- [Narrator] The world is a
strange and mysterious place, but depending on where you look, it can get a whole lot stranger. I mean, I was horrified to find a raisin in my chocolate chip cookie yesterday! But as odd as that was,
it's nothing compared to finding a piano on top of a mountain or watching a giant Lego
man wash up on a beach! With that said, let's take
a dive into some of the most bizarre discoveries found
in unexpected places. (upbeat music) The Hidden Hoard. When an ordinary Californian
couple went for a walk across their property back in 2013, they had no idea their lives
were about to change forever. They were taking their
dog out for a stroll when, all of a sudden, they
spotted something peculiar glinting on the ground. Curious, they began digging, probably thinking they'd
found an old dollar or two. But what they actually
uncovered was eight tin cans, filled to the brim with more
than 1,400 gleaming gold coins! Shocked, the couple gathered them up and went to get them evaluated. It turned out that the collection
of $5, $10, and $20 coins were minted between 1847 and
1894, meaning they were worth a staggering $10 million in today's money! I could buy so many cookies with that! It also made it the largest coin hoard ever found in the United States. But why was it in their backyard? And just who had tried to hide it? Well, some people believe
famous outlaw and robber Jesse James hid the stash
there after a successful heist back in the 1800's, but he never managed to retrieve his treasure. However, this legendary cowboy met his end in 1882, so those coins from 1894 couldn't have belonged to him. Others believe one wealthy
individual simply had an intense mistrust of the banks, and so decided to bury
his life savings instead! To this day, no-one knows for sure. But do you have any theories? Let me know down in the comments! Strange Sewer Creature. Next up, let's take a look at something that's really out of this world. Back in June, 2009 this video
was uploaded to YouTube, ominously titled "Unknown
Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer!" I don't know about you, but I've never seen
anything like it before! Understandably, the pulsing, slimy mass took the internet by storm. Was it an alien? Maybe an extra-terrestrial blob of goo coming to take over the world? Well, the sewer would have been a strange place to start if it was! Fortunately, it was only
a writhing mass of worms. Okay, still not great,
but definitely not alien! These are actually tubifex worms, which are a type of
worm related to the ones you find in your yard! Now, they usually inhabit the
bottom of lakes and rivers, feeding off the decaying organic matter that's abundant in that environment. Sometimes though, they
find their way into sewers which provide a similar
habitat and food source. But without any soil to cling to, they clump together into
one, huge colony instead. It's almost like a form of comfort, I guess even grotesque worms
need a hug every now and again! Though, if there's
thousands of worms here, why do they all pulse and
move like one giant lifeform? Well, the colony-wide contraction
seems to be in response to the heat from the light
being wiggled around it. Phew! Guess we won't be bowing
down to any slimy, pulsing alien overlords just yet then! The Bizarre Bosnian Sphere. Back in 2016, archaeologist Sam Osmanagich was digging through a
patch of Bosnian forest when he stumbled across a
startlingly spherical find! Towering 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide, this colossal stone ball was poking out of the
earth, but it was such an unnaturally round shape
that it captivated Osmanagich. Not only was its shape strange, but he estimated that
it weighed over 30 tons, for comparison, that's about the same as three large African elephants! Osmanagich, also known as
the "Bosnian Indiana Jones" I mean, just look at that
hat, asserted that the sphere must be evidence of a lost civilization, one forgotten by the history books. Other experts weren't so
sure, instead believing it to be a natural formation
called a concretion. Concretions happen when
water passes through soft, sedimentary rock, depositing minerals within the sediment as it does so. These minerals bind to the
rock and cause it to increase in both size and density. Over the years, this can lead
to huge spherical objects forming within the earth, many of which can be far
heavier than ordinary rock! This explanation makes a lot more sense, considering similar spherical concretions have been found all
over the world in places like New Zealand and even America! But I'd still like to
think the sphere is part of an elaborate trap set to
roll after old Bosnian Indie! An Unusual Place to Park. When you were a kid, did you
ever dig around in the backyard in the hope of discovering
some sort of lost treasure? I bet you dug up things like rocks and maybe a few old coins. But did you ever uncover
an entire Ferrari? It may sound insane, but back in 1978, a group of boys in Los
Angeles did just that! Concealed by a shallow layer
of earth, the metallic green roof of a Ferrari Dino 246 GTS
was hidden beneath the dirt. This was a sought-after car in the 1970s, and even today it sells
for about $60 to $90,000. But it hadn't been left
underground to rot! Rugs were lying on top of its roof and towels were stuffed inside the vents in an effort to preserve
the precious vehicle. So someone had clearly been planning to unearth it at some point. But incredibly, or suspiciously,
none of the neighbors claimed to have any idea how it got there! Once the car was completely dug up, the police ran some checks
