A beachgoer on the Jersey Shore came across a mysterious find — a row of iron-mounted seats that has now sparked some online speculation.
Matthew Jacob was walking along the beach in Margate last week when he found a rusty seat that he believed was from a lost or forgotten plane, according to a TikTok post that went viral.
“I think I just found an airplane seat washed up on the Jersey shore,” he wrote on the video, which had 1.3 million likes by Sunday afternoon.
“I’m not sure what it is,” Jacob, a local actor, told PEOPLE magazine. “I thought it was a tree branch at first. As I got closer, I realized I was looking at a seat. The closer I got, they looked like airplane seats.”
Speculation ran wild, with one commenter claiming, “I was on TWA flight 800 and remember sitting there” — a reference to the fatal 1996 crash off the coast of Long Island.
The discovery of a row of mysterious metal chairs along the Jersey Shore has sparked speculation online. @matthewjperry / Instagram
“Everyone says TWA flight 800 but I’m pretty sure it’s TZB 900,” wrote another commenter. “I’m holding this chair.”
Another suggested, “I’m pretty sure that’s from a 2011 Kia Soul.”
While the chair remains a mystery, Margate Police Chief Matthew Hankinson told NJ.com there is a more plausible explanation, noting that the chair, “is too heavy to have come from anything like an airplane.
“The chair was stripped down to metal with nothing left of the cushions, seat belts or buckles to indicate it came from a plane crash,” the city’s top cop told the outlet.
Matthew Jacob said he found a seat on a beach in Margate, NJ, and assumed it was from a downed plane. @matthewjperry / Instagram Some online posters speculate that the seats are from TWA 800, but police say they are more likely from an old train and dumped in the ocean off the coast of Long Island to create a man-made reef. AFP/Getty Images
“A detective did some further research and found that decommissioned train seats are usually stripped down to metal parts and taken out to look at and thrown away to help build fake tukuk,” he said.
He said the recent storm could cause the chair to break free from the reef.
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