A woman bought a vintage dress at an antique store. It had a secret pocket with a mysterious note
(CNN) — The Victorian dress in the Maine antique mall was unlike anything Sara Rivers Cofield had seen before.
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(CNN) — The Victorian dress in the Maine antique mall was unlike anything Sara Rivers Cofield had seen before.
Ms Cofield found a secret pocket tucked under the bustle and it had two crumpled sheets of paper with lists of seemingly random words and places.
A 19th century bustle dress bought in Searsport a decade ago made national news last week, after a researcher decoded an old telegraph message found inside it.
When Sara Rivers Cofield bought a 19th-century dress at an antique store in Maine, she found more than she bargained for: a secret pocket with a coded note. It took internet sleuths years to solve the mystery.
An 19th century bustle dress bought in Searsport a decade ago made national news this week, after a researcher de-coded an old telegraph message found inside of it.