Strangest Things Found Washed Up On Beaches

ah the beach you just can't beat it sipping margaritas on the sand might seem like paradise but the terrifying truth is that you never know exactly what's hiding beneath the waves just about anything can turn up on the shore and coming up are some of the strangest things people have ever discovered ambergris picture this you're out for a romantic stroll along the beach one day when you suddenly catch a whiff of something truly foul naturally you follow the scent expecting to stumble upon a rotting fish carcass only to discover this instead a couple in lancashire uk who discovered this rugby ball-sized grayish rubbery mess in 2016 described its potent smell as something like a cross between a squid and farmyard manure delicious you might wonder who in their right mind would stop to pick up something so gross what if i told you this disgusting object earned a couple of cool 70 grand turns out this smelly rock weighing 1.57 kilograms was actually a lump of solidified whale vomit known as ambergris and you'll never guess what makes it so valuable the rare substance is secreted in the bile duct and intestines of sperm whales and is actually used in the perfume industry to make sense last longer that's right you might be spraying whale vomit onto your skin before date night in 2019 an even larger lump of this so-called floating gold saved a fisherman in thailand from financial ruin when he found it laying in the sand fifty-five-year-old jumerus tayachot stored the 14-pound unknown object in his shed for over a year before experts determined it was the genuine article and offered him an eye-watering 200 grand to take it off his hands boy oh boy there's nothing more wholesome than a family day out at the seaside in august 2015 one family on the coast of bury point in wales spotted a large round object in the distance and decided to investigate further as they arrived at the scene the gravel family were pleasantly surprised to discover a huge buoy covered in colorful gooseneck barnacles which had been washed ashore it looked pretty ancient and the kids posed for pictures in front of it and even picked the little critters off the side the gravels returned home and thought nothing more about the strange find until five days later when they got wind of a surprising announcement the local pembry country park officials explained online that the coast guard had discovered an unexploded united states military mine dating back to world war ii on the sands of bury port beach the very same area the gravels had just been beach officials notified the bomb squad and the mine was detonated in the controlled explosion at south wales bury port harbor a few days later turns out the gravels had a very lucky escape and they found to be more cautious next time they spot something strange on the beach ice balls when you think of the beach probably the last thing on your mind is snow unless you're from a small town in siberia that is in november 2016 locals in from the gulf of ob and western siberia were gobsmacked when they arrived at the seaside to find the shore covered in thousands of perfectly formed ice balls the giant snowballs ranged from tennis ball size to some which were three feet across and 50 pounds in weight and word spread fast people were pictured sitting on them dogs ran through them and videos emerged online of 11 miles of shoreline covered in the icy objects did some freak giant hail storm happen overnight were these uniformly circular objects a definite sign of alien life on earth unfortunately not the ice balls actually turned up over the course of two weeks as a result of a rare environmental process where small pieces of ice form at freezing temperatures and are ruled about by wind and water as the balls get jostled around the shallow frozen water they become larger and more globular until they wind up on shores as if mother nature herself is preparing for an epic snowball fight with god this unusual find adds a whole new layer to the word beach balls purple blob not everything that winds up on the beach can be easily explained and this next object even left scientists scratching their heads in july 2017 an unsuspecting beachgoer at leo carrillo state park in malibu spotted something equal parts intriguing and repulsive partly buried in the sand they snapped a photo and took to reddit for answers assuming that the white and purple decaying fleshy blob can only be the discarded organ of some large sea creature the unidentified lump weighed about seven pounds and measured about five inches across and many initially claimed that it was actually a large type of sea slug called a sea hare which can weigh up to 30 pounds greg rouse a professor of marine biology at the university of california disagreed because sea hairs are soft but this organism seemed to have a visible rim upon closer examination rouse decided it was more likely a plural branchia californica or seidgel another form of sea slug which can usually be found in the depths between 10 to 1200 feet another contender is the keyhole limit which can grow up to 5 inches and have a small shell on the side of their bodies whatever it was scientists agreed on one thing it was definitely dead those round purple parts are probably its gut bulging out due to bloating kinder surprise the ocean isn't always as unforgiving as we think in fact sometimes it can be pretty generous in 2017 the german vaden sea island of longahoog received an unexpected gift when thousands of colorful plastic kinder surprise eggs washed up on shores the eggs are thought to have come from a danish container ship that lost some of its cargo during a particularly nasty storm as you might imagine local kids were overjoyed to discover the unexpected arrival and were more than happy to help with the cleanup as long as they got to keep something for themselves it's a good job the shipment didn't wash up on a u.s beach though because kinder surprise has been banned here since the 30s sorry kids around 10 000 shipping containers are thought to be lost at sea each year contributing to an alarming amount of plastic waste in the world oceans in one of the most famous cases a shipment of 28 000 rubber ducks was lost at sea in 1992 on its