Odd Things That Have Washed Up On Shore

By Editorial Staff in Amazing On 18th July 2014
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#1: Cocaine

In August 2009 someone had found a suspicious package that had washed up on the shores of Sebastian Inlet in Florida. When authorities arrived, they discovered the package contained 60 pounds of cocaine 24 bricks with a street value of about $1 million!

#2: Bananas

In 2007, residents of the Dutch North Sea island of Terschelling, discovered thousands of bananas washed ashore after at least six containers of the fruit fell off a cargo ship in a storm and at least one burst open.

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#3: E.T

A life-size replica of E.T. the Extra Terrestrial was spotted near the shores of Old Portsmouth, Hants in England the Steven Spielberg movie of the same name. It was stolen from the home of a woman named Margaret Wells and made by her daughter. Margaret was quoted as saying she always knew E.T. would "come home".

#4: A lot of timber

In January of 2008 thousands of pieces of timber more than 2,000 tons in all washed ashore along England's southern beaches after drifting 100 miles from a cargo ship that sank off of the coast

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#5: Feet in shoes

Since 2007, 11 human feet have washed up on the shore near British Columbiaand no one knows why.

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#6: 29,000 “Friendly Floatees”

In 1992, some 29,000 children's bath toys were lost during a storm at sea en route from China. These were Friendly Floatees, a toy sold by The First Years, and were in the shape of beavers, frogs, turtles, and, of course, ducks.

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#7: Ego Leonard

A giant Lego figure was found off Brighton Beach, United Kingdom on October 29, 2008.The green, yellow, and red sculpture again bore the words "No Real Than You Are" on its torso.

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#8: Very old Malt

The collector's items were part of the cargo on the 8,000-ton cargo ship the SS Politician which sank off the shores of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides in 1941 and inspired the book and film Whisky Galore.

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#9: Tombstone

San Francisco's Ocean Beach was the final resting place of two hundred-year-old tombstones that recently washed ashore. One was from a woman named Emma Bosworth from 1876 and the other from Delia Presby Oliver, who died in 1890.

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#10: A live bomb

A 6 ft Navy training mine washed ashore in Miami beach, Florida in 2011.Â