On the coast of the Philippines, fishermen discovered a strange creature of impressive size. The monster was more than six meters long, covered all over with white hair, and did not look like any of the known species marine animals, reports The Telegraph.
The carcass washed ashore after a recent earthquake in the region. Pictures of the monster quickly spread throughout social networks, and users began to speculate about the nature of the find. Some thought it was half polar bear, half whale. Others say that this is a fantastic creature from cartoons and fairy tales.
The beach in the town of Cagdainao has become the center of attraction for local residents. People began to take pictures with the unusual creature and take selfies.
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However, as scientists stated, this is the corpse of a whale that supposedly died about two weeks ago due to a collision with a ship. Experts explained the unusual appearance of the huge mammal by the fact that the body for a long time drifted in the ocean and turned white due to the extreme stage of decomposition.
Note that simultaneously with the appearance of the “hairy monster”, several extremely rare fish, living at depths of 200 to 1000 meters, washed up on the coast of the Philippines. Local residents associated the appearance of fish with earthquakes, since these creatures are supposed to be able to sense the displacement of tectonic plates.
Date of publication: 03/02/2017
The ocean is the most mysterious place on our planet. It covers 70% of the Earth's surface, and its vast expanses are still not fully explored. In truth, only a small part of it has been studied - approximately 5%. No wonder he sometimes washes up on the shore for no reason. similar creatures from somewhere in their depths... These “monsters” are often surrounded by rumors and speculation, although usually there is a completely reasonable explanation for everything.
1. East River Monster
Such a creature would fit well into any horror film. The corpse of an unknown animal was found in July 2012 on the banks of the East River under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York and in appearance the creature resembled the already known “Montauk” monster (it was found on the beach of Montauk in 2008). Not a single zoologist could determine the type of animal, and the body was quickly taken and destroyed by the city improvement service. One can only guess what kind of Chupacabra the river carried out. It is said that in the case of the Montauk monster it was a bald raccoon, and in the case of the East River monster it was the bloated corpse of a dog. However, both stories have already become urban legends.
2. Unknown species of dolphin
When, in June 2014, on the Alaskan coast, a young biology teacher came across a thrown out dead water dolphin, then at first he decided that it was a young toothed whale - a northern swimmer (Baird's beaked whale, northern berardius, Far Eastern bottlenose - that's all about him). However, upon closer examination, it turned out that the found dolphin differed from the northern swimmers in the shape of the dorsal fin and the color of the body, and based on the age of the teeth, it was determined that the individual - with a length of 7 meters - could not possibly be a northern swimmer, because. adult swimmers are larger in size. Further research by scientists showed that this is completely the new kind dolphin and an extremely successful and rare find - a dark raven dolphin, the existence of which is spoken of in Japanese fishing legends.
3. Blue Dragon
This stunning sea slug - Glaucus Atlanticus - was found off the coast of Australia in November 2015. Typically, mollusks of this species do not live near the shore, but this one was probably chasing its favorite prey. Blue dragons feed on several types of jellyfish, and are able not to react to their poisonous stinging cells, but, on the contrary, to digest them. The stinging capsules remaining from the victims' cells serve as protective mechanisms for the mollusk itself. Blue dragons are poisonous and sting painfully, so it is better not to pick them up. But beautiful!
4. The Lake Macquarie Monster
This miraculous Judo whale fish was found in March 2016 on the shores of the quiet peaceful Lake Macquarie in New South Wales (Australia). The photo hit social networks and the Internet began to vigorously discuss what kind of cross between a crocodile and a dolphin it was. However, there are no mysteries here - in fact, this is an ordinary pike-nosed eel, but it is not clear how it got into a lake in Australia, because its usual habitats are the tropics and subtropics of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They can be found off the coast of Australia, but at great depths. The pike eel can reach a length of 2.5 meters.
