- If you've ever been to a beach,
you know that there's some weird stuff on there
and I'm not just talking about
some of the people walking around.
When you go to a beach,
you know exactly what to expect, right?
Yeah, that's what a lot of people think,
that is until you encounter an alien, a robot or a shark,
yes, seriously, these stories are going to change
your opinion about going to the beach this summer, okay.
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Here are the 10 weirdest things found on a beach.
Number 10 are sea pickles.
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Some of the weirdest things to wash up on our shores
are actually strange living creatures
that science knows about,
but that doesn't make them any less bizarre,
this is the case with the mighty sea pickle.
These gelatinous, oblong shaped structures
kind of look like a pickle, hence their name,
but they also resemble something out of science fiction,
like The Blob with their strange translucent skin.
Sea pickles or pyrosomes to give them their real name
are actually tube-like colonies of microscopic creatures,
millions of them washed up on the Pacific coastline
of the United States in 2017 and 2018,
but the thing is no one is exactly sure why.
I wonder if they'd go well with a burger.
No, that's gross, just kidding,
under no circumstances should you ever eat one of these,
don't ever go eat one and then go to the doctor
and almost die and be like, Matt Santoro told me to eat one,
we had a pickle.
Number nine are balls of ice.
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The natural world throws up
some pretty bizarre stuff once in a while
and some of that gets deposited on the shore.
This is the case with huge ice spheres, which were found
along the Northeastern coast of Lake Michigan,
thousands of these things line the lake shore,
some as heavy as 22 kilograms.
Locals were scratching their heads
about how such things could be produced by a lake,
but NASA provided their own theory,
they suggested that balls of ice were created by ice seas,
these tiny fragments of ice froze the water around them
as the waves threw the fragments around,
this resulted in perfect spheres of ice.
However what still remains a mystery
is why in February in 2013, the balls of ice were so big,
that they usually don't reach that size.
My theory is that giants were throwing snowballs
at each other, NASA refuses to take my call.
Number eight are great white sharks.
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The great white shark is the most fierce some animal
in the ocean, surfers, divers and fishermen
tell stories of encountering them,
but these stories all take place in the ocean.
The weirdest place to find a great white
is there on the shore, what's weirder still
is when you find three of 'em all at once.
Well, this actually happened on the coast of South Africa,
these huge great white sharks lay dead on the shore
and it gets weirder still,
because the sharks had been attacked by something
and were missing their livers.
Something attacked a great white shark, what?
That's right, some animal had specifically eaten the livers
and then left the rest of the bodies intact
only for them to wash up on dry land.
Now some believe the animals were killed by orcas,
while others think the livers were eaten by sea lions,
personally I think it was Hannibal Lecter,
all we need to find is an empty bottle of Chianti nearby
and the case is closed, Clarice.
Number seven is a robot hand.
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As we've seen already, the world's oceans, rivers and lakes
are filled with strange objects,
but not all of them come from nature,
some of them are manmade,
but that just makes them twice as bizarre,
we are pretty weird creatures after all.
This was the case with what washed up on the shores
of the Great Kills Park Beach in Statton island, New York,
passers by found a piece of metal embedded in the ground,
on closer inspection, it was a mechanical hand
poking out from behind the other garbage on the shore.
The hand was either from a prosthetic arm
or it was from some sort of robotic appendage.
Now all we need is those Star Wars theories
YouTube channels to make a video about it,
Darth Vader's hand finally uncovered on Earth,
that's a conspiracy theory I can get behind.
Number six is a piano.
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There's nothing sadder than a musical instrument
left unplayed, oh wait, yes there is,
how about one giant piano washed up on a beach?
That's exactly what happened in New York
on the East River of Manhattan Island in 2014.
The piano was remarkably in one piece
and people flocked to be photographed
either playing or sitting on it
next to the New York skyline.
Nobody knows exactly how it got there
and so far no one has come forward to claim it.
Some thought it was an advertising stunt,
but advertisement for what?
Our pianos are made so well,
that you can throw them in a river, yeah.
