A Texas couple found a mysterious message in a balloon that turned out to be from a child living in Nashville. Jaymes Knox was playing with his dogs in his backyard on August 2 when he noticed a balloon with what appeared to be a rolledup note attachedA balloon released in North Richland Hills landed 972 miles away, in a dogwood tree near Cincinnati, Ohio. Two heartbroken Texas sisters Gypsy and Story Retting wrote moving notes to their late father and attached to a balloon and released it up to the sky. The note also had a request: "Whoever finds this note, put it in a balloon and release it to heaven. A 10-year-old in Kansas attached a note to a bunch of helium balloons and sent them off into the sky. Skyler Rettig died in 2017, the result of a car accident nearly 10 years earlier and the girls send him notes on his birthday.