17 Strangest Things Washed Up on Beaches

 oceans are known for hiding many secrets  in their heart but sometimes these  secrets reveal themselves in front of  the world  welcome to another episode of fact  nominal today we're here with the 17  strangest things washed up on the  beaches  before we move on though please like  subscribe and hit the bell icon to  continue reading our awesome articles  you might have heard about plastic bags  and snack wrappers in the beaches but  that's not all  try going to the beach this weekend and  you might find a giant sized  lego there or if it's your lucky day you  can even find a years old container of  cocaine worth millions of dollars  so let's see what some of the people  have found on beaches  number one large lego sculptures some  kind of a  giant lego man washed up on a beach and  nobody really knows where it came from  a few years ago a giant lego toy which  was almost about eight  feet tall came floating on the beach it  was washed up on the shore of zandavort  netherlands  at first the people on the beach were  very surprised and thought it belonged  to someone around  but when they realized that it's only  beach property they set it up on the  beach as a monument and started taking  selfies with it  it's still a mystery where the toy came  from the dutch branch of legoland  claimed it had nothing to do with it  although people assumed that the gorilla  artist ego  leonard may have made it and floated it  on the beach  a few other legos are also found in  places such as florida  brighton japan and the netherlands  number two millions of dollars in  cocaine  police tried to trace the source of a  million dollars worth of drugs  bundles of cocaine and marijuana washing  up on the beach over the last two days  a japanese man discovered four backpacks  carrying 80  kilograms of cocaine in 2013. in total  the stash was estimated to be worth  around 48 million dollars  at another incident according to police  the man retrieved a large dark object  from the water and transported it to the  nearby vacation home where the man and  his family were stained  when he opened the package he saw  several large bricks he cut the bricks  with a knife revealing white powder  police say the man called authorities  who responded to the call at 11 56 pm on  sunday  when they arrived they found a black  trash bag torn open with 20 bricks of  cocaine  inside police estimated that the street  value of the drug package was worth  around 600  000 number three  a life-sized et model for reasons  unknown someone once stole a life-sized  et model  after a few years it was found floating  in the ocean and was mistaken for a body  when recognized it was returned to its  real owner  a coast guard spokeswoman said it rolled  up on the beach and gave somebody a bit  of a fright  pensioner margaret wells the owner was  delighted to have been reunited with her  beloved life-sized e.t  which was handcrafted by her daughter  nine years ago  it was stolen along with jewelry and an  iron from mrs wells home in costume  hampshire in september but was found  later on the beach  number four a harley-davidson motorcycle  the bike recently washed up inside a  large storage container on a remote  beach on haida gwaii  no one knows exactly when but it soon  became obvious that this motorcycle was  from japan  making its way across the ocean after  last year's tsunami  washed it out to sea a rusty  harley-davidson motorbike washed up on  the coast of british columbia canada the  bike swept into the pacific ocean by the  japanese tsunami in 2012.  a japanese owner was shocked to find out  his bike washed up 5 000 miles away in  british columbia  the motorbike originated from miyagi  northern japan before being swept into  the ocean  making its way to canada the best part  the person who found the motorbike made  an effort to find out the owner and  returned it  number five spacecraft debris debris  from a spacecraft washed up on the  shores of freeport texas in 2017.  it was a piece of a rocket used to send  supplies to the international space  station  the rocket was launched from french  guiana and one piece ended up more than  three thousand miles away from the  original launch site  number six a german u-boat  you might be thinking that only small  things have a tendency to come back  let me prove you wrong a huge german  u-boat came back  washing up on shore due to a heavy winds  and strong tides  the ship has now become quite a tourist  attraction and can be found on frasier  island australia  it's used for taking selfies and played  with by the people who spend the day at  the beach  some locals have even decorated the ship  with some paint attempts to remove it by  re-floating it were unsuccessful and the  boat remained where it was found  number 7 whale vomit as creepy  as it sounds not only the whales are  precious but a whale vomit can be worth  thousands of euros as a british man's  dog was playing on the beach and found a  smelly rock that later was offered 50  000 euros the rock actually was  ambergris known as whale vomit  the strange smelling substance is often  used in perfumes therefore a french  dealer offered  50 000 euros for it  number eight snowballs this one is  definitely  an amazing find thousands of snowballs  appeared on a beach in siberia back in  november 2016.  