Hello welcome back to most amazing top ten!
I am Rebecca Felgate and I loveeeeee the beach!
Not like California beaches…which I do like… but slightly grim rainy british beaches, those
are my fave!
Despite an enduring love of the beach, sometimes the oceans throw up some scary scary stuff.
Join me as we talk about the Top 10 Scary Things Found on the Beach…..
10- Barnacle Covered Alien In December 2016, locals stumbled across this
mysterious object on Muriwai beach in Auckland.
Melissa Doubleday posted an image on facebook asking if anyone knew what the horrifyingly
large, alien looking thing was.
Eerily, the object was covered in long black creatures and barnacles.
Many people thought it was a piece of driftwood covered in gooseneck barnacles which are pretty
horrifying….although I guess it would explain it as these types of organisms often attach
to driftwood.
This could have been part of an old sunken boat…although some people were straight
up thinking it was the work of aliens….
9 - A Gun Okay, so this gun isn’t loaded….
But imagine finding this washed up on the beach!
This rusty old pistol could have been involved in all kids of drama before it was tossed
in the ocean.
It could be a murder weapon!
8 - Jumping Dead Fish Imagine walking on the beach side of a big
lake and seeing this….I would be really scared…it’s like death came and stopped
them in their tracks.
This image taken by a beach stroller went viral in January 2017.
I don’t know the wave this fish were riding froze mid crash, or why the fish are still
jumping, but this is a truly haunting discovery.
7 - Hairy White Blob A globster washed up on a beach in the Dinagat
Islands in February 2017.
Globsters, by the way, are unidentified organic masses…which is exactly what this big white
monster seems to be.
The ocean is a deep, dark and unyielding place and we are still identifying new species…so
maybe we just don’t have a name for this huge hairy beast yet.
Sadly, whatever this was, it washed up dead.
Similarly, hurricane Harvey has brought some weird stuff to the surface…
coming in to number *6 we have this fanged sea creature
Preeti Desao was walking on a Texas beach when she stumbled across this mysterious creature,
washed up after Hurricane Harvey.
She tweeted “Okay Biology Twitter, what the heck is this?
It turns out the Twitter Hive Mind knew, after her images were retweeted over 7 thousand
times, an eel expert revealed that it is a Tusky Eel….
5 - Killer Jelly Fish In September 2017, a Cornish beach was put
on high alert after a swarm of deadly jellyfish washed up on Perranporth beach.
These creatures, native to Portugal, look like magical wizard hats but they could kill
you with just one sting.
This is especially worrying as many people, including children, walk barefoot along the
sand, luckily the stretch of beach was closed while teams cleaned the fish away.
4 - A World War 2 Fighter Jet A fighter jet from the second world war had
been buried under sand since it crashed off the coast of Wales in 1942.
After a storm in 2007, 65 years after it fell, finally the last of the sand covering the
lockheed P38 Lightning was displaced and the amazing discovery was made.
The wreckage was recovered from the water and taken to an aviation museum.
3 Bomb In July 2017, what looked like a bomb washed
up on Shelley Island in North Carolina.
Emergency services were called and the beach was closed as officials though the object
could be an unexploded ordnance.
The possible bomb was covered in marine life, so had clearly been in the water for some
time.
After investigation, it turned out to be an unexploded world war two weapon.
2 - Ghost Ship In 2006, a white ghost ship washed up by a
beach in Barbados.
On the boat were the decomposing bodies of 11 men.
The men were huddled in one cabin of the ocean battered boat.
After polie investigated the grim ghost ship, they discovered the boat had come from cape
verde, off the coast of Africa and had been heading for the European Canary Islands.
It is thought those on board were hoping to emigrate to Europe.
How the boat crossed the Atlantic and washed up in Barbados, we don’t know, presumably
the vessel and crew were met with bad weather.
A note was found that said “Please excuse me and goodbye.
This is the end of my life in this big Moroccan sea.”
1 - 50 million pounds worth of cocaine Seasides are lovely places, especially for
families to walk and play…but imagine your kid finding a bag filled with enough drugs
to kill an army….
In February 2017, 360 kilos of cocaine was found in bags that washed up on a Norfolk
beach in the UK.
The first of the nine bags recovered was found on Hopton beach in a place called great Yarmouth,
where incidentally my family would take me to play as a kid.
Then, further bags cropped up on the coastline.
Not only is this scary because of what the drugs could do if consumed by a dog or kid…or
even an adult who should know better…its also pretty scary because there are probably
some angry drug dealers out there who are looking for their product…..
50 million pounds is roughly 67 million dollars, which I am pretty sure a dealer would be angry
about losing.