and discovered the Ferrari had actually been stolen
four years before! Unfortunately, from
there, the trail ran cold. But then, several years
later, it transpired that the original owner of
the car had hired thieves to steal it so he could
claim the insurance money! To complete the scam,
the thieves were supposed to destroy the car, but they
greedily decided to hide it and sell it later on. Except, these geniuses forgot
where they had buried it! If you ask me, they
deserved to be locked up for being that criminally dumb. Reckon you've got a better
memory than those thieves? Then don't forget to
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more of my amazing content, hit that subscribe button down below! Now, where were we. A Whole Lotta Lego. In 2007, workers at a drinks
stall on Zandvoort Beach in the Netherlands almost
dropped their glasses when they spotted an enormous,
eight-foot-tall Lego man floating in the sea. After fishing it out, they
discovered that the life-size Lego figure had the
mysteriously misspelled phrase "No Real Than You Are" written on its top. No one came forward to claim
the big plastic plaything, but that wasn't the end of the story. A year later, another lost
Lego man washed ashore Brighton Beach in the UK. And then in 2011, another creeped
up on Florida's coastline! Then in 2015, this giant
Lego figure showed up on the Danube River in Austria, bobbing along like the
world's weirdest sailboat! All four figures bore that
strangely spelled slogan "No Real Than You Are". But just where were the
giant yellow men coming from? And what did their cryptic message mean? A clue was eventually
discovered on the Lego figure that washed up in Florida,
which had the words "Ego Leonard" written on its back. Eventually, it came to light
that Ego Leonard was actually an art project created by
Dutch artist Leon Keer! The ever smiling, yellow faces
of his sea-faring creations were designed to surprise and delight the people who found them. As for that super strange
phrase "No real than you are" Keer has said that it means "Is your presence in this life
as real as I am in yours?" Although, despite this explanation, I'm still a little confused,
considering you might expect it to say, "no more real than you are". Is this misspelling
just an intentional way to get people talking? Let me know down in the comments below! Underwater Wonder. If you dunked your head into a lake, what would you expect to see down below? Rocks? Debris? Maybe a couple of super startled fish? Well, if you took a dive
into this body of water, you'd discover an underwater river! That's right, divers in the
Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, discovered this incredible
sight back in 2017 and named it Cenote
Angelita or Little Angel. "But how can a river be
underwater?" I hear you ask. Well, a cenote is a
deep sinkhole connected to subterranean underwater cave systems, which have been flooded
with salty ground water. Over time, these sinkholes become filled with fresh rainwater. When the freshwater from
above mixes with the saltwater from below, their different densities cause them to separate. This gives the effect of a body of water beneath a body of water! But the eerie, misty layer
where the two liquids meet, about 100 feet down,
is called a halocline. This is a thick cloud of hydrogen sulphide caused by the sudden change
of salinity in the water. Now, you may think it looks pretty, but it's actually incredibly toxic. So much so that if you
tried to breathe it in, there's a good chance you wouldn't even make
it back to the surface! Even so, the petrified trees
sticking out from the misty ground makes the whole
underwater landscape look like it's been
plucked out of a dream! Although that toxic gas
makes it more of a nightmare, if you ask me! A Super Safe Field. Now, if you had something really valuable, where might you put it? A safe seems like a, well, safe option. But I don't think I'd leave the safe in the middle of a field
though, like whoever did this! Back in 2020, in the small town
of Barre in Orleans County, New York, farmer Kirk
Mathes was out and about when he received a strange call. A huge, metal safe had been
found in one of his fields! What was even stranger was
that the safe had a note stuck to it, reading "If you can open
you can have what's inside". In the quiet town of Barre,
this caused quite a storm. Before long, a crowd of people
had arrived to try their luck at opening the mysterious locked box. A deputy even used a sledgehammer on it, hacking at the dial and
hinges, but to no avail. Everyone was left scratching their heads, with many residents wondering how the safe even got
there in the first place! It weighed around 600 pounds, so moving it without some sort of
machinery was impossible. This meant someone went to
all the trouble of laboriously loading it up onto a truck,
just to dump it in a field. Where's the logic in that? To this day, Mathes still has
no idea where it came from, or what's inside! To keep its strange secrets
safe, Mathes decided to hide the fortified find so that nobody breaks into his farm to try and open it. But this just makes me
want to crack it even more! What do you reckon could be in there? Money? Gold? Maybe nothing? What a troll maneuver that would be! Let me know what you
think it might be hiding down in the comments. High Notes. Littering is a classless
act, but if you ask me, littering in a place of
astounding natural beauty, like the peak of Scotland's
iconic Ben Nevis mountain, is downright criminal. Volunteers are often called
