Messages and the Lost Experience - On many of the sites related to the Lost Experience in the backgrounds were messages which sounded very much like they might have been messages from the bottle. Examples: "Robert D. West, of Santa Barbara, California, USA survived a horrific plane crash and is stranded on an island somewhere Northeast of Australia and Southwest of Hawaii. In the event that I am never found, please forward word of my fate to parents, Mr. and Mrs. John West, of Tucson Arizona. Thank you. Robert"