5. Herring king (belt fish)
In 2013, not one, but two giant beltfish washed up on a California beach - and people even worried: was this a sign of an impending earthquake? After all, these sea creatures They are deep-sea and live at a depth of about 900 meters, which is why people rarely see them. One of the fish washed ashore was as much as 5.5 meters long, and it took the strength of 15 people to lift and pull it away. Marine biologists believe that these giants (who are not very good swimmers) could have been washed ashore by a strong current. They lost their orientation and were unable to swim out of the current or return back to the sea.
A " herring king“This fish was named for two reasons: it was often found in schools of herring and on its head it has a kind of “crown” formed by the first rays of the dorsal fin.
6. "Freak"
When in May 2010, a dog pulled a creature unknown to science from a lake in the small Canadian village of Kitchenamaicusib, local residents immediately remembered the old legend about the Freak. It goes like this: “No one knows what kind of creature this is, but our ancestors called it the Freak. The Freak rarely appears, but when he appears, it is a bad sign. This means something bad will happen.” However, there are those who believe that the “creature unknown to science” is just a partially peeled mink or weasel
7. Giant squid
Even though the giant squid is the largest invertebrate on the planet, it is still largely a mystery to scientists. It is extremely rare, video with such a squid in natural environment habitat first appeared only in 2013. Therefore, when in May 2015, on the coast of the South Island of New Zealand, giant squid, everyone was alarmed. It reached 7 meters in length, and each of the eyeballs had a diameter of 8 cm. Scientists determined that this individual was an adult female, but no one understood why it washed ashore. No obvious cause of death was found.
8. The Folly Beach Monster
An unusual sea “monster” washed up on Folly Beach in South Carolina (USA) in 2012. gigantic size and with massive bone “shields” along the sides - like a dinosaur. People began to wonder who it could be. The truth turned out to be the following: it was not a monster at all, but an ordinary giant Atlantic sturgeon, which acquired an unusual color after drying in the sun. In addition, the giant Atlantic sturgeon actually looks like a monster: it traces its ancestry to individuals that lived on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, and can reach almost 5 meters in length and weigh up to 250 kg.
9. Panama monster
The "Panama Creature" (also called the Panama Monster, Blue Stream Monster, or Blue Hills Terror) was found and killed by teenagers in Panama in September 2009. It was found on the bank of a river near the city of Cerro Azul. According to the teenagers, the creature grabbed one of them by the leg in the water, after which they got scared and beat it with stones. The photos were shown by a local TV station and the story became widespread - what a fat man! There were many versions: that it was an alien, and that it was some species unknown to science, and that it was a bald sloth... Scientists carried out a biopsy of the remains and a few days later reported that the Panama monster was indeed a male brown-throated sloth, which had lost its hair as a result of underwater decomposition.
10. Large Mouth Shark
In January 2015, Filipino fishermen were quite frightened when they discovered this 4.5-meter-long creature. Strange monster turned out to be a largemouth shark, a long-lived deep-sea shark that can live up to a hundred years, but is rarely seen. It was discovered as a species in 1976, when one such shark accidentally got caught on the anchor of a warship in Hawaii. By August 2015, only 102 individuals had been discovered, of which only a few could be scientifically studied. Very little is yet known about the anatomy, behavior and range of this shark. In general, quite mysterious monster from the depths of the sea!
11. Sakhalin monster
These terrible remains of an incomprehensible monster, twice the height of a man, washed ashore in June 2015 in the north of Sakhalin Island near the city of Shakhtersk. A muzzle with a “beak”, strange fur on the tail - a dinosaur again? By itself! Scientists from the Sakhalin Scientific Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography quickly identified the miracle fish: it turned out to be a northern swimmer (or beaked whale) - major representative cetaceans. Beaked whales live in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan and are a well-known marine mammal. And the “wool” is just stuck sea plants.
12. Whales - Siamese twins
In January 2014, Mexican fishermen encountered something unprecedented: they discovered two dead gray whale calves, fused into a single whole, in the coastal waters. These Siamese twins had two heads, two tails and a joint at the belly area. Unfortunately, they were found already dead. Judging by the size, the female did not carry them to term and threw them out ahead of schedule- somewhere between 8.5 and 10.5 months (instead of 13.5 months).
