15 Strangest Things Washed Up on Beaches!

beaches are supposed to be home to fun times parties with friends and good vibes but sometimes the ocean has different plans okay sometimes the washing of the waves likes to throw up unexpected things from the waters deaths on to the sands shaking up the good times get ready to see possible evidence of some of the oddest these are the 15 strangest things washed up on beaches number 15 Megalodon shark sharks washing up on beaches both dead and alive is not all that uncommon in fact neither are shark attacks with around 100 reported every year but what's perhaps quite unique in this case is that the sharks that washed up on an Australian beach looks nothing like other sharks in the area what's going on this footage makes the list for the 15 strangest things washed up on beaches because the shark in the video looks more like the supposedly extinct Megalodon shark a relative of the great white than it does any other is there a chance this species could still be hidden in the dark depths of the ocean today not at all extinct like we've been led to believe the shark was seen dead floating in the shallow waters of an Australian beach and it was enormous its size looked more in line with the average 55 foot length of a Megalodon rather than the smaller great white or mako shark megalodons lived anywhere between 2.6 million and 16 million years ago with sea temperature changes thought to wipe them out over time their teeth were up to 7 inches long and they had 10 times the mass of the largest great white shark there haven't been any proven sightings of the Megalodon in modern times but there's a first time for everything before we go on we have a cool challenge for you all it'll take about five seconds to complete let's make a deal just leave a like on this video smash that subscribe button and hit the notification bell and you will get 10 years of amazing luck and fortune try it it actually works now it's time for the odd topic Andre Vincent is studying marine biology and one of the largest universities in Britain and boy does he have a story to tell when searching through the drawers in his professors desk innocently looking for a phone that had been confiscated earlier that day when Andre had been caught texting in class the young students stumbled upon this photo with no context he knew that if he asked his professor he would be reprimanded so instead he posted it online asking the world if they knew what was going on in it it shows a man a pretty intense looking hazmat suit nervously approaching a colossal creature unlike anything we've ever seen lots of people have called the photo of fake but Vincent claims he really didn't find it so if it is a fake why does a professor of marine biology keep it tucked away in his drawer or is it real and does that professor know something we don't remember to comment down below with the hashtag odd topic and let us know your opinion in relation to what we just showed on screen and now to the next topic number 14 giant tree there are a few things as random as of casual walk on the beach being interrupted by a giant tree but that was the case for the community of La Push in Washington the township is no stranger to large towering trees but they typically form part of the landscape and you know in an upright position however after high tides and strong winds residents of La Push were puzzled to find not only driftwood all over their local beach but the largest tree they had ever seen lying on the sands a retired school teacher by the name of Philip Lachman photographed the giant drift log in 2010 with his six foot tall daughter standing beside him she looked tiny standing in front of it with the tree's trunk at least three-quarters of her height above her while Philip didn't take measurements trees that grow in the area are often up to 200 feet tall and up to 10 feet in diameter the most common trees in the area of which this drift log might be our Western redcedar Sitka spruce and fir given the size and scale of the tree it sure makes you wonder about the wind and tidal power it took to bring to the shore in the first place number 13 Civil War cannonballs to the untrained eye this pile of debris on a Charleston beach in South Carolina would just be thought of as trash it would be cleared away without a second thought and no one would be any the wiser but former Folly Beach Mayor Richard bet who knew a bit about the Civil War quickly realized the trash was anything but instead it was 16 rusted cannonballs that posed a potential risk to beachgoers even if it lay half submerged in sandé hurricane Matthew hit the southern United States with full force in 2016 people lost their lives homes were flooded and the damage and destruction went on for miles but during the chaos and utter devastation of homes the beaches were thrown into disarray as well and the cannonballs were unearthed from their Sandy tomb beneath Richard Beck realized they were cannonballs even than their decayed state when he noticed the hole in one of them Richard knew the fuses of cannonballs went into those holes which allowed them to explode he called the Charleston County Sheriff's Office bomb squad who with the help of the air force explosive ordnance team detonated them in a controlled setting but finding cannonballs as strange as it is anywhere else is pretty standard in the southern parts of the United States the beach where the cannonballs were found was where Union troops got ready to storm Fort Morris the area also has a lot of history with Civil War conflicts which means it's a hot spot for relic hunters looking to retain their own unique part of American history number 12 huge Lego men very few children in the Western world would have had a childhood without Lego crafting new worlds out of plastic pieces is a favorite pastime for many but if you're gonna find Lego it's generally in boxes under kids beds or stored away in attics basements and garages not super sized and on beaches around the world that's what makes this fine so mysterious eight foot tall lego men have been washing up on beaches all over the world and people are both confused and a bit spooked the giant lego man which has ego Leonard painted on the back and no real than you are on the front has been a sporadic figure in the news since 2007 he washed up on a beach in Brighton and then again in the Netherlands with the number 8 on his back that number made people believe that ego Leonard the lego man could be one of many and they would be right he was also spotted on a beach in Japan