Dad Innocently Opens Lid to Weird, Old Bottle – Moments Later the Ground’s on Fire, the Bomb Squad’s Coming, and He’s Headed to the Hospital

Tony Lovell, a British dog walker, thought he’d discovered what was just a “nice looking bottle” on the beach.

Instead of finding a message inside, he found near-tragedy for him and his family — potentially from one of the greatest tragedies of the last century.

According to a BBC report last week, Lovell was walking along the beach at Hartlepool, on the coast of the North Sea in Britain, when he found a bottle that looked to be interesting.

“I always like searching the beach for interesting things — bits of old boats, funny stones, pieces of Victorian boots, weird vapes,” he told the U.K. Daily Mail.

A glass bottle qualified as interesting enough, and he took it home to clean it. While he initially thought it to be a liquor bottle, he later noticed a liquid that definitely didn’t seem to be booze inside of it.

“I thought it