way from hong kong to the us the bright yellow critters are still turning up today and have been found anywhere from hawaii to australia the so-called friendly floaties have actually been pretty handy in helping scientists track the movement of specific currents so i guess there's a silver lining to the mass duck exodus toothy treasure the ocean is like one big watery grave containing ancient artifacts which span right back to the dawn of the dinosaurs in june 2019 harvey wahl was given an unexpected reminder of just how terrifying the pass could be when he happened across a partly exposed tooth on ocean isle beach in north carolina after washing it off and examining the object more closely well i'll realize this wasn't just any old tooth with a total span of nearly six inches and a huge black root this incredible find could only belong to one creature the megalodon this truly formidable shark is now thought to have disappeared some 3.6 million years ago and weighed the equivalent of 10 adult elephants with a maximum span of 15 feet longer than the average school bus coastal waterways in north carolina are considered a prime location for megalodon teeth where they're often concentrated in riverbeds known as megalodon tooth ledges finding one inland like this is a rare event and although the biggest found in south carolina spans 6.7 inches the predator's teeth are thought to have reached a staggering eight inches in length that's one expensive dental bill massive driftwood of all the things you might expect to come rolling in on the waves at seaside a ginormous tree is probably not one of them that's exactly what happened in washington usa in 2010 though when the unsuspecting beachgoer philip lachman came across this monster while taking a stroll along the sand the towering tree turned up on the sands of the coastal community of la push on the morning of april 5th and it turns out it's not technically a tree at all just a really really big log this enormous piece of driftwood is officially known as a drift log and most likely came from a western red cedar douglas fir or sitka spruce the specimen dwarfed anyone who posed beside it and although it wasn't measured officially similar trees in local forests have been known to measure between 5 to 10 feet in diameter and some 200 feet in height that's one hefty object to be picked up and dumped on the sand so just how did this giant drift long surf its way to shore a simple answer mother nature giant trees just like this one lined the mountain slopes of the temperate rain forest that covers the pacific northwest and brutal winter storms can spell disaster when the winds are powerful enough they can topple the trees and send them down the rivers into the ocean if the wind doesn't do it the rain will as the rivers flood they can tear through the forest knocking vulnerable trees down like dominoes hairy giant the deep sea is so unexplored that it's hard to deny the possibility that real-life sea monsters might actually dwell below the waves especially when one washes up on your local beach in may 2018 locals visiting the beach in the philippine province of oriental mindoro could hardly believe their eyes when they saw what lay lifeless in the shallow waters by the shore about the size of a truck and giving off a smell so pungent and made residents want to puke a hairy beast later nicknamed the globster had been beached on the sand although it was clearly dead and probably had been for some time no one could come up with a logical explanation for the gloopy mass which closely resembled a giant old english sheepdog eventually fishery law enforcer vox crusado was called in to take dna samples from the rotting corpse and the results were far less exciting than anticipated quesada confirmed that the enormous beast was actually just the carcass of a 20 foot long baleen whale which had probably been hit by a boat the hair-like strands that covered its body were likely just decomposed muscle fibers which had transformed the fish's appearance into some sort of sea yeti isn't nature a wonderful thing huge eyeball one of the most strangely compelling things to wash up on the beach was found in florida in 2012. it does have a reputation uphold after all a man scouring pompano beach probably got the fright of his life when he looked down to see a giant eyeball staring right back up at him resisting the urge to see what would happen if he had tried to pop it the thoughtful citizen kindly handed the specimen to the fish and wildlife commission so that one burning question could be officially answered who did it belong to the softball-sized organs seemed fit for a real-life cyclops so naturally initial guesses were that it probably came from a giant squid or possibly even a whale closer examination revealed that there were small bones around the eye which isn't the case with squids whose eyes are mostly made from soft tissue speculation raged online and eventually the fwc came to a surprising conclusion the eye actually belonged to a swordfish who knew they could be so freakishly big the fwc also added that it was unusual to find an eyeball by itself maybe there's a poor swordfish out there searching for its other eye mysterious pipes the british coast might not be so well accustomed to mysterious sea monsters but a fair share of unusual objects have still made their way onto shores one of the strangest discoveries by far was made in august 2017 when a collection of 12 enormous pipe segments suddenly turned up on the norfolk coast at winterton and sea polling at first how such enormous objects found their way onto the sunny beaches was a total head scratcher had they just dropped out of the sky in some freak accident each pipe spanned some eight feet in diameter and the longest beach segment measured a whopping 1574 feet that's almost five times longer than big ben it turned out that the pipes had come loose while being tugged to algeria and north africa for a large project and then miraculously floated to the norfolk coast where they washed up in droves as locals flocked to witness the bizarre event for themselves the maritime and coast guard agency reassured onlookers that the pipes posed no danger of potential pollution they were eventually relocated offshore