It's common for the Jaws theme music to haunt you while swimming, it's more of a rarity when strolling down the beach.
But, while walking along the beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, photographer Amie Medeiros stumbled across a chilling sight.
Local photographer Amie Medeiros captured a picture of the shark on Saturday afternoon, lying sideways while preserved in the ice around it.
"It was startling, this frozen giant looking bloody and helpless,. "His razor teeth were incredibly intimidating up close."
Local photographer Amie Medeiros captured the creature in an Instagram post.
A local aquarium scientist went to find the shark days later and said people had taken parts of it.
A porbeagle shark — a species known for living in colder waters — turned up frozen on a Cape Cod beach following a polar vortex that swept through Northeastern states.
Medeiros posted the photo with a passage from writer Haruki Murakami's book "Blind Woman, Sleeping Willow."
"Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way - cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays."