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Originally Posted by Wanderer
Could someone remind me of any details about when and how the first two bottle-stories were found?
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The endroll of EP1 said that the one message bottle that we knew of back then was found "several years later" (数年後), by a fisherman at the wharf of a neighbouring island. Professor Ôtsuki in EP4 confirms this and says it was a young fisherman who suspected the message to be worth something. This was because in 1987 items from Rokkenjima had become quite valuable after Eva had sold Kinzô's collection of occult scriptures and books from Kuwadorian at an auction. Which was also the first point when Rokkenjima actually became known as "the occult island". Also Ôtsuki said that the Seikimatsu paranoia had already started and was part of the reason why the occult island idea became that popular, which implies that it was probably something around '92 when the message bottle turned up.
The second message bottle we learn of from Ôtsuki in EP4 turned out to have been found during a police search in the nearby waters of Rokkenjima on the day the tragedy occured. The police also released a report that due to the state of the crime scene and the state of how the bottle was sealed a forgery is highly unlikely and that it is likely to have been dispatched within some very few days almost right before the incident.
Also the handwriting in both of these messages was proven to be identical, therefore the first one was handled as a legitimate piece as well.
It was also said by experts that the content of the messages was that detailed on Rokkenjima and it's inhabitants, that it must have been written by an insider.