Lincoln Inn whiskey was distilled in Canada and may have been one of the companies that later became Seagrams, although it’s not entirely clear. But how the whisky bottles ended up in the sand is a mystery. Contegiacomo suggested they may have been sucked up by dredging machines off the coast and deposited on the beach.

A New Jersey resident found nearly a dozen suspected Prohibition-era glass whiskey bottles washed up on a New Jersey beach.