everyone keeps telling me there's got to be a meaning to why you're finding this so many years later she said i'm sure god will reveal that in time for right now bolt simply wants to revel in her good fortune and the pleasant memories her purse has provoked it's just so precious to have it back she said to abc news after april bolt finally got her hands on her long lost bag again she felt more than excited to start creating new memories with his contents you see as both son was only 15 months when the purse disappeared he had never seen the photos of him as a baby before how amazing it must have been to join his mother and uncovering long-lost pictures of a long long time ago well maybe they were both equally excited about the prospect of the bag resurfacing that fateful day fortunately both won't have to look back and feel bad about her long lost purse anymore believe it or not bolt's purse is not the only strange personal object found deep underwater on the morning of may 13 2014 a diving team from the marine ecology department at simon fraser university in british columbia canada prepared to head out into some pretty deep waters you see the team wanted to conduct a research dive to study the waters off the coast of banfield near vancouver island while the dive team had initially planned to simply take some notes on oceanic wildlife their goal that day quickly changed as the team loaded up the boat and headed out onto the deep blue sea they had no idea what the ocean depths had in store for them specifically the team wanted to dive into the cold waters to study the many variations of sea stars that call the area home by taking a large group out there the divers hope to shed light on their interesting behavior and numbers not only that but some of the divers also plan to capture a few sea stars to study them back in the school labs however once down on the sea floor something embedded in the seabed caught the eye of the diver at first he had no idea what the item could be so the diver and his partner swam closer determined to figure it out upon closer inspection the two students managed to determine precisely what the strange object was bo dougherty left and tella osler right were the simon fraser university students who noticed something strange on the sea floor while doherty saw it first the second he pointed it out ulcer agreed the square object did not belong determined to remove any trash from the beautiful ocean the two swam over and tried to remove the object closer they noticed the object had hard edges and a leather strap that waved in the current as doherty pulled the belt he felt surprised to see a round lens emerge from the sand despite the algae and literal sea life living on the object the diver recognized it was a camera after dodi discovered the rusty camera he placed it in his dive bag and continued with his research however as he continued his diving expedition the diver couldn't help but wonder who the old camera had belonged to more importantly how had the camera ended up on the sea floor so deep in the water and so far away from the shore also how long had it been there one of the divers picked it up and put it in his pocket and kept counting the starfish professor isabelle coat recalled in an interview when they came up from the dive he said look what i found as you might imagine the whole team felt curious and wanted to find out everything about the unusual find after doherty revealed what he had found the old camera particularly caught the attention of cote's co-professor siobhan gray what was so special about this rusty camera well while gray had accompanied the group out that day her main interest of study was not actually the starfish instead she had tagged along to study aquatic plant life for the banfield marine sciences center when looking at the camera gray felt amazed to see fauna growing on the surface of the electronic so she decided to take the rusty camera back to her lab for further investigation back at the lab gray found far more than she ever expected gray could not believe the miniature ecosystem that she discovered living inside the old rusty camera while she had seen plenty of algae and plant life on the outside of the camera nothing could prepare her for the inside inside gray found not only several more species of algae but also a sea cucumber and two brittle stars for those not in the know brittle stars are very similar to sea stars just much much smaller nature had found a way to take over the camera and turn it into part of its ecosystem as gray and cote taught in their ecology classes however as luck would have it that wasn't all that gray had discovered now many might assume that a camera that spent years underwater would be completely useless and they're right however memory cards on the other hand are known to be able to take quite the beating and when grey popped it out of its tray it actually looked in pretty good shape even though the sd card was covered in black algae the team hoped it would still work when placed in a computer even better they hoped that a few shots had survived the water damage if they had the dive team might even be able to track down the original owner while it felt like a long shot they felt more than willing to try when gray discovered that the sd card remained almost intact she felt another wave of excitement flow through her my first thought about the camera was are there still images on the card she recalled even in the interview months after finding the camera gray could still barely contain how excited she felt about solving this long forgotten mystery after removing the sd card from the camera gray carefully cleaned every bit of it with an earbud and rubbing alcohol then gray slotted it into the computer and took a deep breath the moment of truth arrived and the memory card worked to find out what gray found on the card click next below