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Storms

Oct 9, 2025

Why Are SO MANY Outer Banks houses collapsing into the ocean?

Nine homes have been taken out by the Atlantic Ocean in just the last few weeks? Why so many? Why now? We asked a longtime Outer Banks journalist for some answers.

Jeremy Markovich

The complete story of the time a monster truck drove across the Currituck Sound

Independence Day

Jul 4, 2024

The complete story of the time a monster truck drove across the Currituck Sound

In 1994, someone asked if Dennis Anderson could bring Grave Digger to a July 4th celebration on the Outer Banks. Dennis said he could drive it there. Over the water. The rest is history.

Jeremy Markovich

Birthdays

Nov 30, 2023

Happy 3rd Birthday to this Newsletter, the Outer Banks Beach Doritos of the Internet

In 2006, a shipping container fell off of a vessel and washed thousands of bags of nacho chips ashore along Hatteras Island. Also, this newsletter is beginning its fourth year of existence.

Jeremy Markovich

North Carolina's unkillable 41-year-old license plate

Raleigh

Sep 28, 2023

North Carolina's unkillable 41-year-old license plate

"First in Flight" has been this state's standard license plate since 1982. It replaced a controversial slogan and came from a different era, when it was okay to clown on the Wright Brothers.

Jeremy Markovich

A bear took a vacation to the Outer Banks. Fake pictures of it were more popular than real ones.

Photoshop

Jun 22, 2023

A bear took a vacation to the Outer Banks. Fake pictures of it were more popular than real ones.

A handful of people saw a bear walking around Nags Head. Thousands of people saw the pictures. They were almost too good to be true, because they WERE too good to be true.

Jeremy Markovich

Outer Banks

Why Are SO MANY Outer Banks houses collapsing into the ocean?

The complete story of the time a monster truck drove across the Currituck Sound

Happy 3rd Birthday to this Newsletter, the Outer Banks Beach Doritos of the Internet

North Carolina's unkillable 41-year-old license plate

A bear took a vacation to the Outer Banks. Fake pictures of it were more popular than real ones.

North Carolina Rabbit Hole