On September 17, the Dixon family from New Zealand, walking along Pakiri Beach, came across a strange creature. A pink mass, shaped like a small volcano, pulsated on the sand. Pale segments enclosed in a ring of color raw meat. The shore around was covered with the bodies of jellyfish thrown out by the waves.
“Jellyfish were everywhere, it amazed us. “Then we saw this creature, which was very different from them,” Eva Dixon told a local publication Auckland Now. “We looked at it for a long time - its color and shape were beautiful. My son said it reminded him of a volcano."
“It looked like exposed contracting muscles,” Adam Dixon, Eve’s husband, described the creature.
Despite its unusual appearance, the creature turned out to be just a jellyfish - a hairy cyanide. They are common in all northern seas of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and are found in the surface layers of water near the coast. Typically, cyanides do not grow more than 50-60 cm, but they can reach two meters in diameter. The diameter of the dome of the largest known jellyfish was 2.3 m, and the length of the animal was 36.5 m.
Marine biologist Diana McPherson from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand notes that hairy cyanides are often found near the islands, but not at this time of year.
“They usually appear in the spring and summer when the plankton begins to bloom,” she explains.
However, the lack of plankton is not a problem for jellyfish, says marine biologist Lisa Anne Gershwin. The abundance of long tentacles, united in eight bundles, allows it to easily hunt small animals and other jellyfish.
“Each tentacle is capable of catching something,” she says. “Thanks to this multitasking, the jellyfish is able to find a lot of food.”
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Hairy cyanides are often accompanied small fish and shrimp, which are immune to the toxins of these jellyfish. They feed on the leftovers of the cyan's meal. The jellyfish themselves can become food for more large fish or turtles. For example, leatherback turtles actively feed on jellyfish.
Experts associate the untimely appearance of jellyfish with climate change. They recommend not touching hairy cyanides. Although their danger is exaggerated in popular literature, jellyfish can sting very painfully.
“Their tentacles contain a toxin that can hurt you if you get close to them,” says McPherson.
This is not the first such discovery in New Zealand - in October 2017, a huge hairy cyanide washed up on the shores of Auckland. Local residents came across her at the pier.
“It’s so huge, we’ve never seen anything like it before,” said eyewitnesses.
Environmentalists have warned that it is better for young children to stay away from jellyfish - while they are generally harmless to adults, it will be more difficult for a child’s body to cope with toxins.
And in May 2018 in the Philippines, a wave similar to a “hairy sea monster Globstera is a biomass that does not resemble any known living creature.
A six-meter foul-smelling “monster” covered with something resembling hair was discovered by local residents. Its smell turned out to be unusually disgusting even for the specialists who came to take samples to establish the species of the creature.
Local residents were sure: the globster was an omen of something terrible approaching them. In their opinion, his appearance spoke of an approaching earthquake.
And on seabed near Bali in 2016, a diver is another unusual animal.
The creature had a transparent head, with which it caught prey, as well as 13 legs, its body length reached 13 cm.
Disputes about the identity of the animal flared up on a forum for lovers of sea slugs, to which this creature most likely belongs.
According to some experts, it may belong to the genus melibe viridis, representatives of which are found in the Mediterranean and Red Seas, as well as off the coast of Mozambique. Science knows more than 3 thousand species of sea slugs, which differ in shape and color, most of them live in tropical waters.
The ocean holds many secrets, and the surf sometimes brings something completely unimaginable to the shore. The man tries to pretend that he has control over all the elements, but is unable to identify some of the “monsters” thrown up by the storm. Do people know all kinds of living things? We know less than 15% of the 8.7 million species living on Earth. Thus, 85% of creatures on land and underwater remain mysterious to us. We will tell you about some of them.
