EXCLUSIVE: Teen girls recall Jersey Shore ride malfunction that left them stuck hanging upside down

FIRST ON FOX: Early past month, connected the time aft the Fourth of July, much than a twelve radical recovered themselves trapped upside down connected a malfunctioning thrust on the boardwalk successful Ocean City, New Jersey.

Charlotte Hacker and Emilia Gordon, some 13, were among the passengers connected the Wipe Out thrust astatine Playland's Castaway Cove erstwhile it got stuck that evening.

The 2 friends were interviewed with their parents' permission, recounting to Fox News Digital the terrifying acquisition of dangling midair with nary thought of erstwhile they would travel down.

"We were stuck upside down for 5 to 7 minutes, and it doesn't look similar that overmuch to the radical that were down watching us, but we were up there, and it felt similar an hour," Hacker said connected Saturday.

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The girls went to the boardwalk to observe Gordon’s 13th birthday, which was the pursuing day. They said they often thrust the attractions determination and decided to effort the Wipe Out due to the fact that it was new.

The thrust swings similar a pendulum, repeatedly turning thrill-seekers upside down portion its rider compartment spins. Only this time, the thrust inexplicably stopped with everyone suspended upside down.

"I earnestly thought I was going to walk out," Gordon said. "You effort to enactment your caput up, but you virtually can't. You tin hardly get it up astatine all."

The girls, seated adjacent to each other, tried to transportation connected mundane conversations to distract themselves portion humor rushed to their heads.

Visitors bask an evening connected the Ocean City Boardwalk successful Ocean City, New Jersey. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Image)

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"I retrieve reasoning that the thigh bars were going to unfastened and that we were conscionable going to fall," Gordon said.

Family members connected the crushed waiting for their kids to get disconnected the thrust were terrified arsenic well, the girls said.

"My uncle was determination too, due to the fact that we were each with my cousins, truthful helium was besides freaking out," Hacker said.

Eventually, the ride's operators managed to get it moving again, but to the girls' dismay, it kept connected going. Once the thrust finished, they said they weren't fto disconnected for different fewer minutes.

It is unclear what caused the evident malfunction, and if immoderate injuries were reported.

People locomotion past the tract of the erstwhile Gillian's Wonderland Pier connected the boardwalk connected July 28, 2025 successful Ocean City, New Jersey. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

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Hacker said the thrust did not close, adding that determination were immoderate radical who stayed successful enactment and rode it aft they got off.

"When we came off, radical were virtually clapping," Gordon said.

The amusement parkland offered summons refunds to the girls, which they didn't deliberation was capable aft what they went through.

"That thrust is 5 tickets, truthful they conscionable gave backmost our summons but [Hacker] lone got 3 back. I got five. But still, aft each that, I consciousness similar you expect more," Gordon said.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Ocean City Fire Department, Ocean City Police Department, the ride's relation and the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs for comment.