I am holding an iPhone 3. It is the phone that survived. It survived falling in a creek in Alabama and died on the battlefields of Virginia. […] We found this little place in Alabama that had a giant waterfall, but upstream there were kids playing. So naturally we took our shoes off and went in. […] So it was on my way out when I did the full legs going under me, fell completely in, and my phone was covered in this river water. […] But over the next 12 hours it slowly emerged from this strange little world of a wet phone, so it survived. […] And 5 ½ years later I still had it. […]

In June we decided to go to Virginia […] to go hiking in one of the battlefields. […] We started hiking, and 45 minutes later we hear some thunder. […] About 5 minutes later we hit a clearing and that’s when the rains came. […] The thunderstorm was basically on top of us. We started to smell smoke because lighting was hitting the trees around us! […] The water was rising, there were turtles swimming. […] But thankfully we survived but this time the phone, the beautiful phone did not. It has not worked since.

This belongs in The Museum of Survivors

Exhibited by Elisa

Transcript edited by Sarah Crawford