This is the first in a series.

If you mention “March Storm” to most longtime Ocean County residents, you get stories of 1962, of bay meeting ocean, a beached destroyer, dangerous rescues and washed-away houses. But there was another March storm that has faded into history.

That would be the storm of March 1973, which should also be remembered, for the high death count and the mystery it triggered..

The Mariners Weather Logbook read at the time “Monster of the month, this Superstorm had its beginnings in that incubator of…