In 2007, the residents of two Dutch North Sea islands found thousands of unripe bananas swept to their shores. They came from a container which fell off a cargo ship during a storm.

In 2006, thousands of packages of Dorito chips were found on a beach in North Carolina. The shores were cleaned up fast by people who came to pick up the free chips with bags.

In 2012, a baseball-sized eyeball was found on a beach in Florida. Scientists identified the eyeball as belonging to a large swordfish.

An 8 foot tall lego man appeared on 4 different beaches in the Netherlands, U.K. and U.S. In each of the cases it had printed on his torso the eerie message “No real than you are.”

Since 2007, more than ten shoes containing severed feet were found on the shores in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. Not all of them were identifiable and it is believed that some of them might belong to vicitims of Asian Tsunami of 2004.

This famous discovery on a beach in New York remained the subject of controversy ever since it was found in 2008. Despite all the rumours about monster sea creatures, scientists explained that it was most likely a decomposed racoon.

One of the cutest things lost by a cargo ship and washed onto the beach were thousands of rubber ducks and other bath toys. Although they might be considered pollutants, they gave scientists an opportunity to study the ocean as some of these ducks have been found in different far off places.

Thousands of dead birds were found on a beach in Canada. Apparently they had died because of botulism which has been on the rise due to the gradual warming of waters and higher levels of bacteria.

In 2012, the residents of Kodiak, Alaska, found dozens of sports-themed fly swatters that were washed up onto their beach. At first they thought they were debris from the previous year’s tsunami, but in fact they came from a cargo ship which lost several containers.