A homeless man on the Jersey Shore stumbled upon a mysterious find: a row of attached metal seats that has now sparked high-level speculation online.
Matthew Jacob was walking on the beach in Margate last week when he found rusty seats that he believes are from a lost or forgotten plane, according to his viral TikTok post.
“I think I just found plane seats washed up on the Jersey shore,” he wrote in the video, which had garnered 1.3 million likes by Sunday afternoon.
“I wasn’t sure what it was,” Jacob, a local actor, told PEOPLE magazine.
“At first I thought it was a tree branch. As I got closer I realized she was looking at the seats. The closer I got, they looked like airplane seats.”
Speculation ran wild, with one commenter claiming, “I was on flight TWA 800 and I remember sitting there,” a reference to the deadly 1996 crash off the coast of Long Island.
The discovery of a row of mysterious metal seats along the Jersey shore has sparked widespread speculation online. @matthewjperry / Instagram Matthew Jacob said he found the seats on the beach in Margate, New Jersey, and assumed they were from a downed airliner. @matthewjperry / Instagram
“Everyone says it’s TWA Flight 800, but I’m pretty sure it’s TZB 900,” another commenter wrote. “I executed these same seats.”
Another suggested: “I’m pretty sure it’s from a 2011 Kia Soul.”
While the seats remain a mystery, Margate Police Chief Matthew Hankinson told NJ.com there was a more reasonable explanation, noting that the seats “are too heavy to come from something like an airplane.
“The seats are stripped down to metal and there is nothing left of the cushions, seat belts or buckles to indicate they came from a plane crash,” the city’s top cop told the outlet.
Some online posters speculated that the seats were from TWA 800, but police say they were more likely from an old boxcar and were dumped into the ocean off the coast of Long Island to create an artificial reef. New York Post One commenter stated, “I was on TWA flight 800 and I remember sitting there,” referring to the fatal 1996 crash off the coast of Long Island. The New York Post
“A detective did a little more research and discovered that the seats from dismantled carriages are usually stripped down to the metal parts and taken out for viewing and thrown away to help build artificial reefs,” he said.
He said recent storms could have knocked down seats on a reef.
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