and more recently in Siesta Key Florida how many lego men could there be out there research into ego Leonard on the internet brings up information that describes the creator or creation as one from a virtual world a website with further details says my name is ego Leonard and according to you I come from the virtual world a world that for me represents happiness solidarity all green and blossoming with no rules or limitations with no apparent connection to the giant Lego men this find remains one of the strangest to wash up on beaches number 11 deadly German u-boat in 1918 approximately 175 miles from Cape Vilano in Spain a German u-boat launched a torpedo that sunk a British steamer known as Wellington 40 miles from Tory Island another torpedo was launched which took down the arc of the British tanker this submarine was on a mission to bring down the British but it was cut short by the Imperial German Navy's surrender later that same year the submarine may have done some real damage but it was now of no use to anyone it was decided at that point that the u-boat would be dragged to France and used for scrap however in April 2019 the dragging hawser broke off in a storm in the English Channel the submarine ran aground on the beaches of Hastings Sussex smack-bang in front of the Queens Hotel locals and the military tried every idea and method under the Sun to move the submarine back into the water to be dragged away they tried tractors vehicles even a French destroyer to shoot it apart so it would be easier to move nothing worked given how close it was to the public blowing it up wasn't an option while the various options were pondered the u-boat became a tourist attraction the town clerk charged people to climb the deck and the money raised around 300 pounds was used to hold an event for soldiers returning from war however chief boatman William Hurd and chief officer W Moore who conducted the tours suddenly came down ill with what was thought to be food poisoning and the tours were stopped when their conditions worsened lethal gas leaking from the submarines battery cells was thought to have created abscesses on their brains and lungs both men lost their lives the novelty was starting to wear off and people wanted the boat gone eventually it was broken up and sold for scrap and the deck gun was gifted to the town however deterioration caused its removal in 1921 the last piece of evidence of a giant submarine on a random public beach numbered said baby gray piano have you ever threatened to throw your neighbors musical instrument from the nearest great height just to get some much-needed peace and quiet in most cases it's a threat but has someone finally followed through someone walking along the Manhattan side of the East River came across a baby grand piano underneath the Brooklyn Bridge out of all places to find a piano this is possibly one of the more absurd ones some people were quick to call it a viral marketing campaign but for what purpose others think it could be art or a quick disposal to save money on landfill fees whatever the reason it quickly went viral it appeared all over social media and people visited in their dozens to photograph it and even try and play it strangely enough this baby grand piano is not the only one to wash up on a beach it turns out that two people don't like their neighbors play a noisy instruments at night a second burned piano was found in Biscayne Bay in Miami Florida a few years before number 9 humongous pipes those looking to achieve that sunkissed look on British beaches were in for the shock of their lives in 2017 instead of finding sun sand and sea creatures they were graced with four giant plastic pipes measuring between 656 and 1575 feet long according to the maritime and Coastguard Agency in the UK the large plastic tubes were bored estin for a significant project in Algeria they were being towed but came loose and ended up on the North Norfolk coast at ecklie's on sea sea falling and horsey ate other pipes also became loose bud were contained in the water a recovery operation was immediately underway with the pipes being refloated and returned to their norwegian manufacturers while they were large and unsightly they didn't pose a pollution threat number eight ancient Megalodon tooth there's been a possible sighting of an entire Megalodon washing up on an Australian beach but there's also been another discovery of a single Megalodon tooth as well a shark mad seven year old boy had been out searching for shark teeth on Myrtle Beach in South Carolina something his family did while vacationing in the area every year Foster Frazier knew he had come across something special when he washed the object off in the water what first looked like a rock was now clearly a giant tooth regular shark teeth are up to four inches long but a megalodons could be over five inches according to Foster's mom he was the perfect kid to find the tooth he reads lots of books about him where shark themed clothing and had even said that he would one day love to find the tooth of a Megalodon that day in 2016 was his lucky one the tooth is millions of years old and is now on display in Peoria Illinois at the riverfront museum number seven snowballs most children who grew up with white Christmases will be familiar with the snowman building process you cups some snow in your little mittened hands form a ball then gently push it along the ground until it gathers up more snow before you know it you've got three round balls ready to stack on top of each other for the perfect snowman this very process is what caused thousands of natural snowballs to end up in Northwest Siberia in the Gulf of AAB strange but very cool around 11 miles of the coastline was covered with snowy and icy balls up to 3 feet in diameter they started as small shards of ice with wind and water causing them to roll into giant snowballs locals from the nearby village of Nita above the Arctic Circle were stunned with what they were seeing as it's a rare and almost unheard-of environmental process however Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute press secretary Sergei listen cough said it's a natural process to form balls like these sludge or Slav ice has to form then the right kind of wind and temperature conditions to cause it to roll the deconstructed snowmen remain one of the strangest and rarest things to wash up on the beach number six San Francisco tombstones cities can grow at rapid unprecedented paces which can often mean some pretty drastic changes to accommodate newcomers a prime example of how