before being towed to norway leaving only a bizarre memory in their wake double-headed dolphin of all the weird and wonderful creatures in the ocean not to mention the downright terrifying things that lurk in its deepest steps dolphins are some of the most well loved they're highly social and intelligent animals who always seem to have a cheeky grin on their faces but in august 2014 a dolphin that washed ashore in the district of izmir on turkey's west coast put the heebie-jeebies into anyone who laid eyes on it why well because it had two heads duh the conjoined corpse was found by shock gem teacher turgol metten who was holidaying in turkey and his snaps quickly made waves across the internet the creature was estimated to be about a year old and measured nearly a meter long with fully formed eyes on just one of its heads thankfully this wasn't some escaped experiment from some secret science lab hell-bent on creating two-headed monsters the unusual mammal was simply born that way and likely died from natural causes although conjoined twins are fairly common in humans as well as plenty of animal groups like reptiles birds and amphibians this kind of fetal abnormality is extremely rare in wild animals between 1681 and 2006 there were only 19 recorded cases of two-headed wild mammals and this turkish terror is only the fifth known case of dolphin conjoined twins in history because conjoined twins usually die in the womb exactly how often this condition occurs in dolphins is still unknown although research biologist kelly denil estimates the rate of conjoined twins and marine mammals is less than one percent making this one super rare double-headed dolphin starfish massacre in march 2018 beachgoers from the town of ramsgate and kent uk were gobsmacked to discover that their local stretch of sand appeared to have been replaced by a mass dumping of tidy bones as they got closer they realized that the reality was thankfully not so terrifying but certainly no less strange it turns out an entire galaxy of starfish had washed up on the sand where they lay stranded and unmoving as if they'd suddenly been dropped from the heavens above sea stars normally gather in coastal waters to feed on mussel beds and often find themselves stranded by rough waves but this beach had suddenly become home to hundreds of thousands of the critters researchers from the marine conservation society a british non-profit organization attempted to explain the freak happening by noting that shallow seas allow temperatures to drop near or below zero which leaves sea animals like starfish lethargic and vulnerable to being carried onto shore the driving force behind this particular mass beaching has been described as the combined efforts of the huge cold wave dub the beast from the east and storm emma which terrorized british coastlines in 2018. the good-natured people who came across the stranded starfish quickly worked together to return as many of the dying creatures to the ocean as possible thankfully experts in the field have also stated that the dramatic incident should actually have little impact on the species overall because they reproduce so rapidly naughty little stars whiskey galore let's go back in time for a moment to the 5th of february 1941 when the inhabitants of an island off the coast of scotland were about to get really really lucky that morning the trade ship ss politician was heading north past the outer hebrides on route to kingston jamaica and new orleans when it ran into some rough weather after passing the isle of man extreme winds drove the ship off course and despite efforts to regain control the ss politician eventually foundered on the unseen sandbags off rosenish point on the isle of aris k the ship was carrying all manner of goods from cotton to medicines and biscuits but it's best remembered for the loot of hold number five some 264 thousand bottles of scotch whiskey as the islanders caught wind of the situation unfolding at sea they excitably headed to the beach where they were met with thousands of bottles of the sweet nectar that had washed ashore by the time the authorities had declared that the whiskey wasn't fair game to take because it was headed to the u.s and therefore no duty had been paid on it yet 24 000 bottles of the stuff had already been swiped in unofficial salvage operations eventually the ship's hole was dynamited to thwart any further efforts to explore its contents but the odd bottle still washes up on shore if you're ever in the neighborhood keep your eyes peeled in 2013 two of these famous whiskey bottles were sold for just over 15 thousand dollars by scotch whiskey auctions cigarette chaos moving swiftly on from one of man's greatest vices to another a two mile stretch of sand on england's chisel beach was gifted with another bizarre loot in 2014 millions of cigarettes a 40-foot long box containing about 11 million sigs totaling some 14 tons washed ashore on axe mouth beach in devon while millions of packets littered the british coastline the danish cargo ship schwenborg maersk had been sailing around the atlantic coast of europe in february on its way to sri lanka when it was battered by hurricane force winds which toppled its cargo the ship started losing its hoard off northern france after it was hit with 30 foot waves and 69 winds and in total around 520 containers were lost overboard during the storm thankfully the shipping company said about 85 percent of the containers were empty while the remaining ones contained dry goods which included cigarette shipments worth some 4 million dollars it might seem like a gold mine for anyone business savvy enough to bag up the cigs and sell them on for a tidy profit but before locals could get their thieving mitts on them the authorities announced that they already had a far more useful plan in mind bob geiger a spokesperson for hm revenue and customs explained that the cigarettes would be gathered up and taken to an approved power station where they would be incinerated in a controlled environment to help reduce electricity less cancerous cigarettes and more electricity for the national grid sounds like a win-win to me the montauk monster if you're a veteran internet user you've probably seen this image before the stomach