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The Mystery Ships of Hurricane Irma Are Washing Up on Florida’s Coast

By George Day · On December 14, 2017

The aftermath of this year’s devastating hurricane season seems to go on and on. Now this.

The day after Hurricane Irma hit Florida, Randy Lathrop jumped on his bike at first light to assess the damage.  He soon spotted something exceedingly peculiar. The 62-year-old photographer from Cocoa, Fla., was pedaling along Indian River Drive under swirling clouds, he says, when he saw a rough wooden object resembling a canoe.

He took a photograph and texted it to an archaeologist friend, writing “WTF!!!!” His friend replied that it looked like an ancient dugout. Read more.

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