Austin Contegiacomo was playing catch with his Sheepadoodle on the cold beach near Margate last month when his dog abandoned the game and began sniffing around. There, lodged in the sand at the high tide line, were nearly a dozen sealed bottles of whiskey, embossed with “Lincoln Inn” and a detailed depiction of a man riding a horse.

The Canadian-branded booze was discovered in February, prompting speculation about how it wound up at the Jersey Shore.

Austin Contegiacomo, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, was walking his sheepadoodle, Koda, near the Margate fishing pier when the dog began to paw at something in the sand. When Contegiacomo took a closer look, he realized Koda had found eleven sealed bottles of whiskey.

Nearly a dozen perfectly sealed whiskey bottles dating back to Prohibition times were found by Austin Contegiacomo while walking his dog along the beach in New Jersey.

A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer and his dog stumbled across something unexpected on a New Jersey beach last month: nearly a dozen rare and mysterious bottles of whiskey.