More than a quarter million carrier pigeons were used during World War II to transport coded messages across battle lines.
It took seventy years, but one carrier pigeon finally completed its duty.
David Martin of Bletchingly, Surry, England, was renovating his fireplace recently when "the pigeon bones began appearing one by one by one. Down came the leg with the red capsule on with a message inside."
No one knows exactly where the carrier pigeon was sent off from originally, nor does anyone know what the message reads yet. It's in seventy-year old military code.
Theories suggest the bird flew over Nazi-occupied France on its way to the Bletchly Park headquarters for carrier pigeons. Whether the bird found itself lost in bad weather, became tired, or was just a really bad navigator and landed in the chimney--no one knows.
The only thing anyone knows is that claw above means you might want to rethink that chicken dinner you're planning tonight.
photo: ABC News
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