the snowballs were formed by wind and  cold weather and appeared on an 11-mile  stretch in the russian coastline in the  arctic circle  thanks to mother nature for showing us  such a beautiful creations of god  like the article so far wait till you see  our final pick  you'll be awestruck number nine a piano  a grand piano was found on a sandbar in  biscayne bay on january 26 2011 in miami  florida  it's unknown how the heavy musical  instrument was on the sandbar but some  speculated it was part of a music article  production  the piano was charred from being burned  although it was still in one piece it  didn't work and no one had the slightest  clue where it came from  though it looked really artistic on the  beach so people made it a selfie spot on  the beach  number 10 a mine following recent storms  in the north sea  a number of these have gone adrift and  been washed up on the coast not far from  our stem  the immediate job is to render them  harmless not only ordinary things land  up on the beaches  once a navy training mine washed up in a  beach in miami in 2011.  a bomb squad quickly came in and the u.s  navy took the mine away  now a lot of people are assuming that  this is a mine from world war  ii and i asked the u.s navy they said  you know what we took a look  at it as closely as we could get there  were decades-old  growth of marine life on top of the mine  but to know how long it's been there  where it came from  all of those details really weren't  important at the time presumably to  either be placed in storage or blown up  somewhere  else number 11 a 500 year old swivel gun  a teenager in darwin found a swivel gun  after a particularly low tide  the gun was floating on the beach and  came in front of the boy  it was later revealed to be portuguese  in origin a huge debate occurred on the  presence of a portuguese gun on an  australian beach but no one knows how it  reached there  number 12 scary fish most of the time  creatures from the sea are normal to  wash up on the shore of beaches  however but this time a scary small fish  washed up on the shore of mululaba beach  this frightening creature lives in some  of the deepest parts of the sea  it's a rare species with sharp teeth and  dark scales  known by the name hellfish when it  showed up at the beach people started  shouting and ran  only to come back and find the dead fish  number 13 giant dice  this is definitely not something you see  every day a random giant dice appeared  on the shores of a local u.s beach and  no one can guess what it was doing there  in the first place  although later it was played with taken  pictures with and climbed on by the  tourists  number 14 a huge barge this huge  barge has been stuck out here for  several days now but oddly enough people  are  actually really loving it a massive  barge appeared on the shores of saint  pete beach in florida  it was measured at nearly 40 tons 200  feet long 40 feet wide and eight  feet tall surprising to see how such a  huge barge simply found its way to a  florida beach  vacationers at st pete beach have never  seen anything like this before and were  amazed when it started floating towards  them  number 15 conjoined dolphins  next up on the list of bizarre things  found are conjoined dolphins  a two-headed dolphin washed up in a  beach in ismart turkey and shocked the  many tourists  the two-headed dolphin which was only 12  months old measured nearly one meter in  length and was washed up due to a  terrible storm the night prior  although dolphins popping up on beaches  is pretty common who would have thought  something like conjoined dolphins exist  but actually washed up number 16  a couch in addition to the rest of the  how did that end up their entries we've  got another one for you  a couch appeared at a local washington  beach sometimes people are really fed up  with their furniture but i wonder if  anyone can really toss it into the ocean  the great couch was in pretty rough  condition so it was taken away by the  shore authorities  finally number 17 jellyfish  this one's both unfortunate and  beautiful at the same time  billions of blue jellyfish called  valella were found scattered across the  beach shores of the west coast of the  united states  they first began showing up on oregon  and washington state beaches before  beginning to appear off the coastline  of california these fishes usually  remain on the surface of the open ocean  and ride the wind and water currents  unfortunately for them they got pushed  too far into the shore and died on the  beach  this article also shows how far things can  travel once they enter the ocean with  items having come from as far away as  russia  canada the caribbean and saudi arabia  items like the remains of a 1980s picnic  a 1970s bottle opener old smarties lids  from before  1988 and shoes from the 19th and 20th  centuries  also remind us just how long waste can  last in the seas and affect the  creatures under it  thanks for reading the article if you  like this article please comment like  and subscribe and hit the bell icon to  see more amazing content