It's a shocking sight: a two-story house floating away from shore on the ocean's current. But for residents of Rodanthe, in North Carolina's Outer Banks, it's not the first time they've seen it.

Video of the house floating away into the Atlantic Ocean went viral, shared by news outlets across the nation. The ...

Images and videos posted by the Cape Hatteras National Seashore showed one of the homes being battered by waves before another video showed the same home floating in the ocean a short time after.