drastic those changes is is the relocation of cemeteries throughout the central parts of San Francisco in the 1920s and 30s many central city cemeteries were relocated to make way for shopping centers housing developments and more the remains were relocated to other cemeteries at no cost to the families however if families wanted to remove a headstone they had to pay for it themselves most chose not to and thousands of tombstones were recycled for city projects one of which was shoring the Ocean Beach seawall now when strong winds shift sands it's not uncommon for random tombstones to become unearthed along the shoreline to an outsider it's a strange phenomenon but not if you understand the story behind it in 2014 many people were alarmed to discover that several tombstones had been uncovered on the beach some fully intact a San Francisco historian said it has happened before and will happen again the sands cover them up unearth them and the tombstones make the news once more how soon we forget he said so it's not a mystery but it's still pretty weird number 580 million year old dinosaur thigh bone imagine a world where dinosaurs roamed Washington sounds crazy right but 80 million years ago it was reality scientists had been looking for marine invertebrates and fossilized animals in the San Juan Islands not far from Seattle when they stumbled across a fossilized bone in a marine rock in 2012 they immediately got in touch with the University of Washington paleontologists and a team was sent out to excavate the fossil given the hardness of the rock the process took a full day and another 18 months to prepare it for analysis scientists weren't even sure what they had so the long slow process could have all been for nothing however when they were eventually able to turn the bone over they realized it was a thigh bone from a meat-eating theropod dinosaur such as a t-rex given the location of the bone scientists believe the dinosaur died near the sea was thrown around in the waves and finally settled among the clams number four giant eyeball it's not every day you come across a fish lying on a beach so it's certainly even less common to come across a large body part from one a beach Comber was roaming Florida's Pompano Beach when he stumbled across a giant eyeball it unmistakeably in eyeball but from what creature no one knew he promptly handed over the eye to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission who then sent it on to the st. Petersburg Fish & Wildlife Research Institute in Florida genetic testing would uncover from which critter this I cave Carlie Eagleson a spokesperson for the institution said a large fish such as a tuna or swordfish was the most likely culprit the bone around the eye ruled out a squid if it did come from a fish it's likely to be one that's far larger than most people have ever seen before number three world war two love letters like a plot from a romantic war movie love letters were found washed up on a beach in New Jersey by a fourteen-year-old boy after Hurricane sandy in 2012 the boy Patrick and his mom Kathleen Chaney were walking along the beach when Patrick spotted a box tied with a ribbon in the Box 4:57 love letters between Dorothy Fallon and Lynn Farnham between 1942 and 1945 the letters in front of the fireplace and started on a mission to track down the rightful owners the home at the return address had been torn down and an ad posted online revealed no results however when Kathleen visited findagrave.com she found a listing for Lynn Farnum who had passed away in 1991 Kathleen made an inquiry and the love-letter couple's niece got in touch Dorothy was living in a senior high-rise in poor health and the letters must have floated down the shrewsbury river to get to their location however there were no living relatives in that area and Dorothy's niece had no idea who would have had the letters while mystery surrounds where they came from they are now reunited with their rightful owner number two a live Bob the buoy washed up on a beach is nothing to write home about that happens all the time but when that buoy turns out to be a live bomb that's when things get interesting a family had been picnicking at Barry port in Wales when their two young children noticed something washing up on the beach it was a round metal ball with barnacles on it and they thought nothing of it the kids investigated it had their photo taken with it and carried on with their picnic however when Pembry County Park officials announced that the buoy on the beach was a United States military mine bomb the family was shocked someone who had seen their family photo online alerted them to the discovery the bomb was thought to date back to World War two and had been called in to the bomb squad by a Coast Guard who noticed writing on it once the barnacle started to fall away the beach was evacuated and the bomb was detonated in a controlled setting number one Garfield phones for close to four decades locals and France around the Eros coast of brittany have been dealing with pieces of orange plastic washing up on their beaches all parts have a common theme they all come from the 1980s Garfield phones which were all the rage at the time however they are not all the rage now and locals were starting to grow weary of the plastic contamination where was it coming from why did it carried on for nearly 40 years many people had an inkling that the phones were coming from a shipwrecked or lost shipping container but until one was found no one would know for sure the mystery dragged on for all those years but was then solved in 2019 after an anti litter marketing campaign surrounding the plastic attracted the attention of a farmer he was able to pinpoint where he had seen one of the phones in a storm in the 1980s journalists were then able to discover a shipping container in a sea cave that was only accessible at low tide given the containers location and how its buried underneath rocks it will never be able to be removed therefore Garfield phone fragments will probably always wash up on the beach a harsh reminder of how long plastic lasts and how much damage it can genuinely do next time you go to the beach you'll surely not want to leave home without a metal detector and a camera there are some crazy things out there waiting to be discovered what weird things have you found on beaches also check out our other cool stuff showing up on screen right now see you next time [Music]

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Length: 20min 16sec (1216 seconds)

Published: Sun May 03 2020