- [Narrator] Ah, lovely
stroll on the beach. Is there anything more idyllic? The sun shining, the waves lapping and the sea breeze blowing. Who doesn't like to be beside the seaside? But wait, what's that? A snowball? A monster? A human body part? Yeah, it turns out some
beaches have more on them than just shells, sunbathers
and ice cream trucks. You might just stumble across something far weirder on the shore. From funny to gruesome to totally insane. Here are the 10 strangest things ever found on a beach. - Amazing! - [Narrator] Number 10, George
Parker-Bidder's letters. Here's a little piece of history. In 2015, walkers on the
North Sea coast in Germany found a message in a bottle. Probably a kid having
fun nearby or something is what they thought. When they opened it, the
message inside was undated. So they weren't sure of its age. What they later discovered
that this bottle had actually been in the sea for an astonishing 108 years. It contained instructions
to send a postcard to the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth in England. So that's what they did. It turns out the bottle
was one of 1,000 released into the North Sea between 1904 and 1906 by scientist George Parker-Bidder, who was investigating tidal currents. Of course, George wasn't
there to add this result to his research in 2015. And he might have been a bit disappointed to hear it hadn't even made
it out of the North Sea in 108 years. A nice person in Plymouth still went to great lengths to honor the monetary reward promised though. They had to go on Ebay to
buy an old English shilling. Number nine: A giant eyeball. Number nine is way more gruesome. Get ready to cover your eyes, or so cover the eye on the screen. Someone strolling along a Florida beach in 2005 came in for quite a surprise when he looked down and saw
something staring back at him. A fish? No. A sunbather? Guess again. It was a huge eyeball,
the size of a softball. What would you do if
you found one of those? I'd probably pick it up and
scare my friends with it. Or maybe I'd just run away. Luckily the man who found the eyeball was brave enough to
take it to researchers. After much deliberation, the scientists came to an agreement that this was the eye of a giant swordfish. Now a beach ball, a tennis
ball, or a screwball ice cream, I'd be happy to see any
of those on the beach. But a swordfish's eyeball,
now that's just creepy. Number eight: Doritos. So you've heard of a beached whale but I bet you've never
heard of a beached snack. Our seas are way more full
of things than just fish. On top of our ocean, there
are thousands of ships carrying cargo from
one location to another every single day. So what happens if there's a crash? Or if some of those cargo
containers get dropped into the water? Well, eventually things get washed up onto the shore and this happened after a big storm in 2006. A container full of nothing but thousands of bags of Doritos was
washed up on a beach in North Carolina. What did the locals think? This is an environmental catastrophe. Let's get down there and help out. Well, almost. More like, mm I love Doritos. Let's get down there and eat some. Luckily for them, the foil sealed bags meant that the crisps were still edible. So they bagged themselves some free bags. I wonder if it would have been so easy to get rid of them, had they been a healthier snack, like Ryveta. Number seven: World War II love letters. Some people's true love
may be potato chips but number seven is the
story of a much greater love than that. One day after the
devastating hurricane Sandy, a 14 year old boy was
walking along a beach in New York. The storm washed several things ashore, including a set of letters, tied together in a pink ribbon. They were a set of touching
World War II love letters between a New Jersey
woman named Dorothy Fallon and her husband-to-be,
Lynn Farnam, who was away serving in the Pacific. They chronicled their love story, spending six years apart until 1948, with the last letter beginning, "Darling, two weeks and
we will be married." The boy set about investigating the couple and managed to track Dorothy Fallon, now Dorothy Farnam, down. The couple were indeed married, although Dorothy was now a widow at the age of 91. Nobody has any idea where
the letters had been before the storm or how
they came to be released or washed up like that. But Dorothy was overjoyed to be reunited with the story of her past. Aw, guys, I'm welling up. Better move on quick. Number six: Lots of cocaine. Okay, so picture this. You're walking along a beach,
minding your own business and then you spot a pile
of bags in the distance. As you get closer, you realize that what you were looking at is