in to help clear up the mess of all these uncaring people. But one volunteer group was
left gobsmacked when they found an old piano dumped near
the summit back in 2006! It was missing its keyboard,
and had been battered by the weather, though otherwise
it was all in one piece. But why on earth had
someone transported it almost 4,413 feet up
the side of a mountain? The only clue to its origin
came from a biscuit wrapper lying underneath the
piano, dated December 1986. So, the instrument had been up
there for at least 20 years! Perhaps it had been
ditched there by a pianist who was anything but low key? Huh? Huh? Jokes aside, carting a piano
up a mountain more than three times the height of the
Empire State building, never mind playing it
in the freezing cold, should be near impossible. That is, unless your
name is Kenny Campbell. A former Highland Games
athlete, Campbell eventually came forward and revealed
he'd carried the 226 pound church organ up the mountain
on his back in 1971. It had all been in an effort to raise money for charity. Not only that, but when
Campbell got to the top, he played "Scotland the Brave"
to an audience of tourists, who all danced along to the tune. I guess this is what
people had to resort to in the years before portable speakers! Having a Ball in the Bahamas. Back in February 2021, a
woman was enjoying a scenic, and uneventful, stroll down
a beach in the Bahamas. But she suddenly stopped in
her tracks when she noticed a big, shiny metal sphere
poking out of the sand. It was heavy, almost 90 pounds all round, and more than she could manage on her own. Curious, she enlisted the
help of some people nearby and began digging around
the strange object. As more and more of the massive
metal sphere was unearthed, the impromptu archeologists
discovered a list of Russian text engraved
into its metal surface. They couldn't make out much,
but it had some numbers marked onto the side,
indicating that its operating temperature was a frosty
-274 degrees Fahrenheit. This was, worryingly, far cooler than the
blazing hot Bahama beach! Luckily, nothing exploded, so
it definitely wasn't a bomb. I guess that put them one
step closer to figuring out what this bizarre ball was! After reaching out for help
to identify the freaky find, Mark Marabito, a Chairman
of Virgin Galactic, revealed it was actually a hydrazine tank from a Russian rocket. Hydrazine is used as fuel
to propel unmanned craft and satellites into
space, but occasionally, these parts can fall back down to Earth. Usually, operators aim to
de-orbit ship parts safely into the spacecraft cemetery,
which is a very cool name for this part of The South Pacific Ocean. But sometimes the rocket
parts can land elsewhere, like the Bahamas! I suppose this is fine, just as long as none of them land on me! Cursed Cash. In 2011, 51-year-old
Illinois resident Wayne Sabaj was tending to his yard
when he discovered something unsightly lurking between his plants. It wasn't a weed, or an unwelcome visitor, but a big, bulky nylon bag. Curious, he peaked inside, and
discovered a shocking stack of cold, hard cash worth
a whopping $150,000. Like any decent citizen,
Sabaj turned the cash in to the police and was told
that if nobody claimed it by the end of 2012, he could have it all. Time went by, but eventually
his elderly neighbor, Dolores, suspiciously claimed the
cash belonged to her. She originally stated that
she'd gotten rid of it because it was "cursed",
but before she could claim any of the money back,
she strangely passed away. Sabaj was sure he would get the cash now, not thinking that any of
this curse nonsense was real. But a mere 10 days before he
was set to collect his prize, a freak diabetic problem
flared up and, you guessed it, Sabaj passed away as well. To make matters worse, Sabaj's father, upon hearing of his son's
fate, suffered a heart attack! Luckily, he escaped the clutches
of the curse and survived. To make everything fair, the
mysterious money was split equally between Sabaj's
father and Dolores's daughter, so at least something good came of it all. Curse or not, it's a very
strange set of events. I'm not sure I'd even want
the money after all that! Weird Witch Bottle. Back in 2019, contractors
repairing the roof of a former pub in Watford, England, didn't know how to react when they found a very strange bottle stuffed
up the building's chimney. At first, it appeared that
someone had stuck a liquor bottle from behind the bar up the smokestack. But on closer inspection,
they found that it contained fishhooks, shards of glass, human teeth, and a suspicious looking liquid. I bet they were thankful they
didn't accidentally smash it! But what was it doing up there? Was it one seriously bad cocktail? Or maybe a really weird
offering to the tooth fairy? Well, it turned out that
bottles like this were actually popular anti-witchcraft
charms used in the 1600s; a time when witches were feared
across Europe and the US. But oddly enough, this
bottle wasn't manufactured until the 1830s, suggesting
the former occupants practiced anti-witchcraft
far longer than most. Interestingly, the building
itself was also the birthplace of semi-legendary witch
Angeline Tubbs, yikes! Perhaps the occupants knew this, and just wanted to make
sure she never came back! Mega Monopoly. Decorating a new home can be pretty fun, especially if it involves
a little destruction, like tearing off wallpaper
or ripping up carpets. So, imagine the excitement
the owners of this house must have felt when they
