Amused locals never quite understood that from more than 30 years, landline shaped like Garfield phones washed up on the coast of Brittany which became the “cat mystery”.
However, the puzzle has now been solved.
Locals had always had a suspicion that the stray phones came from a lost shipping container which went underwater.
A resident had recently confirmed the suspicion and revealed that he had across it after a storm in the 1980s.
The container was possibly lost by a ship during that storm. It then drifted alongside the coast of Brittany and got wedged in a fissure.
The local beach cleaning group ‘Ar Viltansou’ found the bright orange pieces every now and then.
The cleaning group’s leader, Claire Simonin said,” Our association has existed for 18 years and in that time we have found pieces of Garfield telephones almost each time we clean.”
After investigating about the container’s location, Ms. Simonin and her crew went on a mission to find it.
“We found this incredible fissure that is 30 meters deep and at the very bottom, there were the remains of a container. Under the boulders in front of the entrance, we found 23 complete handsets with electronics and wires. They were everywhere,” said Simonin.
Still, this is not the end as Fabien Boileau, the director of the Irosie Marine Nature Park said,” We have no idea what happened at the time: we do not know where it came from, what boat and we don’t know if several containers fell into the water, or only one.”
