Message In A Bottle Sparks Real-Life 'Outer Banks' Story!

It may sound like the plot of a rom com, but it's real life for Anna Molinari.

The TikToker recently shared her message in a bottle story as she's getting ready to add a new chapter to the unbelievable series of events.

Molinari said her story began nine years ago when she put a message in a bottle and tossed it out to sea while doing a semester on a sailboat with six other students as a sophomore in high school.

"The trip started out in the Dominican Republic, and then we were gonna sail up the coast to Rhode Island over like a six-week period," she said. "They took our phones for the trip and we were doing our schoolwork and sailing and like learning the ocean, all that stuff."

She shared a photo of what the boat looked like and a photo of her at 16 years old in the Bahamas during the semester at sea.

Molinari continued her story by explaining that during a five day "stretch of sailing between the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas," everyone was miserable and one of the mates suggested entertaining themselves by writing messages and putting them in bottles.

"I wrote mine about what I learned from living at sea, and what I used to take advantage of at home," she continued. "We threw our bottles in between the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas and then went on with the trip."

Weeks after tossing the bottles, she was back at home in Rhode Island attending school normally again.

Two months after tossing the message in the bottle out to sea, Molinari got a handwritten letter delivered to her school (because she used the school's address on the letter.) The letter came from an 18-year-old offshore fisherman.

"He found the bottle 30-some miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina," she explained. "He spotted it in the water, told his fishing crew let's grab that, opened it, read the letter."

Molinari then shows a shot of the catch from that day - lots of fish and one bottle with a message in it.

The fisherman wrote her a letter about how he understands everything she was going through and how he resonates with it all.

The two ended up connecting on social media and started a friendship. Molinari said her family goes to the Outer Banks every summer, and because of that, the two were able to eventually meet up in person.

Molinari ran out of time and had to make a part two to this wild story.

In her second video, she explained that she invited her new friend over for dinner with her family about a year and a half after he found her message while fishing.

"He drives five hours through the weekend traffic, shows up in board shorts and barefoot with his blonde best friend," she said. "This was the real life John B. and JJ for real."

Molinari's new friend told her that the day he found the bottle, he had suggested to his captain that they go off course that day.

"At this point, I'm still only 17, he's like 19, and I'm not fully grasping how crazy this story is," she said. The two have kept in touch ever since thanks to social media.

Now, Molinari is 25 years old and getting ready to see her fisherman friend once again.

"He still is a charter fisherman so he takes people out on boats to catch fish like as experiences, and that's something my mom has always wanted to do," she said. "So we booked it with him."

Molinari posted her video talking about this new adventure on Saturday, so Sunday's the day.

Just when you thought the story was coming to a close, Molinari shares one more interesting detail - a mystery!

"The plot of this story thickens," she said. "So, his work had taken my bottle and my message and they had like framed it, put it on display in their office. One day they come in and it's stolen, it's gone. Now we have no proof other than the photos that this even happened."

Part one of Molinari's story received more than 3.4 million views and tons of comments.

"If you guys don’t fall madly deeply in love," one person wrote. Another added, "Even if y’all don’t fall in love- what a story to carry your whole life."

Many suggested that she writes a book, and others were just hoping the algorithm brings them back for the next update video.