Salty Brine Beach Blast
"There was a massive bang and I seen the actual rocks shift and move," one witness told WPRI. "And I started screaming, 'Get up, get up!' The same time I'm screaming, the sand erupted, threw my sister from there, like a live canon, face-down, unconscious 10 feet away."
Salty Brine Beach Blast
Of course, this caught the attention of conspiracy theorists. Some theorized that explosives were hidden underneath the sand. According to the Providence Journal, hydrogen from the corrosion of copper cable likely caused the Salty Brine blast.