Well, one thing's for certain,
the sight of an old grand piano
sitting on a beach with New York behind it
made for some excellent Instagram posts.
But wait, my question is if they found the piano,
where's the pianist?
Number five is an alien.
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If we expect to see aliens anywhere, it's in space,
but one time probably the most famous of all of them
washed up on a beach in the UK.
In 2012, the Coast Guard responded to an emergency call
stating that a body had been discovered on the beach,
rushing to the scene, the Coast Guard found
a bloated, wrinkled humanoid figure face down in the sand.
Luckily it was not a person or a real alien after all,
it was actually a life sized replica
of ET the extraterrestrial.
ET drown?
As it turns out, the giant figure
had been handcrafted by an artist years previous
only for it to have been stolen along with some jewelry.
The artist's family never thought
that they'd see the figure again,
but somehow it ended up on a beach.
The family was delighted to be reunited with it
and were left to wonder what strange voyages
ET had been on in the intervening years.
Number four are globsters.
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Globsters are weird blobs, which have been found
countless times on shores of almost every coastal nation.
These strange masses were once thought
to be undiscovered creatures,
but we now know that many of them
are actually decomposing bodies of large marine animals
such as whales and sharks.
There are some globsters, which remain unexplained,
but often they're identified as known species,
occasionally some of them are the remains
of rarely seen animals, such as the colossal squid.
It's thought that globsters spend a lot of time
on the ocean floor and then rise up in the ocean currents
to be deposited on shore.
While globsters have mainly been explained,
I'd still keep away from them on the beach,
I've seen enough monster movies to know
where this type of thing leads, stay away.
Number three is cocaine.
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In November of 2013, a Japanese man discovered
something truly bizarre near Yokosuka city,
lying on the coast were four sealed backpacks.
Upon opening the backpacks,
he found 80 brick-shaped packages,
inside each was a white powder.
But Matt, was it baby powder?
Was it?
Well, when he took the backpacks to the authorities,
they confirmed that the brick packages
were filled with cocaine, but not just some cocaine,
each package weighed a kilogram each,
the cocaine had a street value of a staggering $48 million
and turned out to be one of the biggest drug finds
in Japanese history.
No one knows how the backpacks ended up on the shore,
but you can bet that there are some
very unhappy drug lords out there
or maybe they're the forgiving kind of drug lords,
you know, that you always hear about in the news.
Oh, no, sorry, that's Big Pharma,
I always get them mixed up, it's a conspiracy.
Number two are Doritos.
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Sometimes bizarre things turn up on a shore,
because a ship's sank or you know, a cargo container
fell into the ocean spewing its contents into the deep.
Often this can be harrowing for those living nearby
as pristine beaches become covered in unwanted trash.
Of course, if you're a fan of potato chips,
then this entry might seem more like a dream come true,
on November 30th, 2006 a cargo container
released thousands of bags of Doritos into the wild,
they found their homes on the Outer Banks of North Carolina,
this caused local wildlife to go on a Doritos binge
including local people, who gathered up the sealed bags
and presumably ate them with some dip,
unless they had something else freaky in mind
to do with 'em, I don't know, who knows,
I'm just saying some of y'all have some weird food fetishes,
I'm not judging.
And number one are Lego men.
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It's the stuff a Lego collector's dreams
are made of, life sized Lego.
Between 2007 and 2015, several giant Lego figures appeared
on a number of beaches as if washed up from the sea.
These figures were made up of fiber glass
and were two meters high,
the first one appeared on a Dutch beach and had the words,
No Real Than You Are printed on its torso.
Since then similar giant Lego figures
have washed up in the UK, Japan and the United States
and even the Danube River in Austria.
Different theories about where the figures come from
are abounding, some believe it's the work
of a Dutch gorilla artist,
who has affectionately been named Ego Leonard,
others believe that the first Lego man was by a Dutch artist
and the others were copycats.
Personally if you ask me, I think a giant child
has lost his toys at sea and if that's true, God help us.
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