Woman Finds 60-Year-Old Message In A Bottle In Mashpee, Returns It To Family

By Mike Sullivan, CBS Boston

April 16, 2024

MASHPEE - A message in a bottle washed ashore in Mashpee. Inside was a letter from a 14-year-old girl. It had been floating in the ocean for nearly 60 years, and now it is returning to the author's family.

"I was just walking, and I was looking for stuff in the seaweed the whole time, and this bottle appeared," said Kate Rivers, the Rhode Island native who found the bottle. "I looked inside and noticed a letter stuck to the outside of it. There was handwriting, and I was like this isn't even real right now?"

She was strolling along South Cape Beach when she spotted the Coke bottle and its distinct orange cap. Somehow the note inside was still partially intact.

Message in a bottle found on beach in Mashpee/CBS Boston

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