Say What?!: 116-Year-Old ‘Ghost Tracks’ Unearthed Following Pesky Coastal Storm

CAPE MAY, New Jersey – Mysterious World War I-era railroad tracks hidden in the Atlantic Ocean? It’s not quite the plot of a thriller novel, but rather an actual discovery found along a beach in Cape May, New Jersey, in the wake of a fierce coastal storm last week.

Liz Goldsmith was walking along the shores between Sunset and Higbee Beach last Tuesday when the ocean – fueled by the combination of the storm, coastal erosion, and the daily low tide – unearthed one of the area’s rarest finds. The tracks, which date back to the early 20th century, were seen in 2014 for the first time in over 80 years and have since been revealed by different weather events in subsequent years, including by a couple of big storms in 2018.

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