15. The Monster from Montauk
The Montauk Monster is an unidentified animal that washed ashore on a beach near Montauk, New York, United States in July 2008. The story began when the local newspaper The Independent published a report that on July 12, 2008, Chief Britton and three of his comrades found the corpse of a strange creature on the beach.
This discovery gave rise to many speculations; initially it was believed that the “monster” was a creature unknown to science, then they thought it was a turtle without a shell or a dog without hair.
Maggie Jones, director of the Mystic Nature Center, said after studying the photos it was most likely a raccoon.
14. The Monster of Canvey Island
The Canvey Island Monster - that's what they called it unusual creature, whose corpse washed ashore on Canvey Island, England, in November 1953. A second similar corpse was found there in August 1954. Only one photograph has survived, and even that one is of poor quality.
It looked like a toad that had legs but no arms. More seriously, the monster was described as "an unknown creature, 76 centimeters in length, having thick reddish-brown skin, large bulging eyes, a soft head and gills." The creature had hind limbs with five toes and horseshoe-shaped feet with concave arches that were supposed to be suitable for walking upright, but no forelimbs.
Some scientists believe that the remains could belong to some unknown species deep sea fish, and the fins were mistaken for legs.
13. "Roch Ness" monster
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, a rather scary monster was washed up on the shore of the quiet Lake Hollingworth in Rochdale, England. They say it was just over five feet long, with a huge mouth full of incredibly sharp teeth.
The couple who came across the creature initially thought it was a crocodile. Later they decided that it was nothing more than a strange pike that had grown a little more than usual. Even if it's "just" pike, you won't want to swim in Rochdale.
12. Sakhalin miracle-yudo
The city of Shakhtersk on Sakhalin attracted zoologists, paleontologists and mystery lovers when the carcass of a three-meter creature unknown to science - with a beak-like nose and a tail covered with hair - washed ashore. There were many versions about who this was. Local residents were unable to identify the mysterious beast. Judging by the bones and teeth, this is not a fish, although it looks like a dolphin; the skeleton looked a bit like a crocodile, and the creature's skin was covered with fur. If it's a dolphin, why is it hairy? And how did you get to Sakhalin? According to some sources, the creature was washed back into the water; according to others, it was taken away by the special services.
Scientific experts from the Primorsky Oceanarium suggested: “Judging by the shape of the skull and the size of the animal, most likely it could be a large dolphin from the beaked whale family. The size of adult animals is from 5 to 9 meters. The largest is the northern swimmer. The animals are quite rare and live above deep sea areas or in the depths. Therefore, they are extremely rare off the coast or in the shelf area.”
11. Trunko-globster
Tranco or trunco is the name of an animal that was seen in 1924 near the city of Marit in South Africa. An article about him entitled “The Polar Bear Fish” was published on December 27, 1924 in the London Daily Mail. Eyewitnesses observed how an unusual huge animal, similar to a fish covered with hair, fought with two killer whales off the coast. It used its tail and jumped out of the water to a height of over 20 feet. The strange creature later washed ashore off Margate Beach and was described as "an animal possessing snow-white fur, an elephant's trunk, a lobster's tail, and a carcass devoid of blood."
In 2010, however, the long-standing secret of Trunko was revealed. Trunko was nothing more than a globster, which is a massive, tough "bag" of fat and skin containing collagen that is sometimes left behind when a whale dies and its skull and skeleton are separated from the skin and sink to the sea floor.
10. The Beast of Tenby
A resident of Tenby, UK, was walking along the beach when he found the corpse of an unknown animal on the sand. While closely studying his find, 27-year-old Peter Bailey realized that he did not know a single animal similar to this strange creature. Fearing that the monster would be washed away by the wave, the man took a photograph of it and remembered its distinctive features.
“It looked disgusting. My first impression is a creepy cross: the face of a horse, the claws of a bear and the body of a pig. It is obvious that the creature was covered with fur, but in the process of decomposition most of hairline fell out,” is how he described his find.
