Fake kidnapping letter found in bottle returned 53 years after sisters threw it into the ocean

A message in a bottle written by two sisters more than five decades ago has finally been recovered, bringing back emotional memories for one of its authors. In August 1973, sisters Laurie Blair and Allison Spencer, then 9 and 16-years-old respectively, placed a handwritten note inside a Coca-Cola bottle and tossed it off the coast of Ocean City, New Jersey into the Atlantic Ocean. The message, written by Spencer, was based on a fictional story that Blair was reciting to her about an imaginary kidnapping. Now, 53 years on, the message has made its way back to Spencer.