Woman captures video of floating cabin in winter storm: ‘I was shocked’

OWLS HEAD, Maine (WABI/Gray News) - A resident of Owls Head, Maine, was shocked when she saw a house came to shore Wednesday.

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Cristina Alden said.

Alden captured the wild video Wednesday morning as a camp went floating by during the storm.

According to Alden, the camp has been on a tiny island near the beach for decades.

Alden added that her family’s home has been there for more than 40 years. She said she’d never seen a storm as powerful and couldn’t believe it when she saw the floating cabin out her window.

“And I looked out and it was raining so hard, I thought it was a boat that had slipped its mooring,” Alden described. “And I went out and saw that it was that little cabin and couldn’t believe it, so I started filming. I was shocked! I couldn’t believe it because that little cottage, it’s in the middle of the island. It’s not a big island and it landed in one piece right on somebody’s lawn. I never know when I look out this window what I’m going to see, but I never expected to see a house floating by.”

Alden’s video has been shared thousands of times.

She said she hopes the family can get the cabin back on the island.

Alden is an author and said this just might be an inspiration for her next book.