15 Weird Things That Washed Up From The Ocean
It's not all pretty shells and seaglass.
![15 Weird Things That Washed Up From The Ocean](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/6/7/735867_320x180.jpg?v=2)
The ocean is supposedly the birthplace of all life, which is pretty poetic. But as is often the case, reality is a little less romantic. Way, way more has washed up from the sea. And some things that turn up on the beach are objectively baffling.
For example:
![French beaches are covered in Garfield phones. For 30 years beachgoers have stumbled upon the novelty phones on beaches in the French region of Britta](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/2/733642.jpg?v=2)
![In 1997 a rogue wave unleashed 5 million Legos into the ocean. The Legos were on the cargo ship Tokio Express when what the captain called a once in](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/1/733631.jpg?v=2)
![Hurricane Sandy dredged up long lost WWII love letters. line Lyn, fe larling o gring buy noey m Quet ir my mean this torma Kathleen Chaney and her son](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/8/733638.jpg?v=2)
![In 2019 a small Russian village discovered two radioactive barges hanging out on their beach. 3aB.N2 The barges may have been involved in a nuclear ac](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/3/733643.jpg?v=2)
![A billion of these creatures washed up on West Coast beaches. While they look like blue jellyfish, the creatures are actually Velella velella or by-t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/4/733644.jpg?v=2)
![A xenomorph washed up on a Texas beach. A woman shared this bizarre, seemingly eyeless creature on Twitter after the passing of Hurricane Harvey in 20](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/1/733641.jpg?v=2)
![After the 2011 earthquake, a Japanese Harley-Davison washed up on a Canadian beach 4,000 miles away. The bike was tracked down to Ikuo Yokoyama, a Jap](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/9/733639.jpg?v=2)
![Hundreds of ancient artifacts have washed up on a Dutch beach known as the sand engine. The Zandmotor, or sand engine, is an artifical beach built](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/4/0/733640.jpg?v=2)
![Thousand of giant snowballs appeared on this Siberian beach. The snowballs, some of which weighed up to 75 pounds, astounded the locals and covered a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/7/733637.jpg?v=2)
![In 1919, a German u-boat washed ashore in England. German subrarind, U.118 washed Ashore Hastin The 267-foot-long submarine was being towed for scrapp](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/5/733635.jpg?v=2)
![A mysterious, legless man was found dying on a beach near a small town in Nova Scotia. OGL Jerome of Nova Scotia, as he became known, lived the rest](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/4/733634.jpg?v=2)
![According to legend, a woman in a strange ship washed ashore in 19th century Japan. 1-2 Known as the Utsuro-bun the woman was said to have exotic red](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/2/733632.jpg?v=2)
![In 2001 a half ton of cocaine washed ashore sao Miguel, changing the island forever. The enormous supply of cocaine, which had been left in the ocean](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/3/733633.jpg?v=2)
![Rubber ducks from the 90s can be found on beaches worldwide. The Friendly Floatees are a shipment of rubber ducks that was lost at sea in the 90s an](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/0/733630.jpg?v=2)
![In the 80s, New Jersey beaches were hit by a syringe tide. OT 30 40 60 90 Medical waste, including used syringes, leaked from a New York landfill and](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/3/6/733636.jpg?v=2)