Local zoologists decided that the photographs showed “the bloated corpse of a Jack Russell dog.” In search of a competent specialist, the man turned to Swansea University, located in Wales, where they decided that it was a badger. But the inquisitive Briton Peter Bailey doubts such conclusions and continues to look for the answer.
9. Giant eyes
When you think about the things that wash up on shore, the things that come to mind are a bottle with a note, clothes, garbage and a ton of plastic. To the horror of those who often walk along the beaches, Lately Giant eyeballs have begun to be found on seashores around the world.
Experts who personally examined these eyes, as well as those who reviewed photographs and videos, concluded that at least one of them belonged to a swordfish. But why does the sea throw separately the eyes ashore? No answer yet.
8. Dead birds
Thousands of dead birds have washed ashore along the Pacific coast, and no one knows why. As a rule, a small number of such birds always occurs because they die during strong storms and severe storms, but such mass death- this is an unprecedented phenomenon.
The birds were found all along the coast, from Oregon to southern California, prompting scientists to try to get to the bottom of the situation and uncover the reasons for the birds' deaths. Also strange is the fact that representatives of more than just one species are dying. In fact, four were discovered various types birds dying in such large numbers. One possible explanation is the lack of food for the growing chicks. Another possibility concerns climate change, and this is the most likely theory.
7. Strongsay Monster
Here is a drawing of the Stronsay monster made by Sir Alexander Gibson in 1808. The Stronsay Beast was a large dead carcass or globster that washed ashore on the island of Stronsay, Orkney, after a storm on 25 September 1808.
The carcass was 55 feet long, and since part of the tail was missing, the animal itself was probably even larger. The Natural History Society of Edinburgh was unable to identify the corpse and suggested it was a species sea serpent. Later, anatomist Everard Dom stated that there were decomposed remains giant shark. In 1849, Scottish professor John Goodsir in Edinburgh came to the same conclusion. However, the largest documented basking shark is 40 feet long, and if the Stronsay creature was indeed over 55 feet, its nature remains a mystery. Drawings of the decomposing carcass of the beast, which have survived to this day, are surprisingly similar in shape and size to images of the Loch Ness monster.
6. The Monster from St. Augustine
A large and mysterious corpse washed ashore in St. Augustine, Florida in 1896. The expected appearance was Latin name Octopus giganteus (giant octopus) and Greek Otoctopus giganteus (can be translated as "giant eared octopus"). These names contradict the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and are not recognized by it, however, like the very fact of the existence of a giant octopus. Giant octopus or octopus - hypothetical sea creature, like a kraken. Information about him is obtained mainly from legends.
An English scientist named Verrill believed that the remains of a marine invertebrate washed up on the coast of St. Augustine were the body of a “true octopus of colossal size,” and called it Octopus giganteus - a giant octopus. An article about this appeared in the American Scientific Journal. In addition, Professor Verrill published a description of the estimated size, shape and habits of the giant cephalopod in the New York Herald newspaper: “The weight of the living creature should have been between 18 and 20 tons. The animal's tentacles must have been enormous, each up to 100 feet (30 meters) long or more, and as thick as the mast of a large ship. They were equipped with hundreds of saucer-shaped suckers, the largest of which must have been at least a foot in diameter... The eyes must have been over a foot in diameter. His ink sac contained 10-12 gallons of ink. No doubt it could swim quickly, but it usually crawled slowly along the bottom in search of prey. It must be noted that wherever this creature lives, there must be hundreds and even thousands of individuals of the same size, otherwise their species would become extinct." The professor further wrote that the animal most likely died in a fight with a sperm whale, was partially eaten by it, and what was left of it was washed ashore.
5. New Zealand Globster
A storm washed up the remains of an unknown animal, covered with a shaggy skin, toothy and quite scary-looking, on a New Zealand beach. The half-decayed corpse had a large head with huge conical teeth, vestigial limbs and a badly damaged tail. The length of the find was about nine meters.