78 kilograms of cocaine. Drugs are often transported
by sea or air dropped and once they're lost, the people involved are generally not too
forthcoming in reclaiming them. So they're a fairly common find. But an amount like that
is a pretty careless thing to lose. This stash was discovered on a beach just south of Tokyo and was estimated to have a value of 7.1 billon yen. Which is $70 million US dollars. I wonder if the person who found them was tempted at all to just sell them or to find another use for them. No, no, just say no kids. Just say no. Number five: Lots of snowballs. I'm pretty used to go going to the seaside and being a bit
disappointed by the weather when I get there. My knees knocking
together in my swim shorts and thinking to myself that I should have brought a thick pillow and maybe even an umbrella. You think to yourself, I'm freezing, I'm literally freezing. But on this beach in Siberia, it can be literally freezing. Snowballs on a beach? That's something else. You know how to get smooth
rocks on the beach quite often? That's because they've been smoothed down by the sea. Well, in very cold temperatures, pieces of ice can also
gradually get rolled into spheres by wind and water currents. And in 2016, snowballs
measuring up to a meter in diameter were washed up in Siberia, along an 18 kilometer
stretch of coastline. It's a pretty rare
phenomenon and the locals seemed to enjoy it. I'd say while a scientific
explanation is possible, how can they be so sure it's not mermaids trying to start a snowball
fight with us, huh? How can they be really sure? Number four: Severed feet. If the giant swordfish eye scared you, definitely look away now. Every now and again,
something truly horrifying washes up on the coast of
British Columbia in Canada and Washington in the US. Several human feet, still in their shoes. Yes really. The feet of over 14 different
people have been found. Why only feet and not other body parts? Well it could be a big
gangster call of course. But it's also true that shoes
also have buoyancy in them that will allow them to travel through the ocean more easily. So they could be from any
natural or unnatural disaster that had several victims,
such as a tsunami or a plane crash. A couple of feet have been identified as actually belonging to locals
who had committed suicide. Is it just me or are all of these theories equally as distressing? Let's move on. Number three: The St. Augustine monster. Monster! Oh monster! This ginormous body washed up on a beach in Florida way back in 1896. Two young boys found it
and thought it was a whale. But the experts disagreed. As the investigation rolled on, the story really hit the headlines with everyone desperate to find out what this deep sea
monster could have been. The scientists struggled
as it was so decayed. It was basically what I'd call a USO, an Unidentifiable Swimming Object. They did think that the
creature had tentacles. So the scientists concluded that it was the remains of a giant,
a very giant, octopus. It was never certain though
and conspiracy theories of aliens were rife in
America for over a century. DNA analysis in 2004 finally reached a conclusive solution. It was a whale, the boys were
right in the first place. Take that scientists! Number two: Glass. Well, I thought you deserved a
break from the gruesome ones. Here's a pretty one for you. In Fort Bragg in California,
there's a glass beach. For the first half of the 20th century, nearby beaches were
used as a dumping ground for old glass and other
big household items. Over time, large amounts
of glass has washed up on beaches here. Sounds pretty dangerous right? But it isn't. The ocean has worked its magic and smoothed the glass down. It's full of beautiful,
colorful glass pebbles. Lovely. Number one: Lego. Another cargo ship issue
led to hundreds of pieces of Lego being washed up on the beaches in Devon and Cornwall, on
the south coast of England. But that doesn't even come close to the weirdest Lego find ever. Look at this giant Lego figure. This guy is eight feet
tall and has been found in various places all around the world from the US to the UK to
the Netherlands to Japan. His name is Ego Leonard and he wears a T-shirt with a message "no
real than you are" on it. What else could be
responsible for something as nuts as this but modern art. Ego Leonard is a pseudonym
for a Dutch modern artist. This Lego man is a marketing stunt for his or her exhibitions. Well I hope I haven't put
you off going to the beach with this video. Have you ever spotted
anything weird on the shore? Stranger than a severed
foot or a giant Lego? If so, leave us a comment
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