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Grey Colson

Grey Colson

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This is vewwy curious....

In 2011, after going to Daytona for 25 years, I decided to bring a bottle of beach sand back with me. I did it in 2011 and again this year. Along with the sand, I dumped in many of those little shells from the shoreline.

I keep the 2011 bottle sitting on my desk to remind me of the warm beach through the winter :suntn, but here's the curious thing....


After about a year, I began seeing little shades of red and green forming against the inside glass. As the months went on....they started growing and appearing in new places! I thought about breaking out the old bio-hazard suit! :eek:

Wonder what it could be? :dunno


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It's blood. You couldn't see it in the sand when you scooped it up and put in the bottle. The dampness of the sand combined with being in a sealed bottled caused the humidity to rise inside the bottle. The high humidity inside the bottle is causing the blood to seep outward. If you don't believe me, empty the bottle and spray luminal on it and hit it with a black light.


Actually, that would be an interesting thing for a book. Grey Colson goes on vacation to visit his daughter in GA, but a few weeks before he goes, he puts some beach sand in a bottle to take to his daughter. He sees the blood in the sand and then goes to the spot on the beach where he got it. He starts digging around a little bit and finds human remains. The remains belong to a neighbor everyone thought went up north to spend a month with her family. The neighbor was also a retired cop and a friend of Grey's. Now it's personal.
 
Foxmeister said:
It's blood. You couldn't see it in the sand when you scooped it up and put in the bottle. The dampness of the sand combined with being in a sealed bottled caused the humidity to rise inside the bottle. The high humidity inside the bottle is causing the blood to seep outward. If you don't believe me, empty the bottle and spray luminal on it and hit it with a black light.
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Crime scene in a bottle! Hey...I get you could sell that. LOL
 
Makes sense to me. You uncovered a crime scene and didn't know it! lol

Or it's an algae caused by the wet sand. I bet you didn't let it dry completely before putting it in the bottle?
 
I think Winchester is right, it is a type of algae. For several years the Daytona Beach area had a big problem with what they called "Red Tide". The algae is red and it really messes with your breathing and makes you cough, a lot!! So I'm guessing you brought Red Tide home with you. I'm thinking you might not want to open it..............................unless...............................................................

















you dump it in GDs pool when he's not looking. :laugh
 
COOL STUFF, Y'all :eek:

No, I didn't let it dry before dumping it in the bottle.

I like the story line, Fox. Maybe for book 3.....if I can even get book 2 published :eek:

I think it gives the bottle an interesting look. At first I thought some color from the shells was bleeding off and trying to get out :laugh
 
I made the stuff up about it being blood. It sounded good though. :laugh
 
Foxmeister said:
I made the stuff up about it being blood. It sounded good though. :laugh
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That's what writing is about....making stuff up. That's what I like about it...the challange :DN
 
If you want to keep sand for display it is a good idea to bake it to get it all dried out and the little thingies killed.

I baked a lot of it when we lived in FL for guests to take home.
 
I think you need a biologist rather than a geologist... If it's sealed then my guess is that you have some kind of anaerobic bacteria or fungi thing going on. Yuck!
 
Okay, who's missing on the board? I think we know where the body is buried...
 
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