Why is a house floating across the San Francisco Bay?
Mystery surrounds a two-story house that has been seen floating on the San Francisco Bay for at least three days.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Mystery surrounds a two-story house that has been seen floating on the San Francisco Bay for at least three days.
Crowds were gathering along the waterfront at San Francisco's Exploratorium to watch the solar eclipse on Monday when another unusual sight appeared: a big wooden house in the middle of the bay. The buoyant home navigated its way around Alcatraz Island with help from a slow tow boat.
Nexstar's KRON tracked the house down on Tuesday and confirmed it is now anchored in Richardson Bay, north of San Francisco offshore from Sausalito. U.S. Coast Guard officials said the house was able to float around the bay because it's on a barge.
The houseboat began its voyage somewhere south of the San Francisco Bay, the Coast Guard confirmed. It's unclear who owns the home, how long it will remain anchored on the bay, nor where its final destination will be.