The excitement among the public and journalists did not contribute to a calm study of the monster. The animal immediately began to be called a giant moray eel, a dinosaur, a saltwater crocodile, and so on. The chairman of the local Zoological Society said that he did not have the slightest idea what kind of creature it was, and suggested conditionally calling it a globster. But a specialist marine mammals Anton Van Helden confidently identified the remains of an ordinary killer whale in the corpse.
4. Gumbo
The large creature washed ashore at Bungalow Beach in The Gambia in 1983. Owen Burnham, the 15-year-old boy who discovered the beast, sketched it, and this is the only image of his discovery.
Due to the resemblance, the villagers decided that it was a dolphin. But there were no fins on his body, but rather limbs that were more like rudimentary paws. Its muzzle resembled a beak. Unfortunately, there are no photographs or any information about the fate of “Gumbo”.
3. Bermuda blob
In May 1988, the remains of a large animal, called the Bermuda blob (blob - drop, ball), were discovered in the shallow waters of Mangrove Bay, the largest of Bermuda. Local fisherman Teddy Tucker described the carcass as "2.5 meters, 70 cm thick, very white and fibrous, with five limbs, like a misshapen star." No bones, no cartilage, no holes, no smell. Three men were unable to turn the carcass over. It was incredibly difficult to cut even a small piece from it. Teddy managed to do it before the carcass was washed into the ocean.
Zoologists who were sent photographs of the Bermuda blob found it difficult to identify the animal. Seven years later, biochemical analysis by Sidney Pierce's team (who also examined tissue from the St. Augustine monster) showed that it was most likely the remains of a huge fish.
2. Hybrid blob
The hybrid blob washed up on the Scottish coast in 1990, and even advanced biological classification methods failed - the creature remains unidentified and unknown. Louise Witts, who discovered the thing, described it this way: “It was something, and it looked like there was a head at one end and a tail at the other; the curved back was covered with what looked like fins along the back. »
Another mysterious creature that we will never be able to identify.
1. Shoes...with remains of feet
One of the craziest and most disturbing finds ever made on the shore became known as the "Salish Sea legs." At some point, people began to find shoes on the shore, and to their horror, they discovered that all of these shoes still contained the feet of their owners. More precisely, fragments of legs.
Between 2008 and 2016, a total of 16 of these creepy footwear items were found. Some have been identified, but most belong to people who have never been found or identified. No explanation has yet been found for these findings.
Oh, the beach is such a nice place! While it's ideal for sunbathing, building sandcastles and long walks, it's also a great place for amazing finds. These items are usually cigarette butts, plastic mats and aluminum cans. Although, the beach can bring unexpected surprises.
Between 2007 and 2016, 16 human legs were found on beaches in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, most of them washed ashore in British Columbia.
Strangely, no one knows what happened to these lonely limbs, but when examining the legs, no signs of “mechanical fragmentation” were found. The bodies of the dead probably decomposed naturally in the water.
It is important to note that this does not exclude the scenario that in this case the operator Serial killer. Some of the legs have been identified or linked to their probable owners, but none of the cases have raised police suspicions. Whatever happens, pick up shells in Vancouver with great care.
Hundreds of giant squids
In September 2011, hundreds of squid carcasses, some as heavy as 20 pounds, washed ashore in California. Naturally, some beachgoers were a little taken aback. Others saw the incident as a great opportunity to make money. One expedition of 40 people collected 990 giant squid carcasses.
So what kind of squids ended up on the beach and what was the reason for their death? The creatures likely died after spawning, according to the Orange County Register.
Giant Lego Man
In October 2008, a Lego man figurine washed up on a beach in Florida. It was a fiberglass object that weighed 100 pounds and was 8 feet tall. He was immediately taken into custody in Sarasota County.
The Lego Man is a world traveler. He appeared in the Netherlands and England, on Toganga Beach, where, unlike in Florida, he was not arrested. LA Weekly reported that California residents were simply photographing the large, colorful figure.
Huge eyeball
Residents of Florida had the opportunity to see something more than a strange object. In 2012, something rather unusual was spotted washing up on one of the Sunshine State's beaches.
