30 Bizarre Things Found on the Beach

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Here are 30 of the strangest things that have ever washed up on shore. Subscribe for weekly wacky videos and learn interesting facts about the world with awesome top 10 lists and other amazing videos. 18- Bananas – Early one morning in 2007 locals in Terschelling – an island near the Netherlands – awoke to find the beaches covered with bananas. It seems a ship lost more than a bunch of bananas – there were thousands scattered everywhere – luckily they were safe to eat. 17- Ambergris – A dog walker won the lottery during a stroll down a Lancashire beach in 2013. They stumbled across 6 lbs of ambergris – or whale vomit – which is used to make perfume – gross – and was worth about $112,000. 16- Unidentified Blobby Object – A strange blob with what looked like five misshapen limbs was found in Mangrove Bay in 1988. It turns out the strange creature was genetically identified as a whale. 15- Tub Toys – In 1992, a bunch of tub toys had quite an adventure after falling off a ship. They’ve been spotted as far as 17,000 miles away, they’ve been frozen in the Arctic Sea and they aid oceanographers in mapping ocean currents. 14- Unidentified Corpse – A pretty creepy discovery on a Long Island beach made people believe an unidentified corpse was actually an escaped hybrid from the Animal Disease Control. Turns out it was more likely just a raccoon. 13- Hockey Gear – You get a hockey glove and you get a hockey glove… Lucky hockey fans got some free loot in the early 90’s when a cargo ship dropped two containers carrying various hockey gear near Alaska. 12- Love Letters – Well, this is definitely the sweetest item on this list. A package containing 57 letters from a woman to her boyfriend during WWII were discovered in New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy. The letter writer was located and the letters were returned to her. 11- Doritos – Beachgoers with a case of the munchies were thrilled when thousands of packets of Doritos started floating ashore on a beach in North Carolina in 2006. The packets were still sealed and still edible. 10- Purple Creatures – Confusing scientists in Hawaii, millions of tiny pea sized purple critters started coming ashore. The scientists later identified them as crab larvae unable to dive because of air bubbles in their shells. 9- Biscuits – In 2008, thousands of McVitie’s biscuits fell off a ship and washed up on the beach at Blackpool resort in England. 8- Harley Davidson Motorcycle – The Japanese tsunami was also responsible for a wayward Harley Davidson motorcycle originally being shipped 4,000 miles to Canada. The owner was tracked down using the license plate number. 7- Tombstones – 2 tombstones that had been repurposed to make a sea wall nearby washed ashore a San Francisco beach. The tombstones dated back to the 1800’s. 6- Strange Jelly Creatures – In August 2014, Thousands of weird jelly creatures washed up onto beaches in Washington, Oregon and California. These little blue animals are called Velella velella, or by-the-wind sailors or little sails. 5- WWII bombs – During a “supermoon” in 2011 that caused high tides all over the world, 100 live WWII bombs washed up on Hampshire beach and were later detonated by the Navy. 4- Human Feet – The strangest thing keeps happening in British Columbia. Since 2007, severed human feet just keep washing up on the shores – dozens of them! Investigations have not been able to identify their owners. 3- Message in a Bottle – In 1784, Japanese sailor Chunosuke Matsuyama ended up shipwrecked with no hope of rescue. He wrote a letter and flung it out to sea before he eventually died. The bottle turned up again 151 years later in the exact village where he was born. 2- Leg bone – In 2011, a group of Cornish vacationers were enjoying an impromptu game of cricket on the beach. Until they realized that their makeshift cricket bat was the leg bone of a shipwrecked sailor who had been dead for 300 years. 1- ET – Margaret Wells of the UK was such an ET fan, she had a life-sized, custom-made replica made. It had been stolen in 2011, but reemerged in 2012 when some locals off the coast of Old Portsmouth found a body on the beach and called the Coast Guard. The pair were quickly reunited, and besides a lost finger, ET is home safe and sound.