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A vacant beach house built on stilts has collapsed into the sea off the coast of North Carolina. The impact was so severe that it inflicted structural damage on a neighbouring house which crashed into ...

A house built on stilts dramatically collapsed into the sea in North Carolina. Footage captured by Brian Wharton shows the beachfront, two-storey, wood-shingled home already down in the surf on the ...