Pompano Beach resident Gino Covacci was surprised to discover a large ball-sized eyeball while walking along the shore. Realizing that the eye was still fresh and bleeding, Covacci wisely placed it in plastic bag and found the time to involve experts in this matter. The latter agreed that the eyeball most likely belonged to a swordfish and was probably carved with a fisherman's knife.
Motorcycle "Harley-Davidson"
It's unlikely that anyone would have come across what Peter Mac found on the beach. This happened on the islands of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia.
One morning on April 18, 2012, Mark saw a giant white cube and a motorcycle tire sticking out of it. As a result, a completely undamaged Harley Davidson motorcycle was discovered. Upon closer inspection, Mark realized that the rusty license plate was Japanese, as were the tags along the wall of the trailer. The finders correctly surmised that the expensive motorcycle had likely ended up on a remote island after the 2011 Japanese tsunami hit the country.
"It goes without saying that such a find is extremely rare, since most large objects washed from Japanese shores probably sank to the ocean floor," said a Japanese government official in Vancouver. Mark did the right thing. He contacted the relevant authorities to return the expensive find to the owner.
Millions of Lego pieces
If there's one thing to know about Cornwall, the southwestern tip of England, it's that its beaches are a magnet for Lego pieces.
In 1997, a container of construction toys fell from a cargo ship off the coast of Cornwall. It was loaded with millions of plastic Lego pieces and they have been washing up on Corniche beaches ever since.
Collecting predominantly nautical themed Lego figures has become more than just a hobby for many people. Children and adults compete to see which of them can find the best figures.
Love letters from World War II
According to WNBC, the letters were found by a 14-year-old boy in 2012 in New York City after Hurricane Sandy hit the area. The letters dated from 1942 to 1948 and appeared to be of sufficient interest to the casual reader.
To make the story even sweeter, the teen's family quickly found a recipient. It was a 91-year-old woman, Dorothy Fallon Farnham, who lived in New Jersey. The letters were sent directly to her.
A man walking along the coast saw a body floating in the water and did what any respectable citizen would do. He called 999 (911 for the British). Instead of a human body, respondents caught the figure of an alien. The figurine belonged to the telephone company E.T.
Boots from Nike
Want to win a pair of Nike athletic shoes? Maybe you just need to go to the beach. According to National Geographic, in 1990, approximately 80,000 pairs of Nike shoes decided to "jump" from a cargo ship into the mighty Pacific Ocean. Many of them ended up on beaches around the world and rewarded those present on the coast with raw, but never actually worn, sneakers.
Washington and Oregon beaches had the opportunity to catch 1999 Nike Cross Tireers in 2001 after another cargo ship was caught in a storm. As a result of the disaster, two large containers with sports shoes ended up in the water.
It seems that some Nike boots are in for a rough ride once they leave the assembly line.
In 1992, NPR reported that bath ducklings were swimming in the open sea as a group after the shipping container they were in fell into the water. Naturally, the funny rubber toys eventually found their way to shore, although not all of them floated out in the same place.
Some toys have spent over a decade surfing the ocean waves. Eventually they sailed to the opposite shore. Some of the ducklings ended up in Europe, and some in Hawaii and Alaska. The toys' journey has helped oceanographers understand the routes taken by ocean debris.
Alaskan sports fans and fly haters were in for a treat when fly swatters began swimming up the coast in 2012.
One cargo ship reportedly lost a container of anti-fly munitions after it was hit by a powerful wave.
Such a find as a fly swatter, most likely, became a true gift for any resident of Alaska, since there are plenty of annoying flies there.
Montauk Monster
One of the main stories of 2008 is the discovery sea monster, whose body washed up on a Long Island beach in East Hampton.
In July 2008, a woman found a real monster. The creature that we're talking about, was a strange conglomeration of various animal parts, and was quickly called the Montauk monster.
According to experts, the mysterious creature was not a monster at all. It was an ordinary dead raccoon with a decaying muzzle. Life is full of disappointments.