found this huge Monopoly board underneath the rug in their living room. Reddit user Yamaha234
posted this incredible find after their in-laws pulled up the carpet to renovate their room. They were greeted with the giant game and wondered whether anyone
else had seen anything like it! One user commented that there
was an entire neighborhood near them with rooms just like this, with giant board games
painted across their floors. I'm imagining a neighborhood of boardgame-loving giants right now! The same user suggested
the oversized games were a selling point for the houses. That could be true, but I'm just annoyed no giant
Monopoly cash was found! Mystical Monoliths. In 2020, while on a journey
to survey bighorn sheep in the deserts of Utah, a
helicopter crew spotted something that was about as far
from a sheep as it gets. A 10-foot tall, shiny metallic structure stood dominating the
otherwise natural landscape. The crew were dumbfounded, and
before long the unexplained structure had taken the world by storm, appearing in news stories everywhere. Where had it come from? And who, or what, had put it there? To make things even more mysterious, the structure disappeared 9 days later, and over 200 similar monoliths,
as they've been dubbed, have appeared around the world since. Argh! Why do aliens always
have to be so cryptic? Well, it turns out that this wasn't the work of aliens after all. An artist collective, confusingly called The Most Famous Artist, claimed credit for most of the monoliths. Although, they didn't have anything to do with the disappearance
of the OG Utah monolith. After months of uncertainty,
it turned out that a random group of guys took it down and donated it to the Utah Bureau of Land Management. Why? Because they thought
it was an eyesore. What do you think? Did the monolith brighten
up the landscape of Utah or was it a blight on the
otherwise natural scenery? Let me know down in the comments. Abandoned Cash Bags. If you were driving along,
minding your own business when, all of a sudden,
your car hit a trash bag, would you keep on driving, or pick it up and dispose
of it responsibly? Personally, I'd just keep on driving. And in doing so, I might have missed out on one of the biggest pay days of my life. You see, one family of Good
Samaritans were driving across Virginia back in 2020
when they hit a trash bag. They stopped the car and picked it up, before noticing another bag lay in a ditch to the side of the road. Thinking this was the
work of some litter lout, they picked up both bags and threw them in the back of their truck. It wasn't until they got
home and were about to toss the bags into the
garbage that they noticed something that looked like mail inside. Confused, they opened the bags up, and received the shock of a lifetime. The garbage sacks were filled to bursting with cold, hard cash! One million dollars' worth
of cash to be precise! Not only that, but the
notes were held in baggies with the words "Cash Vault" on them. Was this the work of some
seriously lousy criminals? If it was, the family could
claim the money as their own, and no-one would ever be the wiser. But like the good Samaritans they were, they handed the million
dollars over to the police. It turned out the cash
had been lost in transport and was soon returned to the Unites States Postal service where it belonged. I don't know about you, but that family are better people than I ever will be! Catacomb Creepers. If you're scared of dark, enclosed spaces filled with skeletons, then you might want to cover your ears, and
eyes, right about now. The catacombs of Paris are
a huge, gruesome network of cavities and corridors,
filled to the brim with the bones of 6 million people. They were built as a
way to tackle the city's overflowing cemeteries back
in 1700's, but more recently, something peculiar was discovered
hiding amidst the remains. Back in 2004, a group of French police were on a training exercise
inside these creepy catacombs. After reaching the end of one
of the bone-filled passages, they found a tarpaulin
blocking their way with a sign that read "Building site, no access". Like any good horror
movie, they, of course, ignored the sign and
headed straight through. But what was beyond, they
never could have guessed. A camera had been set up
to take pictures of anyone who passed, and a tape
was playing the sounds of dogs barking in an attempt
to scare away intruders. Further along, the tunnel opened into a huge cavern
housing a cinema screen? Electricity powered the screen, lights, a phone line and even a
bar in a smaller side cave. Baffled beyond belief, the
police took off to enlist help. But when they returned three days later, the electricity and
phone lines had been cut, and the place had been
thoroughly abandoned. All that was left, in
the middle of the floor, was a single note which ominously read "Do not try and find us". Yeah, you wouldn't need to tell me twice! To make it even creepier,
an anonymous individual from an art collective called
The Perforating Mexicans called into a French radio
network and warned everyone that the catacomb cinema belonged to them. Not only that, but they also
claimed there were dozens more out there that were yet to be discovered. As much as an underground
cinema with that much atmosphere sounds kind of fun, I think
I'd rather watch my movies with more popcorn and less skulls. After hearing about all
those unexpected discoveries, which one did you think was the strangest? And have you ever found
anything so bizarre that you reckon it belongs on this list? Let me know in the comments
below and thanks for watching!