churning photographs claimed to show a genuine sea monster that supposedly washed up on the shore of ditch plains a popular surfing beach on the montauk peninsula back in july 2008 as the story goes jenna hewitt and her two friends rachel goldberg and courtney fruin first spotted the beastly carcass at the tail end of new york's long island and quickly snapped a photo before posting it online of course the image of this bloated dog-like dinosaur beet corpse was like a lit match to gasoline and speculation soon ran rampant what was the so-called montauk monster and where did it come from some of the more out there theories were along the lines of escaped mutant from a secret science lab or inbred pitbull from the gates of hell but no one could agree on exactly what they were looking at before anyone could examine it properly the montauk monster literally vanished according to hewitt the carcass had been moved and was now rotting in some guy's backyard but she declined to identify who or where exactly this convenient vanishing led some to believe the whole thing was just a hoax while others have since claimed it was actually a raccoon corpse that had been robbed of its fur by the tumbling waves over a decade later the so-called monster has become a bona fide urban legend but it seems we may never know the truth what do you think of the montauk monster is it really a creature from the depths below or just one big publicity stunt if any of you guys have any urban legends about your hometown that have caused a stir online or in your local community you should totally let me know in the comments below i might even get back to a few of my favorites while you're at it you should show those like subscribe and little bell icon some love too that way you'll be the first to know about more weird and wacky tales like this one go on appease the montauk monster is it a bird or a plane the ocean is so vast and mysterious that it seems just about anything can be lost in its depths until the passage of time causes it to be uncovered or washed ashore that is a remarkable discovery was made off the coast of wales when the wreckage of a rare world war ii fighter plane emerged from its watery grave after years of hiding the united states army air force lockheed p-38 plane is known as the maid of harlaq and it's thought to have crashed on the gwenhead coast in 1942 when its engine suddenly cut out during training exercises the pilot at the time of the crash then 24 year old second lieutenant robert f elliott was forced to land the plane in two feet of water less than an hour into his journey after climbing to some six thousand feet thankfully elliot walked away from the crash unharmed but went missing and was declared dead just a few months later in north africa after his plane was shot down it was thought the maid of harlaq had been lost forever but after being buried by six inches of sand it appeared like a ghostly mirage when shifting water displaced the beach that usually covers it the maid of harlaq has actually been spotted three times since it crashed into the ocean first in the 1970s then in 2007 and most recently in 2014 although there are no plans to salvage the wreck it was given protected status in 2019 by the welsh government after its previously secret location was revealed online to this day it is considered one of the most significant world war ii discoveries made in recent history and we have the ocean to thank for it george parker bitter'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 some 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 but 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 one thousand released into the north sea between 1904 and 1906 by scientist george parker bitter who was investigating title 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 promise though they had to go on ebay to buy an old english shilling doritos so you've heard of a beached whale right but i bet you've never heard of a beach snack our seas are full of way more things than just fish on top of our oceans 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 will get washed up onto the shore and this happened after a big storm in 2006 a container full of nothing other than thousands of bags of doritos 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 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 if they'd been a healthier snack like rivita world war ii love letters some people's true love may be potato chips but this entry 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 farnham 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 down now dorothy farnham the couple were indeed married although dorothy was now a widow at the age of 91. nobody has any idea where the leonards 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 this story of her past oh guys i'm welling up better move on quick severed feet if the giant swordfish high scared you it's time to definitely look away now every now and again something truly horrifying washes up on the coasts of british columbia in canada and washington in the u.s severed human feet still in their shoes yeah 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 cull of course but it's also true that shoes often 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 defeat have been identified as actually belonging to locals who had committed suicide is it just me or all of these theories equally as distressing let's move on 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 have 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 colored glass pebbles lovely 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 over the world from the u.s to the uk to the netherlands to japan his name is ego leonard and he wears a t-shirt with the 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 the pseudonym for a dutch modern artist this lego man is a marketing stunt for his or her exhibitions which of these discoveries did you find the strangest and have you ever come across something this out of the ordinary at your local beach let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching

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Length: 27min 47sec (1667 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 09 2020